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The unit's research focuses on two areas related to innovation and its relationship to the law. The first is aimed at identifying and understanding the legal innovations created by new market offerings and behaviors.
The second is aimed at analyzing the legal framework for innovative objects created by digital technologies.

The team's research provides an important foundation for the Master's and DU courses it offers: consumer affairs, distribution and competition, intellectual and digital property, food.

Stipulation Compliance Analysis Tool

Institut des Recherches sur le Droit et la Justice Project
Under the coordination of the Innovation Communication and Market Laboratory
(UR_UM213), University of Montpellier and CNRS

Subject of research

Building an automatic system for checking the conformity of general terms and conditions of sale or use available online The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to build an IT system capable of both detecting general contractual terms and conditions on websites, and analyzing the stipulations they contain to initiate an alert when they are not in conformity with regulations, case law or institutional opinions. The project's initiators started from the observation that the information contained in general terms and conditions of sale or use is all too often poorly assimilated by the individuals the law is intended to protect (essentially consumers), and that the supervisory authorities currently lack the means to systematically analyze them. The aim is to move away from a control system based exclusively on a sampling of practices (i.e., agents target behaviors within a global set to analyze them) to a systematic analysis focused on potentially dangerous practices, broadening the scope of constraints. The aim is to develop a computerized tool that will make the legal information contained therein accessible. This tool could analyze the compliance with current regulations of products or services available on the market and whose privacy policy is online. Ultimately, the aim of such a system is to filter all online contractual practices.

Initially, prior to any systematic control of websites and the GTCs or GCSs they contain (by computerized robots), the project is building a tool for analyzing the stipulations that are individually submitted to it. Its aim is to meet a twofold challenge: to provide as accurate a response as possible ("accurate" being the one that comes closest to the one that a judge, if the function can be reduced to an abstraction, would have given) and, since the aim is to propose these solutions to specialists (the DGCCRF has a similar project) as well as to consumers, to provide all the explanatory elements for this solution. This research project involves several research laboratories associated with different disciplines. The project is led by the Laboratoire Innovation Communication et Marché, in collaboration with the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro-électronique de Montpellier and the LHUMAIN laboratory.

Participating in the project Mr. Malo Depincé, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in consumer and contract law; Ms. Gwenaëlle Donadieu, Ph. Laurent Fauré, MCF at the University of Montpellier 3, specializing in linguistics; Mr. Mathieu Lafourcade, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in computer science, artificial intelligence and natural language processing; Ms. Anne Laurent, Pr. at the University of Montpellier, specializing in computer science/ AI-data; Ms. Agnès Robin, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in intellectual property law.

HUman at home projecT

This project brings together 13 scientific laboratories working in interdisciplinary collaboration with industrialists and institutions, to explore and anticipate new uses and behaviors, while seeking to prevent and guard against ethical and practical drifts that could exist in the habitat of the future. This longitudinal in vivo experiment is an opportunity to question not only the uses and man-machine interactions in a connected apartment, but also and more broadly, the components and conditions of well-being or living well in a connected environment.

CommonData

The aim of the project is to initiate a collective reflection between different disciplinary fields of the Montpellier scientific community, on the legal and social dimensions of scientific data, and on the practices of researchers and institutions. For reasons linked to the evolution of science and technology and their socio-economic environment, the production of "research data" is an increasing part of the results of scientific activity, which increasingly take the form of research "data". Scientific activity most often requires the constitution of data corpora, both digital (measurements, surveys, recordings) and material (collections). After having been a facility in action, notably for data acquisition and management, digital technology has also established itself in research as a powerful means of data analysis, and is becoming consubstantial with many research activities.

