Law - Political Science - Administration

Master's degree in local government law

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

Know-how and skills

The Master's degree in Local Government Law enables students to acquire the following skills
- Knowing the legal environment of local authorities;
- Knowing the local administrations and public and private organizations in relation with them;
- Finding a job in a local authority or in a company working in relation with local authorities;
- Managing a service;
- Dialoguing with the senior executives of local authorities and elected officials;
- Managing personnel;
- Organizing and analyzing information;
- Organizing and leading meetings;
- Mastering the method and tools of management and project management;
- Mastering the techniques of writing and oral expression;
- Mastering the tools related to information and communication technologies (ICT);
- Mastering one or several foreign languages.

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Organization

Program

Select a program

Master 1 Local Government Law

  • 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 Local Government Law

  • 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
    • Execution 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 Engagement

        • Professional integration

          • Your choice: 1 of 2

            • Learning

              8 credits
            • Internship

              8 credits

Admission

Target audience

The Master in Local Government Law is open to students who meet the necessary prerequisites and wish to enter a job that requires knowledge of local government, its law and its environment. The Master in Local Government Law is also open to people who are already working and who are enrolled in continuing education.

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And then

Further studies

At the end of the Master's degree in Local Government Law, graduates can continue their studies at the IPAG in order to prepare for administrative competitions, or at the IEJ for those who want to become lawyers. It is also possible to pursue a doctoral thesis.

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Professional integration

Territorial civil servants (administrators and attachés)

Contractual agents in a local administrative institution (project managers, cabinet positions, experts)

Executive jobs in financial and banking organizations

Executive jobs in private companies in relation with local authorities (SEM, SEML, SPL, SPLA, SEMOP)

 Lawyer specialized in public law and environmental law

Consultants to local authorities and companies

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