ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
To understand the interest of the history of law it is enough to read these few lines of introduction of the Dalloz Repertory of the 19th century! "There are few studies as interesting and as useful as the history of law. It is full of fruitful teachings for the philosopher, the historian and the jurisconsult (...) But the knowledge of it is especially necessary to the true jurisconsult, to penetrate the true meaning and to understand the real scope of the civil institutions of his time; because the present, even after the deepest moral or social revolutions, is always attached to the past by powerful links, which one cannot break without reducing it to being itself an enigma".
Objectives
The course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge of legal history research, to give them a legal culture in French law and in other European legal systems, and to improve their knowledge of the foundations of legal institutions and techniques. This training allows students to complete the strictly technical knowledge of positive law, acquired during their legal training, by broadening their field of reflection on the concepts and techniques that they will have to apply in their professional life.
Know-how and skills
Know the basic research methods in legal science
Master the foundations of legal reasoning, be able to refine legal concepts.
Be able to implement techniques developing legal rigor and logic.
Know how to use all available sources of law.
Know how to identify legal problems in order to mobilize one's knowledge.
Situate legal concepts and public institutions in time and space.
Master the auxiliary sciences necessary to carry out one's personal research work.
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 must do personal research (under the direction of a research professor) in order to write a dissertation on the history of law (on a theme chosen in agreement with a professor on 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 Engagement
Memory
26 credits
Sources du droit - Contemporary sources
Optional
Admission
Recommended prerequisites
Candidates must have a good legal culture and have shown an interest in the history of law taught in law schools.
And then
Further studies
Graduates of the Master 2 in the History of Law who have produced a good research paper may continue their studies in a thesis.
Professional integration
The opportunities offered therefore go beyond the strict domain of teaching and research (teacher-researcher, research director, research fellow). On the contrary, the graduating classes of the last few years show the diversity of the legal professions that are accessible. Of course, most of the jobs in the public sector are accessible after competitive examinations or specific exams. Master's graduates choose to work in the sectors of local government (attaché, editor), the Ministry of Culture (archivist, documentalist, librarian), and decentralized administration (IRA). The most sought-after sectors are justice (magistrate, clerk) and security (police, gendarmerie, prison administration, etc.). The liberal professions, and in particular that of lawyer, have also been widely favored, with the EFACS being integrated either after passing the pre-CAPA exam or, after 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 companies).