The project's initiators started from the observation that the information contained in general terms and conditions of sale or use is too often poorly assimilated by the individuals whom the law is intended to protect (essentially consumers), and that control authorities currently lack the means to systematically analyze them. The aim is to move away from a control system based exclusively on a sampling of practices (i.e., agents target behaviors within a global set to analyze them) to a systematic analysis of potentially dangerous practices, broadening the scope of constraints. The aim is to develop a computerized tool that will make the legal information contained therein accessible. This tool could analyze the compliance with current regulations of products or services available on the market and whose privacy policy is online. Ultimately, the aim of such a system is to filter all contractual practices displayed online.
Initially, before any systematic control mechanism of Internet sites and the GTUs or CGVs they contain (by computer crawlers), the project is building a tool for analyzing the stipulations that are individually submitted to it. Its aim is to meet a twofold challenge: to provide as accurate a response as possible ("accurate" being the one that comes closest to the one that a judge, if the function can be reduced to an abstraction, would have given) and, since the aim is to propose these solutions to specialists (the DGCCRF has a similar project) as well as to consumers, to provide all the explanatory elements for this solution. This research project involves several research laboratories associated with different disciplines. The project is led by the Laboratoire Innovation Communication et Marché, in collaboration with the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro-électronique de Montpellier and the LHUMAIN laboratory.

Participating in the project Mr. Malo Depincé, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in consumer and contract law; Ms. Gwenaëlle Donadieu, Ph. Laurent Fauré, MCF at the University of Montpellier 3, specializing in linguistics; Mr. Mathieu Lafourcade, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in computer science, artificial intelligence and natural language processing; Ms. Anne Laurent, Pr. at the University of Montpellier, specializing in computer science/ AI-data; Ms. Agnès Robin, MCF HDR at the University of Montpellier, specializing in intellectual property law.

Steering Committee

Francesca FRONTINI, lecturer in language sciences, UMR Praxiling / Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
Benoît HUMBLOT, teacher-researcher in private law, EPF, LICeM / Université de Montpellier
Pierre-Yves LACOUR, lecturer in history, UMR CRISES / Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
Julien MARY, scientific referent at MSH SUD

Coordinator

Agnès ROBIN, HDR Lecturer in Private Law, LICeM / University of Montpellier

ACC SOINS program

Assessment of the impact of legislative and regulatory measures on access to medical care in Occitanie in areas characterized by an insufficient supply of care or by difficulties in accessing medical care.

Research project led by Cécile Le Gal Fontés

General description of the project

Our French healthcare system appears to be performing well, but is still inequitable, particularly in terms of territorial equality of access to medical care (1). This situation is reflected in the growing number of under-resourced areas, or those already in a state of medical desertification (characterized by insufficient numbers of healthcare professionals and infrastructure). Two million people in France are currently affected by medical desertification, and inequalities between regions are steadily increasing (2). Over the past few years, a number of legislative and regulatory measures have been adopted as part of the latest healthcare policies, with the aim of reducing territorial inequalities in access to care and improving continuity of care in the above-mentioned areas (3). These measures have notably involved the development of telemedicine, incentives to encourage healthcare professionals to set up in vulnerable areas, the development of healthcare coordination structures (healthcare networks, multi-professional health centers (MSP), healthcare centers, territorial platforms, Territorial Professional Healthcare Communities....) and the development of dematerialized tools to promote continuity of care and optimize resources (telemedicine, DMP (4), DP (5), etc.).

As part of a 3-phase project, we propose to assess the impact of the deployment of the various systems on territorial inequalities in access to care, in order to optimize resources.

In the first phase (end of July 2024), we carried out a pilot study in areas defined as "under-dense" by ARS Occitanie. The aim of this phase was to estimate and describe changes in patient consumption profiles over 3 chronological periods (before deployment of the devices, during their gradual implementation, and after running-in) in the Occitanie region. Better coordination and the deployment of digital tools such as the DMP and teleconsultations are expected to improve access to care. This should lead to an increase in healthcare consumption in these areas. This initial study was the subject of initial regional funding (arrêté 29.10.2019 Région Occitanie). This first phase ended in September 2023 in terms of data analysis and the drafting of the activity report. Two publications are in the process of being submitted (RGDM and RDSS) and a symposium is in preparation (planned as part of ALASS, July 2024, Lièges).

The second phase of the project is to set up an international French-speaking network to take stock of the different systems in place in these countries, and to study their impact on territorial inequalities in terms of access to healthcare. This comparative analysis may lead to proposals for optimizing French policy in the fight against this public health problem.

Finally, the last phase will consist in proposing joint international studies, aimed at evaluating the common legislative and regulatory measures validated (on the basis of their effectiveness) during the previous stages. It will also study their impact in each of these countries. The determinants of the effectiveness of the systems tested, if proven, will be highlighted.