[LUM#17] Jurigeek profession
Simon Mareschal de Charentenay is a legal researcher and blockchain expert. An advocate for LegalTech, he offers companies an innovative solution for digitizing their financial securities (stocks, bonds, etc.). This technology is used by the MonJuridique.infogreffe platform and was awarded the University of Montpellier's Innovation Prize in 2020.
"Blockchain has become my specialty," says Simon Mareschal de Charentenay. " It's the focus of my research and my passion, and it has led me to become an entrepreneur in this innovative sector." " And it was to meet the needs of the legal world that this legal researcher, with the help of a few associates, developed a technology to digitize securities registers and general meeting records on a blockchain network. This minor revolution in shareholder management has attracted the attention of the giant Infogreffe, which markets this product under the name MonJuridique.infogreffe.
Managing share ownership
" There are currently 3.5 million unlisted companies in France. Most of them manage their equity securities on paper," continues the researcher. Equity securities are transferable securities that allow investors to contribute funds to a company in exchange for remuneration. "These paper documents circulate between buyers and sellers or between law firms, with a significant risk of loss," explains the researcher. Dematerialization provides initial physical security, but the real difference is made by blockchain, as it makes the title to the shares legally enforceable. By offering greater visibility on the movements of financial securities, MonJuridique.infogreffe has also become a valuable tool for managing shareholdings, attracting more than 18,000 companies since its launch in July 2021.
Professional hybridity
It was in 2016 that the "blockchain bug" bit the young researcher specializing in legal theory. He found this geeky world " fascinating " and entered it, navigating it with his legal skills. " Blockchain is a normative system in its own right; it's a kind of autonomous legal system that aims to be an alternative to the traditional legal system. " " Driven by this passion, he met with computer scientists and engineers with whom he embarked on a start-up venture. The engineers worked on blockchain technology, while the lawyer attempted to " invent new normative frameworks capable of meeting regulatory security requirements," receiving support for this approach from his laboratory and the Faculty of Law and Political Science. " I couldn't have created this professional hybridity if CERCOP* and my university hadn't given me the freedom to venture into this complex forest and bring back some gems. "
Montpellier-Stanford
These gems are now benefiting the Faculty of Law and Political Science, as Simon Mareschal de Charentenay created a university degree specializing in LegalTech in 2021, certified by Stanford Codex, one of the best, if not the best, research centers dedicated to LegalTech in the world. " I call it the Netflix degree: entirely online, open to all nationalities, immersed in Google's legal departments and with American professors filming themselves as they wander around Silicon Valley... It's very fresh! " It's a
way for this pioneer to blaze his own trail while demonstrating that law studies can open up " hybrid careers where the university is not just a distributor of knowledge but a driver of innovation." Enough to inspire a whole chain of vocations.
*CERCOP (UM)
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