Oct. 14, 2024
Conferences
🌐follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb
____
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Entreprises assujetties au Droit de la Compliance : la charge de prouver la crédibilité de la trajectoire des actions entreprises à partir des structures mises en place" ("Companies subject to Compliance Law: the burden of proving the credibility of the course of action taken on the basis of the structures put in place"), in Les techniques probatoires adéquates dans le Contentieux Systémique Émergent (Appropriate Evidentiary Techniques in Emerging Systemic Litigation), in cycle of conference-debates "Contentieux Systémique Émergent" ("Emerging Systemic Litigation"), organised on the initiative of the Cour d'appel de Paris (Paris Cour of Appeal), with the Cour de cassation (French Court of cassation), the Cour d'appel de Versailles (Versailles Court of Appeal), the École nationale de la magistrature - ENM (French National School for the Judiciary) and the École de formation des barreaux du ressort de la Cour d'appel de Paris - EFB (Paris Bar School), under the scientific direction of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, October 14, 2024, 11am.-12.30pm., Paris Court of Appeal, Cassin courtroom
____
🧮see the full programme of this event
____
► English Summary of the conference : As developed below, the presentation shows that Systemic Litigation highlights what is incumbent on systemic companies: first and foremost, a permanent Evidential Obligation that they must satisfy with regard to stakeholders, in particular investors, partners, consumers and public opinion, whether or not there is a lawsuit. But it is essential to determine the purpose of this proof, the burden of which is permanent. It is a question of showing the efforts made on an ongoing basis by the crucial company to ensure that the system in which it operates does not collapse ("Negative Monumental Goal"), or even that it improves ("Positive Monumental Goal"). As these are inherently future factual goals, which is akin to impossible proof, it is a question of demonstrating "Credibility", i.e. showing that the structures put in place by the company and the behaviour already obtained by it, both internally and externally, generate a "trajectory" which can reasonably be expected to produce the effects expected by the Legislator which places obligations on companies. This is relevant whatever the systems involved, be they banking, financial, energy, climate, digital, etc., and whatever the monumental systemic goal targeted, be it the fight against corruption, money laundering, harmful climate change, the establishment of effective equality between human beings, respect for others, etc.
It is in this new conception that the traditional notions of the object of proof, the burden of proof, presumption, means of proof, exemption from proof, and above all the judge's evidentiary role, must be adjusted to the Systemic Litigation that is emerging.
________
Oct. 10, 2024
Interviews
🌐follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR. Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter Surplomb, by MAFR
____
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, E. Silva Romero, G. Filhol, V. Autret, B. Sillaman et K. Hennessee, Compliance & arbitrage : les prémices d’une symbiose, propos recueillis par O. Delaunay, LJA Magazine, septembre-octobre 2024, pp. 12-20
____
💬read the collective interview (in French)
____
🌐read the presentation of this interview on LinkedIn
____
► Topics covered during this collective interview:
The development of Compliance in an international environment
The Arbitrator and the concept of Compliance
Linking Arbitration and Compliance systems
____
► Summary of my interventions: Compliance Law appears to be developing in the context of international trade and Arbitration.
For my part, I placed particular emphasis on the fact that the first reports were the result of "negative reports" between Compliance and Arbitration, through Criminal Law and the obligation of arbitrators to ensure that they don't give effectivity to pacts of corruption. But the future lies in a more 'positive' and fruitful relationship between this new branch of law, Compliance Law, and the solid prospect offered by Arbitration, in that the arbitrator, this natural judge of international trade, will be able to support the contractualisation of Compliance obligations, particularly about due diligences in structural chains of activities and duty of vigilance.
Thus competent, the international arbitrator must respond to what the Monumental Goals in which Compliance Law is rooted expect of him/her: to provide solutions and remedies to issues that often concern an entire chain of activity or an entire sector in a more systemic perspective than in a traditional conception. This applies not only to investment arbitration, but also, for instance, to infrastructure arbitration. The concern for sustainability and the systemic perspective must be integrated into the reasoning and produce appropriate case law, a sort of new doctrine in the arbitration order, that will make more attractive the arbitration place that will most solidly link the skills of specialists in Compliance Law and Arbitration Law.
