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==History==
==History==

Historically, all [[Sciences Po]] graduates were entitled to take the French bar exam and become attorneys.<ref name="auto5">{{cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2007/04/21/l-universite-defend-son-monopole-dans-la-formation-des-futurs-avocats_899614_3224.html|title=L'Université défend son monopole dans la formation des futurs avocats|publisher=}}</ref> The situation changed in 1994, with public universities being granted a monopoly on the education of future French attorneys.

In 2002, higher education in France was reformed, pursuant to the [[Bologna Process]], in view of achieving harmonization between the various tertiary education systems in the [[European Union]]. Fearing that, as a result of this reform, public universities would lose their monopoly on legal education, a number of law professors successfully lobbied for denying [[grandes écoles]] the right to deliver legal postgraduate degrees equivalent to theirs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe1-2013-1-page-99.htm|title= Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris|publisher=}}</ref>

In 2007, a Decree permitted graduates of two Sciences Po master's degrees to sit the French Bar Exam and become licensed attorneys. The publication of the 2007 Decree which entitled graduates from what was then [[Sciences Po]]'s legal programs to sit the French bar exam angered was criticed by law professors in public universities. They feared that it would create unfair competition between "democratic", non selective public universities and "elite" [[grandes écoles]] like [[Sciences Po]], the latter being allowed to select which applicants they wish to admit and enjoying considerably larger financial resources than the former (the per capital budget for a student being ten times higher at [[Sciences Po]] than at public universities), and feared a decay in legal education in France, since Sciences Po is considered by university professors to give a legal education of bad quality.<ref name="auto5"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe1-2013-1-page-99.htm|title= Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe1-2013-1-page-99.htm|title= Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris|publisher=}}</ref> Law professors were concerned that the best students and professors might choose to go to [[Sciences Po]] rather than staying at public universities, due to the financial advantages that Sciences Po offered. Law professors challenged this Decree before the [[Conseil d'État (France)|Conseil d'État]], to no avail.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=le+droit+dans+la+concurrence+myriam+sciences+po&source=bl&ots=qpp9V-J-BK&sig=ACfU3U3-vPyzSR-NAP06gcJwR2JvnKehiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrv7Wlr7gAhUD8YMKHf7BDfAQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=le%20droit%20dans%20la%20concurrence%20myriam%20sciences%20po&f=false|title=Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe|publisher=}}</ref> In 2010, a Public Law professor, in an analogy between legal education and soccer, noted that: "team public university is witnessing a preoccupying flight of its players: students and teachers alike are leaving."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/societe/2010/04/01/le-mercato-des-profs-de-droit_618446|title=Le "mercato" des profs de droit|publisher=}}</ref>


Sciences Po Law School was formally created in 2009. It said its ambition was to provide an alternative to the legal training offered in French universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=le+droit+dans+la+concurrence+myriam+sciences+po&source=bl&ots=qpp9V-J-BK&sig=ACfU3U3-vPyzSR-NAP06gcJwR2JvnKehiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrv7Wlr7gAhUD8YMKHf7BDfAQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=le%20droit%20dans%20la%20concurrence%20myriam%20sciences%20po&f=false|title=Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senat.fr/rap/r01-345/r01-3451.pdf|title=Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice|publisher=}}</ref>
Sciences Po Law School was formally created in 2009. It said its ambition was to provide an alternative to the legal training offered in French universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydBVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=le+droit+dans+la+concurrence+myriam+sciences+po&source=bl&ots=qpp9V-J-BK&sig=ACfU3U3-vPyzSR-NAP06gcJwR2JvnKehiQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrv7Wlr7gAhUD8YMKHf7BDfAQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=le%20droit%20dans%20la%20concurrence%20myriam%20sciences%20po&f=false|title=Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senat.fr/rap/r01-345/r01-3451.pdf|title=Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice|publisher=}}</ref>

Revision as of 12:50, 10 October 2019

Sciences Po Law School
"École de droit de Sciences Po"
Former names
École libre des sciences politiques
TypePublic Higher Education Research Institution
Established2009
Budget€192 million (total Sciences Po budget for 13,000 students)
DeanChristophe Jamin
Academic staff
20 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 9 Affiliate Professors, numerous visiting lecturers
Students944
Location
Paris
,
France
CampusUrban
MascotThe lion and the fox
Websitewww.sciencespo.fr/ecole-de-droit/en.html

