Recently, I received notice of the following call for papers from the French association of Law Professors in Business Schools – the Association des Professeurs de Droit des Grandes Ecoles (“APDGE”).  The theme of the conference is "Governance and Compliance in Companies: Constraints or Opportunities." Additional information is available below and at the conference website:

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TBS PDD

 3rd Conference of the Association of Law Professors of Les Grandes Ecoles/Business Schools, organized by Toulouse Business School

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Governance and Compliance in Companies: Constraints or Opportunities?"

December 3-4, 2015 – Toulouse Business School

Toulouse, France

Conference Website: http://www.tbs-education.fr/en/apdge-conference/

 

The taking into account of new legal rules (whether in Company Law, Banking Law, Tax Law, Environmental Law, Employment Law, Consumer Law, Digital Law, or in other fields of Law), involves increased attention to Governance and Compliance by companies, as well as by research professors.   The position of Chief Compliance Officer has become widespread within major companies, as have charters, codes of good conduct and codes of good governance.  Consequently, it is appropriate to look at Governance and Compliance in companies and to investigate whether or not they form constraints or opportunities for companies.    To what extent does the appearance of new legal and regulatory provisions represent new constraints for companies? On the contrary, may opportunities be detected in these practices in order to deal with upheavals in the Law?  What skills are necessary for lawyers in this new environment?  What are the roles of soft law and of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in this context?

These two research days propose to focus discussion on constraints and opportunities for companies in the development of the new rules and practices of Governance and Compliance.

This Call for Papers seeks to explore the following questions (as illustrations, not limitations):

  • The links between Governance and Compliance, on the one hand, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), on the other hand;
  • Programs to be put in place for a better compliance;
  • The role of lawyers  in Governance and Compliance;
  • Opportunities for good Governance and proper Compliance  for companies;
  • The impact of foreign laws on Governance (for example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act);
  • The legal risks in a breach of compliance;
  • Legal monitoring and anticipation of new legal and regulatory constraints;
  • Government procurement and a company's history of Compliance ;
  • The interface between internal control (internal auditing, reporting, etc.) and the Law;
  • The legal challenges of whistleblowing;
  • The strategic role of Compliance;
  • The interface between company lawyers, external advisors and operational staff in Governance and Compliance;
  • The theory of groups of parent companies or subsidiaries and Compliance;
  • Control of the chain of sub-contractors and subsidiaries and Compliance;
    • Analysis of the effectiveness of soft law in Compliance;
    • Investors and Governance;
    • The comparative study of Governance. 

A publication of the best papers is foreseen.

Key Dates

Proposals: June 30, 2015

Full Text: September 1, 2015

Author Notification by the Scientific Committee: October 12, 2015

[More information after the break]

 

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be submitted in the form of an abstract in Word format (5,000 characters maximum accompanied by key words), indicating the main issue addressed, and the main methodological tools used. 

The format of the full-text submissions must comply with the following guidelines:

  • The first page will contain the name(s), institution(s) and position(s) of the author(s), and the title of the paper.
  • The second page will only contain the title of the paper, an abstract in French and in English and from four to five key words.
  • The text will be typed electronically in Word format, Times New Roman font size 12, A4 paper format, with 2.5 cm (one inch) margins, single-spaced, 15 pages to be sent to Florence Jammes (f.jammes@tbs-education.fr).  

Organization Committee

— Gaëlle Deharo, Professor, ESCE

— Christian Gary, Professeur of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

— Florence Jammes, Professor of Law, Toulouse Business School

— Marie Pierre, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

— Olivier Prades, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

— Gregory Voss, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

 

Scientific Co-ordination

— Gaëlle Deharo, Professor, ESCE

— Gregory Voss, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

 

Scientific Committee

— Michel Albouy, Senior Professor of Finance, Grenoble Ecole de Management

— Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Assistant Professor of Business Law, School of Business, University of Connecticut, United States

— Jean-Pierre Bertrel, Professor, ESCP Europe

— Isabelle Beyneix, Professor, NOVANCIA Business School Paris

— Sylvain Bourjade, Professor of Finance, Toulouse Business School

— Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas, Professor, ESSEC Business School

— Céline Castets-Renard, University Professor, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole

— Anne-Sophie Courtier, Professor of Law, NEOMA Business School

— Viviane de Beaufort, Professor of Law, ESSEC Business School

— Diane de Saint Affrique, Professor of Law, SKEMA Business School

— Gaëlle Deharo, Professor, ESCE

— Jean-Michel do Carmo Silva, Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management

— Roxana Family, Dean of the School of Law, The University of Cergy-Pontoise

— Bernard Gumb, Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management

— Sandrine Henneron, Professor of Law, NEOMA Business School

— Antoine Hermens, Associate Professor of Strategy, UTS Business School, Australia

— Florence Jammes, Professor of Law, Toulouse Business School

— Jacques Larrieu, University Professor, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole

— Allane Madanamoothoo, Professor, Groupe ESC Troyes

— Amissi Manirabona, Assistant Professor, Law Faculty, University of Montreal, Canada

— Nancy Reeves Mansfield, Professor of Legal Studies, Georgia State University, Etats-Unis

— Brigitte Pereira, Professor of Law, EM Normandie

— Marie Pierre, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

— Matthieu Poumarède, University Professor, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole

— Alain Pousson, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole

— Olivier Prades, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School

— Lucien Rapp, University Professor, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole

— Vincent Rebeyrol, Professor, EMLyon Business School

— Konan Anderson Seny Kan, Professor of Management Control, Accounting and Auditing, Toulouse Business School

— Xavier Strubel, Professor, Télécom School of Management

— Gregory Voss, Professor of Business Law, Toulouse Business School