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► Full reference: Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2) and Business Law Centre (CDE), Le contentieux contractuel impliquant la Compliance : aspects procéduraux et juridictionnels (Contractual Litigation Involving Compliance: Procedural and Jurisdictional Aspects), 29 May 2026 - 🏗️ This symposium is part of the series of symposia organised by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its partner Universities, focusing in 2026 on the general theme of Compliance and Contract. It is the first one. - The symposium is under the scientific direction of 🕴️Thibault Goujon-Bethan, Professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Director of the Centre for Property, Contracts and Civil Procedure (CPC2), and of 🕴️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). - 🧮 The symposium took place on Friday 29 May 2026, from 10 am to 5:45 pm, at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Amphithéâtre Paul Roubier, 15 quai Claude-Bernard, 69007 Lyon, on site and online. It was held in French. - ► Presentation of the theme: Two movements intersect: first, what is commonly called the “contractualisation of justice”, an image referring to the insertion of genuinely contractual techniques into trials, and second, through the “Jurisdictionalisation of Compliance”, the emergence of a “Systemic Litigation” which, by transitivity, bears the marks of Compliance Law itself. Moreover, Compliance techniques increasingly make room for contractual mechanisms, either through “Compliance Contracts” or through “Compliance Clauses”. This therefore gives rise to contractual disputes, which are also imbued with Compliance, no longer directly but indirectly. Thus, in diverse and new ways, a “Contractual Litigation Involving Compliance” is taking shape. It has procedural and jurisdictional aspects, the study of which is the subject of this symposium. The first step is to identify this contractual litigation involving Compliance (I), whose emergence is recent: contractual litigation on the one hand and Regulatory and Compliance litigation on the other have always been known, but their entanglement, combined with the contractualisation of justice, is new. It may even come as a shock, since Compliance Law, which is not the mere obligation to obey applicable regulations, carries systemic ambitions for the future and is thus brought, through contracts, before a judge more accustomed to disputes between two singular parties. The themes then successively addressed are the courts seised and the natural judges (II), the parties to the dispute and the parties to the proceedings (III), the procedural handling (IV), and the judgment and its enforcement (V). - 📝 The proceedings of this symposium form the basis of a chapter of the book Compliance and Contract, forthcoming in the Compliance & Regulation series, co-published by the JoRC and Bruylant, and of its French version, Compliance et Contrat, co-published by the JoRC and Lefebvre-Dalloz.

► Full Reference: M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), Compliance Jurisdictionalisation, Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Bruylant, "Compliance & Regulation" Serie, 2024, 464 p. - 📕In parallel, the French version of this book, La juridictionnalisation de la Compliance, is published in the collection co-published by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and Dalloz - 🧮This book comes after a cycle of colloquia organised in 2021 by the Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC) and its Academic Partners - ► General presentation of the book: Sanctions, controls, appeals, deals: judges and lawyers are everywhere in the Compliance mechanisms, creating unprecedented situations, sometimes without a solution yet available.  Even though Compliance was designed to avoid the judge and produce security by avoiding conflict. This jurisdictionalisation is therefore new. Forcing companies to prosecute and judge, a constrained role, perhaps against their nature. Leading to the adaptation of major procedural principles, with difficulty. Confronting arbitration with new perspectives. Putting the judge at heart, in mechanisms designed so that he is not there. How in practice to organize these opposites and anticipate the solutions? This is the challenge taken up by this book. - This volume is the continuation of the books dedicated to Compliance in this collection. 