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► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Compliance et Contrat (“Compliance and Contract”), “Régulations & Compliance” series, Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Editions Lefebvre-Dalloz, to be published.

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📘 At the same time, a book in English, Compliance & Contract, is published in the collection copublished by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Editions Lefebvre-Bruylant.

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🧮the book follows the cycle of colloquia organised in 2026 by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities

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📚this volume is one of a series of books devoted to Compliance in this collection.

📚see the global presentation of all the books of the collection.

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► General presentation of this book: The book, published in 2025 in the same series “Regulations & Compliance” series, demonstrates that the Obligation of Compliance—which falls upon crucial operators and those concerned with the future of systems and the present and future individuals involved in them—derives from laws and regulations, and is upheld by these operators themselves, regulators and judges. The role played by contracts is discussed therein. This book specifically examines the role that contracts play and will play in the conception, development and implementation of Compliance Law.  

This aspect is underestimated because Compliance Law is often analysed through the prism of laws and regulations designed to achieve Monumental Goals set by states and public authorities, to the realisation of which systemic economic operations contribute through compliance tools, rather than through the actors themselves. When they do act, this is referred to outside the realm of Law, generally to Ethics. However, the Contract, the binding legal instrument par excellence, will play an increasingly significant role within global and interconnected compliance systems.

In the European construction of Compliance Law, which places human beings at the heart of efforts to ensure the sustainability of systems, the Contract serves not only as the means by which the entity fulfils its legal obligations, forges relationships with stakeholders and implements the necessary innovations, but also as the means by which it exercises its autonomy to contribute to the realisation of the systemic ambitions in question. 

To describe and anticipate the practice and rules that link Compliance Law and Contracts, the book first examines how this new branch of Law, insofar as it draws on the political ideas of the Social Contract, renews Contract Law by embedding it within the strategy of economic operators, a task made all the easier for them as they have built value chains through contracts. These are ‘regulatory contracts’. This demonstrates that Public Law Contracts exemplify the incorporation by General Contract Law of the overarching perspective of compliance, normatively anchored in the Monumental Goals (Title I).

That explained, the book examines how General Contract Law interfaces with the techniques and objectives of Compliance Law. Whether through mandatory requirements, incentives or support, Compliance Law plays a role in contracts, helping to shape them in part, whether they relate to regulated or unregulated activities, with the points of contact with the principle of liberalism – and the limits to it – being determined by the courts. Conversely, however, General Contract Law contributes to Compliance Law and will do so increasingly. This applies equally to the stages of formation, execution, and sanctions, which may take the form of consolidations (Title II). 

In practical terms, the Contract itself serves as a Compliance Tool. As such, the company may choose to outsource the compliance function, which it is free to do provided it remains accountable for its performance to the legislator and the persons concerned: this is the concept of the ‘Compliance Contract’, which appears as a specific contract.  Furthermore, compliance can be incorporated into multiple contracts—contractual arrangements through which the contracting parties establish one or more obligations that will facilitate or enhance their legal obligations. In doing so, legal entities exercise their freedom, as permitted by general law, and this is also recognised by the Regulator, Supervisor and/or Judge in light of the normative Monumental Goals of Compliance Law (Title III). 

Precisely, a new field of ‘contractual compliance litigation’ is emerging. The primary topic here is to examine contractual judicial disputes in which an element of Compliance Law features in the proceedings. Indeed, a dispute concerning a claim for mandatory execution, termination or contractual liability may involve, in the claim itself or in an procedural exception or defence raised, an element of compliance law, ranging from an allegation of lack of jurisdiction to a request for the court to take into account a systemic teleological norm that the contract judge should consider. Secondly, in certain emerging systemic compliance litigation, because the role of the judge is transformed and the procedure must be adapted, the contract appears as a particularly suitable tool, either as a ‘procedural framework’ through the contractualisation of the whole, or as a technique used in the strict sense, its ex ante nature allowing, in disputes concerning the future, the development of new adequate techniques (Title IV). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

