Organisation of Academic Events Related to General Law and Civil Law

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris Cité (Faculty of Law, Economics and Management – Centre de Droit des Affaires et de Gestion, CEDAG), Compliance et stratégies d’entreprise dans l’organisation contractuelle des chaînes de valeur (Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains), Malakoff, 12 November 2026, 4 pm – 7 pm. - 🏗️This colloquium is part of the 2026 cycle of colloquia “Compliance & Contract” organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities. - The colloquium is under the scientific responsibility of 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and 🕴️Etienne Maclouf.   To register, on site or online: ….. - 🧮 The event will take place at Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff (France). - ► Presentation of the theme: “Value chains” have always existed, long before the legal system took hold of this reality, at once economic, financial and managerial, to bring it into the legal order. Their entry into it is recent, probably through the so-called “Vigilance” Act of 2017, the expression appearing in the preparatory works, while it is expressly referred to in the texts of the European Union. It is therefore a notion stemming from financial management, which developed alongside the very phenomenon of the firm and of trade, as a way of escaping the instability of the markets for goods and services. But Law has always been present through the natural use of contract. Contract thus came before the perspective of Compliance Law found its way into value chains, contract being an instrument of stability compared with the exchange contracts on which competitive markets are built, but also in those organisational contracts which regulate value chains and deploy the firm in its corporate form (“parent company”) and beyond its corporate form (“principal company”). Used in what might be called a “bare” way (a reference to the “nude pact” that contract constitutes when it is grasped by general law alone), contract has thus been the means for firms to deploy strategies through the organisation of value chains. The first aim of this colloquium is to show how this is done, and how it is valued, since the term “value” refers to the capacity to give value, in terms of return on investment, to such a contractual organisation. The legal system may remain more or less neutral towards these organisational contracts, which are so many “regulatory contracts”, either because it does not see them, or because it regards them as always beneficial and therefore as justifying neither specific regimes nor legislative or judicial intervention. It is then a matter of legislative or judge-made policy. The second aim of this colloquium is to show how legal systems react, to a greater or lesser extent, to these strategies, depending on whether they know them and whether they approve of them. The development of the law specific to this organisational strategy differs greatly from one area of the world to another, which creates considerable practical difficulties, because value chains are by nature structured in a unified way across the different areas of the world, for instance between Europe and the United States, and/or between Europe and Asia. By injecting regulation into these contracts, which are not governed by a single legal order, corporate strategies lose their stability. Yet stability is the very stake of corporate strategy in this field, and it is for this reason that contracts have been designed and adapted so as to differ from exchange contracts and to become the basis of the sustainability of value chains, which is today a major geopolitical issue. Moreover, and this is the third point of the colloquium, legislative provisions and case law are not hostile to contract, but they take it in another sense. Indeed, if one considers Europe (a position legally and politically contested in the United States, which calls for “deregulation” so as to return to contract as a “nude pact”), contract is rather taken as an instrument provided for by the texts to enable the firm subject to them to implement its Compliance Obligation. This raises no difficulty if the firm’s strategy matches the Monumental Goals that make up the normative foundation of the compliance corpus in question (e.g. DSA, DORA, GDPR, AI Act, CSRD, CS3D, etc.), but the articulation becomes more difficult, or even problematic, when the two strategies no longer match. One of the ambitions of this colloquium, which gives as much room to management science as to Law, is to seek how, in practice, these difficulties can be reduced. - 12 November 2026, 4 pm – 7 pm, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains 🎤 Welcome on behalf of the CEDAG research centre: 🕴️Pauline Pailler (to be confirmed), Professor of Private Law at Université Paris Cité, Director of the Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), member of the Institut universitaire de France 🎤 How contract plays its part in strategy within companies seized by Compliance: 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Regulatory and Compliance Law, Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and of the European School of Regulation and Compliance (EeRC) 🎤 Compliance issues in public service value chains: 🕴️Véronique Chanut, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, Director of LARGEPA and CIFFOP 🎤 Whistleblowers in value chains: contractualisation and compliance issues: 🕴️Guillaume Delalieux, Professor of Management Science (HDR), IAE La Rochelle, Director of the LITHORAL research centre 🎤 Emerging risks, sovereignty and vulnerabilities of value chains: 🕴️Rémy Février (to be confirmed), Professor of Management Science (HDR), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) 🎤 The dynamics of value chains in relation to compliance: 🕴️Etienne Maclouf, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management 🎤 title to be confirmed: 🕴️Stanislas Pottier, Senior Advisor to the General Management, Amundi 🎤 Conclusion of the colloquium: 🕴️Mathias Naudin (to be confirmed), Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Management Science, Université Paris Cité - The work of this colloquium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the books: 📕Compliance et Contrat (Compliance and Contract), forthcoming in the 📚Regulations & Compliance series, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz.   - follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on LinkedIn follow Marie-Anne Frison-Roche on Instagram subscribe to the Newsletter MAFR Regulation, Compliance, Law subscribe to the Video Newsletter MAFR Surplomb subscribe to the Newsletter MaFR Droit & Art

