Jean-Michel do Carmo Silva is a Senior Professor of law at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). His most recent academic publications focus on financial law, more particulary insurance undertakings regulation. He supervises research in law through coordinating collective works as well as through his role as scientific advisor of a legal journal. In 2025, he was awarded the Habilitation to direct research by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.

He teachs contract law, risk management and others courses. He's in charge of a teaching program in partnership with the University of Grenoble Alpes. He obtained his doctorate at the Université de Toulouse I Capitole, where he also taught for several years.

From 2017 to 2020, he was chairman of the French Academy of Legal studies, a scientific association that aims to establish the place of law in business schools. He's now vice chairman.