Academic Profile

I joined the School of Law in September 2012 as a Lecturer in Law.

I studied Law at the University of Toulouse (France). I then worked as a Lecturer at the same University until completing a PhD on European Contract Law in December 2008. Between 2009 and 2012, I worked at the University of Luxembourg as a postdoctoral researcher in European Private Law. I have taught different aspects of French, Comparative and EU Law at the Universities of Toulouse and Luxembourg.

My main areas of research are European Private Law, Comparative Law (mainly in the Law of Obligations), and Private International Law. I am particularly interested in the interaction between legal norms in the context of the Europeanisation of law.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Toulouse (France)
  (Qualification to the position of ‘Maître de conferences’ granted by the Conseil National des Universités in March 2009)
• Licence, Maîtrise & DEA en Droit, University of Toulouse (France)

Teaching and Learning

The modules I teach all comprise a comparative and/or international dimension and address in one way or another the challenge of legal diversity. I use these elements to initiate and stimulate reflection and debates about legal institutions and concepts.

I strongly believe that teaching is a reciprocal relationship and that interaction is of the essence. My teaching is informed by my research and aims at enabling my students to structure their knowledge but also to question legal concepts and rules in order to develop the skills they will need in their professional life.

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate	Postgraduate
French Legal Language (Convenor)	International Sale of Goods: Law and Practice (Convenor)
French Law and Legal System (Convenor)	EU Internal Market Law (Convenor)
European Union Law
Principles of Comparative Law
Conflict of Laws

Research Interests

• European Private Law
• French and Comparative Law
• Private International Law
• Legal Harmonisation and Legal Integration

Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law and the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law research cluster(s).

Areas of Research Supervision

• EU and Comparative private law
• EU and Comparative private international law

Key Publications

I Rueda, Place de la matière administrative et des immunités au sein d’un code européen de droit international privé (Place of administrative matters and State immunities in a European code of private international law) in M. Fallon, P. Lagarde, S. Poillot-Peruzzetto (eds.), Quelle architecture pour un code européen de droit international privé ? (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012)

E Poillot, I Rueda (eds), The Boundaries of European Private Law (Brussels: Larcier, 2012)

G Cuniberti, I Rueda, ‘Abolition of Exequatur. Addressing the Commission’s Concerns’, 75 (2) Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (2011)

I. Rueda, La communautarisation de la procédure civile : une manifestation de simplification du droit ? (Europeanisation of civil procedure: an example of simplification of the law?) in Qu’en est-il de la simplification du droit ? (Paris: LGDJ, 2010)

I Rueda, Lutte contre la contrefaçon de médicaments : complémentarité des approches adoptées par la Communauté européenne et le Conseil de l’Europe (Fighting against medicines counterfeiting: complementary approaches of the EU and the Council of Europe), Revue Générale de Droit Médical (2009)

I Rueda, L’adaptation du droit des contrats d’origine internationale et communautaire à la dématérialisation des échanges (Adaptation of International and European Contract Law to E-Commerce), Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé (2006)

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

• • ‘Role of international instruments in the interpretation of the Common European Sales Law’, International conference on A Common Law of Sales for Europe?, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, 2012
• ‘Conditions et étendue du droit à réparation des victimes d’accidents de la circulation en Angleterre’, GRERCA, Luxembourg, 2012
• ‘Commentary on the Case C-236/09 (ECJ, 1st March 2011, Association Belge des Consommateurs Test-Achats ASBL et autres contre Conseil des ministers), Workshop on Preliminary rulings in European private law, Luxembourg, 15 June 2012 with D. Hiez, E. Poillot and M. Petschko, Lunch seminar on the Green Paper on policy options for the progress towards a European Contract Law for consumers and businesses’, Luxembourg, 31 March 2011
• ‘La place de la matière administrative et des immunités’, International conference on Quelle architecture pour un code européen de droit international privé ? (Which Architecture for a European Code of Private International Law?), Toulouse, France, 17-18 March 2011

Key Projects/Grants

Title/Description:	Publication of conference proceedings on "The Boundaries of European Private Law"
Awarding Body:	Fonds national de la Recherche - Luxembourg
People Involved:	E. Poillot and I. Rueda
Dates:	2011
Amount:	€4,000

Title/Description:	Organisation of a conference "Discussing the Boundaries of European Private Law"
Awarding Body:	Fonds national de la Recherche - Luxembourg
People Involved:	D. Hiez and I. Rueda
Dates:	2011
Amount:	€8,500

Professional Activities and Recognition

• Member of the European Law Institute
• Member of the European network of legal experts Trans Europe Experts
• Member of the NEROG (North East Region Obligations Group)
• Former visiting researcher at Unidroit (funded by the French ‘Aires culturelles’ research funding scheme)