The second symposium for the research project will take place on June 7 and 8 on the University of Nanterre campus.
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Speakers
Jennifer Bardy is an associate professor of private law at the Université Côte d’Azur and a member of GREDEG. Her research aims to examine our accounting representation of the world and explore legal means of integrating the environmental and social challenges of our century. To this end, she draws on research conducted in management sciences in the field of environmental accounting and seeks to highlight the role of legal professionals in enabling companies to better “account for” the environmental impacts of their activities.
Raphaël Brett is an associate professor of public law at Paris-Saclay University (Jean Monnet Faculty), a member of the IEDP, and president of the Île-de-France chapter of the SFDE. Building on his dissertation titled Public Participation in the Development of Environmental Standards, his research focuses primarily on the influence of environmental issues on constitutional and administrative law. He is also interested in the evolution of legal protections for biodiversity, particularly forests.
Walid Chaiehloudj is a professor of law and holds the position of Professor of Private Law at the University of Perpignan. He is a member of the Yves Serra Center for Economic and Development Law (CDEDYS) and an associate researcher at GREDEG. His research focuses on economic law in the broadest sense. He has published numerous articles on competition law and has participated in a large number of collaborative projects. Recently, his thinking has centered on the contribution of competition law to environmental protection (“Is Competition Law an Obstacle to Environmental Protection?”, Contrats, conc. consom. 2022 , No. 4, Study 6); the relationship between competition law and digital regulation (“Will Digital Regulation Law Marginalize Competition Law? Reflections in light of theEpic Games v. Applecase,” Concurrences No. 3-2021); and the law of digital platforms and the brain (“Digital Platforms and the Brain: Between the Power of Platforms and the (Im)power of the Law” in Brain(s) and Law ( eds. J. Mestre and S. Lacroix-De Sousa, LGDJ, forthcoming). He is also a member of the Board of the Competition Authority of New Caledonia.
Marie-Alice Chardeaux is an associate professor at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). She is a member of the Private Law Laboratory (LDP). Her research focuses on the commons and their various forms, such as shared resources, common goods, and shared heritage. Her work encompasses a wide variety of subjects: water, air, the sea, the deep sea, as well as ideas, public domain inventions, Creative Commons, and decorated caves. Her research thus lies at the intersection of civil law, intellectual property law, and environmental law. At the heart of her work lies a reflection on what is or should be common. Building on her dissertation on Les Choses communes, she suggests re-examining—or even reconstructing—certain legal categories of collective interest, in order to steer them toward a greater sense of the common.
Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto is an associate professor and director of studies for the Law Program at the École normale supérieure (Paris, Ulm). His work focuses on both the history and philosophy of law, as well as international law. In international law, his work focuses primarily on three themes:
1) the relationship between China and Japan and international law, past and present
2) the democratization of national procedures for the negotiation, conclusion, ratification, and denunciation of treaties
3) the renewal of the dominant conception of international economic law, agreements, normative bodies, and courts to fully integrate the implications of international law regarding security, labor, health, ecology, etc.
Arnaud de Nanteuil is a professor at the University of Paris Est Créteil, where he primarily teaches public international law, international economic law, and international investment law. He also serves as director of the LLM program in “Advanced International Business Litigation” at the same university. He is the author of the only French textbook dedicated to international investment law, as well as numerous publications in this field. He provides consulting services in international arbitration and also serves as an arbitrator.
Alessandra Donati is a Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She specializes in European environmental and public health law, with a particular focus on risk regulation. Before joining the Court, Alessandra was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg. Previously, she worked as an attorney at two law firms in Italy (Chiomenti) and France (Castaldi Partners).
Alessandra studied at Bocconi University in Milan (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Law), the Polytechnic University of the Marche (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Management), and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (LLM in European Law). She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her doctoral dissertation, which examines the precautionary principle in EU law, was published in 2021 by Bruylant.
Alessandra has been a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of Florence and at UCLouvain, where she taught European consumer law during the 2020–2021 academic year. Since 2017, she has also been a lecturer at Sciences Po (Nancy). Alessandra is the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Consumer Law (REDC).
A photographer by training and later a lawyer, Isabelle Doussan served as an associate professor at the Faculty of Law in Rennes, then as a research director at INRAE, a position she currently holds within the Research Group on Law, Economics, and Management (GREDEG) in Nice.
Her research, initially focused on agriculture and environmental law, now encompasses the legal analysis of complex concepts such as ecosystem services and functions, ecological compensation, and human-nonhuman relationships. As part of the economic law research tradition, Isabelle Doussan seeks to decipher recent developments in environmental law, marked by the use of market mechanisms and the integration of a functional, dynamic, and technoscientific approach to nature.
