Training Structure
School of Law and Political Science
Overview
FASHION AND LUXURY INDUSTRY LAW
Organizers: Lolita Huprelle, Olivier Sautel and Eloïse Patocki-Tomas
Fashion and luxury industry law is an emerging field of law.
Traditional legal tools, procedures, and organizational structures are gradually adapting to establish a new, autonomous body of law.
Fashion and luxury industry law therefore does not merely involve the application of general legal principles to this field, but calls for
the application of specific and original rules.
Given this observation, the establishment of an institutional degree program is essential to provide training for professionals
Objectives
This program is open to students and professionals.
The university-level diploma in “Fashion and Luxury Industry Law” is the only program of its kind in France. Its goal is to train students and professionals in the legal issues related to the fashion and luxury industries. The program thus enables participants to grasp the specific rules of fashion and luxury industry law and to understand the relationship between the special, autonomous rules applicable to the field and general law.
Program
Course duration: 112 hours
- Unit 1: Legal Framework of Fashion and Luxury Industry Law
1) A Legal Approach to Fashion and Luxury Industry Law
- Legal, Sociological, and Historical Perspectives
- Quality and Rarity Index
- Marketing and Communication, Elements of Press Law
- Globalization, Internationalization
- Introduction to Environmental Law
- Animal Protection
- Impact of ICT and Artificial Intelligence
2) Contract Practices in the Fashion and Luxury Goods Industry
- Social Structures of Companies in the Sector
- Practices in Internal and International Contracts in the Fashion and Luxury Goods Industry (in English)
- Module 2: Law of the Fashion and Luxury Industries, from a Product Perspective
1) The creative process
The creative process begins with the first sketch of a design drawn on paper and continues through its presentation to the public at fashion shows and its sale in stores.
- Trademark and Franchise Law
- Filing Procedures
- Distribution Law
- Laws Specific to Certain Products: Pharmaceuticals, Veterinary Products, and Others
- Comparative Law and International Law
- Fundamentals of Customs Law
2) Protection of Rights
- Intellectual Property Law
- Combating Counterfeiting
- Preliminary Injunctions Against Counterfeiting
- Competition and Free-Riding
- Criminal Law
- Module 3: Fashion and Luxury Industry Law from the Individual’s Perspective
1) Employee Rights
- Employee Innovation and Invention
- Employment Contract, Confidentiality and Non-Competition Clauses
2) Modeling Rights
- Legal Status of Models
- Legal Status of Modeling Agencies
- Employment Contract / Service Agreement
- Collective Bargaining Agreement
3) Protection of the Individual
- Protection regarding weight and health
- Protection regarding image
- Protection of privacy