► First presentation of the provisional Table of Contents  : 

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PROVISIONAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

RENDRE COMPTE DES PRATIQUES CONTRACTUELLES DANS LE SYSTÈME DE COMPLIANCE ET ACCROÎTRE L’EFFICACITÉ ET L’HUMANISME DE CELUI-CI

(REPORTING ON CONTRACTUAL PRACTICES WITHIN THE COMPLIANCE SYSTEM AND ENHANCING ITS EFFECTIVENESS AND HUMANITY)

 

♦️ Compliance et Contrat : étrangers, puis ennemis, de fait et droit alliés dans une conception dynamique et de l’Obligation de Compliance (Compliance and Contract: strangers, then enemies, in fact and in law allies within a dynamic conception of the Compliance Obligation), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

 

TITRE I.

CONTRAT SOCIAL, DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE ET STRATÉGIE DES OPÉRATEURS ÉCONOMIQUES

(SOCIAL CONTRACT, COMPLIANCE LAW AND THE STRATEGY OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS)

 

CHAPITRE I : CONTRAT SOCIAL ET DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE (SOCIAL CONTRACT AND COMPLIANCE LAW)

Section 1 ♦️ Les Buts Monumentaux de la Compliance, guide d’action pour des opérateurs économiques au service d’une politique globale (The Monumental Goals of Compliance, a guide to action for economic operators serving a global policy), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Section 2 ♦️ sss, by 🕴️René Sève

 

CHAPITRE II : AMBITIONS POLITIQUES ET STRATÉGIES D’ENTREPRISE DANS L’ORGANISATION CONTRACTUELLE DES CHAÎNES DE VALEUR (POLITICAL AMBITIONS AND CORPORATE STRATEGIES IN THE CONTRACTUAL ORGANISATION OF VALUE CHAINS)

Section 1 ♦️ sss

Section 2 ♦️ sss, by

 

CHAPITRE III : LES CONTRATS PUBLICS, PARANGONS DE L’ACCUEIL DES AMBITIONS POLITIQUES DANS LES STRATÉGIES ET L’ALLIANCE DES INSTITUTIONS (PUBLIC CONTRACTS, PARAGONS OF THE INCORPORATION OF POLITICAL AMBITIONS INTO STRATEGIES AND OF THE ALLIANCE OF INSTITUTIONS)

Section 1 ♦️ Les instruments contractuels facilitant l’insertion de l’obligation de compliance (Contractual instruments facilitating the insertion of the compliance obligation), by 🕴️Marion Ubaud-Bergeron

Section 2 ♦️ Les obligations d’évaluation des tiers dans les contrats publics (Third-party assessment obligations in public contracts), by 🕴️Valentin Lamy

Section 3 ♦️ L’exemplarité dans les contrats publics (Exemplarity in public contracts), by 🕴️Ugo Assouad and 🕴️Léon Boijout

Section 4 ♦️ Le devoir de vigilance est-il soluble dans le droit des contrats administratifs ? (Is the duty of vigilance soluble in the law of administrative contracts?), by 🕴️Antoine Oumedjkane

 

TITRE II.

LE DROIT COMMUN DES CONTRATS CONFRONTÉ AU DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE

(GENERAL CONTRACT LAW FACED WITH COMPLIANCE LAW)

 

CHAPITRE I : DISTINGUER LE CONTRACTUEL DE CE QUI S’EN RAPPROCHE DANS LE SYSTÈME DE COMPLIANCE (DISTINGUISHING WHAT IS CONTRACTUAL FROM WHAT RESEMBLES IT IN THE COMPLIANCE SYSTEM)

Section 1 ♦️ Autonomie de la volonté, engagements et Compliance (Autonomy of will, commitments and Compliance), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

 

CHAPITRE II : L’EMPRISE DU DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE SUR LE DROIT COMMUN DES CONTRATS (THE HOLD OF COMPLIANCE LAW OVER GENERAL CONTRACT LAW)

