Compliance clauses

► Full Reference: L. Tenreira, « La rédaction des clauses d’application du devoir de vigilance par les Global Lawyers : l’exemple des clauses de flow-down » (Drafting Clauses Implementing the Duty of Vigilance by Global Lawyers: the Example of Flow-down Clauses), Revue de droit des affaires internationales, no. 5, 2022, pp. 453-466. - 🦉 The article is available in full text for those enrolled in Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche’s courses.

► Full Reference: M. D’Angelo Petrucci, « Réflexions sur l’essor des clauses de compliance dans les contrats d’affaires » (Reflections on the Rise of Compliance Clauses in Business Contracts), Revue internationale de la compliance et de l’éthique des affaires, no. 1, 10 February 2025, étude 18.

► Full Reference: J.-Ch. Roda, « Clause de compliance » (Compliance Clause), in F. Buy, J. Heinich, M. Lamoureux, J. Mestre and J.-Ch. Roda, Les principales clauses des contrats d’affaires (The Main Clauses of Business Contracts), 3rd ed., Lextenso – LGDJ, 2025, ch. 17, pp. 131-140. - 🦉 The article is available in full text to those registered in Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche’s courses.

► Full reference: V. Ulfbeck and O. Hansen, « Des clauses de durabilité dans un droit des contrats non durable ? » (Sustainability Clauses in an Unsustainable Contract Law?), Revue internationale de droit économique, 2021/4, vol. XXXV, pp. 69-90; French translation of the article first published as “Sustainability Clauses in an Unsustainable Contract Law?”, European Review of Contract Law, vol. 16, no. 1, 2020, pp. 186-205. - ► Summary: the authors start from the observation that companies in global value chains, often led by a firm with strong market power, insert sustainability clauses into their contracts, or refer to their codes of conduct, imposing on the supplier requirements relating to the environment, working conditions, human rights and anti-corruption, and often obliging it to pass them on to its own suppliers. They examine the view that general contract law, that is, default rules, should develop to serve this sustainability agenda, through three areas: principles of interpretation, express terms and the notion of third-party beneficiary. They then highlight the internal tension created in the chain by the pursuit of sustainability goals external to the parties’ interests, set against the need to protect the supplier as the weaker party: the incalculable nature of sustainability obligations and unilateral variation rights are two examples. Finally, they seek to reconcile these conflicting goals within a contract law that is itself sustainable. - 🦉 The article is available in full text to those registered in Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche’s courses.