Anatole Abaquesne graduated with an LL.B. from the School of Law, University of Birmingham. He also holds an LL.M. in European Law from the School of Law, University of Nottingham, and a Licence en Droit from the Faculté de Droit, Economie et Gestion, Université d’Orléans. He is now UCD School of Law European Law Scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the University College Dublin School of Law, where he lectures, tutors and is module coordinator for the French Civil Law I and II modules. His research has been published by the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and the Journal of Contemporary European Research and is supervised by Dr Gavin Barrett.