Jérôme Huet is the author of a thesis titled “Contractual and civil liability: an attempt to delimit between two orders of responsibility” defended in 1979 at Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II). He has been a professor at the University of Rouen, at Paris Descartes University, at Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), at La Réunion University and at Tulane University (United States). He’s been a member of the working group "Principles of European Contract Law (fr)" on the development of a European Civil Code of Obligations since 2002, and a research director at the 'Institut de la Chambre de commerce internationale, since 1994. In 2015, he retired and became professor emeritus at the University of Paris II. He is the author of numerous articles and notes on civil liability, contract law, computer law and copyright law