Judge Frederic Jenny on Economic expertise in a generalist court: the experience of an economist/judge in a civil law jurisdiction May 7, 2009

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Frederic Jenny, Visiting Professor at UCL Law Faculty andJudge at the Commercial, Economic and Financial Law Chamber of the Supreme Court of France (Cour de Cassation) will give a talk as part of the UCL Laws Competition Law in a global Context Lecture Series on
Economic expertise in a generalist court: The experience of an economist / Judge in a civil law jurisdiction
on Thursday 7 May 2009from 9.00am - 11amat the UCL Law Faculty
This event is free of charge and accredited with 2 CPD hours
About this lectureDrawing on his experience as the first economist generalist judge at theFrench Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation), Judge Frederic Jenny willexplore the following topics:

If and how economic reasoning has beenintegrated in the Cour de cassation's judgments, since he has beenappointed ?
Did economic analysis make a difference in any cases?
Would ithelp in the case of generalist judges to have court-appointed experts, orassessors or judges that have an economics background ?
What would be thebest method to integrate economic reasoning, taking into account the waythe Cour de cassation and other generalist judges work and decide cases?

Dr Frederic Jennyis a Judge at the Commercial, Economic and Financial Law Chamber of the Supreme Court of France (Cour de Cassation). He is also the Chairman of the Committee on Competition Law and Policy, OECD, Paris. Prior to this he was the Vice Chairman at the Conseil de la Concurrence (French Competition Authority) and the Chairman of WTO group on the interaction between Trade and Competition Policy. Since 2006, Dr Jenny is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws, UCL and member of the Advisory Board of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law and Economics at UCL. Dr. Jenny also teaches in the ESSEC Business School in Paris. Dr Jenny has studied in France and the United States and has a Doctorate in Economics (University of Paris), a Ph.D in Economics (Harvard University) and an M.B.A from ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Professor Jenny has been appointed as a non-executive member of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in 2007
DOWNLOAD THE SLIDES FROM JUDGE JENNYS PREVIOUS LECTURE (5 MARCH) ON ECONOMIC EXPERTISE IN COURTS: BEST PRACTICE


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