► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2) and Business Law Centre (CDE), Le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance : aspects procéduraux et juridictionnels (Contractual Litigation Involving Compliance: Procedural and Jurisdictional Aspects), 29 May 2026
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🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposia organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities, focusing in 2026 on the general theme of Compliance and Contract. It is the first one.
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The symposium is under the scientific direction of 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2), and of 🕴️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).
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🧮 The symposium took place on Friday 29 May 2026, from 10 am to 5:45 pm, at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Amphithéâtre Paul Roubier, 15 quai Claude-Bernard, 69007 Lyon, on site and online. It was held in French.
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► Presentation of the theme: Two movements intersect: first, what is commonly called the “contractualisation of justice”, an image referring to the insertion of genuinely contractual techniques into trials, and second, through the “Jurisdictionalisation of Compliance”, the emergence of a “Systemic Litigation” which, by transitivity, bears the marks of Compliance Law itself.
Moreover, Compliance techniques increasingly make room for contractual mechanisms, either through “Compliance Contracts” or through “Compliance Clauses”. This therefore gives rise to contractual disputes, which are also imbued with Compliance, no longer directly but indirectly.
Thus, in diverse and new ways, a “Contractual Litigation Involving Compliance” is taking shape. It has procedural and jurisdictional aspects, the study of which is the subject of this symposium.
The first step is to identify this contractual litigation involving Compliance (I), whose emergence is recent: contractual litigation on the one hand and Regulatory and Compliance litigation on the other have always been known, but their entanglement, combined with the contractualisation of justice, is new. It may even come as a shock, since Compliance Law, which is not the mere obligation to obey applicable regulations, carries systemic ambitions for the future and is thus brought, through contracts, before a judge more accustomed to disputes between two singular parties.
The themes then successively addressed are the courts seised and the natural judges (II), the parties to the dispute and the parties to the proceedings (III), the procedural handling (IV), and the judgment and its enforcement (V).
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📝 The proceedings of this symposium form the basis of a chapter of the book Compliance and Contract, forthcoming in the Compliance & Regulation series, co-published by the JoRC and Bruylant, and of its French version, Compliance et Contrat, co-published by the JoRC and Lefebvre-Dalloz.
CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE: PROCEDURAL AND JURISDICTIONAL ASPECTS
Symposium organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC), the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2) and the Business Law Centre (CDE) of Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Friday 29 May 2026 – 10 am to 5:45 pm
Amphithéâtre Paul Roubier, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 – 15 quai Claude-Bernard, 69007 Lyon
🕰10 am, Welcome
🕰10:10 am, 🎤Opening addresses, by 🕴️Olivier Gout, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 🕴️Jean-Christophe Roda, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Business Law Centre (CDE), and 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2)
I. IDENTIFYING CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE
🕰10:30 am, 🎤The emergence of contractual litigation involving Compliance through the convergence of fields, by 🕴️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)
🕰11 am, 🎤The singularity of contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2)
II. COURTS SEISED AND NATURAL JUDGES OF CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE
🕰11:30 am, 🎤Ordinary judge and specialised judge in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Romain Raine, Senior Lecturer at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
🕰11:50 am, 🎤From the criminal judge to the civil judge in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Alex Nicollet, PhD candidate at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, member of the Paris Bar
🕰12:10 pm, 🎤The supporting judge in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Fabrice Vert, First Vice-President of the Paris Judicial Court
🕰12:30 pm, 🎤The arbitrator in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Cyril Nourissat, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the International, European and Comparative Law Team (EDIEC)
🕰12:50 pm, End of the morning session and lunch break
🕰2:30 pm, Afternoon session
III. THE PARTIES TO CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE
🕰2:30 pm, 🎤Original and intervening parties, necessary parties, stakeholders: who are the legitimate parties, by 🕴️Liza Veyre, Professor at Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis
IV. THE PROCEDURAL HANDLING OF CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE
🕰3 pm, 🎤Handling time in contractual litigation involving Compliance: from urgency to the long term, by 🕴️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)
🕰3:20 pm, 🎤The contractualisation of pre-trial case management, a natural tool of contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2)
🕰3:40 pm, 🎤The contractualisation of evidence in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Nicolas Ida, Professor at Université de Haute-Alsace
🕰4 pm, 🎤The hearing in contractual litigation involving Compliance, by 🕴️Anaïs Danet, Professor at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
🕰4:20 pm, Break
V. THE JUDGMENT OF CONTRACTUAL LITIGATION INVOLVING COMPLIANCE
🕰4:40 pm, 🎤The appropriate judgment in contractual litigation involving Compliance and its effective enforcement, by 🕴️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), and 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2)
🕰5:20 pm, Discussion with the audience
🕰5:45 pm, End of the symposium