Sciences Po Law School (Template:Lang-fr) is a program inside Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Created with the objective of offering an alternative to traditional legal education in universities[1][2][3][4][5], it offers only master degrees, clinical training and admits students without undergraduate legal education.[6][7]

The school has an international student population of 40%.[8]

History

Sciences Po Law School was formally created in 2009. It said its ambition was to provide an alternative to the legal training offered in French universities.[9][10]

Academics

Teaching

Sciences Po Law School offers a two-year Master in Economic Law, which can be followed in either French or English, a two-year Master in Legal and Judicial Career taught entirely in French, a three-year joint Master in Law and Finance (with Sciences Po's School of Management and Innovation) as well as a one-year LLM in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement. Sciences Po Law School also offers a PhD program.

In addition to offering programs taught entirely in English, Sciences Po Law School's student body is 40% international.[8]

Student body

In 2017/2018, among these 944 students, 42 were enrolled in the PhD program, 84 in the Legal and Judiciary Careers course, 342 in the Master in Economic Law and 340 studied in one of Sciences Po Law School's preparatory class for competitive legal examinations. 123 students were doing a gap year and 13 were enrolled in the LLM in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement.[11]

Sciences Po Law School's acceptance rate is between 10 and 15%.[12]

Partnerships

Sciences Po Law School offers joint degrees with Columbia Law School[13], the University of Virginia School of Law[14], Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law[15] and Duke University School of Law.[16]

Students of the Master in Economic Law can take a gap year between the two years of the program. Partner institutions include Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, McGill University Faculty of Law, Peking University Law School, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, National Law School of India University.

Sciences Po Law School developed partnerships with several law firms, including Bredin Prat, Clifford Chance, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Dechert LLP and Hogan Lovells. Every year, Sciences Po Law School organizes a job fair open to students and graduates. 40 law firms participated in the 2018 edition.[citation needed]

Rankings and performance

Rankings

Among international english-speaking rankings, Sciences Po Law School is ranked:

In the French national Eduniversal ranking, rankings are in France:

  • Economic Law: 4th of France[19]
  • European and International Business Law: 8th of France[20]
  • Undergraduate program: not ranked among the top 10[21]

It was not ranked among the top 10 or 15 in France in Business Law, Business Law and Management, Tax law and Social Law.[22]

Performance

Sciences Po Law School graduates report a 67% success in the Bar Exam in 2017[23] (the national average was around 27% the same year[24]).

In 2018, the success rate for the school's students at the French National School for the Judiciary entrance exam was 45% (79 out of 180), with 8 students in the top 10 and 20 in the top 30.[25]

In 2018, 70% of the students of the Master in Economic law (the top Sciences Po Law program) have found a job six months after they graduated.[26]

Notable faculty

References

  1. ^ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
  2. ^ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
  3. ^ "Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice" (PDF).
  4. ^ "76 recommandations pour l'enseignement du droit" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Rapport sur les professions du droit" (PDF).
  6. ^ "L'école de droit".
  7. ^ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
  8. ^ a b "Présentation de l'école de droit".
  9. ^ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
  10. ^ "Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice" (PDF).
  11. ^ "RECRUTER À SCIENCES PO STAGE . APPRENTISSAGE . 1ER EMPLOI".
  12. ^ "Sciences Po: École de droit".
  13. ^ "Sciences Po (Dual Degree)".
  14. ^ "J.D.-Master's in Economic Law at Sciences Po (Paris)".
  15. ^ "International Joint Degree Options".
  16. ^ "2JD/Master in Global Business Law Degree Requirements".
  17. ^ [1]
  18. ^ [2]
  19. ^ https://www.meilleurs-masters.com/recherche.html?query=sciences+po
  20. ^ https://www.meilleurs-masters.com/recherche.html?query=sciences+po
  21. ^ https://www.meilleures-licences.com/licence-droit.html
  22. ^ https://www.meilleurs-masters.com/recherche.html?query=sciences+po
  23. ^ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès brillant".
  24. ^ "Résultats définitifs #CRFPA2017 et comparaison résultats 2016".
  25. ^ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès 2018 brillant".
  26. ^ https://www.sciences-po.asso.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=1303&fg=1

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