Publications
distribution law column
February 2026
This column reviews and covers case law from 2024 to the end of 2025 on traditional issues of economic law and distribution. With commentary by Malo Depincé (LICeM), Jean-Louis Respaud (LICeM), Mélanie Cescut-Puore (LICeM), and Stéphane Destours.
Internet law column
January 2026
The "Internet Law" column is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year! Created at the instigation of Professor Michel Vivant at the time of the adoption of the E-Commerce Directive and the first decisions on the editorial responsibility of Internet players, the column reflects the developments and trends in litigation relating to electronic communication, the volume of which now requires a drastic selection of the decisions commented on. Since then, it has given rise to an annual conference with which the Master's program in Intellectual Property and Digital Law at the Montpellier Faculty of Law is closely associated.
Chronicle written by the Laboratoire Innovation Communication et Marché (LICeM), under the supervisionof Agnès Robin, Senior Lecturer, with the participation of Arnaud Diméglio, Agnès Robin, Laura Tomasso, Sandrine Roose-Grenier, Alexandre Bories, Malo Depincé, Guillaume Monziols, and Axel Saint-Martin.
Internet law column
January 2025
Chronicle written by the Laboratoire Innovation Communication et Marché (LICeM), under the supervisionof Agnès Robin, Senior Lecturer. Chronicle covering the period from June 2023 to November 2024. With the participation of Arnaud Diméglio, Agnès Robin, Laura Tomasso, Sandrine Roose-Grenier, Alexandre Bories, Malo Depincé, and Axel Saint-Martin.
Column to be read in JCP E, January 9, 2025, No. 2
competition law
4th edition
June 2024
Daniel Mainguy, Malo Depincé, Mathilde Cayot
Publisher's presentation
Unfair competition, parasitism, abrupt termination of established commercial relations, collusion, abuse of dominant position, market power, competitive damage, price fixing, mergers, state aid, European authorities: the key terms of competition law are legion. Competition law is not easy to grasp. This book aims to make it accessible to all by presenting an analysis of both anti-competitive practices (antitrust law) and those that fall within the scope of general business law (unfair competition, non-competition clauses, practices restricting competition, etc.).
The authors:
Daniel Mainguy is a professor at the Sorbonne Law School, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Malo Depincé is a professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Montpellier and director of LICeM.
Mathilde Cayot is a senior lecturer at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and a member of LICeM.
Obligation Compliance Analysis Tool (OACTS)
March 2024
Edited by Malo Depincé, Agnès Robin, Laurent Fauré, Mathieu Lafourcade, Anne Laurent
Project objectives and overview
Set up an automated system to check compliance with the general terms and conditions of sale or use available online.
This interdisciplinary project aims to build a computer system capable of both identifying general contractual terms and conditions on websites and analyzing the provisions they contain in order to trigger an alert when they do not comply with regulations, case law, or institutional opinions. The first phase of this project, funded by the GIP Mission de recherche Droit et Justice (Law and Justice Research Group), which became IERDJ during the course of the project, consisted of developing a tool for analyzing the compliance of contractual provisions. This tool was set up to analyze clauses individually, without yet being able to effectively evaluate an entire contractual document.
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 understood by the individuals that the law intends to protect (mainly consumers), and that the supervisory authorities currently lack the means to analyze them systematically. The aim is to move from a control system based exclusively on sampling practices (agents target behaviors within a global set in order to analyze them) to a systematic analysis focused on potentially dangerous practices, thereby broadening the scope of control. The goal is to develop a computer tool that makes the legal information they contain accessible. This tool could analyze the compliance with current regulations of products or services available on the market whose privacy policy is online. The ultimate goal of such a system is to filter all contractual practices exposed online.
As a first step, prior to any systematic mechanism for monitoring websites and the terms and conditions they contain (using web crawlers), the project is developing a tool for analyzing the provisions submitted to it individually.
It aims to address a twofold challenge: providing as accurate an answer as possible regarding the legality of each clause (the "accurate" answer being the one that most closely resembles what a judge would have given, assuming that the function of judging can be reduced to an abstraction) and, since these solutions are intended for both specialists (the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs, and Fraud Control—DGCCRF—has a similar project) as well as to consumers who are subject to the law, to provide all the explanatory elements of this solution.
Right to Food: Feed, Care for, Protect, Reconcile
The Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Montpellier has created a new national Master's degree in Food Law and Agroecology, which opened for the first time in September 2021. The first class graduated in September 2023.
This new degree aims to train students in initial training (many of whom are in work-study programs) and professionals in continuing education on contemporary food issues: without losing sight of the goal of feeding people, the agri-food sector has also been assigned the tasks of protecting the environment and local or national traditions, caring for populations, and preventing environmental risks. By taking into account its effects on the environment and people, the evolution of the law can contribute to a better collective life.
To celebrate this educational innovation, which aims to address new food-related challenges, the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Montpellier decided to organize an international symposium on the theme of new food-related challenges, with the support of the MUSE program and the National Food Council.
See the article devoted to the conference proceedings
Research data rights
Open science, innovation, public data
, 1st edition, 2022 – by Agnès Robin
Since the principles of open data were affirmed at both the European and national levels in support of a particularly proactive research and innovation policy, scientific research data has gradually become a genuine legal issue. See the publisher's website
See Joachim Schöpfel's review in Études de communication, 2023/1 (No. 60), on cairn.info
Also available (subscription) on strada lex
Les Cahiers Teutates. Law and economics
They take the form of an electronic journal available in PDF format, which can be downloaded from our website. Issues are published as they become available and compiled twice a year.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Editor-in-chief:
- Daniel Mainguy, Professor at the Faculty of Law of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Editors:
- Malo Depincé, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Montpellier
- Julien Roque, Senior Lecturer at the University of Montpellier
- Caroline Raja, Senior Lecturer at the University of Montpellier
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
- Daniel Mainguy, Professor at the Faculty of Law of Montpellier
- Regis Fabre, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Montpellier, lawyer, managing partner of Baker McKenzie
- Hughes Kenfack, Professor at the Toulouse Law School
- Malo Depincé,Senior Lecturerat the Faculty of Law of Montpellier
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Teutates studies
They complement the Cahiers Teutats and include theses, conference proceedings, online publications, and the Dossiers Pratiques Teutates (on technical topics).
Céline Alcalde Automotive distribution – Legal study, Teutates 2012
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