________
Oct. 9, 2024
Publications
🌐follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche sur LinkedIn
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Overhang/Surplomb
____
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, Monumental Goals, normative anchoring of Compliance, Working Paper, February 2025.
____
🎬This working document has been drawn up to serve as basis to
the video Overhang👁 of the 1st February 2025: click HERE
____
🎬🎬🎬In the collection of the Overhangs👁 It falls into the Notions category.
►Watch the complete collection of the Overhangs👁 : click HERE
____
► Summary of this Working Paper: Compliance, of which conformity is only one instrument (the 2 should not be confused), must be understood through the ‘Monumental Goals’ : political ambitions pursued by the public authorities and internalised in the entities in a position to achieve them, i.e. large companies.
These Goals are Monumental in that they concern systems: ensuring that these systems do not collapse in the future = ‘Negative Monumental Goals’ (e.g. fight against corruption, against climate change); more ambitious still, they may aim to improve systems = ‘Positive Monumental Goals’ (e.g. effective equality between women and men).
Their systemic nature gives rise to Systemic Litigation.
____
🔓read the developments below⤵️
Oct. 1, 2024
MAFR TV : MAFR TV - Overhang
🌐suivre Marie-Anne Frison-Roche sur LinkedIn
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter MAFR. Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter Surplomb, par MAFR
____
► Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Du Droit de la Compliance découle le Droit de l'Intelligence Artificielle", in série de vidéos Surplomb, 1er octobre 2024ré
____
🌐visionner sur LinkedIn cette vidéo de la série Surplomb
____
____
🎬visionner ci-dessous cette vidéo de la série Surplomb⤵️
____
Sept. 27, 2024
MAFR TV : MAFR TV - Overhang
🌐suivre Marie-Anne Frison-Roche sur LinkedIn
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter MAFR. Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter Surplomb, par MAFR
____
► Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, "La durabilité, coeur dynamique de la Régulation et de la Compliance", in série de vidéos Surplomb, 27 septembre 2024
____
🌐visionner sur LinkedIn cette vidéo de la série Surplomb
____
____
🎬visionner ci-dessous cette vidéo de la série Surplomb⤵️
____
Sept. 26, 2024
Publications
🌐follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter Surplomb, par MAFR
____
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Le contentieux systémique" ("The Systemic Litigation"), D. 2024, chron., pp. 1633-1635
____
📝read the article (in French)
____
____
► English Summary of the article: We are seeing the Emergence of a category of its own and must be designated by a singular expression: 'Systemic Litigation' (I). This category is composed of concrete cases, "Systemic Cases", in which a system is entirely involved. The interest in these systems, insofar as they are all a system, unifies the category and justifies its own procedural, institutional and jurisdictional treatment. This type of Litigation is Emerging for three reasons, which are recorded in the Systemic Cases (II). Systemic Litigation must be dealt with in a way that is both specific and unified. This is beginning to happen and must be expanded (III).
________
Sept. 25, 2024
Conferences
🌐follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn
🌐subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb
____
► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Devoir de vigilance et litiges commerciaux : Anticiper l'"incidence" et s’organiser" ("Duty of vigilance and Commercial Litigation: Anticipating the "impact" and getting organised"), in L'incidence du devoir de vigilance sur les litiges commerciaux (The Impact of the Duty of Vigilance on Commercial Litigation), Tribunal de commerce de Paris (Paris Commercial Court), Droit & Commerce and Association Française en Faveur de l'Institution Consulaire (AFFIC), Tribunal de commerce de Paris, September 25, 2024, 17.15pm to 20pm
____
🌐read the report of this speech on LinkedIn (in French)
____
🧮see the full programme of this event (in French)
____
🧱consult the scientific coordination sheet of this event
____
🌐consult on LinkedIn a general presentation of this event (in French)
____
► English Summary of the conference: After listening to the enlightening speeches of François Ancel and Jean-Christophe Roda, I had the great opportunity to emphasise, as they did, that the duty of vigilance, in the respect of French laws of 2017 and 2021, with a view to the transposition of the CS3D, does not imply, so brutally as has been said, a lack of knowledge by judges other than those of the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (Paris First Instance Civil Court) of this new Law, which is the extension of Compliance Law, as François Ancel reminded us.
