Laboratory for Innovation, Communication, and Markets (UR_UM213)

Faculty for the Master's Program in Economic Law

The Teaching Staff

Faculty Researchers

Daniel Mainguy is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He directed the Master 2 program in Private Economic Law and founded the Montpellier School of Law in 2009. A holder of the DJCE degree, he holds a doctorate in law(“La revente,” Prix de l’Académie française, 1994, Litec, 1996). He has extensive experience as a lawyer, admitted to the Paris Bar, in the areas of legal counsel and auditing, as well as litigation, consulting, and arbitration.
Email: dmainguy@wanadoo.fr
Twitter account: @DanielMainguy
http://www.daniel-mainguy.fr

Malo Depincé is a Full Professor (HDR) at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier. There, he directs the Master 2 programin Consumer Affairs and Competition, serves as Director of the LICeM, and is a member of the Faculty Council. A recognized specialist in consumer law, sales promotion law, and competition law, he teaches numerous business law courses at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier. He is also a member of the Advertising Ethics Jury (an affiliate ofthe Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority), the Commission on Unfair Contract Terms, and theArbitration Working Group of the National Council of Bar Associations. As a member of the National Food Council (CNA), he has just been appointed by President and former Minister Guillaume Garot to chair the consultative group on the online sale of food products.
He is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary HUT project for the housing of tomorrow (here). Each year, together with Daniel Mainguy, he directs the Serge Lazareff Competition, organized in partnership with the CMAP, an international French-language arbitration competition held in Montpellier. He teaches consumer law, unfair competition law, and the law of free movement.
Contact Information:
Phone: (33)434432905
Email: malo.depince@umontpellier.fr
Twitter: @MaloDepince
http://www.malodepince.com/

Jean-Louis Respaud is a Senior Lecturer (HDR) at the University of Montpellier. A recognized expert in distribution law, he co-authors the distribution law column in *La Semaine juridique* with Daniel Mainguy and Stéphane Destours. He is also the author of books and articles on domestic and European economic law (distribution, competition, and consumer protection) and the law of obligations (contracts and liability). He teaches distribution law and business contracts.
Email: jlr@yahoo.fr

Stéphane Destours is a Senior Lecturer (HDR) at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier. He teaches the law of anticompetitive practices, restrictive business practices, merger control, and commercial urban planning. He is the author of a dissertation on competition law, as well as numerous articles, booklets, and notes on competition law, covering both public and private law. He is the co-author, along with Daniel Mainguy and Jean-Louis Respaud, of the distribution law column in *La Semaine juridique*.
Email: stephane.destours@umontpellier.fr

Rémy Cabrillac is an Associate Professor at the Montpellier School of Law. He chairs the Private Law Section there. A civil law scholar and recognized specialist in contract law both in France and abroad, he is the author of numerous books and articles on codification and contract law.
View his CV here.
Email: remy.cabrillac@umontpellier.fr
http://www.laboratoiredroitprive.fr

Carine Jallamion is an Associate Professor at the Montpellier School of Law. Asa professor of legal history, sheheads the School of Law and co-directs the University Diploma (DU) program in arbitration law. She is a recognized expert in the history of arbitration law. She teaches arbitration law.
Email: carine.jallamion@umontpellier.fr
https://carinejallamion.wordpress.com/

Julien Roque is an associate professor at Paul Valéry University. He wrote his dissertation on the obligations of the principal and teaches international trade law. Mr. Julien Roque is the director of the Montpellier Legal Clinic.
Email: julien_roque@hotmail.com

Marie Pierre Dumont Lefrand is an Associate Professor at the Montpellier Law School. She directs the DJCE program there and is a recognized expert in business law, particularly in security interests and commercial lease law.
Email: marie-pierre.lefrand@umontpellier.fr

Guillaume Zambrano is an Associate Professor at the University of Nîmes. He completed his dissertation on “The Ineffectiveness of Civil Actions for Damages for Violations of Competition Law” (2012, University of Montpellier, under the supervision of Prof. D. Mainguy. Download:THESIS). His main areas of research include predictive statistical analysis of case law, the epistemology of law, and class actions in civil law. He teaches competition law.
Email: guillaume.zambrano@unimes.fr

Alice Turinetti holds a Ph.D. in private law and is a postdoctoral researcher at UMR 5815 Dynamiques du Droit. She is currently working on the law governing drones and machines as part of a research contract funded by the Interministerial Single Fund (FUI 17). She defended her dissertation, titled “Standardization. A Study in Economic Law,” on December 17, 2014, under the supervision of Professor Jean-Louis RESPAUD.

Cathie-Sophie Pinat is an associate professor of private law at Lumière Lyon II University. Her dissertation, titled “The Lawyer’s Argument Before the Court of Cassation,” was supervised by Professors Daniel Mainguy and Alexandre Vialla.

