Law - Political Science - Administration

MASTER - MENTION CIVIL LAW

Civil law
  • Targeted 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
    Teaching manager: Solange Becqué-Ickowicz

The Master's degree is organized over two years, with four semesters. Civil Law field

The teaching provided during the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law aims to ensure a common base of knowledge in the field, with a view to specialization in the second year (M2).
It allows students to acquire new knowledge, particularly in Civil Law, and to give them a European dimension.
The second year of the course allows students to deepen their study of the various rights relating to individuals and the family. The Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization allows students to take a critical look at the answers given by the law to the major social issues of the human person, the couple and the child.

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Organization

Open in alternation

Students can prepare for the Master 2 in Personal and Family Law while working thanks to an apprenticeship contract.
The apprentice benefits from a dual status that allows him or her to enter the working world while pursuing a university education. The academic year is divided into teaching periods at the Faculty (October, November and February and March) and work periods in companies (the other months of the academic year).

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Program

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Master's degree in personal and family law

The teaching provided during the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law aims to ensure a common base of knowledge in the field, with a view to specialization in the second year (M2).
It allows students to acquire new knowledge, particularly in Civil Law, and to give them a European dimension.
The second year of the course allows students to deepen their study of the various rights relating to individuals and the family. The Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization allows students to take a critical look at the answers given by the law to the major social issues of the human person, the couple and the child.

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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 of 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

Conditions of access

Prerequisite: a law degree. Admission to a two-year Master's program is validated by the head of the program, after examination of the application files and selection interviews. Students who have completed the first year of the Master's program are automatically admitted to the second year of the program.
Classic program: courses + internship

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And then

Professional integration

The proposed training is a good preparation:

  • To the various entrance examinations for public services of
    social assistance
  • Management staff in the health and social services, legal representatives for the protection of adults: professional guardians and curators)
  • To the Law School Entrance Examination (preCAPA)
  • At the interview for admission to the National Institute of
    notarial training (INFN).
  • To the different professions of the private and associative sector which
    have as their object the assistance to persons and to the family
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