[Call for Papers] The French due diligence law after five years of implementation: (in)effectiveness, (un)accountability and (in)justice?
Published 1 March 2024
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The Asser Institute and Wageningen University law group invite early career researchers to submit their abstracts by 22 March for the conference, ‘The French due diligence law after five years of implementation: (in)effectiveness, (un)accountability and (in)justice?’ in May 2024.
In March 2017, the loi relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d'ordre (French due diligence law) was adopted by the French national assembly, making France the first country to enact a due diligence law. Despite the law’s prominent place in public debates throughout Europe as a legislative model (or counter-model), it remains relatively understudied from an international perspective.
Conference on the implementation of the French due diligence law
The papers published on the law thus far focused on the political process leading up to the adoption of the law, the nature of the legal requirements imposed by the law, and more generally the philosophy underpinning it. Furthermore, most of the existing scholarship is accessible only in French.
In this context, the Asser Institute and Wageningen University law group (through the REBALANCE Horizon Europe Project, grant number: 101061342) are jointly organising a conference to take stock of the first five years (2018-2023) of implementation of the French law. The conference will bring together academics from different disciplines (law, economics, management studies, sociology), as well as practitioners from civil society and French corporations who are directly engaged in the implementation of the law. The main objective of the conference is to look back at the five years of implementation of the French law.
Therefore, we are inviting early career researchers to submit their abstracts (in English with a maximum of 500 words) by 22 March to Dr Antoine Duval (a.duval@asser.nl) and Dr Nadia Bernaz (nadia.bernaz@wur.nl). The selected participants will be informed on 29 March and will be asked to submit a short paper (2000-3000 words) by 1 May. The travel from Europe and accommodation costs of the selected participants will be covered by the organisers. It is the intent of the organiser to publish a special collection drawn from the papers presented at the conference in a leading academic journal.
More information on the conference is available here.
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