Bruno Deffains

• Relations between Law and Economics

• Efficiency of legal systems (property rights, contracts, liability, litigation, law and finance)

• Competition & AI Law

Bruno Deffains has taught at the University of Nancy since his appointment as Associate Professor in 1991 and then as University Professor from 1998. He joined in 2008 the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (with an agreement to teach partly at Sciences Po Paris) then the University Panthéon-Assas in 2010. He is Co-director of the CDE (Paris II Fondation) and is often invited to talk in conferences and international events.

Pr. Deffains has largely taught in Universities abroad, such as Luxembourg, Liverpool, Columbia University, Yale University, Lausanne, NBER in Boston, Humboldt University in Berlin, Amsterdam, Montreal.

• Thesis award, University of Nancy, 1992

• Academic Palms Distinction, 2006

• Member, Commercial Practices Review Board (Ministry of the Economy), 2013

• Honorary President, European Association of Law and Economics, since 2015

• Honorary President, French Association of Law and Economics, since 2017

• Member, National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, 2018 – 2022