Claude-Étienne ARMINGAUD

1 rue Hector-Malot
75012 Paris
France 		Tél. : +33 6 280 44 555 Emails :
claude@armingaud.com
claude.armingaud@gmail.com

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Education :

CORNELL LAW SCHOOL – ITHACA, NY
New-York Bar Examination, July 2005, Admitted on May 24th
LL.M., May 2005
Selected Course Work: Evidence, Patent Law, Constitutional Law, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, First Amendment theory.

UNIVERSITE DE PARIS X – NANTERRE – PARIS, FRANCE
D.E.S.S. Droit Public des Nouvelles Technologies (Post-Graduate Selective degree – ICT Law), received June 2004, with honors.
Selected Course Work: Intellectual Property Law, CyberCrime Law, Networks Law.

UNIVERSITE DE PARIS X – NANTERRE – PARIS, FRANCE
Licence de Langue et Civilisation Anglaise (B.A. in English Literature, Language and Civilization), received June 2003, with honors.
Selected Course Work: US Movies & Ideologies, UK Labor Relations, US Modern Short-Story

THESES

The Search for Digital Evidence (2004), The Need For Self-Regulation in Internet Law (2003), Merchandising the Living (2001), The Return of a Moral Order in French Administrative Law (2000).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GIDE LOYRETTE NOUEL – Paris, France – March-July 2006 – Internship
Drafted legal briefs (software copyright infringement) and software licensing / maintenance contracts, participated in pre-trial discovery process, prepared slideshow conferences on Digital Signature & Outsourcing process, performed legal researches, drafted a memo on online gambling in Europe, translated documents (English/French)

HERBERT SMITH LLP – Paris, France – October-December 2005 – Internship
Drafted a copyright licensing settlement agreement, and legal briefs on counterfeiting items, performed legal researches, assisted associates in different steps of the judicial procedure, translated documents (English/French)

MINISTERE DE L'INTERIEUR – (Ministry of the Interior, Central CyberCrime Office) – Paris, France Spring 2004 – Internship
Performed a daily legal/ICT news watch, drafted memoranda on European directives and French laws, trained police officers in ITC law and issues of Criminal Procedure / Seizure of Digital Evidence.

MAITRE ROGER HENNUYER – Avocat près le Conseil d'État et la Cour de Cassation – Paris, France (Attorney representing clients in the French Supreme Courts).
Summer 2001 – Internship
Drafted predictive memoranda, led preliminary inquiries with clients, performed legal research.

LANGUAGES

French – Fluent (Native speaker);
English – Fluent.

INTERESTS

Playing the guitar, the bass and singing in a band, Writing, Cinema, Photography, ITC

ACTIVITIES

2005:Webmaster and designer of the LL.M. Website and the Cornell Law Students Association (CLSA) website ; CLSA – LL.M. Representative ; Editor-in-Chief of the LL.M. Yearbook ; Production Designer of the Cornell Law Tower ; Staff Editor for Juris Diction ; member of Cornell Intellectual Properties Student Association ; Cornell Law Annual Fund Co-chair ; LL.M. Bar/Bri Representative.

2004: Secretary General of the DESS Association, co-Webmaster of www.e-Juristes.org