Law - Political Science - Administration

MASTER'S DEGREE - CIVIL LAW SPECIALIZATION

Civil law
  • Target level of study

    Master's degree

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

  • Master's Degree in Personal and Family Law
    Academic Director: Solange Becqué-Ickowicz

The Master's program is organized over two years comprising four semesters. Civil Law major

The courses taught during the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law aim to provide a common foundation 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 it a European dimension.
The second year of the program allows students to deepen their study of the various laws relating to individuals and families. The Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization allows students to take a critical look at the responses provided by the law to major social issues such as the human person, the couple, and the child.

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Organization

Open alternately

Students can prepare for the Master 2 in Personal and Family Law while working thanks to an apprenticeship contract.
Apprentices have dual status, allowing them to enter the world of work while continuing their university education. The academic year is divided into periods of teaching at the Faculty (October, November, February, and March) and periods of work in a company (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 courses taught during the first year of the Master's degree in Personal and Family Law aim to provide a common foundation 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 it a European dimension.
The second year of the program allows students to deepen their study of the various laws relating to individuals and families. The Master 2 is open to apprenticeships.
This specialization allows students to take a critical look at the responses provided by the law to major social issues such as 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

    • Bioethics Tutorial

  • EU Language

    • Choose 1 out of 3

      • English

      • German

      • Spanish

  • Human rights (ST)

  • Civil law: Group 2 securities (ST)

  • EU Civil Law: Matrimonial Property Regimes Group 2

    6 credits
    • Civil Law Tutorial: Matrimonial Property Regimes Group 2

      2 credits
    • Civil Law Exam: 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)

  • EU Civil law: Succession

    6 credits
    • Civil Law Tutorial: Inheritance

      2 credits
    • CM Civil Law: Inheritance

  • EU Enhanced civil procedure and enforcement measures

    6 credits
    • CM Advanced civil procedure and enforcement measures

    • TD Advanced Civil Procedure and Enforcement Measures

      2 credits
  • Constitutional litigation practice (ST)

  • Optional

    • Legal clinic (F)

    • Memory (F)

    • Internship (F)

    • Professional integration workshops (F): CV/cover letter

    • Supervised project (F)

    • Apprenticeship (F)

    • Legal monitoring (F)

  • People

    10 credits
  • Couples

    10 credits
    • Formation and life of couples

    • Divorce litigation

    • Separation of couples

    • Crisis situation (mediation, domestic violence)

  • Fundamental update

    5 credits
    • Contract law

    • Fundamental rights and family law

  • Legal English

  • Children

    10 credits
    • Procedural status of minors and educational assistance measures

    • Establishment and contestation of parentage

    • Rights and interests of the child

    • Effects of parentage

  • Workshops to assist with professional integration

  • The family heritage

    4 credits
  • The family environment

    6 credits

Admission

Admission requirements

Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree in law. Admission to the two-year master's program is approved by the program director after reviewing applications and conducting selection interviews. Students who have successfully completed the first year of the master's program are automatically admitted to the second year.
Traditional program: classes + internship

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And after

Professional integration

The training offered is good preparation:

  • For various entrance exams for public services in social
  • To health and social services management personnel, legal representatives for the protection of adults: professional guardians and curators)
  • On the entrance exam to law school (preCAPA)

  • At the interview for admission to the National Institute of Notarial Training (INFN).
  • To the various professions in the private and non-profit sectors whose purpose is to provide assistance to individuals and families
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