Because Commercial Court judges deal with Contract Law on a daily basis, and because companies build their value chains through contracts that should be described as "regulatory contracts", the duty of vigilance has an "impact" on these disputes.
These disputes may be of a "systemic" nature.
This can only result not in jurisdictional trenches, but in "shared jurisdiction", along the lines drawn by François Ancel. This sharing must be built through a dialogue between judges, a necessary method on which Patrick Sayer concluded this elaborate conference on an essential and forward-looking subject.
________
Sept. 23, 2024
Interviews
🌐suivre Marie-Anne Frison-Roche sur LinkedIn
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter MAFR. Regulation, Compliance, Law
🌐s'abonner à la Newsletter Surplomb, par MAFR
____
► Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, "L'indispensable dialogue entre le droit et la gestion", entretien mené par J.-Ph. Denis à l'occasion d'une série d'entretiens sur le Droit de la Compliance, in Fenêtres ouvertes sur la gestion, émission de J.-Ph. Denis, Xerfi Canal, enregistré le 12 décembre 2023, diffusé le 23 septembre 2024
____
🌐consulter sur LinkedIn la présentation en décembre 2023 de l'entretien
____
🌐consulter sur LinkedIn la vidéo de l'entretien
____
🎥visionner l'interview ci-dessous⤵️
____
🧱consulter la présentation générale de cette série d'entretiens sur le Droit de la Compliance
____
🎥visionner l'interview complète sur Xerfi Canal
____
► Point de départ : depuis 2016, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche construit le Droit de la Compliance, notamment par une collection coéditée en français avec les Editions Dalloz et coéditée en anglais avec les Editions Bruylant :
🧱lire la présentation de la collection en langue française, 📚Régulations & Compliance
🧱read the presentation of the series in English, 📚Compliance & Regulation
____
► Résumé de l'entretien :
Jean-Philippe Denis. Question : Pourquoi Droit et Gestion doivent dialoguer ?
Marie-Anne Frison-Roche. Réponse. : Pour des impératifs pratiques. Aujourd'hui, l'on demande au Droit de sortir de ses frontières en réglant la façon dont les entreprises, à travers les chaînes de valeur qu'elles ont construit, doivent faire en sorte qu'effectivement les droits humains ne soient pas atteints. Pour pouvoir remplir ces nouvelles obligations, les entreprises doivent renouveler leur gouvernance, ce qui relève de la Gestion et non du Droit. Le Droit doit ainsi trouver de nouvelles méthodes, de nouveaux raisonnements, en s'alliant avec la Gestion.
Dans un second temps, comme les juristes n'ont appris que le Droit, il reviendra aux avocats d'aller expliquer ces concepts aux juges, afin que ceux-ci les intègrent dans leur façon de juger. On voit donc ici ce que la Gestion peut apporter au Droit.
___
J.-Ph D. Q. : Loi Pacte, société à mission, RSE, derrière c'est la question de la responsabilité qui se pose et qui unit Droit et Gestion ?
MaFR. R. : Il n'y a pas que la responsabilité qui unit Droit et Gestion. Mais si l'on prend la responsabilité, celle-ci est en train d'être renouvelée dans son concept même.
Historiquement, elle avait été pensée dans son rapport à la morale. On disait qu'il fallait punir ceux qui avaient commis une faute, car il y avait eu une intention de nuire, tout cela étant tourné vers le passé. Cette conception demeure et est par exemple la base du Droit pénal.
Aujourd'hui l'on dit aussi, en plus de cela, que les acteurs en position d'agir doivent avoir conscience de leur position et de leur puissance et qu'il faut d'avantage penser en termes de responsabilisation. Cela implique pour l'entreprise de maîtriser sa puissance et de l'utiliser pour que le monde soit meilleur (responsabilité sociétale), d'utiliser sa liberté, sa volonté, pour exprimer sa fonction dans le monde de demain (entreprise à mission). On dit aussi aux entreprise qu'elles sont des groupes d'être humains, conception moins formelle que celle traditionnellement retenue en Droit, et qu'en conséquence elles doivent se définir en tant que groupe interne et analyser leur rapport à l'extérieur. Ce sont des conceptions de Gestion.
________