Professor Severine Saintier

I joined Exeter as a Professor in commercial law in February 2024. Prior to that, I held positions at Sheffield University, Liverpool and Exeter.

I studied law in France until 1993 before coming to the UK to read for an LLM (Staffordshire University) and a PhD (Sheffield University) under the late Professor Bradgate. 

My primary research interest is in the field of contract/commercial law, broadly defined. My research is comparative in nature. My PhD was in the field of commercial agency contracts where I have published two monographs (one co-authored) and numerous journal articles. In this field, my work has been widely cited. Most recently, in the Court of Appeal in Computer Associates UK Ltd v The Software Incubator [2018] EWCACiv 518.

I am, with Professor Rob Merkin KC, Reading University, the co-editor of Jill Poole's Contract Law Textbook and Contract Law casebook (the latest edition came out in May 2023). I am also co-author of the f4th edition of Bradgate's Commercial law with Dr Sean Thomas (York University) and Dr Reza Beheshti (Nottingham University). 

I have taught in France at the Université Jean Moulin (professor invité), Université Bordeaux IV and Strasbourg University.