Maxence Rivoire

Maxence Rivoire is a Lecturer in French Law and the Deputy Director of the LLB in English Law and Master 1 in French Law  at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Qualified and admitted to practice in France, Maxence holds a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, an LLM in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an LLB from the University of Grenoble. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Between 2018 and 2021, Maxence was an international arbitration associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris. In this role, he represented clients in several international arbitrations under a variety of applicable laws in the energy, new technologies, oil and gas, and construction sectors. Maxence also acted for clients before French courts, including the Paris Tribunal of Commerce, the Paris Court of Appeal and the French Court of Cassation. In addition to his practice experience, Maxence worked as a researcher at McGill’s Center for Intellectual Property Policy in 2014, and was a teaching fellow in private international law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2017-2018. In 2021-2022, he taught intellectual property law at the University of Cambridge.

Research interests

Maxence’s research focuses on private international law, international arbitration, and intellectual property, with a strong emphasis on the comparative aspects of these disciplines. In 2022, a Chapter of his PhD won first prize of the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, and Maxence received best oralist for his presentation. 

Teaching 

• French Legal Methodology 1
• French Legal Methodology 2