The acronym CRECEDI, for Centre de Recherches sur le Commerce et l'Economie Digitaux was coined in 2004 by a French Professor of Law, as an outreach vehicle for courses in which the number of those willing to enroll far exceeded the physical possibilities of the brick-and-mortar classrooms available. These were basically modules dealing with aspects of the contract-driven "new economy" - some believed that it operated in a "legal vaccum" just because it is so hard to regulate top-down.

The OECD IMHE General Conference 2010, conspicuously placed under the motto "Doing More with Less in an Utterly Changed World", provided an opportunity to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of this model in all other cross-disciplinary approaches to Law, beyond just than Law & Economics.

Among the former, the potential for cross-institution student interaction, and for successful competition with other content which also demanded student time, attention and mindspace, from TV series to social networks and video games. Another was that if students could see, behind practically every headline, the constitutional, civil, commercial, administrative and international Law issues involved, teachers could save the time they spend explaining why their particular area of Law is so vital.

Among the latter, faculty concerns about turf, or copyright, are relatively minor compared to the difficulty of making room for a per-module approach to curricula which can at times prove just as "brick-and mortar" as the classrooms from which learning is available. They still are, in some cases, supply-pushed rather than demand driven - less "utterly changed" than the world they are intended for.