Law

law degree

Law degree studies are designed to provide students with the legal knowledge needed to practise various legal and paralegal professions.

The Diplôme de Capacité also gives access to certain civil service competitive examinations for category B jobs.

license

The Bachelor's degree in Law is a 3-year generalist course, the main aim of which is to provide students with a fundamental foundation of knowledge and skills in law, while allowing them to specialize from L3 onwards, first in "orientation", then in "option", Private Law or Public Law. It prepares students either for professional specialization in a Master's degree, or for immediate professional practice.

PROFESSIONAL license

The Licence Professionnelle is a training program set up in partnership with companies and professional branches to promote students' professional integration.
It takes one year to prepare, and includes 12 to 16 weeks of work experience in a professional environment.
It leads to a diploma at bac + 3 level, and is part of the LMD scheme (ECTS).

MASTER

As a Master's student, you take full responsibility for your own training. Supervised by Master's program managers and supported by teaching teams made up of academics and professionals, you will evolve in a spirit of promotion, learning the virtues of teamwork and difference, while offering you an individualized dynamic of professionalization.

LAW COLLEGE

The Collège de Droit de Montpellier is a training program of excellence that enables the
best students from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier
to follow additional courses, in parallel with their studies, in order to
deepen their knowledge of the law, fundamental thinking, legal culture and
the exercise of critical thinking.
The Collège de Droit de Montpellier supports students throughout the three-year
Bachelor's degree program. Each year, some forty students are selected
on the basis of their motivation and level of attainment, after an examination of their application and an
interview.

Objectives

The Collège de Droit proposes a fundamental, philosophical and historical approach to law, rather than a purely "technical" one, because while mastery of legal technique is essential, it is not sufficient to train a good jurist.Given that the law is above all a spirit and a method, rather than a knowledge of the applicable rule, the Collège de Droit offers students who already have a good general level of knowledge the opportunity to deepen this legal spirit by developing their thinking in the main subjects and by presenting a cultural approach to the law, in order to grasp the essential issues. The Collège de Droit's ambition is to strengthen the knowledge, sharpen the critical spirit and stimulate the imagination of its students.

Program

At the end of the year, after the exams, students take part in seminars in May and June, which open them up to other visions of law (through the philosophy of law, economic, sociological and political approaches, the history of law, etc.). A great deal of personal research and reading is then required, both for the seminars and for the final exam, a mock trial of a major historical figure in which students compete against each other, playing the role of defense lawyers or prosecutors.

Directed by Professor Carine JALLAMION

collegededroit-montpellier.org

Contact: Pr. Carine JALLAMION

MAGISTERS

Magistère Applied Public Law

Magistère Applied Public Law brochure

Presentation

Founded in 2009, the MAGISTERE DROIT PUBLIC APPLIQUE is a three-year D.E. (Diplôme d'établissement, formerly a "DU") which, in addition to the courses offered in Licence 3, Master 1 and Master 2, offers practical experience of public law through case studies, practical situations and the handling of files submitted by public law professionals, lawyers, public officials and administrative and judicial magistrates. The program also includes courses taught by academics, providing students with the fundamentals of subjects outside their chosen field (elements of private law) and highly specialized teaching in the third year of the Magistère. The Magistère corresponds to a demand from legal practitioners, who welcome students with a practical and applied vision of public law to complement their initial training.

Pedagogical organization :

- Presentations by professionals and courses from September to May
- Hearing at the Montpellier Administrative Court
- Mock trial over the course of a day
- Current affairs lectures by students
- Annual conference "One year of public law" presented by students
- Grand oral on professional practice at the end of each year

Management:
Julien BONNET
Fanny TARLET

Magistère Diploma in Corporate Counseling

The Magistère DIPLÔME JURISTE CONSEIL D'ENTREPRISE (DJCE) is a Diplôme d'Établissement, prepared in three years, after obtaining the^{2nd year of}a Licence en Droit.

With its core disciplines of Contract Law/Contract Technology, Competition Law, Accounting, Tax Law, Employment Law and Corporate Law, this course complements the L3, Masters 1 and 2 courses.

A real spirit of promotion is created, as only twenty or so students are lucky enough to be selected.

The Magistère-DJCE is an exceptional long-term program that enables students to train for the profession of business lawyer right from their bachelor's degree. The Magistère combines with the normal private law curriculum to train tomorrow's business law professionals as early as possible.

It's the benchmark of excellence for in-house counsel. The DJCE combines the best of both the University and the Grandes Écoles: academics and pragmatism, theory and practical application, initiative and teamwork.

Brochure Magistère DJCE 2022-2023

Direction:

Marie-Pierre DUMONT 

Clémence MOULY

Contact:

Corinne DAIGNEAU: 04.34.43.30.11

ESTABLISHMENT diplomas (DU)

DIPLÔME SUPÉRIEUR DU NOTARIAT

The DSN has a dual objective:

• Teaching students about notarial ethics
• Train comprehensive practitioners capable of proposing legal solutions to meet the needs of their customers, whatever their field of activity.

Training coordinator: Louis-Frédéric PIGNARRE

Training to become a notary

doctoral school

Management team

Director: Pr Jérôme ROUX
Department manager: Sophie SEGUI
Secretariat: Iwona BROUSSE

Tel.: 04 34 43 27 92

Reception: 2nd floor of Building 1 - office 2.03

The Doctoral School of Law and Political Science (DS 461) at the University of Montpellier welcomes doctoral students in law and political science from the 9 research units within the school.

Since July 2017, it has been part of the Collège doctoral de l'Université de Montpellier, to which other establishments are associated (Montpellier Supagro, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès, AgroParisTech). The added value of the Collège doctoral is particularly appreciable in all aspects of doctoral student/company relations, as well as in the extensive catalog of training courses offered to doctoral students.

DS 461 groups together 155 teacher-researchers, including 111 HDRs (qualified to direct research) registered in one or other of the laboratories attached to it:

• Corporate Law Center
• Montpellier Center for Research and Administrative Studies (CREAM)
• Center for Comparative Constitutional and Political Studies and Research (CERCOP)
• Montpellier School of Social Law
• Institute for European Human Rights Law (IDEDH)
• Institute of Legal History (IHD)
• The Private Law Laboratory
• UMR 5112 Center for Latin European Political Studies (CEPEL)
• UMR 5815 Dynamiques du droit

The 300 doctoral students enrolled inDS 461 can prepare 4 different doctorates:

• Private law and criminal sciences
• Public law
• History of law and institutions
• Political Science

Every year, an average of 40 thesis defenses and 3 HDR defenses are organized.

In accordance with articles 2 and 3 of the decree of May 25, 2016 setting the national framework for training and the procedures leading to the award of the national doctoral diploma, the role of the Doctoral School is to organize the training of doctoral students, prepare them for their professional activity and provide them with a broader scientific culture.

To this end, the Doctoral School selects doctoral candidates on the basis of explicit, public criteria, and organizes the allocation of funding, in particular doctoral contracts. With the support of each affiliated research unit, it ensures that doctoral students prepare and defend their thesis in the best possible conditions, in particular by organizing additional doctoral training to promote post-doctoral professional integration, implementing the thesis charter and setting up thesis monitoring committees.