Edouard TREPPOZ

Edouard Treppoz is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird in Paris, specialising in IP/IT law and international dispute resolution, dividing his time between our IP and dispute resolution teams.
He is a full-time professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon/ Sorbonne where he mainly teaches copyright law in its internal, European and international dimensions.

During his PhD at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia Law School.

He is the author of numerous articles dedicated to copyright law, private international law and European intellectual property law published in French and English, the co-editor of two books on those issues and the co-author of a casebook dedicated to 'International Copyright Law – US and EU perspectives' (ed. Edward Elgar Publisher with Jane C. Ginsburg as a co-author).

His main areas of expertise are copyright law and the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws. He often speaks and presents at professional events here in France and internationally.

He has been appointed as a member of the International Law Association's Committee, dedicated to intellectual property and private international law. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School where he taught international copyright law. He is currently directing the Master 2 D2A in Economic Law and Audiovisual Management at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon/Sorbonne.