ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
To understand the value of legal history, just read these introductory lines from the 19th-century Répertoire Dalloz! "There are few studies as interesting and useful as the history of law. It is full of fruitful lessons for the philosopher, the historian and the jurisconsult (...) But knowledge of it is above all necessary to the true jurisconsult, to penetrate the true meaning and understand the real scope of the civil institutions of his time; for the present, even after the most profound moral or social revolutions, is always linked to the past by powerful ties, which cannot be broken without reducing it to being itself an enigma".
Objectives
The course is designed to provide students with a fundamental grounding in legal history research, to give them a legal culture of French law and other European legal systems, and to enhance their knowledge of the foundations of legal institutions and techniques. This course enables students to complement the strictly technical knowledge of positive law acquired during their legal training, by broadening their field of reflection on the concepts and techniques they will have to apply in their professional lives.
Know-how and skills
Know the fundamental research methods in legal science
Master the fundamentals of legal reasoning, and be able to refine legal concepts.
Be able to apply techniques that develop legal rigor and logic.
Know how to use all available legal sources.
Know how to identify legal problems in order to mobilize your knowledge.
Situate legal concepts and public institutions in time and space.
Master the auxiliary sciences needed to carry out personal research.
Master the art of written and oral expression.
Organization
Program
The Master's program is organized into courses and seminars.
In addition to these compulsory courses, students are required to carry out personal research (under the supervision of a research professor), with a view to writing a dissertation on the history of law (on a theme chosen in agreement with a member of the teaching staff).
Select a program
Master 1 History of law and institutions
History of property law (ST)
2 creditsUE Language
Criminal Procedure 1 (ST)
UE History of labour law
6 creditsTD History of labour law
2 creditsCM History of labor law
4 credits
History of medical law (ST)
UE History of legal thought
6 creditsCM History of legal thought
4 creditsTD History of legal thought
2 credits
Civil law: Matrimonial property regimes group 2 (ST)
UE History of family property law
6 creditsCM History of family property law
4 creditsTD History of family property law
2 credits
Digital skills - In-depth documentary research
Optional
Civil law: Inheritance (ST)
3 creditsUE History of public law
6 creditsTD History of public law
2 creditsCM History of public law
4 credits
Criminal Procedure 2 (ST)
3 creditsMemory
2 creditsDigital skills - Pix+Droit preparation
Practice of constitutional litigation (ST)
UE History of business law
6 creditsTD History of business law
2 creditsCM History of business law
4 credits
EU History of justice
6 creditsTD History of justice
2 creditsCM History of justice
4 credits
Master 2 History of law and institutions
Sources of law Antiquity
2 creditsHistory of written law
3 creditsSeminar on the history of public law
2 creditsMethodology seminar
1 creditsHistory of private law seminar
2 creditsHistory of colonial law
2 creditsHistory of private law
3 creditsHistory of criminal law
3 creditsSeminar on the history of criminal law
2 creditsHistory of public law
3 creditsLegal culture (codification)
2 creditsLanguage
Elective UE
Your choice: 1 of 2
Criminal procedure law and practice
2 creditsLaw and literature
2 credits
Internship
2 creditsChoice of UE list
Your choice: 1 of 2
Memory
28 creditsList of choices Memory/Commitment
Student involvement
Memory
26 credits
Sources du droit - Contemporary sources
Optional
Admission
Recommended prerequisites
Candidates must above all have a good legal culture and an interest in the history of law taught in law schools.
And then
Further studies
Graduates of the Master 2 in Legal History who have produced a good research paper can continue their studies with a thesis.
Professional integration
As a result, the opportunities offered go beyond the strict confines of teaching and research (teacher-researcher, research director, research fellow). On the contrary, the graduating classes of recent years testify to the diversity of the legal professions available. It goes without saying that most jobs in the public sector are open to those who have passed a competitive examination. Graduates of the Master's program tend to choose careers in local government (attaché, redactor), the Ministry of Culture (archivist, documentalist, librarian) and local government (IRA). The most sought-after sectors are justice (magistrate, court clerk) and security (police, gendarmerie, prison administration, etc.). The liberal professions, and in particular the legal profession, were also widely favored, with the EFACS being integrated either after passing the pre-CAPA exam, or, on completion of a thesis, as a doctor of law (history of law). Some M2 graduates have gone directly into the private sector (insurance, real estate, mutual insurance).