Sciences Po Law School
"École de droit de Sciences Po" | |
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Former names | École libre des sciences politiques |
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| Type | Public Higher Education Research Institution |
| Established | 2009 |
| Budget | €192 million (total Sciences Po budget for 13,000 students) |
| Dean | Christophe Jamin |
Academic staff | 20 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 9 Affiliate Professors, numerous visiting lecturers |
| Students | 944 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | The lion and the fox |
| Website | www |
Sciences Po Law School (French: L'École de droit de Sciences Po) is a program inside Sciences Po in Paris, France.
Created with the objective of offering an alternative to perceived shortcomings in the legal training provided by public universities[1][2][3][4][5][6], Sciences Po Law School's model draws inspiration from foreign examples, in particular American law schools. It offers only postgraduate degrees, offers clinical training and admits students without undergraduate legal education.[7][8]
Despite being a relatively young and small institution, Sciences Po Law School is regarded as an elite law school[9][10][11] and is one of the top rated law schools in France.[12] In particular, private practitioners consider that Sciences Po Law School provides a training that "perfectly meets the needs of corporations and their legal counsels" and educates "exceptional associates".[13]
The school has an international student population of 40%.[14]
History
Historically, all Sciences Po graduates were entitled to take the French bar exam and become attorneys.[15] 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.[16]
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.[15][17][18] 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, to no avail.[19] 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."[20]
Against this background and with the support of many private practitioners (in particular lawyers in large, international law firms)[21], Sciences Po Law School was formally created in 2009. Its ambition was to provide an alternative to the legal training offered in French universities, perceived as overly dogmatic, French-centered and seen by many practitioners - especially business/corporate lawyers - as ill-suited to the practice of law (the president of the Paris Bar noting in 2002 that "French universities' view of the legal profession is from the 1950s, and they do not seem to be willing to change").[2][22][23]
Controversy
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 many 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).[15][24] Law professors were concerned that the best students and professors might choose to go to Sciences Po rather than staying at public universities.[25] Law professors challenged this Decree before the Conseil d'État, to no avail.[26]
The concerns voiced by public university law professors proved well-founded. 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. The coaches of the Saint Germain dream team are doing their shopping, tastefully so. (...) Reaching the heights of Olympus, the new recruits have on their face the awe struck look that East Germany soccer players had upon discovering the glass displays of West Germany stores. Their former teammates, looking at them shining in the Champion's League, will soon realize how unhappy they were and how their talent has finally been recognized. With a golden side bench (top practicing lawyers and a few prosecuting stars), these chosen ones form part of a "law school" resembling the Real Madrid at its finest hour. Some sore losers might call this law school tacky, but no public university Dean - regardless how megalomaniac - would dare dreaming of it."[27]
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.[14]
Student body
In 2017/2018, there were approximately 49,000 Master level law students in the 60 French universities offering legal training.[28] Sciences Po Law School is smaller than many of these institutions, with 944 students in 2018/2019. 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.[29]
In addition to offering programs taught entirely in English, Sciences Po Law School's student body is 40% international.[14] This international outlook has been a key tenet of Sciences Po Law School since its creation, as the school's model draws inspiration from foreign law schools and was designed to provide an alternative to the perceived French-centerdness of public universities.[7] 1 out of 4 graduates of the Master in Economic Law works outside of France.[30]
Sciences Po Law School's acceptance rate is between 10 and 15%.[31]
Partnerships
Sciences Po Law School offers joint degrees with Columbia Law School[32], the University of Virginia School of Law[33], Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law[34] and Duke University School of Law.[35]
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
Sciences Po Law School was ranked second best law school in France by QS World University Rankings in 2019[36]
Performance
Sciences Po Law School graduates report a 67% success in the Bar Exam in 2017[37] (the national average was around 27% the same year[38]).
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.[39]
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.[40]
Notable faculty
- George Bermann, international arbitration lawyer
- Emmanuel Gaillard, head of Shearman & Sterling's International Arbitration practice
References
- ↑ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Le droit sans l'université À propos de : Christophe Jamin, La cuisine du droit. L'École de Droit de Sciences Po : une expérimentation française".
- ↑ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
- ↑ "Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice" (PDF).
- ↑ "76 recommandations pour l'enseignement du droit" (PDF).
- ↑ "Rapport sur les professions du droit" (PDF).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "L'école de droit".
- ↑ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
- ↑ "Quelles sont les filières d'excellence en droit".
- ↑ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
- ↑ "Le droit sans l'université. À propos de : Christophe Jamin, La cuisine du droit. L'École de Droit de Sciences Po : une expérimentation française, lextenso éditions".
- ↑ "University Rankings: Law".
- ↑ "Nos partenaires parlent de l'École de droit".
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "Présentation de l'école de droit".
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "L'Université défend son monopole dans la formation des futurs avocats".
- ↑ "Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris".
- ↑ "Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris".
- ↑ "Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris".
- ↑ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
- ↑ "Le "mercato" des profs de droit".
- ↑ "La formation contemporaine des avocats : aiguillon d'une recomposition de l'enseignement du droit en France ?".
- ↑ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
- ↑ "Sénat: Rapport d'information sur l'évolution des métiers de la justice" (PDF).
- ↑ "Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris".
- ↑ "Le droit dans la concurrence. Mobilisations universitaires contre la création de diplômes de droit à Sciences Po Paris".
- ↑ "Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe".
- ↑ "Le "mercato" des profs de droit".
- ↑ "Les étudiants inscrits dans les universités françaises en 2017/2018" (PDF).
- ↑ "RECRUTER À SCIENCES PO STAGE . APPRENTISSAGE . 1ER EMPLOI".
- ↑ "RECRUTER À SCIENCES PO STAGE . APPRENTISSAGE . 1ER EMPLOI".
- ↑ "Sciences Po: École de droit".
- ↑ "Sciences Po (Dual Degree)".
- ↑ "J.D.-Master's in Economic Law at Sciences Po (Paris)".
- ↑ "International Joint Degree Options". Archived from the original on 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ↑ "2JD/Master in Global Business Law Degree Requirements".
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès brillant".
- ↑ "Résultats définitifs #CRFPA2017 et comparaison résultats 2016".
- ↑ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès 2018 brillant".
- ↑ https://www.sciences-po.asso.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=1303&fg=1
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