Law colleges in France
A College of Law (Collège de droit), sometimes called Law school (École de droit) or Law academy (Académie de droit), is in France a selective school inside each French university or faculty of law for its best students which deliver a specific diploma of the university.
Contents
1 History
2 Existing Law colleges in France
2.1 Collège de droit from Panthéon-Assas University and École de droit de Paris
2.2 Collège de droit de Montpellier
2.3 Grande école du droit from University of Paris-Sud
2.4 Collège supérieur de droit de Toulouse
2.5 Collège de droit from University of La Réunion
2.6 Collège de droit de Lyon
2.7 Académie de droit d’Aix-Marseille
2.8 Parcours d’excellence en droit of Paris Descartes University
2.9 Parcours d’excellence en droit of Rennes I University
3 References
4 External links
History
In France, universities are not allowed to choose which students are allowed to their undergraduate degree. Panthéon-Assas University created then in 2008 a special school for selecting its best students. Several universities rapidly followed this model[1][2] It permitted to French universities to select students despite the legal global prohibition.[3][4]
Media soon called these schools "ways of excellence"[5] inside each university for "brilliant students"[6] or "grandes écoles inside universities"[7]
Existing Law colleges in France
Collège de droit from Panthéon-Assas University and École de droit de Paris
Panthéon-Assas University created in 2008 a special school for selecting its best students among the 2300 ones it legally has to accept in first year[8] in order to give them special courses and a special degree: the College of Law. In 2011, the Paris Law School was created when the first class of the College of Law had its degree. To be admitted, you have to obtain "Summa Cum Laude" in Baccalauréat, or "Magna Cum Laude" with an entrance test.[9]
Paris Law School (École de droit de Paris), also called Assas Law School (École de droit d'Assas), is a school from Panthéon-Assas University delivering a graduate degree, after the College of Law (Collège de droit) delivering an undergraduate degree. The Collège de droit was the first Law School created by French Universities in 2008.
The Collège de droit is a three-year degree, the École de droit a two-year degree. The exchange experience cannot be completed in the same time but has to be done in addition to these courses.
Panthéon-Assas University being the top faculty of law in France, media focused particularly on it and called even more this law college and school "way of excellence"[10]
Collège de droit de Montpellier
Created by University of Montpellier in 2009, two-year degree.
Grande école du droit from University of Paris-Sud
Created by University of Paris-Sud in 2009, four-year degree, plus a year abroad.
Collège supérieur de droit de Toulouse
Created by Toulouse 1 University Capitole in 2010, three-year degree.
Collège de droit from University of La Réunion
Created by University of La Réunion in 2010, two-year degree.
Collège de droit de Lyon
Created by Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in 2010, two-year degree, delivers the "D.U. Professionnels du droit" diploma.
Académie de droit d’Aix-Marseille
Created by Aix-Marseille University in 2011, it is a four-year degree, exchange experience included.
Parcours d’excellence en droit of Paris Descartes University
Created by Paris Descartes University in 2012, two-year degree.
Parcours d’excellence en droit of Rennes I University
Created by University of Rennes 1 in 2016, three-year degree.
References
^ Le Figaro - Un «parcours d’excellence» à Rennes-I relance le débat sur la sélection à l’université
^ Le Monde - Polémique sur les « parcours d’excellence » en droit
^ Double-licence : un cursus d’excellence ?
^ Olivier Rollot - Entrer à l’université : ce qu’il faut savoir
^ France Info - Filières d'excellence à la fac
^ Le Figaro - Universités : les cursus pour étudiants brillants
^ L’obs - Les charmes cachés de l'université
^ Benoît Floc'h, "La réponse d’Assas : l’audace. Paris-II crée un collège de droit pour attirer les meilleurs étudiants", Le Monde, Supplément éducation, 27 July 2009, p. 22.
^ Studyrama - Bac : à quoi servent les mentions ?Le Figaro - APB 2016 : quelques conseils de dernière minute
^ L’étudiant - Pourquoi le bac vaut encore quelque chose
External links
- Media
- Le Collège de droit d'Assas, préfiguration d'une grande école de droit
- Le Monde - Le Collège de droit, la voie d'excellence d'Assas
- Le Figaro - Les facultés de droit veulent atteindre l'excellence
- L'étudiant - Collèges et écoles de droit
- Website of each law school or college
- Collège de droit de Montpellier
- École de droit de Lyon
- École de droit de Paris
- Académie de droit d'Aix-Marseille (ADAM)
- Grande école du droit (Paris-Sud)
- Collège supérieur de droit de Toulouse
- Collège de droit (La Réunion)
- Paris-Descartes - Parcours d’excellence en droit
- Rennes I - Parcours d’excellence en droit
- Websites of student associations
- https://assocdd.wordpress.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160226164108/http://www.ecolededroit-paris2.com/
- http://association-academie-droit-aix-marseille.fr/