Aude-Solveig Epstein is an associate professor of private law at the University of Paris Nanterre and a visiting assistant professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her work, which takes a critical and transdisciplinary approach, focuses primarily on regulation through information, the intersection of economic law and environmental law, and animal law. After participating in several working groups on environmental reporting, environmental liability, and the commons, she launched the Workshops on Sustainable Corporate Governance (co-led with Grégoire Leray and Juliette Camy) and a research project on The Ecological Transition of Economic Law (co-directed with Marie-Alice Chardeaux and Gilles J. Martin). Aude-Solveig also chairs the InfoTrack Association, which aims to improve consumer information regarding the welfare of animals whose products they consume.
Gilles J. Martin is Professor Emeritus of Private Law at the Université Côte d’Azur. Having defended his doctoral dissertation in 1976 under the supervision of Gérard Farjat, the “father” of economic law in France, on the relationship between tort law and environmental law, he devoted much of his subsequent research to studying issues at the intersection of private law, economic law, and environmental law. In all his writings, he argued that the law dedicated to environmental protection could not be merely a matter of administrative policing, and in this spirit he coined the concept of “economic environmental law.” It was under this title that he created a Master’s II program dedicated to these issues at Sciences Po Paris beginning in 2008. He supervised numerous dissertations on these topics (among the most recent: Julie Malet-Vigneaux, The Integration of Environmental Law into Competition Law (2014); Aude-Solveig Epstein, Environmental Information and Business – A Contribution to the Legal Analysis of Regulation (2015); Jennifer Bardy, The Accounting Concept of Environmental Liabilities: A Reflection of Corporate Environmental Risk (2018) and has published numerous articles devoted either to the identification and teaching of economic environmental law, to research in this field, or to specific issues within this subject area. Upon his retirement, his colleagues dedicated a collection of essays to him, specifically titled “Toward an Economic Law of the Environment – Essays in Honor of Gilles J. Martin.”
Béatrice Parance is an associate professor of private law at Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University, specializing in environmental law, corporate social responsibility law, and health law, following a general education in private law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She directed the Research Center for Private and Health Law (2016–2019) and served as a member of the National Commission on Ethics and Whistleblowing in Public Health and the Environment (2017–2020).
In addition, as a member of the Health and Environment Group, which oversees the implementation of the National Health and Environment Plan under the auspices of the Ministry of Ecology, she participates in numerous working groups and discussions on issues related to the regulation of health and environmental risks, and has edited several collective works. Her other major areas of research include compensation for ecological damage—on which she has written numerous articles—as well as corporate social responsibility and its implications for corporate governance, particularly new compliance mechanisms rooted in corporate duty of care, non-financial reporting, and the fight against corruption.
Bernard Perret is a statistician and economist by training (École Polytechnique – ENSAE) and an honorary general engineer of bridges, waterways, and forests. He is currently a researcher and essayist, having held various positions in the civil service until 2016. He is vice-president of the Association Recherches Mimétiques (www.rene-girard.fr), a member of the editorial board of the journal Esprit, and teaches at the Centre Sèvres. His work covers a variety of subjects: economic sociology, ecology, social and religious anthropology, and Christianity. He is the author of a dozen books, including L’économie contre la société (1993), Vers une raison écologique (2011), Quand l’avenir nous échappe (2020), and Penser la foi chrétienne après René Girard (DDB pocket edition, 2022).
Thomas Perroud is a professor of public law at Panthéon-Assas University and a Humboldt Foundation Fellow. A graduate of HEC and Sciences Po Paris, and holder of a doctorate in public law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University as well as a PhD from the University of Warwick, Thomas Perroud served successively as a lecturer at the University of Paris-Est and a professor at Aix-Marseille University (Institut Louis Favoreu). He is currently at Panthéon-Assas University (CERSA). He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Rome 2 and 3, Oxford (St. John’s College), Humboldt (Berlin), and Bocconi. He served as associate director of the Comparative Administrative Law Program at Yale Law School.
Jérôme Porta is a professor of private law at the University of Bordeaux.
Antonin Pottier is a lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, a researcher at the International Research Center for Environment and Development (CIRED, Paris), and at the Marc Bloch Center (CMB, Berlin). His areas of interest include the socioeconomic consequences of climate change and efforts to mitigate it, the history of economic thought and its connections to the environment, and the role of economics in public decision-making. In *How Economists Are Warming the Planet* (Seuil, 2016), he examined the economic literature’s diagnosis of climate change and the solutions it proposes. He is currently exploring the interactions between social justice, inequality, and emissions reduction measures.
