Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Economics
Presentation
ATTENTION: Not open for application and registration this year
- Teaching areas: Economics, Law
- Type of diploma: DU
- Keywords: Economy, Law
- Mr Alain Marciano, Professor
- Study abroad opportunities: No
- UFR : UFR of Economics
- Type of training: Initial and continuing training
- DU presentation
Objectives
The aim is to show how law and economics -- as disciplines and as types of activity -- 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 law.
The course is also designed to welcome legal students, to show them what economics can contribute to law. More specifically, the aim is to understand how to analyze specific and topical legal problems (in fields such as intellectual property, legal decision-making or the Internet).
Know-how and skills
The skills that students will have acquired are first and foremost standard academic skills.
As the course is taught by research-intensive lecturers, students will also have acquired writing and analytical skills that will be useful if they plan to go on to a doctorate.
In addition, students will have complemented the knowledge they have acquired in single-discipline courses with cross-disciplinary skills: legal skills in specific aspects of the law (the ability to read and analyze legal texts); economic skills (the ability to mobilize economic tools in fields not traditionally covered by economics).
Organization
Program
Emphasize the complementary nature of law and economics: Law and economics are complementary disciplines, and legal and economic activities are equally complementary.
There are no economic activities that take place outside a legal framework and, symmetrically, there are no legal rules that have no economic consequences.
This complementarity between economics and law is now widely recognized. This course is therefore founded 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 course in the region: a number of 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 that it is part of a trend, a movement in terms of 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 course 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 are important themes, and students will be given (introductory) lessons designed to introduce them. These lessons will be supplemented by lessons focusing on original themes, such as intellectual property, Internet law and legal decision-making.
Interdisciplinarity and international openness: This project is also characterized by a form of interdisciplinarity. It relies on a teaching team made up of economists and jurists.
It also involves foreign lecturers from partner universities (under ERASMUS agreements), and is therefore characterized by its international outlook.
This is also an original feature. All courses are taught in pairs, by an economist and a lawyer.
Link with research : The DU is designed for masters-level students, some of whom are likely to go on to do doctorates and research.
It is precisely one of the features of this diploma that it is led by a teaching team with a strong commitment to research and research activity.
This means that students will not only receive a high level of teaching, but also teaching that is fully up to date and in line with the latest research in legal economics and the subjects taught.
In addition, teaching will be organized in the form of seminars, enabling students to interact with teachers.
Pedagogical organization :
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Introduction to the economic analysis of law |
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Economic analysis of legal proceedings |
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Economics and intellectual property law |
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Economics and law of standardization |
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Economics and competition law |
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Economic analysis of liability law |
Admission
Access conditions
How to apply : University Diploma in Economics
Necessary prerequisites
As the DU is designed for master's students, it is preferable to have a bachelor's degree in economics; but the teaching is not intended to be highly technical and axiomatized; students with a general knowledge of economics will be able to participate and follow the teachers.
And then
Professional integration
The course is designed to complement and reinforce skills in economics (for students with a more legal profile) or law (for students with a more economic profile), so as to enhance the employability of those wishing to find jobs at the intersection of these two fields of activity.
In addition, it would also enhance the skills of students wishing to undertake research and a doctorate on subjects relating to both law and economics.