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Position papers
The Objectives and Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Disclosure in Securities Regulation
By Youcef Rahmani
The paper examines the justification, objectives, and effects of mandatory sustainability disclosures in securities law, evaluating their alignment with traditional securities law principles and their impact on corporate accountability, social welfare, and market efficiency in the US, UK, and EU.
27 November 2023ESG Information, ESG Investing Strategies and the Impact on Asset Prices
Par Youcef Rahmani
This paper investigates how the availability of higher quality ESG information can affect asset prices, promoting the development of ‘sustainable financial markets’..
25 November 2023How do dark patterns manipulate our mobile uses? Regulation proposal for sustainable and human-centered digital
By Fabien Lechevalier & Marie-Potel Saville
Dark patterns or deceptive patterns could be defined as techniques for deceiving or manipulating users through interfaces that have the substantial effect of subverting or altering a user’s autonomy, decision-making or choice as part of its online activities. The communication aims to provide an overview of the regulatory framework governing dark patterns, to identify its shortcomings, and to propose sustainable regulatory solutions that really take human cognitive limits into account.
1 September 2023
D&C presentations
Presentation to France Stratégie on Secured Financing
by Sophie Vermeille
9 march 2021
This presentation at France Stratégie presents the major ideas of Droit & Croissance with regard to the law of secured financing within the context of the French ordinance project launched on 18 December 2020 by the French Ministry of Justice.
9 March 2021GameStop Presentation – Queen Mary University
by Paul Oudin
1 march 2021
The recent events surrounding GameStop have been seen by many as a battle between David and Goliath, and by others as a threat for the well-functioning of financial markets. Recent discussions about the applicability of market manipulation rules to this case have shown that the legal debate itself is far from being settled. This talk at Queen Mary University, by Paul Oudin, took the GameStop case as an opportunity to revisit the scope and purpose of these rules.
1 March 2021Presentation at the University of Oxford – MAR and Short Selling
by Sophie Vermeille
5 february 2021
Short selling activism is, just as any other financial technique, subject to market abuse rules. However, the MAR regulation, from which European rules derive, subjects this peculiar form of activism to excessive constraints. In this presentation, Sophie Vermeille discusses the application of MAR to short selling activism and illustrates it with the Solutions 30 case.
5 February 2021
Press reviews
The rise of protectionism on the economy and the development of financial markets
Transcript of the conference D&C of 19 November 2021
RTDF – 1 april 2022
Transcript of the conference Droit & Croissance of 19 November 2021 – The rise of protectionism on the economy and the development of financial markets available in the first edition of the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review.
1 April 2022For true corporate governance in France
An interview by Jean-Philippe Denis
Xerfi Canal – 12 march 2022
Xerfi Canal received Sophie Vermeille, Founder of Droit et Croissance and corporate and restructuring lawyer at Vermeille & Co, to talk about corporate governance In France
12 March 2022Companies: why bankruptcies are necessary
An interview by Jean-Philippe Denis
Xerfi Canal – 3 march 2022
Xerfi Canal received Sophie Vermeille, Founder of Droit et Croissance and corporate and restructuring lawyer at Vermeille & Co, to talk about bankruptcy and the economy.
3 March 2022
Events
2024 Dissertation prize for Law and Economics
Applications open until October 31, 2024
This prize rewards Master 2 theses in Law and/or Economics or research work carried out by Master students or in the two years following their Master, whose vocation is to contribute to improving the understanding of the economic issues of the law by French economic and political actors.
15 October 2023Seminar on the Methods of Law & Finance
The Rules for Growth Institute (Droit & Croissance) invites current PhD students and early-researchers to attend a seminar on the ‘Methods of Law & Finance’, to be held in person in Paris on 326 & 27 June 2023.
30 April 2023Crypto markets: the future of regulation conference
April 3, 2023
Crypto markets: the future of regulation conference13 February 2023