Law - Political science - Administration

MASTER - CIVIL LAW

Civil law
  • Target level of study

    BAC +5

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

  • Master's degree in personal and family law
    Course coordinator: Solange Becqué-Ickowicz

The Master's degree is organized over 2 years, comprising 4 semesters. Civil Law specialization

The courses offered in the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law are designed to provide a common foundation of knowledge in the field, with a view to specialization in the second year (M2).
This enables students to acquire new knowledge, particularly in Civil Law, and to give it a European dimension.
The second year of the course enables students to study in greater depth the various rights relating to individuals and the family. Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization enables students to take a critical look at how the law responds to the major issues facing society: the human person, couples and children.

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Organization

Open on a sandwich basis

Students can prepare for the Master 2 in Personal and Family Law while pursuing a professional activity thanks to an apprenticeship contract.
Apprentices benefit from a dual status that enables them to enter the world of work, while continuing their university education. The academic year is divided into teaching periods at the Faculty (October, November, February and March) and work periods at the company (the other months of the academic year).

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Program

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Master of Personal and Family Law

The courses offered in the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law are designed to provide a common foundation of knowledge in the field, with a view to specialization in the second year (M2).
This enables students to acquire new knowledge, particularly in Civil Law, and to give it a European dimension.
The second year of the course enables students to study in greater depth the various rights relating to individuals and the family. Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization enables students to take a critical look at how the law responds to the major issues facing society: the human person, couples and children.

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  • Social protection (ST)

  • ECHR litigation system (ST)

  • Private international law group 1 (ST)

  • EU Bioethics

    6 credits
    • CM Bioethics

    • TD Bioethics

  • UE Language

    • Choice: 1 of 3

      • English

      • German

      • Spanish

  • Personal rights (ST)

  • Civil law: Securities group 2 (ST)

  • UE Civil law: Matrimonial property regimes group 2

    6 credits
    • TD Civil law: Matrimonial property regimes group 2

      2 credits
    • CM Civil law: Matrimonial property regimes group 2

  • European and national application of the ECHR (ST)

    3 credits
  • Citizenship, Immigration, Asylum (ST)

  • Social Protection 2 (ST)

  • Family law (ST)

  • UE Civil law: Inheritance

    6 credits
    • TD Civil law: Inheritance

      2 credits
    • CM Civil law: Inheritance

  • UE In-depth civil procedure and enforcement

    6 credits
    • CM In-depth civil procedure and enforcement

    • TD In-depth civil procedure and enforcement

      2 credits
  • Practice of constitutional litigation (ST)

  • Optional

    • Legal clinic (F)

    • Memory (F)

    • Internship (F)

    • Work integration workshops (F): CV/LM

    • Tutored project (F)

    • Apprenticeship (F)

    • Legal watch (F)

  • The people

    10 credits
  • Couples

    10 credits
    • Training and life for couples

    • Divorce litigation

    • Separation of couples

    • Crisis situations (mediation, domestic violence)

  • Fundamental updates

    5 credits
    • Law of obligations

    • Fundamental rights and family law

  • Legal English

  • The children

    10 credits
    • Procedural status of minors and educational assistance measures

    • Establishing and contesting parentage

    • Children's rights and interests

    • Effects of parentage

  • Job placement workshops

  • Family assets

    4 credits
  • The family environment

    6 credits

Admission

Access conditions

Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree in law. Admission to a two-year Master's course is approved by the course coordinator, after examination of applications and selection interviews. Students who have completed the 1st year of the Master's program are automatically admitted to the 2nd year of the program.
Classic program: course + internship

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And then

Professional integration

The training offered is a good preparation:

  • Competitive entrance exams for public services
    Social assistance
  • Management staff in the health and social services sector, legal representatives for the protection of adults: professional guardians and curators)
  • Law School entrance exam (preCAPA)
  • At the interview for admission to the Institut national des
    formations notariales (INFN).
  • to the various professions in the private and voluntary sectors that
    provide assistance to individuals and families
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