Retrospective Interviews of Leading French Academics: Pierre Mayer

Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading French scholars (En Chair(e)).

The second interviewee is Pierre Mayer, who is Professor emeritus at the University Paris I and a leading French scholar of private international law and international commercial arbitration.

In the first part, Mayer recalls his days as a doctoral student of Henri Batiffol.

In the second and fifth parts, he surveys first his early career as an academic and then his appointment and teaching at Paris I University.

In the third and fourth parts, Mayer discusses some of his work respectively in international arbitration and in private international law.