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Sciences Po Law School

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Sciences Po Law School
École de droit de Sciences Po
TypePublic graduate school
Established2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Parent institution
Sciences Po
Budget€192 million (total Sciences Po budget for 13,000 students)
DeanSébastien Pimont
Academic staff
20 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 9 Affiliate Professors, numerous visiting lecturers
Students944
Location,
CampusUrban
Websitewww.sciencespo.fr/ecole-de-droit/en.html

Sciences Po Law School (French: L'École de droit de Sciences Po) is a graduate school created in 2009 inside Sciences Po in Paris, France.

History

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In 2009, Sciences Po created the "École de droit de Sciences Po" ("law school", as opposed in French to a faculté de droit, "faculty of law"), delivering graduate degrees only, after a controversy regarding the access to the bar for Sciences Po students.

Academics

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Teaching

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Sciences Po Law School is an exclusively graduate program and admits students without undergraduate legal education.

It contains:

  • two master programs in Law: a two-year Master in Economic Law, which can be followed in either French or English and a two-year Master in Legal and Judicial Career taught entirely in French). Students of the Master in Economic Law can take a gap year between the two years of the program.
  • a three-year joint Master in Law and Finance with Sciences Po's School of Management and Innovation
  • a one-year LLM in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement
  • a PhD program

Sciences Po Law School also contains 4 joint master degrees with Columbia Law School,[1] the University of Virginia School of Law,[2] Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law[3] and Duke University School of Law.[4]

Student body

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40% of its student population are exchange students from abroad (outgoing students going from the whole institute).[5]

Rankings and performance

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Rankings

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Among international english-speaking rankings, Sciences Po is ranked in Law:

In the French national Eduniversal ranking, rankings are in France:

  • Economic Law: 4th of France[7]
  • European and International Business Law: 8th of France[7]
  • Undergraduate program: not ranked among the top 10[8]

It was not ranked among the top 10 or 15 in France in Business Law, Business Law and Management, Tax law and Social Law.[7]

Performance

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Sciences Po graduates report a 67% success in the Bar Exam in 2017[9] (the national average was around 27% the same year[10]).

In 2018, the success rate for the school’s preparatory school (available for students from other universities) at the French National School for the Judiciary entrance exam was 45% (79 out of 180), with 8 students in the top 10 and 20 in the top 30.[11]

In 2018, 70% of the students of the Master in Economic law (the top Sciences Po Law program) have found a job six months after they graduated.[12]

Notable faculty

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References

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  1. ^ "Sciences Po (Dual Degree)".
  2. ^ "J.D.-Master's in Economic Law at Sciences Po (Paris)".
  3. ^ "International Joint Degree Options".
  4. ^ "2JD/Master in Global Business Law Degree Requirements".
  5. ^ "Présentation de l'école de droit".
  6. ^ a b "Law". Top Universities. February 15, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c "Meilleurs Masters". www.meilleurs-masters.com.
  8. ^ "Classement Licence Droit, top 10 2019-2020 licence Droit". www.meilleures-licences.com.
  9. ^ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès brillant".
  10. ^ "Résultats définitifs #CRFPA2017 et comparaison résultats 2016".
  11. ^ "Concours juridiques: un palmarès 2018 brillant".
  12. ^ "Sciences Po Alumni". sciencespo-alumni.fr.