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Position papers

  • The Objectives and Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Disclosure in Securities Regulation
    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.

  • ESG Information, ESG Investing Strategies and the Impact on Asset Prices
    ESG 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’..

  • How do dark patterns manipulate our mobile uses? Regulation proposal for sustainable and human-centered digital
    How 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.

D&C presentations

  • Presentation to France Stratégie on Secured Financing
    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.

  • GameStop Presentation – Queen Mary University
    GameStop 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.

  • Presentation at the University of Oxford – MAR and Short Selling
    Presentation 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.

Press reviews

  • The rise of protectionism on the economy and the development of financial markets
    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.

  • For true corporate governance in France
    For 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

  • Companies: why bankruptcies are necessary
    Companies: 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.

Events

  • 2024 Dissertation prize for Law and Economics
    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.

  • Seminar on the Methods of Law & Finance
    Seminar 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.

  • Crypto markets: the future of regulation conference
    Crypto markets: the future of regulation conference

    April 3, 2023
    Crypto markets: the future of regulation conference