Gaël Piette is Professor of maritime law, insurance law and contract law at the University of Bordeaux and researcher at CRDEI (Centre de Recherche et de Documentation Européennes et Internationales, Université de Bordeaux) and at IRJS (Institut de Recherche Juridique de la Sorbonne, département Sorbonne-Affaires-Finance, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne).

In 2002 he completed his PhD degree in private law with distinction and the selection committee’s congratulations. From 2003 to 2005 he was lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté and since 2005 he is Professor at the University of Bordeaux.

He is member of the French Maritime Law Association (Association Française du Droit Maritime/ AFDM) and elected member of its management committee, member of Comparative Legislation Society (Société de Législation Comparée/ SLC) and of the International Maritime Committee (CMI) working group on unmanned vessels, delegated expert of France at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and advisor at the International Maritime and Air Arbitration Court (Casablanca, Morocco). He is scientific director of the encyclopedias Lexbase, Droit des contrats spéciaux et Droit des sûretés.

Among his recent publications: Droit maritime (Lextenso, coll. Droit expert, 2018), Droit maritime (Pedone, 2017), and a great number of publications concerning maritime law in DMF, Gazette de la CAMP, Lexbase, Dalloz, Juris-Classeur, Répertoire commercial.