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS) (Sorbonne Legal Research Institute), Compliance et Droit commun des contrats (Compliance and General Contract Law), 7 October 2026. see on Instagram the carousel devoted to the conference (in French) see on Instagram the programme of the conference (in French) - 🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposiums organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner universities, focusing in 2026 on the general theme of Compliance and Contract. - The symposium is under the scientific responsibility of 🕴️Nicolas Bargue, Senior Lecturer (maître de conférences) at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), co-director of the Contract, Civil Liability and Insurance Department of the IRJS, 🕴️Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Law (agrégée des Facultés de Droit), Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and of the European School of Regulation and Compliance (EeRC), and 🕴️Julia Heinich, Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). - Registration with the IRJS: Registration for the symposium « Compliance et droit commun des contrats » of 7 October 2026 | Labo – IRJS - 🧮The symposium, organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS), will take place on Wednesday 7 October 2026, from 9:15 am to 1 pm, at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Room 6 of the Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris. It will be held in French. - Presentation of the topic: While Contract Law, in its common rules expressed by the “general theory of contracts”, is often considered to be the most developed branch of Law in practice and the most studied at university, at first glance it seems to be given little consideration when it comes to Compliance. The relationship between the contract and the documents, standards and ethical acts so numerous in Compliance techniques, to which is added the soft law produced by courts, regulators, supervisors and companies themselves, is an open question. Thus the “commitments” that punctuate the techniques and behaviours making up the “compliance culture” have a central place in Compliance Law; but their place, if not their equivalence with the Contract, is not established. To gain a firmer footing in the analysis of the practices of companies that insert compliance clauses into multiple contracts, to observe that Compliance can be the very subject of a specific contract — the “compliance contract” —, or even to assist in the conception that judges develop of their office when they hear contractual litigation involving Compliance, we must return to general Contract Law. If we stop viewing Compliance Law solely through the prism of repression, the Contract does not have the same place: the compliance obligation can be conceived as also having the contract as a legitimate source, a contract which, under general law, has its source in the autonomy of the will and all its consequences — contractual freedom, binding force, effect on third parties. This is the subject of this symposium which, following the classic diptych of formation and performance, takes up the contractual thread from the founding principles of autonomy and freedoms, binding force and its relativity, the meeting of wills, groups of contracts and regulatory contracts often drawn up to implement compliance policies. Specific performance and contractual liability under general law are themselves coloured in a singular way when a compliance concern has been inserted into the contract. - The proceedings of this symposium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the following publications: 📕Compliance et Contrat, forthcoming in the series 📚Régulations & Compliance, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz. 📘Compliance and Contract, forthcoming in the 📚Compliance & Regulation Series, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Bruylant. 🔻 See the programme below

► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and University Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, Centre de recherche Louis Josserand : La contractualisation de la compliance : clause après clause (Compliance and Contracts: clause by clause), 25 September 2026 see on Instagram the « Synthèse » carousel devoted to the conference (in French) - 🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposiums organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner universities, focusing in 2023 on the general theme of Compliance and Contracts. - The symposium is under the scientific responsibility of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and Jean-Christophe Roda. Il will be held in French. - To register: 🧮The event will take place at the University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. - Presentation of the topic:  There are numerous compliance clauses. Surprisingly little research has been done on them, which hinders the development of this practice. However, the Compliance Obligation that is so often emphasised in relation to civil liability no doubt because Compliance Law is excessively associated with sanctions, can just as easily originate from contracts and multiple clauses, since this is another way of being bound, without it being anything more than a means for the persons thus bound to fulfil their regulatory obligation. It is therefore practice that has developed compliance clauses, the very existence of which is the subject of this symposium. By highlighting these provisions, their originality can be revealed, as well as the uniqueness conferred on them by Compliance Law and the diversity that may be required depending on criteria related to the purpose of the clauses, but also to the sector of activity or the identity of the contracting parties themselves. From this already established practice, it is certainly the Judge who will determine its uniqueness and specificity. This case law is in its infancy because this practice is the result of compliance requirements arising from an emerging branch of Law, which is still under development. Furthermore, the clauses examined here are not conceived from scratch, but are often adaptations of clauses familiar to lawyers, and as such may be reproduced, regulated, or even restricted or prohibited by rules that fall not only under general Contract Law, but also, clause by clause under Competition Law, Distribution Law, Consumer Law, Judicial and Procedural Law, or Private International law. The logic of Compliance Law, when it takes contractual form, does not always prevail and, in the same way that Compliance Law as a branch of Law is linked to other branches, compliance clauses, if they are to multiply and become more sophisticated, must be subject to this link. x - The proceedings of this symposium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the following publications: 📕Compliance et Contrat, to be published in French in the collection 📚Regulations & Compliance, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz. 📘Compliance and Contract, to be published in English in the 📚Compliance & Regulation Serie, co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant (Larcier-Intersentia).   🔻 Read the schedule for the event below ⤵️  

