Nicolas Gabayet (LLM 2007, PhD 2013) is a full professor of Public Law at Jean Monnet University – Centre de Recherches Critiques sur le Droit (CERCRID) in Saint-Étienne, France.

Nicolas specializes, on the one hand, in legal issues governing economic and administrative activities: Public Contracts, Defence industry and services, performance of public services and utilities, and on the other hand, in Comparative law (eg as Editor in chief of the law journal Droit Public Comparé – Comparative Public Law). He is a regular contributor to several French and international law journals (eg EPPPL, EDSeQ). Beside several articles on Public Contracts and on English Administrative Law, he authored a book on the comparison of the performance of public contracts in England and France and he edited a book on the development of rulings as an administrative procedure.

Nicolas had several academic experiences abroad. He had been a visiting researcher at University of Cambridge (2008), University of Turin (2015) and a visiting professor at Queen’s Belfast (2019). Besides, he had taught at Universidade de Sao Paulo (2022-2026), St Joseph Beyrouth (2021), and Sorbonne Abu Dhabi (2017-2019).