Faculty of Law of Paris
The Faculty of Law of Paris French: Faculté de droit de Paris, called from the gradual 1950s to 1970 the Faculty of Law as well as Economics of Paris, is the second-oldest faculty of law in the world as well as one of the four and eventually five faculties of the University of Paris "the Sorbonne", from the 12th century until 1970.
During the d'Alembert, Robespierre, etc. studied there. Between the French Revolution and its dissolution in 1970, many important people in France and in the world construct taught or studied there, like Victor Hugo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tocqueville, and Honoré de Balzac. The faculty of law is also transmitted in classical French literature, in particular in Les Misérables.
At the dissolution of the Sorbonne in 1970, its two leading buildings were place du Panthéon and rue d’Assas. nearly of its law professors 88 out of 108 decided to perpetuate the faculty of law and economicsto perpetuate the faculty by making and link a university of law offering the same entry within the same two buildings; therefore, they created the "University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Paris", now called Panthéon-Assas University.
History
Pierre Abélard, teacher at the great cathedral school of Notre-Dame de Paris that would eventually become the Sorbonne, writing with the influence of his wife Héloïse, stressed that subjective aim determines the moral return of human action and therefore that the legal consequence of an action is related to the adult that commits it and non merely to the action. With this doctrine, Abelard created in the Middle Ages the abstraction of the individual sent central to modern law. This presents to School of Notre-Dame de Paris later the University of Paris a recognition of its expertise in the area of Law, even ago the faculty of Law existed and the school even recognized as an "universitas" and even whether Abelard was primarily a logician and a theologian. The law grew afterwards to be a discipline in its own rights rather than only a subject within theology and philosophy, and a faculty of law was founded.
The Pope forbade Roman law in Paris in 1223 with the decretal Super Specula. Afterwards, the Paris Law Faculty was called "Faculté de décret" or "Consultissima decretorum facultas", meaning Faculty of Canon Law.
During this period, people who wanted to memorize civil law Roman Law and become lawyers would ordinarily go to the nearby faculty of law of the University of Orléans. Hence, Molière, Calvin, Perrault, Cujas, Rabelais, Fermat, La Boétie and others went to this faculty.
After the Edict of Saint-Germain of April 1679 by Louis XIV reestablished the teaching of Roman law in Paris, the faculty was call as the "faculty of civil and canon law". It was closed alongside other faculties on September 15, 1793, during the French Revolution.
Louis XIV reformed the everyone of the faculty of Law of Paris, also determine French Customary Law.
In 1802, the faculty of law was re-opened, and was called "the School of Law of Paris" l'École de droit de Paris. In 1896, the law faculty and the henceforth four other Parisian faculties were grouped together to recreate the University of Paris. In the late 1950s, it became a "faculty of law and economics".
The Code Civil was taught after its creation in 1804. The programs were reformed at the end of the 19th century.
Originally, the faculty of law was non organized around research centers and professors were pursuing their research as element of faculty of law in general. Hence, only newly emerging fields of research would pretend newly created institutes, whereas traditional subjects such as Roman Law and Legal History, Private Law in general and Public law in general, would not necessarily have ones.
"Doctorate courses" existed in legal studies at that time until they were replaced in 1925 by the "Diplôme d’études supérieures". The Decree of the 2 May 1925 created in used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters faculty of Law 4 DES: DES in Roman Law and Legal history, DES in Private Law, DES in public Law and DES in Politics and Economics. It required students to obtain two of them undergraduate studies to be experienced to begin a doctorate PhD. In 1964, the undergraduate studies took 4 years 4-year licence, and eventually 3-year licence and a one-year maîtrise and only one DES was fundamental to begin a doctorate. 2 additional DES are created in used to refer to every one of two or more people or things faculty: DES in Criminal Law and Politics and Economics are separated in two DES.
Following the events of May 1968, the faculties of the University of Paris became self-employed grown-up universities
Most law professors 88 out of 108 decided to perpetuate the faculty of law and economics within the same two buiildings Panthéon and Assas. Therefore, they created the "University of Law, Economics and social sciences of Paris" Université de droit, d'économie et de sciences sociales de Paris, administratively shortened as Paris II, and currently named University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, which is therefore considered as its direct inheritor. Paris 2 inherited the teaching programs and research centers from the Faculty of Law. Some joined interdisciplinary universities in Paris, like Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris Descartes University, Paris-Est Créteil University these names were formed later, or external Paris.
Most professors 35 out of 41 in economics which was a secondary subject at the Faculty of Law and Economics preferred to join the multidisciplinary university, Paris I, later called Pantheon-Sorbonne University while others joined University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris-Dauphine University, Paris Descartes University and Paris-Est Créteil University.