Economics - Management, Law - Political Science - Administration

UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA: ECONOMY AND LAW

  • Duration

    1 year

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Economics

Presentation

ATTENTION: Not open for application and registration this year

  • Teaching fields : Economics, Law
  • Type of diploma: DU
  • Keywords: Economics, Law
  • Mr Alain Marciano, Professor
  • Study Abroad Opportunities: No
  • UFR : UFR of Economics
  • Type of training: Initial and continuing education
  • Presentation of DU
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Objectives

The objective is to show how law and economics -- as disciplines and as types of activities -- combine and complement each other. The aim is to make economics students aware of the legal dimension of economic problems and issues, and to show lawyers how economics can be useful for the law.

The course also aims to welcome students of law, in order to show them what economics can bring to law. More precisely, it is a question of understanding how to analyze specific and current legal problems (in fields such as intellectual property, legal decisions or the Internet).

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Know-how and skills

The skills that students will have acquired are primarily standard academic skills.

Because the course is taught by faculty who are very active in research, students will also have acquired writing and analytical skills that will be useful if they plan to pursue a Ph.

In addition, students will have supplemented their knowledge acquired in single-discipline programs with transdisciplinary skills: legal skills on particular aspects of the law (the ability to read and analyze legal texts); economic skills (the ability to mobilize economic tools in fields that are not traditionally those of economics).

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Organization

Program

Emphasize the complementarity between law and economics: Are complementary disciplines and legal and economic activities are also complementary.

There is no economic activity that takes place outside a legal framework and, symmetrically, there is no legal rule that does not have an economic consequence.

This complementarity between economics and law is now widely recognized. This training is therefore based on this search for interdisciplinarity and complementarity: there will be courses in the economics of law (or economic analysis of law) and not simply courses in law and economics.

 

                An original training in the region: Many training courses exist in France (and abroad) in "economics and law", "economics of law" or "economic analysis of law".

The first characteristic of the project is therefore to be part of a trend, a movement in training. While there is a complete curriculum in Toulouse (the Toulouse School of Economics) or at Aix-Marseille University (at the Faculty of Law), there is no such program at the University of Montpellier.

               

                  Original and innovative subjects: In general, legal economics is taught around subjects such as competition law and economic law.

These themes are important, and students will be given (introductory) lessons aimed at presenting them. These lessons will be completed by lessons oriented towards original themes, such as intellectual property, internet law, legal decision making.

 

                Interdisciplinarity and international openness: This project is also characterized by a form of interdisciplinarity. It relies on a teaching team composed of economists and lawyers.

It also involves foreign teachers from partner universities (within the framework of ERASMUS agreements) and is therefore characterized by its international outlook.

This is also an original feature. All courses are organized in pairs, taught by an economist and a lawyer.

 

                The link with research : The DU is intended for master's level students, some of whom will probably go on to do a doctorate and research.

It is precisely one of the characteristics of this degree that it is led by a teaching team with a strong involvement in research and a strong research activity.

The students will therefore not only have a high level of education but also a very up-to-date education that corresponds perfectly to the latest research themes in legal economics and in the subjects taught.

In addition, teaching will seek to be organized in the form of seminars that will allow students to interact with the teachers.

 

Educational Organization:

Introduction to the economic analysis of law

Economic analysis of legal proceedings

Economics and intellectual property law

Economics and law of standardization

Economics and competition law

Economic analysis of liability law

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Admission

Conditions of access

Necessary pre-requisites

As the DU is intended for master students, it is preferable to have a knowledge of economics at the bachelor level; but the teachings are not intended to be highly technical and axiomatized; students with a general knowledge of economics will be able to participate and follow the teachers.

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And then

Professional integration

The training aims to complete and reinforce the skills in economics (for students with a more legal profile) or in law (for students with a more economic profile) in order to improve the professional integration possibilities of those who wish to find jobs at the intersection of these two fields of activity.

In addition, it would also strengthen the skills of students who would like to engage in research and a doctorate on topics involving both law and economics.

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