► Full reference : M.-A. Frison-Roche, Scientific coprdination and co-hosting of the colloquia series Compliance and Contract, organised on the initiative of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its academic partners - - ► The Symposium Series in a nutshell : As a direct continuation of the previous symposium series co-organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance and its partner universities on “Compliance Obligation”, which served as the basis for the publication of the book 📘Compliance Obligation,  The series, some elements of which began in 2024 and others are already present in this book, explored in depth the specific theme of the links between compliance law and contracts. Indeed, compliance law is often analysed as the construction of laws and regulations to achieve “📘 Monumental Goals ” of a political nature desired by States and public authorities, to the achievement of which systemic economic operations contribute through 📘Compliance Tools that are now well documented. Contracts are still relatively little studied, or even developed, in compliance systems that are often perceived through the orders issued, the technologies put in place and the 📘sanctions to be avoided or endured. On the contrary, the future of compliance law, particularly in its European conception, which places human beings at the centre of concerns for the sustainability of systems and the use of contracts, is the new conception that we must adopt. Contracts then appear to be both the means by which the subject company fulfils its legal obligations, forges relationships with other actors and deploys the necessary innovations. Contract law is both used and renewed as a result. The series of symposiums will examine various aspects of this general issue. It will result in the publication of a 📘book Compliance and Contrat. - ► Presentation of symposiums in development : 29 May 2026🧮THE JUDGE CONFRONTED WITH CONTRACTS OF COMPLIANCE AND COMPLIANCE CLAUSES: read the presentation 12 June 2026🧮THE “CONTRACT OF COMPLIANCE” : read the presentation 25 Septembre 2026🧮COMPLIANCE: CLAUSE BY CLAUSE: read the presentation 2 October 2026🧮COMPLIANCE AND COMMON CONTRACT LAW : read the presentation September 2026🧮COMPLIANCE, VALUE CHAINS AND CONTRACT: read the presentation 2 November 2026 🧮COMPLIANCE AND THE STRATEGIC CONTRACTUAL ORGANISATION OF CHAINS VALUE BY ENTERPRISES: read the presentation  -

► Full Reference: Frison-Roche, M.-A., coordination and moderation of the conference L'office du juge et les causes systémiques (""The Office of the Judge and systemic causes"), in Cycle of Conferences, Penser l'office du juge ("Thinking the Office of the Judge"), Grand Chamber of the Cour de cassation, Paris, May 9, 2021, 17h-19h. The conference is held in French. - ► General presentation of the conference: the conference is based on the intervention of three judges, Christophe Soulard, Fabien Raynaud, and François Ancel, who think and debate among themselves on a hypothesis: the existence of "systemic causes". The hypothesis is that beyond and through the diversity of disputes and cases that are submitted to the most diverse judges, there is a category of cases that are systemic, which means containing in what is submitted to the judge for resolution a system.  If such a category exists, which also raises the question of the diversity of systems and the difficulty arising from their submission to rules that are not legal (for example economic, biological, financial "laws", etc.) , then the judge should take this into account, both in the procedure and in the judgment they make on the case and in the way they formulate et restitute this judgment. - 📝read the presentation of this conference by the Cour de cassation (in French) 📝read the program of the cycle of conferences 2022 (in French) -  🎥see the conference video (in French)  🎥 see the synthesis video of the conference, made in situ by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche (in French)   - ​✏️read the notes taken during the conference to make the synthesis (in French) 📝read the article of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche restituting this conference, published in the Recueil Dalloz (in French) - ►read the works, basis of the two interventions of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche 🚧 L'hypothèse de la "cause systémique (made before the conference to prepare it), available en English 📝Synthese of the conference (made during the conference) -

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