Vivien Terrien

Référendaire at European Court of Justice (General Court)

Speaker

Vivien Terrien is a Judge’s Counselor (Référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union and was part of the EU General Court President’s office for ten years. He also acts as Deputy Board Member of the Polynesian Competition Authority and as International Competition Network (ICN) representative for the Competition Council of Luxembourg. He is an Honorary Member of the European Lawyers’ Union.

Before joining the Court in 2009, Vivien practiced as an attorney in the antitrust teams of Linklaters in Paris and, then, of WilmerHale in Brussels. He qualified as a Paris and New York attorney-at-law after studying at Ottawa University (Canada) and graduating from the Universities of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Nantes (France), the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and Harvard Law School (Cambridge, USA).

Vivien is academically involved as a lecturer in EU internal market and competition law at the Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, the Lorraine University, the Catholic University of Paris and the University of Pau and the Adour Region. In addition, he regularly intervenes as a speaker on EU antitrust matters in international fora and before various national authorities. Moreover, he has organized and participated in several trainings and workshops for national judges, among them, those held in the framework of the Training for National Judges in EU Competition Law at the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest (Hungary) and at the Law School of the University of Valencia (Spain).

Vivien has published many articles on EU litigation, antitrust and institutional law topics. Most recently, he co-authored the reference book “European Court Procedure – A Practical Guide” (Hart Publishing, 2020 – https://europeancourtprocedure.eu) and he wrote entries in the French version of the Dictionary of Competition Law (Concurrences, 2023) He is also a team member of the Judicial Competition Law website (www.judicialcompetitiontraining.eu) and he sits as Board Member and Member of the Scientific Committee at the Research Institute advancing competition law and economics in small market and insular economies (ISLE).