Law
Law training offer
legal capacity
Law studies are designed to provide students with the legal knowledge necessary to pursue various legal and paralegal professions.
The Capacité diploma also provides access to certain civil service competitive examinations for category B jobs.
license
The Bachelor's Degree in Law is a generalist program lasting three years, the main objective of which is to enable students to acquire a fundamental base of knowledge and skills in law, while allowing them to specialize from the third year onwards, organized into "orientation" and then "option" courses in private law or public law. It prepares students either for professional specialization in a Master's degree or for immediate professional practice.
professional degree
The professional license is a training program set up in partnership with companies and professional branches to promote the professional integration of students.
It is a one-year program and includes 12 to 16 weeks of internship in a professional environment.
It leads to a bachelor's degree and is part of the LMD (ECTS) system.
MASTER
As a Master's student, you take full control of your education. Supervised by Master's program directors and supported by teaching teams made up of academics and professionals, you will develop in a spirit of promotion, learning the virtues of teamwork and diversity while pursuing an individualized path to professionalization.
LAW SCHOOL
The Montpellier Law School is a center of excellence that allows the best students from the Montpellier Faculty of Law and Political Science
to take additional courses alongside their studies in order to
deepen their knowledge of legal matters, fundamental thinking, legal culture, and
critical thinking.
The Montpellier Law School supports students throughout their three-year
bachelor's degree program. Each class has around forty students, selected
for their motivation and high academic standards, following an examination of their application and an
interview.
MASTER'S DEGREES
Master's Degree in Applied Public Law
Information brochure on the Master's Degree in Applied Public Law
Founded in 2009, the MAGISTERE DROIT PUBLIC APPLIQUE is a three-year D.E. (Diplôme d’établissement, formerly "DU") which, in addition to the courses taught in Licence 3, Master 1, and Master 2, offers practical application of public law through case studies, practical scenarios, and the handling of cases proposed 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 not covered by their chosen course of study (elements of private law) and highly specialized courses in the third year of the Magistère. The Magistère program meets the needs of legal practitioners, who welcome students with a practical and applied understanding of public law to complement their initial training.
Educational organization:
– Presentations by professionals and classes from September to May
– Hearing at the Montpellier Administrative Court
– One-day mock trial
– Current affairs lectures by students
– Annual lecture "A Year of Public Law" presented by students
– Professional practice oral exam at the end of each year
Management:
Julien BONNET
Fanny TARLET
Master's Degree in Corporate Legal Advice
The DIPLÔME JURISTE CONSEIL D’ENTREPRISE (DJCE) is a university diploma that takes three years to complete after finishing thesecond yearof a bachelor's degree in law.
With core subjects including Contract Law/Contractual Techniques, Competition Law, Accounting, Tax Law, Labor Law, and Corporate Law, this program complements the courses taught in the third year of undergraduate studies and in the first and second years of master's programs.
A real spirit of promotion is created, as only around twenty students have the chance to be selected.
The Magistère-DJCE is an exceptional long-term program that allows students to train for a career as a business lawyer starting at the bachelor's degree level. The Magistère is added to the standard private law curriculum in order to train tomorrow's business law professionals as early as possible.
It is the premier training program and benchmark for corporate legal counsel. The DJCE combines the best of what universities and Grandes Écoles have to offer: academic rigor and pragmatism, theoretical teaching and practical application, initiative and teamwork.
DJCE Master's Program Brochure 2022-2023
Management:
Contact:
Corinne DAIGNEAU: +33 (0)4 34 43 30 11
SCHOOL DIPLOMAS (DU)
Higher Education Diploma in Notarial Studies (DESN)
The DESN has two objectives:
- Teaching students about notarial ethics
- To train well-rounded practitioners capable of proposing legal arrangements that legally meet the needs of their clients, regardless of the field of practice.
Head of Education: Louis-Frédéric PIGNARRE
Training to become a notary
doctoral school
Management team
Director: Prof. Jérôme ROUX
Head of department: Sophie SEGUI
Secretariat: Iwona BROUSSE
Tel.: 44 34 43 27 92
Reception: 2nd floor of Building 1 – Office 2.03
The Doctoral School of Law and Political Science (DS ) at the University of Montpellier welcomes doctoral students in law and political science from the nine research units that comprise it.
Since July 2017, she has been a member of the Doctoral College of the University of Montpellier, which includes other institutions (Montpellier Supagro, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, IMT Mines Alès, AgroParisTech). The added value of the Doctoral College is particularly noticeable in everything related to doctoral student/company relations, as well as in the very wide range of training courses offered to doctoral students.
DS brings together 155 teacher-researchers, including 111 HDR (qualified to supervise research) registered in one or other of the laboratories attached to it:
- The Center for Business Law
- The Montpellier Center for Research and Administrative Studies (CREAM)
- The Center for Comparative Constitutional and Political Studies and Research (CERCOP)
- The Montpellier School of Social Law
- The Institute of European Human Rights Law (IDEDH)
- The Institute for Legal History (IHD)
- The Private Law Laboratory
- UMR 5112 Center for Political Studies of Latin Europe (CEPEL)
- Laboratory for Innovation, Communication, and Market Research (LICeM)
The 300 doctoral students enrolled inDS can prepare for four different doctorates:
- Private law and criminal sciences
- Public law
- History of law and institutions
- Political science
Each year, an average of forty thesis defenses and three HDR defenses are organized.
In accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of the decree of May 25, 2016 establishing the national framework for training and the procedures leading to the award of the national doctoral degree, the role of the Doctoral School is to organize the training of doctoral students, prepare them for their professional activities, and provide them with a broad scientific culture.
To this end, the Doctoral School selects doctoral candidates on the basis of explicit and public criteria and organizes the allocation of the funding allocated to it, in particular doctoral contracts. With the support of each affiliated research unit, it ensures that doctoral students prepare and defend their theses under the best possible conditions, in particular by organizing additional doctoral training to promote their post-doctoral professional integration, by implementing the thesis charter, and by setting up thesis monitoring committees.