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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