Toulouse Business School hosts Governance and Compliance in Companies: Constraints or Opportunities? December 3-4, 2015. Papers are invited on the following topics:
- The links between Governance and Compliance, on the one hand, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), on the other hand;
- Programs to be put in place for a better compliance;
- The role of lawyers in Governance and Compliance;
- Opportunities for good Governance and proper Compliance for companies;
- The impact of foreign laws on Governance (for example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act);
- The legal risks in a breach of compliance;
- Legal monitoring and anticipation of new legal and regulatory constraints;
- Government procurement and a company’s history of Compliance;
- The interface between internal control (internal auditing, reporting, etc.) and the Law;
- The legal challenges of whistleblowing;
- The strategic role of Compliance;
- The interface between company lawyers, external advisors and operational staff in Governance and Compliance;
- The theory of groups of parent companies or subsidiaries and Compliance;
- Control of the chain of sub-contractors and subsidiaries and Compliance;
- Analysis of the effectiveness of soft law in Compliance;
- Investors and Governance;
- The comparative study of Governance.
More extensive details can be found here.
Proposals are due June 30, 2015; final articles are due Sept. 1, 2015.