Section 1 ♦️ Les contrats de régulation engendrés par la compliance (Regulatory contracts generated by compliance), by 🕴️Jean-Baptiste Barbieri

Section 2 ♦️ Les tiers aux contrats comprenant une dimension de compliance (Third parties to contracts that include a compliance dimension), by 🕴️Philippe Stoffel-Munck

 

CHAPITRE III : L’APPORT DU DROIT COMMUN DES CONTRATS AU DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE (THE CONTRIBUTION OF GENERAL CONTRACT LAW TO COMPLIANCE LAW)

Section 1 ♦️ La portée des contrats traduisant l’impératif de compliance (The scope of contracts expressing the compliance imperative), by 🕴️Laurent Aynès

 

TITRE III.

CONTRAT DE COMPLIANCE, CLAUSES DE COMPLIANCE

(COMPLIANCE CONTRACT, COMPLIANCE CLAUSES)

 

CHAPITRE I : LE « CONTRAT DE COMPLIANCE » (THE “COMPLIANCE CONTRACT”)

Sous-chapitre 1 : L’ÉMERGENCE DU « CONTRAT DE COMPLIANCE » ET DU MARCHÉ DE LA COMPLIANCE (THE EMERGENCE OF THE “COMPLIANCE CONTRACT” AND OF THE COMPLIANCE MARKET)

Section 1 ♦️ L’industrialisation et l’externalisation par le « contrat de compliance » d’une fonction essentielle par l’entreprise (The industrialisation and outsourcing by the company of an essential function through the “compliance contract”), by 🕴️Etienne Maclouf and 🕴️Bruno Deffains

Section 2 ♦️ Définition juridique du « contrat de compliance » (Legal definition of the “compliance contract”), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Sous-chapitre 2 : EXEMPLES DE « CONTRATS DE COMPLIANCE » (EXAMPLES OF “COMPLIANCE CONTRACTS”)

Section 3 ♦️ Les contrats d’enquête interne (Internal investigation contracts), by 🕴️Dominique de la Garanderie

Section 4 ♦️ Les contrats passés avec les structures d’audit (Contracts concluded with audit firms), by 🕴️Antoinette Gutierrez-Crespin

Sous-chapitre 3 : LA RÉACTION PAR LE DROIT À L’INDUSTRIALISATION ET LA STANDARDISATION DU « CONTRAT DE COMPLIANCE » (THE LAW’S RESPONSE TO THE INDUSTRIALISATION AND STANDARDISATION OF THE “COMPLIANCE CONTRACT”)

Section 5 ♦️ L’appréhension de la standardisation et l’industrialisation du « contrat de compliance » par le droit de la concurrence afin de réguler (How competition law grasps the standardisation and industrialisation of the “compliance contract” in order to regulate), by 🕴️Jean-Christophe Roda

Section 6 ♦️ Les aspects internationaux du « contrat de compliance » (The international aspects of the “compliance contract”), by 🕴️Jean-Baptiste Racine

 

CHAPITRE II : LES CLAUSES DE COMPLIANCE (COMPLIANCE CLAUSES)

Section 1 ♦️ Unicité et Diversité des clauses de Compliance (Uniqueness and Diversity of Compliance Clauses), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Section 2 ♦️ Utilité comparée des clauses de conformité et des clauses de Compliance (Compared usefulness of conformity clauses and Compliance clauses), by 🕴️Jean-Christophe Roda

Sous-chapitre 1 : LES CLAUSES DE COMPLIANCE VISANT L’INFORMATION (COMPLIANCE CLAUSES CONCERNING INFORMATION)

Section 3 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à la transmission de l’information (Compliance clauses relating to the transmission of information), by 🕴️Thibault Duchesne

Section 4 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à la confidentialité et à la non-transmission d’information (Compliance clauses relating to confidentiality and the non-transmission of information), by 🕴️Jean-Christophe Roda

Section 5 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à l’audit (Compliance clauses relating to audit), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Sous-chapitre 2 : LES CLAUSES DE COMPLIANCE VISANT L’EXÉCUTION DU CONTRAT (COMPLIANCE CLAUSES CONCERNING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT)

