Practice Area: "Globalization, Europe, and International Partnerships"
In charge of the practice area : Me Sébastien MABILE, Partner, Ph.D.
Our expertise
Lysias Partners has an effective and well-established practice of international law with French law. Those responsible for this area are Sébastien MABILE and Jean-Pierre MIGNARD.
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is now regularly used as well as the European treaties which from now on will be more and more invoked with the Lisbon treaty, which links European human rights law and Community law before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Lysias Partners uses international law both before the national jurisdiction which guarantees that national law conforms to the standards of European law, and before the international court concerned, the European Court of Human Rights or the Court of Justice of the European Union.
International conventions, particularly European, are the necessary tools for interpreting arbitration clauses, particularly as far as the language of the arbitration or the equality of arms is concerned.
The main texts which founded European environmental law are an essential part of our daily work. Lysias Partners constantly uses them, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Rio de Janeiro Convention on Biological Diversity or the Aarhhus Convention on Access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters.
International agreements and treaties are unavoidably relevant to energy law and, more particularly, nuclear legislation (three of our partners will publish in 2011 a book about the world coordination of security regulations for civil nuclear power).
Our services
As regards oil legislation, Lysias Partners and more particularly Jean-Pierre MIGNARD have a great experience of international negotiations (exploitation of the Doba oil basin in Southern Chad, discussion on the bilateral treaty Chad-Cameroon on international oil transportation).
Lysias Partners has an effective and long-established practice of international public law as regards territorial disputes before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (Chad vs Lybia, Cameroon vs Nigeria, Benin vs Niger). Legal consultants or members of Lysias Partners such as Professor Habib SLIM of Tunis University or Joseph TJOP, Cameroonian lawyer, as well as Jean-Pierre MIGNARD have a considerable experience before this Court.
Our clients
Lysias Partners advises foreign States, especially before international courts, and foreign commercial companies who wish to invest in France.
Within the framework of our international partnerships with other law firms, we also advise French companies who wish to settle in China, Russia or Brazil.