Articles in a legal collective publication

► Référence complète : M.-A. Frison-Roche, "Experts et procédure : l'amicus curiae" ("Experts and procedure: the amicus curiae"), Revue de droit d'Assas, october 2012, pp. 91-94 - 📝read the article (in French) - ► English Summary of the article: A recent thesis has argued that amicus curiae is becoming a common principle of Procedural Law. This shows its importance. The fact that the mechanism, the character, is designated by a Latin formula leads us to suspect that something is being concealed that legal technique ordinarily forbids: it is the legal expert and the party's expert, which is what the amicus curiae most often is, either one or the other, or both at the same time. Therefore, removing the prudish cloak of Latin, it is these two difficulties that must be addressed. If we exclude the legal expert, it is because "jura novit curia" ("the court knows Law". But this rule, which recalls the principle that "no one is supposed to be ignorant of the law", merely indicates a sharing of the burden of evoking facts and Law between the parties and the judge (Motulsky) and not a presumption of knowledge. Consequently, the modest, and therefore self-confident, judge has no reason, either psychological or legal, to shy away from a legal expertise. As for the party's expert, or the judge's expert who is highly influenced by a party, a profession, a social group, in short, a judge's expert who is in fact an expert held by a party, this can only be a problem if the judge cannot keep his distance from this expert whose opinion is biased by the weight of the party. But first of all, any opinion is biased. Whether it is given in bad faith or good faith, it is biased, and in rhetoric we know that an opinion biased in good faith is more dangerous than a bought opinion, because the latter is known to be twisted by self-interest. In this respect, the person who listens to it, the judge, knows the difference. Indeed, the legal system that recognises the party's expert and the amicus curiae, i.e. North American Law or European Union Law, draws the necessary procedural consequence: they include the party's expert opinion in the adversarial debate. It is the principle of adversarial debate, the principle of principles in the conduct of proceedings, that makes amicus curiae acceptable and welcome, since it provides the judge with a scientific input that the latter does not have. -

► Full reference: Collard, C., Conformité réglementaire et performance de l'entreprise : la vision des acteurs (regards croisés de directeurs juridiques et de compliance officers), in Cahiers de droit de l'entreprise, n°6, novembre 2009.  - ► Summary of the article:  -

Full Reference : Frison-Roche, M.-A., "L’hypothèse de l’interrégulation", in Frison-Roche, M.-A. (ed.) Les risques de régulation, coll. « Droit et Économie de la Régulation », t.3, Dalloz / Presses de Sciences-Po, 2005, pp. 69-80. The topic of of this article is to propose a new notion, already presented in 2001 in the article "Regulation Law": "Interregulation". This mechanism will makes more easier a unified decision when several autonomous, even contradictory, regulations are legitimate to rule a situation. This creation therefore responds to a gap in the general system, of which the antimony is a variant. Political power no longer has the means to unify these disparate sources because it is "overtaken by the globalization of sectors and markets. Likewise, the hierarchical mode of traditional law cannot be suitable for autonomous sectorial regulations. There is therefore a need for interregulation between regulators, for the creation of a common "doctrine", or by procedural means, such as "authorized advice". Read the article. (written in French) Read the general presentation, written in English, of the collective book, Les risques de régulation, in which this article has been published.   Below, read the article Summary.   

Propos généraux sur les régulateurs et les juges

in Règles et pouvoirs dans les systèmes de régulation, coll. "Droit et économie de la régulation", Presses de Sciences Po […]

Full reference : Supiot, A., Du nouveau au self-service normatif : la responsabilité sociale des entreprises, in Etudes offertes à Jean Pélisser. Analyses juridiques et valeurs en droit social, Dalloz, 2004, pp. 541-558.     Sciences Po Students can read this text via the Drive in the folder MAFR – Droit de la Régulation et de la Compliance

► Full reference: Luc, I., "Ordres professionnels et concurrence", in Petites Affiches, n°192, 29th September 2004, p. 5. - ► Summary of the article:  -

► Full Reference: D. Bazin, "A Reading of the conception of man in Hans Jonas’ works: Between Nature and Responsibility. An Environmental Ethics Approach", Éthique et économique/Ethics and Economics, 2 (2), 2004 - ► Summary of the article (done by the Author): "We will study the conception of man in Jonas’ ideology through the lens of nature and of responsibility. He brandishes the specter of disaster (“heuristics of fear”) as a guard against technological excesses. He appeals to a prospective, universal and categorical responsibility to protect nature and to save future generations. Jonas considers responsibility as a method of anticipating the threat to that which is vulnerable, ephemeral, and perishable. Thus, the responsibility that Jonas decrees implies an ethics of conservation. Jonas’ writings aim to procure a new dimension of acting, which necessitates an ethics of foresight and responsibility." - 🦉This article is available in full text to those registered for Professor Marie-Anne Frison-Roche's courses -