Rate My Professor Eric Descheemaeker

Professor Eric Descheemaeker is a private lawyer at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where he joined as Professor in 2017, having previously been Reader in European Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from France, he studied law at Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees, followed by an LL.M. at the London School of Economics and a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, where he served as a Fellow of St Catherine’s College for five years. His doctoral dissertation was published as The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study (Oxford University Press, 2009). Descheemaeker holds honorary positions as Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, Research Scholar at the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law at McGill University, and Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town. He has held visiting appointments including Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the University of Cambridge (2017), visitor at Paris-II Panthéon-Assas University (2016), Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Queensland (2015), visitor at Sciences Po Paris (2012), and at the University of Pennsylvania (2004).