Professor Philippe Delebecque is a graduate from the University of Aix-Marseille (France) where he obtained his PhD in 1981 for his Doctoral thesis on Exemption clauses in civil and commercial contracts. Since 1992, he was appointed Professor of private law at Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) Sorbonne law school, where he was also the director of the Contracts and Real Estate Master for 10 years. Professor Delebecque teaches courses in civil law and commercial Law and has been visiting professor at the several Universities.

He is member of French Marine Academy and CMI. He is Past President of French Association of Air and Spatial law, Vice President of French Association of Maritime law and President of Maritime Arbitration Chamber of Paris. He is also an arbitrator through ICC, Paris International Arbitration Chamber and ad hoc arbitrations. Professor Delebecque was advisor to French government in UNCITRAL working group having prepared Rotterdam Rules and presently, he is advisor in working group preparing judiciary sale of ships convention.

Among the more recent books and monographs: Droit des obligations (LexisNexis 2019), Contrats civils et commerciaux (Dalloz 2019), Droit des transports (Précis Dalloz 2018), Droit civil: les sûretés, la publicitéfoncière (Précis Dalloz 2016), L'entreprise et la vente internationale de marchandises (Larcier 2015), Droit maritime (Précis Dalloz 2014).