📚Read the presentation of the other books of this collection: further books: 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), 📘Compliance Obligation, 2024  previous books: 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), 📘Compliance Monumental Goals, 2023 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche (ed.), 📘Compliance Tools, 2021 - ► Summary of the book: There have always been Judges and Lawyers in Compliance Law, in particular because this branch of Law is an extension of Regulatory Law in which they have a core place. This results from the fact that the decisions taken in respect of Compliance are contestable in Court, including Arbitration, those issued by the Company, such as those of States or Authorities, the Judge in turn becoming what Compliance Law is effective. The novelty lies more in the phenomenon of "jurisdictionalisation", that is to say that the trial model penetrates all Compliance Law, and not only the Ex Post part that it includes. Moreover, it seems that this jurisdictionalisation influences the non-legal dimension of Compliance. This movement has effects that must be measured and causes that must be understood. Advantages and disadvantages that must be balanced. If only to form an opinion vis-à-vis Companies that have become Prosecutors and Judges of themselves and others …: encourage this "Jurisdictionalisation of Compliance", fight it, perhaps influence it? In any case, understand it! - 🏗️General construction of the book: The book opens with a double Introduction. The first, which is freely accessible, consists of a summary of the book, while the second, which is substantial, deals with the need to bring the Judge and the Lawyer into line if Compliance Law is to be the hallmark of States governed by the Rule of Law. The first Chapter is devoted to what is specific to Compliance Law: the transformation of companies into Prosecutors and Judges of themselves, and even of others.   The second Chapter examines the interference between General Procedural Law and Compliance techniques. The third Chapter measures the influence of the reasoning and requirements of Compliance Law in methods of dispute resolution where it has not, with a few exceptions, been present, but where it has a great future: arbitration.  Because trials and judgements are indissociable, because legal techniques and the Rule of Law must not be dissociated, and because Compliance techniques could paradoxically be the weapon used to dissociate them, because the power to judge and the procedures surrounding it must not be dissociated, because Compliance and the Rule of Law must therefore be conceived and practised together, the rise in power of one being a sign of the rise in power of the other, and not the price of the weakening of the Rule of Law, the fourth Chapter deals with the role of the Judge in Compliance. - ► Understand the book through the table of contents below and the summaries of each article :    DOUBLE INTRODUCTION 🕴️​M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Main Aspects of the book Compliance Jurisdictionalisation 🕴️​M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Reinforce the Judge and the Lawyer to impose Compliance Law as a characteristic of the Rule of Law    I. THE COMPANY ESTABLISHED PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE OF ITSELF BY COMPLIANCE LAW 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝The "Judge-Judged". Articulating Words and Things in the face of Conflicts of Interest 🕴️C. Granier, 📝Reflections on the existence of companies’ jurisprudence through Compliance matters 🕴️L.-M. Augagneur, 📝The jurisdictionalisation of reputation by platforms 🕴️A. Bruneau, 📝The compagny judges itself: the Compliance function in the bank 🕴️J.-M. Coulon, 📝Compliance law in the construction industry and the contradictions, impossibilities and deadlocks that companies face 🕴️Ch. Lapp, 📝Compliance in companies: the statues of process 🕴️J. Heymann, 📝The Legal Nature of the Facebook "Supreme Court" 🕴️D. Latour, 📝Internal investigations within companies 🕴️A. Bavitot, 📝Shaping the company through negotiated Criminal Justice Agreements. French perspective 🕴️S. Merabet, 📝Vigilance, being a judge and not judge   II. PROCEDURAL LAW IN COMPLIANCE LAW 🕴️​N. Cayrol, 📝Procedural Principles in Compliance Law 🕴️F. Ancel, 📝Compliance Law, a new guiding principle for the Trial? 🕴️B. Sillaman, 📝Taking the Compliance U.S. Procedural Experience globally 🕴️A. Linden, 📝Motivation and publicity of the decisions of the Restricted formation of the French Personal Data Protection Authority (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés – CNIL) in a compliance perspective 🕴️S. Scemla, & 🕴️D. Paillot, 📝The difficulty for Compliance Enforcement Authorities to comprehend the Rights of the Defence in compliance matters 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝Adjusting General Procedural Law to Compliance Law by the nature of things   III. ARTICULATION BETWEEN COMPLIANCE LAW AND INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 🕴️J.-B. Racine, 📝Compliance and arbitration. An attempt at problematisation 🕴️E. Silva-Romero & 🕴️R. Legru, 📝What place is there for compliance in investment arbitration? 🕴️​M. Audit, 📝The arbitrator's position on compliance 🕴️E. Kleiman, 📝The objectives of compliance confronted with the actors of arbitration   IV. THE JUDGE IN COMPLIANCE LAW 🕴️M.-A. Frison-Roche, 📝The Judge, the Compliance Obligation and the Company. The Compliance Evidence System 🕴️J. Morel-Maroger, 📝The application of compliance standards by European Union judges  🕴️S. Schiller, 📝A single judge in the event of an international breach of compliance obligations? 🕴️O. Douvreleur, 📝Compliance and Judge of the Law 🕴️F. Raynaud, 📝The Administrative Judge and Compliance 🕴️E. Wennerström, 📝Some Reflections on Compliance and the European Court of Human Rights