Joël Cavallini is a reader in private law at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas (France), co-director of the European Jurist Master’s degree, which is a triple law degree programme set up with seven other European universities, and head of the University Diploma in Civilization and Common Law. He has been running the exchanges programmes with Oxford, UCL, Queen Mary and Birmingham universities for nearly 25 years until 2024. He was a visiting research fellow (May 2025) at the Institute of European and Comparative Law.
His research addresses European Union social law and economical freedoms of movement
Selected publications
Several case comments on European Union Court of justice decisions in the French law Review “Semaine juridique édition sociale” (JCP S)
• « Contrat de travail », note sous CJUE, 4 octobre 2024, aff. C-650/22, JCP S 2024, 1360
• « Mobilité internationale », note sous CJUE, 26 septembre 2024, aff. C-387/22, JCP S 2024, 1354
• « Santé et sécurité au travail », note sous CJUE, 20 juin 2024, aff. C-367/23, JCP S 2024, 1260
• « Discriminations », note sous CJUE, 7 décembre 2023, aff. C-518/22, JCP S 2024, 1014
Selected presentations
• “Interpretation of the Equality Act 2010 after Brexit : convergence or divergence with the Court of Justice of the European Union case-Law ? : Research seminar at IECL, 29 May 2025.
Other activities
Judge at the French Law Moot court held at Oxford Law Faculty (20 May 2025)