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Full reference:
Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and
Université Paris Cité (Faculty of Law, Economics and Management –
Centre de Droit des Affaires et de Gestion, CEDAG),
Compliance et stratégies d’entreprise dans l’organisation contractuelle des chaînes de valeur (
Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains), Malakoff, 16 November 2026, 3 pm – 6 pm. -
🏗️This colloquium is part of the
2026 cycle of colloquia “Compliance & Contract” organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities. - The colloquium is under the scientific responsibility of 🕴️
Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, 🕴️
Etienne Maclouf and 🕴️
Véronique Chanut.
To register, on site or online: Université Paris Cité registration form (free registration, required). - 🧮 The event will take place at Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff (France). -
📑 The programme of the conference of 16 November 2026 as a carousel -
► Presentation of the theme: “Value chains” have always existed, long before the legal system took hold of this reality, at once economic, financial and managerial, to bring it into the legal order. Their entry into it is recent, probably through the so-called “Vigilance” Act of 2017, the expression appearing in the preparatory works, while it is expressly referred to in the texts of the European Union. It is therefore a notion stemming from financial management, which developed alongside the very phenomenon of the firm and of trade, as a way of escaping the instability of the markets for goods and services. But Law has always been present through the natural use of contract. Contract thus came before the perspective of Compliance Law found its way into value chains, contract being an instrument of stability compared with the exchange contracts on which competitive markets are built, but also in those organisational contracts which regulate value chains and deploy the firm in its corporate form (“parent company”) and beyond its corporate form (“principal company”). Used in what might be called a “bare” way (a reference to the “nude pact” that contract constitutes when it is grasped by general law alone), contract has thus been the means for firms to deploy strategies through the organisation of value chains. The first aim of this colloquium is to show how this is done, and how it is valued, since the term “value” refers to the capacity to give value, in terms of return on investment, to such a contractual organisation. The legal system may remain more or less neutral towards these organisational contracts, which are so many “regulatory contracts”, either because it does not see them, or because it regards them as always beneficial and therefore as justifying neither specific regimes nor legislative or judicial intervention. It is then a matter of legislative or judge-made policy. The second aim of this colloquium is to show how legal systems react, to a greater or lesser extent, to these strategies, depending on whether they know them and whether they approve of them. The development of the law specific to this organisational strategy differs greatly from one area of the world to another, which creates considerable practical difficulties, because value chains are by nature structured in a unified way across the different areas of the world, for instance between Europe and the United States, and/or between Europe and Asia. By injecting regulation into these contracts, which are not governed by a single legal order, corporate strategies lose their stability. Yet stability is the very stake of corporate strategy in this field, and it is for this reason that contracts have been designed and adapted so as to differ from exchange contracts and to become the basis of the sustainability of value chains, which is today a major geopolitical issue. Moreover, and this is the third point of the colloquium, legislative provisions and case law are not hostile to contract, but they take it in another sense. Indeed, if one considers Europe (a position legally and politically contested in the United States, which calls for “deregulation” so as to return to contract as a “nude pact”), contract is rather taken as an instrument provided for by the texts to enable the firm subject to them to implement its Compliance Obligation. This raises no difficulty if the firm’s strategy matches the Monumental Goals that make up the normative foundation of the compliance corpus in question (e.g. DSA, DORA, GDPR, AI Act, CSRD, CS3D, etc.), but the articulation becomes more difficult, or even problematic, when the two strategies no longer match. One of the ambitions of this colloquium, which gives as much room to management science as to Law, is to seek how, in practice, these difficulties can be reduced. - 16 November 2026, 3 pm – 6 pm, followed by a cocktail reception at 6.30 pm, Salle des Actes, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), 10, avenue Pierre-Larousse, 92240 Malakoff
Compliance and corporate strategies in the contractual organisation of value chains 🎤 Welcome on behalf of the CEDAG research centre: 🕴️Pauline Pailler, Professor of Private Law at Université Paris Cité, Director of the Centre for Business Law and Management (CEDAG), member of the Institut universitaire de France 🎤 How contract plays its part in strategy within companies seized by Compliance: 🕴️
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) 🎤
Contractualisation within integrated value chains: 🕴️
Véronique Chanut, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, Director of LARGEPA and CIFFOP 🎤
Beyond the Clause: Social Auditing and the Contractualisation of Decent Work in Value Chains: 🕴️Guillaume Delalieux, Professor of Management Science (HDR), La Rochelle University, Director of the EOLE research centre (Law and Management) 🎤
Emerging risks, sovereignty and vulnerabilities of value chains: 🕴️Rémy Février, Professor of Management Science (HDR), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) 🎤
Value chain dynamics and compliance: 🕴️
Etienne Maclouf, Professor of Management Science, Université Paris Cité, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management 🎤
Structuring value chains: a driver of economic efficiency and strategy, and a matter of political responsibility: 🕴️
Stanislas Pottier, Senior Advisor to the General Management, Amundi 🎤 Conclusion of the colloquium: 🕴️Mathias Naudin, Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Management Science, Université Paris Cité - The work of this colloquium will form the basis of a specific chapter in the books:
Compliance et Contrat (
Compliance and Contract), forthcoming in the
Regulations & Compliance series, co-published by the
Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Lefebvre-Dalloz.
