Law - Political science - Administration

FASHION AND LUXURY INDUSTRY LAW

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

FASHION AND LUXURY INDUSTRY LAW

Manager: Lolita Huprelle, Olivier Sautel (olivier.sautel @ umontpellier.fr) and Eloïse Patocki-Tomas


Fashion and luxury industry law is an emerging field of law.
Traditional legal tools, procedures and corporate forms are gradually being adapted to create a new, autonomous law.
Fashion and luxury industry law therefore does not only apply common law rules to the field, but also claims
the application of specific and original rules.
According to this observation, the creation of an establishment diploma is essential to offer training to professionals.

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Objectives

The program is open to both students and professionals.
The "Fashion and Luxury Industry Law" School Diploma is the only program of its kind in France. Its aim is to train students and professionals in the legal issues applied to fashion and the luxury goods industry. The course enables students 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 ordinary law.

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Program

Training duration: 96 hours

 

EU 1: Legal environment of fashion law and the luxury goods industry
(16 hours)


1. Legal approach to fashion law and the luxury goods industry
- Legal, sociological and historical contours
- Index of quality and rarity
- Marketing and communication, elements of press law
- Globalization, internationalization
- Approach to environmental law
- Animal protection
- Impact of NICTs and Artificial Intelligence


2. Contract practice in the fashion and luxury goods industry
- Corporate forms of companies in the sector
- Internal and international contract practice in the fashion
and luxury goods industry (in English or French)


EU 2: Fashion and luxury industry law, from a product perspective
(48 hours)


1. The creation process
- Trademark and franchise law
- Registration procedure
- Distribution law
- Rights specific to certain products: pharmaceutical, veterinary
- Comparative and international law


2. Protecting rights
- Intellectual property law
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Interim measures
- Competition and parasitism
- Criminal law


UE 3 /Fashion and luxury industry law, from the point of view of the individual
(32 hours)
1. Employee rights
- Employee innovation and invention
- Employment contracts, confidentiality and non-competition clauses


2. Modeling rights
- Legal status of models
- Legal status of modeling agencies
- Employment contract
- Collective bargaining agreement


3. Personal protection
- Weight and health protection
- Image protection
- Privacy protection

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