Mathilde Cayot isan associate professor at Paul-Valéry University – Montpellier III. She defended her dissertation, titled “Pure Economic Harm,” on November 24, 2016, under the supervision of Professor Daniel Mainguy.

Edmond Baranes is a professor of economics at the University of Montpellier and co-director of the “Competition and Regulation” research area at the LAMETA Joint Research Unit (UMR). He is the Director of the Master’s program in Industrial and Network Economics at the Faculty of Economics. Specializing in competition policy and sector-specific regulation (digital, energy, transportation, healthcare), he teaches a wide range of courses on competition economics, pricing strategies, and investment decisions. He regularly publishes articles in academic journals and contributes to expert reports. As part of the CDCM’s curriculum, he teaches the economic analysis of competition law. Email: edmond.baranes@umontpellier.fr

Gilles N’Goala is a professor at the University of Montpellier, Montpellier Management Institute (MOMA). He is also Vice President of the French Marketing Association (afm). View his resume here:
Email: Gilles.N-Goala@umontpellier.fr
http://www.montpellier-management-university.fr/

Lise Poillot is a professor of civil law at the University of Luxembourg. She is a recognized expert in European law, particularly European consumer law.
Email: elise.poillot@uni.lu
http://wwwfr.uni.lu/fdef/droit/equipe/elise_poillot

Practicing Teachers

Michel Astruc served as Ombudsman for GDF SUEZ from his appointment in November 2005 untilJuly 1,2014. Following the end of his tenure with GDF SUEZ, he was named an honorary member of the Ombudsmen’s Club. From Europe to Brazil, and from Morocco to Mexico, he has been involved in improving the GDF SUEZ Group’s mediation system, supporting the creation of various mediation systems in several countries, and promoting high-quality mediation through numerous studies, presentations, and conferences. Today, he continues his work through various studies and projects aimed at promoting mediation and contributing to its development. He also teaches the practice of mediation.

François Béroujon is a judge at the Bordeaux Administrative Court. He wrote his dissertation on the application of consumer law to public service providers. Since then, he has authored numerous articles and commentaries on consumer law. He teaches public law.

Christophe Blondeaut is an attorney in Montpellier at the law firm dlj et associés. He holds a DEA in Community and European Law from the University of Montpellier and teaches residential lease law.

Jérôme Coulombel is the General Counsel of the Carrefour Group’s litigation department. He teaches about dispute resolution mechanisms in the retail sector.

Christine Corrieri is the director of the Advisory Department at the French Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP). A former student at the CDCM, she teaches about self-regulation practices by advertisers, agencies, and media outlets in the advertising industry.

Caroline Duclercq is a member of the Paris Bar and a partner at Altana. After working with Serge Lazareff for many years, she joined Altana in 2012. A specialist in arbitration, she co-directs the postgraduate program in arbitration at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier. She teaches the practice of arbitration.

https://www.altanalaw.com/avocat/caroline-duclercq

Nicolas Genty is a partner at EY Société d’avocats (Ernst & Young). He is in charge of the Contracts, Competition, and Distribution practice for France. Over the past 25 years, he has gained significant experience advising companies on French and European law relating to distribution, competition, and consumer protection. He advises companies during negotiations between suppliers and distributors. He also assists with the creation and organization of clients’ distribution networks, the negotiation and drafting of their commercial and industrial contracts, and their sales promotion efforts. He regularly advises companies on competition law matters. He is the co-author, with Philippe Duvocelle, of the book *Supplier-Distributor Relations: Securing and Maximizing the Value of Commercial Negotiations* (DS. Lamy). He teaches commercial negotiation to students.

Philippe Guillermin is the head of the Office of Consumer Protection and Fair Trade Policy (3A) within the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs, and Fraud Prevention. He speaks to students about public policies on consumer protection.

Yann le Targat is a member of the Montpellier Bar. He assists the firm’s clients with intellectual property and information and communication technology matters as they expand their businesses, as well as with any litigation they may face. He has particular expertise in payment methods and services, having served as legal counsel in the establishment of a payment institution with operations in Luxembourg and France.  He also practices in consumer law, particularly in litigation involving the effective annual interest rate (TEG) in credit matters. It is this particularly rich experience that he shares with students. He was also instrumental in founding the Mediterranean Arbitration Center, which operates under the Languedoc-Roussillon Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Boris Ruy is a member of the Lyon Bar. He has been a partner at the law firm FIDAL since 2015. He is a practice leader in the Competition and Distribution Department, focusing on contract law, competition law, and distribution law; commercial and business criminal litigation; and arbitration; as well as providing assistance during competition investigations (including routine investigations, on-site inspections, and seizures) and other administrative investigations.
He teaches litigation practice.