Biography

Holder of a doctorate in law and agrégé in private law, François-Xavier Lucas has been a professor at the Sorbonne Law School since 2004 where he teaches corporate law and insolvency proceedings. Within the Sorbonne Institute of Judicial Studies, he created the SIR Center (Sorbonne Insolvency & Restructuring), a study and training center dedicated to the law of companies in difficulty (https://iej.pantheonsorbonne.fr/sorbonne-insolvabilite-et-restructuration). This center organizes annual training for a French and international audience (more than a thousand people welcomed in 2025-2026), in initial and continuing education, and in particular provides training for judges of commercial courts specialized in bankruptcy law as well as senior civil servants of the Ministry of Economy responsible for restructuring files (DGE, rapporteurs of the CIRI). It is within this center that François-Xavier Lucas directs a master’s diploma “Administration and Liquidation of Companies in Difficulty” (ALED) alternating work-study, enabling access to the profession of administrator and judicial representative (https://iej.pantheonsorbonne.fr/centre-sir/master-2-administration-et-liquidation-entreprises-en-difficulte-aled) as well as a university diploma (DU) “Law of Companies in Difficulty” (https://iej.pantheonsorbonne.fr/centre-sir/diplome-universitaire-droit-entreprises-en-difficulte) certifying a fully online training specially designed for practitioners (commercial court judges, AJMJ, lawyers, chartered accountants, commercial court clerks, etc.), and a DU “Judicial Practice of Economic Activities Law” (https://iej.pantheonsorbonne.fr/centre-sir/formation-parcours-juges-consulaires) intended for commercial court judges.

He is also director of the double degree “Business Law and Taxation” (https://www.m2dafsorbonnehec.com), the result of a partnership between HEC and the Sorbonne Law School and of the Franco-Moroccan Master’s in Business Law relocated to Morocco (https://www.masterdaueuromed.com), the result of a partnership between the Euromed University of Fes and the Sorbonne Law School.

Scientific director of the journals “L’essentiel droit des entreprises en difficulté” (LEDEN) (https://www.labase-lextenso.fr/l-essentiel-droit-des-entreprises-en-difficulte) and “Franco-Moroccan Review of Business Law” and of the thesis collection “Law of Companies in Difficulty” (https://www.lgdj-editions.fr/livres/leviction-de-la-loi-du-concours-en-procedure-collective-par-les-garanties/9782275163420), member of the editorial board of several specialized business law journals (Bulletin Joly Sociétés, Bulletin Joly Entreprises en difficulté, JCP E, Revue Droit & Affaires, Journal des sociétés), he regularly comments there on major jurisprudential and legislative developments affecting insolvency law. He speaks each year at numerous conferences in France and abroad and is regularly consulted and heard both by the Chancery and in Parliament on reforms affecting business law but also by foreign states who call on him as an expert for various reform projects. He has been invited to several foreign universities for long stays: Cairo (two years), Oxford (two years), Rome (one year), New York (Columbia) (one year) and is invited each year to speak at various foreign universities (Cairo, São Paulo, Beirut, Beijing). Since 2024, he has been a professor at the Euromed University of Fes (https://ueuromed.org/fr).

He is the author of several business law books, in particular a Manual of Bankruptcy Law (PUF, 2025: https://www.puf.com/manuel-de-droit-de-la-faillite-1) and a Manual of Commercial Law (PUF, 2023 in collaboration with D. Poracchia: https://www.puf.com/manuel-de-droit-commercial?v=16595).