Law - Political science - Administration

Master's degree in local authority law

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

Know-how and skills

The Master in Local Authority Law enables students to acquire the following skills:
- Understanding the legal environment of local and regional authorities;
- Understanding local and regional administrations and the public and private bodies working with them;
- Finding a job in a local or regional authority or in a company working with local and regional authorities;
- Managing a department;
- Interacting with local and regional authority executives and elected representatives;
- Managing staff;
- Organizing and analyzing information;
- Organizing and leading meetings;
- Mastering management and project management methods and tools;
- Mastering writing and oral expression techniques;
- Mastering information and communication technology (ICT) tools;
- Mastering one or more foreign languages.

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Organization

Program

Select a program

Master 1 Droit des collectivités territoriales

  • UE Language

    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Spanish

      • English

  • Advanced Public Finance(ST)

  • EU litigation system (ST)

    3 credits
  • Public economic law (ST)

  • UE Urban planning law

    7 credits
    • TD Town planning law

      2 credits
    • CM Urban planning law

  • UE Administrative law of local authorities

    7 credits
    • TD Administrative law of local authorities

      2 credits
    • CM Administrative law of local authorities

      5 credits
  • International environmental and sustainable development law (ST)

  • Exam preparation : Note de synthèse (ST)

    2 credits
  • Digital skills - In-depth documentary research

  • Optional

    • Legal clinic (F)

    • Memory (F)

    • Internship (F)

    • Work integration workshops (F): CV/LM

    • Tutored project (F)

    • Apprenticeship (F)

    • Legal watch (F)

  • Environmental law (ST)

  • Digital skills - Pix+Droit preparation

  • Legal practice: Dissertation

    2 credits
    • Legal practice: drafting a defense brief

  • Public digital law (ST)

  • UE Public contracts law

    7 credits
    • CM Public contracts law

    • TD Public contracts law

      2 credits
  • Public economic law 2 (ST)

  • UE Constitutional law of local authorities

    7 credits
    • CM Constitutional law of local authorities

      5 credits
    • TD Constitutional law of local authorities

      2 credits
  • Local finance (ST)

Master 2 Droit des collectivités territoriales

  • Local authority litigation

    10 credits
    • Local government litigation

      2 credits
    • Public domain litigation

      2 credits
    • Urban planning litigation

      2 credits
    • Contract litigation

      2 credits
    • Expropriation litigation

      2 credits
  • Citizen and user relations

    6 credits
    • Corporate Communication

      3 credits
    • Local democracy techniques

      3 credits
    • Personal data protection

    • Digital and open data

  • Economic development strategies

    6 credits
    • Local administrative institutions for economic development

    • Financing local projects

    • Land development tools

      3 credits
    • Enhancing public and private domains

      3 credits
  • Public contracts practice

    6 credits
    • Performance of public contracts

      2 credits
    • Public contracting

      2 credits
    • Complex contractual arrangements (contract engineering)

      2 credits
  • Language - Legal English

  • Management

    4 credits
    • Project management

      2 credits
    • Team management

      2 credits
  • Legal news

    4 credits
    • Public contracts news

    • Local government news

    • Planning news

    • Local civil service news

    • Legal watch

      4 credits
  • Human resources

    6 credits
    • Human resources management

      3 credits
    • Ethics of local public officials

    • Liability of local public officials

    • Civil service status

      3 credits
  • Pre-professional skills

    • Choice of 1 or 2 from 3

      • Tutored project

      • Legal Clinic

      • Memory

        6 credits
  • Elective UE

    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Professional integration

        • Your choice: 1 of 2

          • Learning

            10 credits
          • Internship

            10 credits
      • Professional integration/Commitment

        • Student involvement

        • Professional integration

          • Your choice: 1 of 2

            • Learning

              8 credits
            • Internship

              8 credits

Admission

Target audience

The Master's degree in Local Authority Law is open to students who meet the necessary prerequisites and wish to enter a job requiring knowledge of local authorities, their law and their environment. The Master's degree in Local Authority Law is also open to people who are already in employment and who wish to pursue further training.

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And then

Further studies

On completion of the Master's degree in Local Authority Law, graduates can continue their studies at IPAG to prepare for administrative competitive examinations, or at IEJ for those wishing to become lawyers. It is also possible to pursue a doctoral thesis.

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Professional integration

Territorial civil servants (administrators and attachés)

Contract staff in a local administrative institution (project managers, cabinet posts, experts)

Executive jobs in financial and banking organizations

Management positions in private companies working with local authorities (SEMs, SEMLs, SPLs, SPLAs, SEMOPs)

 Lawyer specializing in public and environmental law

Consultants to local authorities and businesses

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