Profile
Ph.D. IN LAW,
SPECIALIST SBA CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE LAW
LECTURER (UNIVERSITY LAUSANNE)
A lawyer in Vaud since 2005, member of the FVO, the FSA and the Swiss Association of Public Procurement (ASMP), Thibault Blanchard is active mainly in the areas of construction law – public and private – and real estate, land and administrative law, with a focus on public procurement. He advises, assists and protects both individuals, corporations as public authorities. Faithful to CBWM Avocats since the beginning of his internship in 2003, Thibault Blanchard completed law at the University of Lausanne where he was awarded his degree in 1997 and his Ph.D. in 2005 after writing a thesis on the duality of jurisdiction in administrative matters (for which he was awarded the Faculty of Law’s Walther Hug Prize). Along with writing his thesis, he worked as a clerk in several jurisdictions, including the lease court and the administrative court. He obtains the title of Specialist SBA construction and real estate law in 2013. He is lecturer at the University of Lausanne in planning and construction law.
ACTIVITIES
- From 2008 Partner CBWM Avocats
- 2005-2007 Associate CBWM Avocats
- 2003-2005 Trainee CBWM Avocats
- 2000-2002 Clerk to the Administrative Tribunal of Vaud
- 1998-2000 Clerk to the ad hoc lease court of the district court of Morges
TRAINING
- 2013 SBA specialist construction and real estate law
- 2006 Walther Hug Prize (for thesis)
- 2005 Attorney
- 2005 Ph.D. Law, Lausanne
- 1997 Bachelor of Law, Lausanne
Languages
- French
- German
- English
Expertise
- Planning and environment
- Administrative law and public entities
- Contract law
Publications
- Jurisprudence vaudoise en droit des marchés publics – 2017 et 2018, RDAF 2019 I 694 ss (avec Olivier Rodondi)
- L’arbitrabilité des différends de droit public, RDS 137 (2018) I, pp. 417 ss
- Jurisprudence vaudoise en droit des marchés publics – 2015 et 2016, RDAF 2017 I 501 ss (avec Olivier Rodondi)
- Procédure administrative vaudoise, LPA-VD annotée, Bâle 2012 (avec Benoît Bovay et Clémence Grisel Rapin)
- Pollution du sol : preuve de la responsabilité et répartition des frais d’intervention, DC 3/2007, pp. 115 ss (avec Benoît Bovay)
- Le partage du contentieux administratif entre le juge civil et le juge administratif, Étude de droit vaudois, historique et comparée, Lausanne 2005 (thèse de doctorat)