Essec\Faculty\Model\Profile {#2216
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"fr" => "<p>Paul Oudin est professeur assistant de droit à l’ESSEC. Ses recherches portent sur le droit des sociétés, la réglementation financière et la gouvernance des nouvelles technologies, avec une forte dimension interdisciplinaire. Ses travaux actuels portent sur l’harmonisation du droit des sociétés en Europe, la gouvernance des entreprises du secteur de l’intelligence artificielle, le droit constitutionnel comparé et la réglementation des abus de marché. Avant de rejoindre l’ESSEC, Paul a été Departmental Lecturer in Law & Finance à l’Université d’Oxford, où il a également effectué son doctorat. Il a parallèlement pratiqué le droit comme avocat au barreau de Paris pendant quatre ans et a été chercheur invité à Columbia University, à Sapienza Università et au Max-Planck-Institut de Hambourg.</p>\n"
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