Laurent Convert is an associate professor at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas. He studied at the Bordeaux-Montesquieu University of Law, where he obtained a master’s degree in business law and a master’s degree in legal history.
He then worked for several years in law firms, first in an office of solicitors in London, and then in a business law firm in Madrid.
Back in France, Convert continued to work in a law firm and at the same time gave tutorials at the University of Law of Bordeaux, while he was simultaneously writing a thesis on comparative company law (“The Imperative and the Suppletive in Company law, a comparative law study: United Kingdom – Spain – France”). The purpose of the thesis was to compare between those three countries the freedom and obligations that one has when one sets up, runs and manages a company.
Once he obtained his Ph.D., Convert joined the University of Panthéon-Assas, though his interest in the international field led him to lecture regularly in different continents.
Specializing in international business law, European business law and international company and corporation law, whether from civil or common law systems, he lectured in different countries throughout his career (Vietnam, Mexico, Egypt, Ukraine, Romania, Czech Republic, Singapore and Dubai). Convert also has been teaching European business law for over two decades to students at Northern Illinois University.
Convert is also interested in the Hispanic systems of law, as he manages the double master’s degree in French law and Spanish law held by the Universities of Paris Panthéon-Assas and Barcelona.