Jacqueline Riffault-Silk - Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation, Paris

Jacqueline Riffault-Silk studied law at the University of Paris II where she obtained a DES in Private Law in 1974. After starting her judicial career in 1976 as an investigating judge at the Court of Versailles, and then as a Deputy Prosecutor at the Court of Paris (TGI), she spent eight years on detachment at the French Stock Exchange Commission as a legal adviser. Appointed Judge at the Court of Appeal of Paris in 1997, she became President of the Court's 1st and 5th chambers in 2001, specializing in economic regulation and commercial litigation. In January 2007, she was appointed to the Commercial Chamber of the Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation). Also in 2007, she was nominated to the Committee of Civil Decisions and Sanctions of the French Commission of Energy Regulation (Cordis), and became President of the National Commission of Ethics for Judicial Administrators.She has published some thirty articles in various reviews and books, focusing mainly on financial criminal law, financial and stock exchange regulation, European and national competition law in the areas of public and private enforcement.