Thomas Genicon is a professor at Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II) where he mainly teaches civil law. His research focuses specifically on contract law and more generally on the law of obligations. He was a visiting professor at the University of Padua and the University of Brescia (Italy). Member of the National Council of Universities and of several research groups, he thus participated in the group which drafted the Latin American Principles of Contract Law. He is a member of the legal sociology laboratory at Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II).