Section 6 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à l’évolution des circonstances (Compliance clauses relating to changes in circumstances), by 🕴️Julia Heinich

Section 7 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance visant à obtenir des comportements adéquats (exemple des relations sociales) (Compliance clauses aimed at obtaining appropriate behaviour (the example of labour relations)), by 🕴️Joseph-Antoine Morin

Section 8 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance visant à obtenir l’efficacité des plans de gestion des risques (Compliance clauses aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of risk management plans), by 🕴️Grégoire Leray

Section 9 ♦️ Les clauses de robustesse (Robustness clauses), by 🕴️Ludovic Pailler

Sous-chapitre 3 : LES CLAUSES DE COMPLIANCE VISANT LA PRÉVENTION ET LA GESTION ANTICIPÉE DES CONFLITS (COMPLIANCE CLAUSES CONCERNING THE PREVENTION AND ANTICIPATED MANAGEMENT OF DISPUTES)

Section 10 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives aux sanctions (Compliance clauses relating to sanctions), by 🕴️Laura Sautonie-Laguionie

Section 11 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à la remédiation (Compliance clauses relating to remediation), by 🕴️Morgane Tirel

Section 12 ♦️ Les clauses de compliance relatives à la procédure, à l’expertise et à la mise en état (Compliance clauses relating to procedure, expert evidence and pre-trial case management), by 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Béthan

 

TITRE IV.

LE CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LE DROIT DE LA COMPLIANCE

(CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE LAW)

 

CHAPITRE I : CERNER LE CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LA COMPLIANCE (IDENTIFYING CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE)

Section 1 ♦️ L’émergence du contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance par la convergence des matières (The emergence of contractual litigation involving Compliance through the convergence of fields), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Section 2 ♦️ La singularité du contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (The singularity of contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan

 

CHAPITRE II : JUGES SAISIS ET JUGES NATURELS DU CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LA COMPLIANCE (COURTS SEISED AND NATURAL JUDGES OF CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE)

Section 1 ♦️ Juge de droit commun et juge spécialisé dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (Ordinary courts and specialised courts in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Romain Raine

Section 2 ♦️ Du juge répressif au juge civil dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (From the criminal court to the civil court in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Alex Nicollet

Section 3 ♦️ Le juge d’appui dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (The supporting judge in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Fabrice Vert

Section 4 ♦️ L’arbitre dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (The arbitrator in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Cyril Nourissat

 

CHAPITRE III : LES PARTIES AU CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LA COMPLIANCE (THE PARTIES TO CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE)

Section 1 ♦️ Parties originaires et intervenantes, parties nécessaires, parties prenantes : qui sont les parties légitimes (Original and intervening parties, necessary parties, stakeholders: who are the legitimate parties), by 🕴️Liza Veyre

 

CHAPITRE IV : LE TRAITEMENT PROCÉDURAL DU CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LA COMPLIANCE (THE PROCEDURAL HANDLING OF CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE)

Section 1 ♦️ Le maniement du temps dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance : de l’urgence au temps long (Handling time in contractual litigation involving Compliance: from urgency to the long term), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

Section 2 ♦️ La contractualisation de la mise en état, outil naturel du contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (Contractualising pre-trial case management, a natural tool of contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan

Section 3 ♦️ La contractualisation de la preuve dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (Contractualising evidence in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Nicolas Ida

Section 4 ♦️ L’audience dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance (The hearing in contractual litigation involving Compliance), by 🕴️Anaïs Danet

 

CHAPITRE V : LE JUGEMENT DU CONTENTIEUX CONTRACTUEL IMPLIQUANT LA COMPLIANCE (THE JUDGMENT IN CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE)

Section 1 ♦️ Le jugement adéquat dans le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance et son exécution efficace (The appropriate judgment in contractual litigation involving Compliance and its effective enforcement), by 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan

 

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