Jean-Baptiste Racine is a professor at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University (Paris II). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the French Arbitration Committee and a former Co-Secretary General of the International Academy of Arbitration Law (Paris). He is the author of a dissertation on international commercial arbitration and public policy (LGDJ 1999) and a textbook on arbitration law published by Presses universitaires de France (PUF, Thémis series, 2016). He is the Scientific Director of the Journal du droit international (Clunet). He is also Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Justice at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and co-director of the Master 2 program in Litigation, Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution at the same university.
Alexandre Rambaud is an associate professor at AgroParisTech-CIRED, a research associate at Paris-Dauphine University, and co-director of the Chair in Ecological Accounting.
Jean-Philippe Robé is a member of the Paris and New York bars and teaches at the Sciences Po Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Paris III, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Jean-Philippe Robé has given numerous lectures on corporate law, corporate governance, and the legal impact of globalization. He received the 2016 Cercle Montesquieu Prize for his book *Le temps du monde de l’entreprise* (Paris: Dalloz, 2015). He is one of 14 members of the Informal Group of Experts on Company Law and Corporate Governance (ICLEG) that advises the European Commission. His latest book was published in 2020 by Bristol University Press and is titled *Property, Power and Politics – Why We Need to Rethink The World Power-System*.
Judith Rochfeld is a professor of law, a professor of private law at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a member of the Sorbonne Institute for Legal Research. There, she oversees several degree programs, and her research focuses on civil law, digital law, and environmental law—themes united under a single, long-standing research perspective: the commons and common goods, as well as their modes of defense and governance. Together with Marie Cornu and Fabienne Orsi, she co-edited the Dictionnaire des biens communs (PUF, 2nd ed., 2021), bringing together nearly 200 contributors, including academics and practitioners. In the field of ecology, she focuses particularly on the renewal of legal arguments and the actors involved in the fight against climate change and has published numerous articles on citizen participation and the climate regime understood as a “commons.” She has also published a book, Justice for the Climate: New Forms of Citizen Mobilization (O. Jacob, 2019).
Tatiana Sachs is an associate professor at Paris Nanterre University, a member of the Institute for Legal Research on Business and Labor Relations (IRERP), and a specialist in labor law. Her work focuses on the role of economic reasoning in labor law and on how labor law helps shape the corporate world. More broadly, she studies the variety of legal tools involved in regulating productive activity, such as the duty of care of large corporations.
Laurence Scialom is a university professor and a member of the executive board of the EconomiX laboratory. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) and the Foundation for Nature and Mankind, as well as on the Boards of Directors of the Veblen Institute and the Observatory of Public Ethics. She chairs the Ethics and Mission Committee of Ecofi. Her work focuses on issues of banking regulation, regulatory capture and conflicts of interest in the financial sector, central banking, and the relationship between finance and the ecological transition of economies. She has published numerous articles on these topics and, in 2019, released the book *La fascination de l’ogre ou comment desserrer l’étau de la finance* (The Fascination of the Ogre: Or How to Loosen the Grip of Finance) with Fayard.
Aurélie Tomadini is a professor of public law, a lecturer at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, and a member of CREDESPO. She specializes in environmental law and focuses part of her research on mechanisms for reconciling economic freedoms with environmental considerations. Aurélie Tomadini is also a permanent associate member of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regional Environmental Authority and a member of the Scientific Council of the Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park.
Dina Waked is a professor at Sciences Po’s School of Law. She holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) and an LLM from Harvard Law School, an LLB from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University, and a BA in economics from the American University in Cairo. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Harvard Law School 2012 John M. Olin Law & Economics Prize. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, she joined the School of Law and the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po. She has also been teaching at Sciences Po’s Collège Universitaire since 2007, as well as at SKEMA Business School – ESC Lille and the American University in Cairo. There, she teaches courses on Comparative Competition Law and Economic Policy, Global Antitrust and Development, Law and Economics, International Business Law, International Trade Law, and Law in the Middle East. She has also served as a consultant on a mission regarding the enforcement and evaluation of competition law in various developing countries. Whether empirical or theoretical, her research in comparative competition law and economic analysis of law takes a critical approach. Dina Waked uses growth analysis as an alternative to evaluations of law enforcement that focus on traditional static policy objectives, in order to revive an original conception of economic growth and development better suited to countries of the Global South.
Emmanuel Wormser is an engineer from Agroparistech and a member of the Lyon Bar; as a member of the legal board of France Nature Environnement, he has led the federation’s advocacy and regulatory litigation efforts regarding environmental impact assessments for the past ten years, focusing on three key issues: the scope of the system, the stakeholders involved in its implementation, and the content of environmental studies. He regularly lectures at the University of Grenoble Alpes and the Catholic University of Lyon and occasionally writes articles on the application of EU law in environmental assessment litigation (RJE, Construction-Urban Planning, Energy-Environment-Infrastructure).