Yves-Louis Sage

LLM – PhD (Grenoble Un.) – HDR (Paris I)

Dr Yves-Louis Sage, born in France, hold a LLB, a LLM and a PhD from the Law school of the University of Grenoble (France), a LLM from Tulane Law School and the accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, HDR) from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). He is a professor at the School of Law of the University of French Polynesia in Tahiti (French Polynesia) since 1987 where he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management from 2007 to 2009.

He teaches subjects related to international dispute resolution, arbitration, comparative law and conflict of laws and has written many scholarly articles on comparative law, private international law, arbitration and planning law.

A former Honorary Fellow in Law at Victoria University of Wellington and Teaching Fellow at the Dispute Resolution Center Massey University, Dr. Yves-Louis Sage is an Associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law since 2013, a member of the New Zealand Association for Comparative Law and President of the Association de Législation Comparée du Pacifique. He is one of the founding members of the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific and its Editor since 1994.

Dr. Yves-Louis Sage is a Fellow of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) and along with his consulting activities is involved as member of the bar of French Polynesia, in the practice of arbitration and mediation as an independent arbitrator and mediator.