Marie-Anne Frison-Roche

🎓Full professor at Dauphine Université -PSL (1996-2000), where she founded the Master de droit des affaires and managed the Institut de droit économique, developing the Regulatory Law studies, then full professor at Sciences Po Paris (2001-2022) , where she founded the Forum de la Régulation (Regulation Forum) as soon as she arrived in 2000, and then in 2001 she founded the Master de Droit économique (Master of Economic Law) and the Chaire Régulation  (Chair of Regulatory Law). In 2005 she founded the Concours d'arbitrage international de Paris (International Arbitration Competition in Paris), simulated arbitration, covering the regulated sectors in which she works: transport, telecommunications, media, digital, energy, finance, banking, insurance, Health, environment, agri-food and personal data.

🏫Before her arrival, only one full law professor was in Sciences Po, integrated in the Commission de sciences politiques. She created the Commission de Droit, department bringing together Law Professors, all of whom professors of private law and professors of public law, to obtain an academic unity. She created all the specialties in the Master de droit économique, including the specialty of Intellectual Property. She founded and co-directed with Professor Horatia Muir-Watt the specialty of Global Law.

🦉In 2009, she created The Journal of Regulation (JoR), which she manages and develops, becoming in 2015 the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC).

📚She founded several collections of academic publications, including in 1992 the collection of Cours Dalloz - Droit privé  for the publisher Dalloz, in 2003 the collection Droit et Économie de la Régulation (Law and Economics of Regulation) for the publishers Presses de Sciences Po and Dalloz, in 2005 the collection Droit et Économie for the publisher Lextenso and in 2016 the Series Régulations & Compliance  (Regulatory & Compliance Series) co-published between the Journal of Regulation & Compliance and Dalloz, and in 2020 the Series Compliance & Regulations, co-published between the Journal of Regulation & Compliance and Bruylant.   .

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💼Through all the disciplines on which she works and writes, both within the branches of law (procedure, civil and contract law, company law, financial law, competition law, public economic law, Economics, Philosophy and sociology, Art), Marie-Anne Frison-Roche aims to establish a coherent doctrine in both legal, economic and political dimensions, of the rules applicable to the regulated sectors, this logic making it possible to account for the new conception of the legal systems that is being put in place. Her conception of "Compliance Law" develops it beyond sectors and put human beings in the center of Economy.

💡Her doctrine of Regulation and Compliance is based on the idea that Regulation exists either in relation to Competition or, and more, in relation to Risk and to the consideration of Humans. When Regulation takes place in relation to Competition, it can be either to build up Competition or to keep it at a distance, for technical reasons or for political reasons. The tension is even stronger and more definitive between Competition and Regulation when it is related to Risk, which must be prevented or managed. It is characteristic of banking, finance and insurance, but we also find this concern in energy, health, transport, agricultural raw materials, or personal data. This first concern of the risk is penetrating in some companies, which carry the major risks by the new legal technique of Compliance. With Compliance, Regulation not only becomes stronger but also develops it specific logic beyond sectors. Moreover, Compliance Law put the protection of Humans as "monumental goals" decides by public bodies and internalized in private large companies. It's especially true in the Digital Space.  Compliance Law is the Ex Ante branche of Law apprehending the future and it is the future of Law.

💡Marie-Anne Frison-Roche says that Regulation is what puts economic and market mechanisms at a distance from their own power. By the new ties that Regulatory Law establishes with Supervisory Law and Compliance Law, new triangle as basis of this new global system, these powers are put at the service of interests that go beyond them, integrate the political dimension of the Regulatory Law. It is in this sense that the place of the person in the economy, as a human being is by Law a person who cannot be reduced to simply valuable and available human material, is at the heart of this new conception, in which Systemic Entreprises are in the center.

💡More than ever, and in a more general way, systems must give way to the conception of Law governed by its Goals, in particular the respect for the individual in the economic performance, which justifies not only Regulators, with technical powers in Ex Ante and Ex Post, etc., but also justifies limits to the powers, public and private, replacing the previous political and legal organization. This is not just an ethical dimension but a legal reconstruction.

💡The current work of Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, particularly since 2016, aims to show how from the Law of Regulation and beyond it, Compliance Law is set up worldwide. Her work is based on all the classical disciplines in which she works since she develops Compliance Law not as a simple "method", moreover not as the obligation to be conform (the conformity), not as a specificity of this or that sector, but to achieve the concern for the person, to effectively protect the other, even beyond the borders, on the orders of the Politics, because a "global State" will never exist and the systemic risks are global. Compliance Law is not only a new branch of Law but also a new hope: a direct consideration of human beings and solution of systemic failures and global risks, thanks to the Law. In the new global geography, Europe has a specific role to play, notably through European Compliance Law, which is emerging, at the European level and national level, withe global effects.

💡Through this triangle, a new system is set up. Marie-Anne Frison-Roche aims to make it accessible, through a 🔤Compliance and Regulation Law bilingual Dictionary, freely accessible on the Internet and social networks, access to this not only technical but also political knowledge being essential. Thus, in 2019, the French Government asked her a report on 📓The contribution of Compliance Law to the Governance of the Internet (published in French and in English), since digital world cannot be reduced to one sector. In 2025, the French Minister of Justice asked her a report of the contribution of Compliance Law to the economic attractivity and legal souvereignty of France.

💡Through her teachings, works and public interventions, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche is contributing to build this very new branch of Law, which is Compliance Law.

🌐This transversal vision justifies that Marie-Anne Frison-Roche be requested by governments, regulators, courts, and companies to clarify the guiding principles of Regulatory and Compliance mechanisms, either in its common principles beyond the sectoral organizations or in its technical principles, specific to a sector or through analogies between several sectors. In addition, she is called upon for expert opinions in the field of judicial or political organization. For instance, in October 2022 the Tribunal of Paris asks her to give an expertise as amica curiae about the evolution of Compliance Law in the "TotalEnergie Ouganda case".

📚In addition, she has developed editorial activities. First, through the direction of the "Cours Dalloz" collection published by Dalloz, which allows students to access all technical legal knowledge. Then by the "Droit et Économie" collection published by Lextenso-LGDJ, made up of monographs or collective works of research in which economists and lawyers converge on the same issue. Finally, by the series "Régulations & Compliance", which, following the collection "Droit et Économie de la Régulation", publishes works on the specific topic of Regulation and Compliance.

She is the author of about 800 publications, regularly organizes scientific events and participates in the academic and public debate.

🌐On LinkedIn, followed by 50.000 spontenous subscribers, she is the author of three Newsletters .

😂To familiarize Compliance with as many people as possible, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche publishes a collection of legal design : The Adventures of Ogre Compliance. 

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