A French Bill on banking and Financial Regulation was registered with the Presidency of the “Assemblée Nationale” (the lower house of the French Parliament, the National Assembly) on December 16th 2009, and plans for the creation of a council on financial regulation and systemic risk.
Like the previous cycles devoted to the general theme of Compliance and aiming to build a "Compliance Law", intended like them to be published in the Regulations & Compliance collection, this cycle addresses a particular aspect of this branch of Law in progress. to develop, which was applied even before it was conceived. The Compliance mechanisms having preceded the conceptualization of this way of doing things, the "Compliance Tools" having been the subject of the previous cycle of conferences, this new cycle addresses what characterizes Compliance : Les buts monumentaux de la Compliance (Monumental Goals of Compliance) .
The notion of "monumental goals" was proposed in 2016!footnote-139. It is central in the compliance mechanisms in that they can only claim to constrain and cost those in which they are inserted in that they tend to achieve goals whose substantial quality is to be "monumental" . This notion is not self-evident, having to be justified, detailed, put into perspective and concretely illustrated, a series of conferences organized by numerous universities is therefore devoted to it.
These various conferences will be held in several places, according to the part taken by the various university structures which bring their support to the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) for the realization of the cycle. This will result in two collective books, one in French: Les buts monumental de la Compliance, the other in English: Compliance Monumental Goals.
This cycle of colloquia Compliance Monumental Goals will take place between April 2021 and November 2021.
📅 Colloquium of May 17, 2021: Public norms and Compliance in time of crisis: monumental goals put to a test, co-organized by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Montpellier University Law School, under the scientific direction of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Pascale Idoux, Antoine Oumedjkane and Adrien Tehrani: more information about this manifestation here
📅 Colloquium of September 16, 2021, Compliance Monumental Goals: Radioscopy of a Notion, co-organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Saclay University, under the scientific direction of Christophe André, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Marie Malaurie and Benoît Petit : more information about this manifestation here
📅 Colloquium of October 14, 2021: Compliance and Proportionality, co-organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the IDETCOM of Toulouse University, under the scientific direction of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and Lucien Rapp: more information about this manifestation here
📅 Colloquium of November 4, 2021: Effectivity of Compliance and international competitiveness, co-organized by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and the Centre de recherches en Economie et Droit de l'Université Paris II, under the scientific direction of Laurent Benzoni, Bruno Deffains and Marie-Anne Frison-Roche: more information about this manifestation here
The technical modes of registration are specific to each colloquium.
►Full reference : Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II), Le "contrat de compliance (The "compliance contract"') Paris, 12 June 2026.
To register for in-person or remote attendance: ...
As the number of places is limited, you will be asked to confirm your attendance 48 hours in advance.
🧮The event will take place in the auditorium, Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 75006 Paris, on 12 June 2026, between 9.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.
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► Presentation of the topic : Companies have a legal obligation to put "compliance structures" in place, such as whistleblowing mechanisms, plans, information gathering systems and data security systems. Many adopt a management strategy that leads them to choose to outsource the implementation of this obligation, or even to outsource the compliance structure itself, which then most often takes the form of a platform, even though responsibility cannot be transferred. But the line between structure and behaviour, between responsibility for the decision and its implementation, becomes blurred.
The hypothesis examined here through the "Compliance Contract", which should not be confused with compliance clauses but which is linked to them, is the widespread use by companies of this type of contract, the existence and typology of which was identified in 2022. Corresponding to a very significant share of the "compliance market", perhaps a specific market, it could constitute a special contract, requiring at the very least a specific regime, either under Competition Law, Data Law, particularly Personal Data Law, etc.
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Speakers will include :
🎤Bruno Deffains, Professor of Economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
🎤 Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Regulatory Law and Compliance, Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC)
►Full reference : Journal of Regulation & Compliance(JoRC) and Jean Moulin University (Lyon 3), Contractual litigation in compliance: procedural and jurisdictional aspects, Jean Moulin University (Lyon 3), 29 May 2026.
Furthermore, compliance techniques are increasingly giving way to contractual mechanisms, either through "compliance contracts" or through "compliance clauses". This therefore gives rise to contractual disputes. These are also influenced by Compliance Law, notably its norative Monumental Goals, albeit indirectly rather than directly.
Thus, in various new ways, a new field of "contractual litigation involving compliance" is emerging. This field involves procedural and jurisdictional aspects, which will be examined during this event.
Firstly, it is necessary to define this contractual dispute involving compliance (I), which has only recently emerged, because although we have always been familiar with contractual disputes on the one hand, dispute over regulation and compliance in the second instance, their entanglement with the contractualisation of justice is new. This may even come as a shock, in that Compliance Law, because it is not at all simply an obligation to obey applicable regulations, carries with it systemic ambitions for the future and thus finds itself, through contracts, brought before judges who are more accustomed to disputes between two individual parties.
This opens up the topics of judges hearing cases and judges of nature (II), the parties to the dispute and the parties to the proceedings (III), procedural treatment (IV), judgement and its enforcement (V).
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Speakers will include :
🎤Anaïs Danet, Professor at the University of Reims
🎤 Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Professor of Regulatory Law and Compliance, Director of the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC)
🎤Nicolas Ida, Professor at the University of Haute-Alsace
🎤Alex Nicollet, Barrister at the Paris Bar, PhD student at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University
🎤Cyril Nourissat, Professor at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University
🎤Romain Raine, Senior Lecturer at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University
🎤Fabrice Vert, First Vice-President of the Paris First Instance Court of Justice
🎤Liza Veyre, Professor at the University of Paris 8
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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).
The conferences cycle Les outils de la Compliance (The Compliance tools) taking place between November 2019 and June 2020 organized by The Journal of Regulation & Complianceand all the Partner Universities will start this year on the theme of "La cartographie des risques" (Risk Mapping) .
Risk Mapping is defined as a process of identifying, evaluating and prioritizing risks: it is an integral and fundamental part of an effective global strategy for managing these risks.
As a central tool for Compliance, this approach may not be radically new, but the Risk Mapping Technique is now renewed and sometimes compromised by the emergence of new Risks, often due to their new mutiform nature. Moreover, the primacy of the new pair of "Political Risks/Compliance Risks" tends to increase the vulnerability of organizations obliged by new legal provisions to draw up these maps, whereas these tools must also protect these organizations.
Before discussing it with the audience, the speakers will explain through their experience the place of this tool in Compliance, by looking at how Risk Mapping is articulated with the logic of value creation through risk-taking, inherent in entrepreneurial and political action. This good understanding is not only essential for the company, but also for the administrative and judicial authorities which control or sanction firms.
Especially with the interventions of:
- Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, full professor of Regulatory Law and Compliance Law, Sciences Po
- Jean-François Guillemin, former general secretary of the Bouygues Group
- Lamia Liabes, Chief Operating Office, HSBC France
