University of Paris II: Panthéon-Assas
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Pantheon-Assas Paris II University (Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas), also known as Assas, is a public
research university in Paris, France. The 1968 cultural revolution, commonly known as the French May, resulted in the division of the world's second oldest academic institution, the University of Paris
, into thirteen autonomous universities. Pantheon-Assas University is the inheritor of the former law
and economics
faculties of the University of Paris.
Pantheon-Assas University has been ranked the first law school in France by the 2010 La Tribune
French University Report, the 2009 Le Nouvel Observateur
French University Rankings and the 2009 Le Figaro
Legalease. It is a founding member of Sorbonne Universités, an alliance with two other prestigious French universities specializing respectively in the humanities and medicine, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University
.
Pantheon-Assas has eighteen campuses in Paris, with the majority of them located in the historic Latin Quarter and its main campus situated in the Place du Panthéon, twenty four research centers and five doctoral schools. Pantheon-Assas is composed of four departments specializing in law, public and private management, economics and political science. The University enrolls 8,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students with 2,500 foreign exchange students on visit every year.
Since its founding in 1970, Pantheon-Assas has produced 2 French Prime Ministers, 3 presidents of French political parties, 8 French heads of various ministries including Defense, Justice, Interior and Economy and Finance, 2 foreign heads of state and 4 foreign senators and ministers. Its faculty has included Georges Vedel
, of the Académie française
, former member of the Constitutional Council of France
, François Terré, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Prosper Weil
, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Albert Rigaudière, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques and Joe Verhoeven, secretary general of the Institut de droit international
.
where its biggest campus is located. It is the heir to the now defunct law and economics faculty of the historic University of Paris
, founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon
.
first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganised in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities
after the student protests of the French May. Following months of conflict between students and authorities at the University of Paris at Nanterre, the administration shut down that university on May 2, 1968. On May 3, 1968, students of the Sorbonne
protested the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre. More than 20,000 students, teachers and supporters marched towards the Sorbonne, still sealed off by the police, who attacked the protesters. While the crowd dispersed, some began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat for a time. The police then responded with tear gas and charged the crowd again. Hundreds more students were arrested.
Negotiations broke down and students returned to their campuses after a false report that the government had agreed to reopen them, only to discover the police still occupying the schools. The students now had a near revolutionary fervor. Another protest was organized on the Rive Gauche
by students on May 10. When the riot police
again blocked them from crossing the river, the crowd threw up barricades, which the police then attacked at 2:15 in the morning after negotiations once again foundered. The confrontation, which produced hundreds of arrests and injuries, lasted until dawn of the following day.
Well over a million people marched through Paris on Monday, May 13; the police stayed largely out of sight. Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
personally announced the release of the prisoners and the reopening of the Sorbonne. However, the surge of strikes did not recede. Instead, the protesters got even more active.
When the Sorbonne reopened, students occupied it and declared it an autonomous "people's university." Approximately 401 popular action committees were set up in Paris, including the Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne, and elsewhere in the weeks that followed to take up grievances against the government and French society.
After the tumeltous events of May 1968, the presidency
proposed various drastic reforms of the French university system. In 1971, the five ancient faculties of the former University of Paris were split and then re-formed into thirteen interdisciplinary universities by the Faure Law
, Pantheon-Assas University inheriting the Sorbonne's Faculty of Law and Economics.
Since its establishment following the university reforms, Pantheon-Assas has been governed by eight presidents: the founding president, jurist
Berthold Goldman, was succeeded by civil servant and former member of the Constitutional Council of France
Jacques Robert, who was followed by private law jurist
Jean Boulouis. Next came another private law jurist
Georges Durry and subsequently Philippe Ardant, a civil servant and former president of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Andorra
and former president of the Institut du monde arabe. Pantheon-Assas was then headed by Bernard Teyssié, a specialist in social law, who was succeeded by Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, a public law jurist
. Since 2006, Louis Vogel, a renown private law jurist
, is president of Pantheon-Assas. These various presidents have implemented numerous innovations whose aim has been to adapt the education given at the Sorbonne to the demands of the 21st century.
university rankings of 2010. It is a founding member of Sorbonne Universités, an alliance with two other prestigious French universities specializing respectively in the humanities and medicine, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University
.
The Pantheon-Assas undergraduate law program is selective, with an acceptance rate of 14%. The first year pass rate at Assas consistently hovers in the 30% region; the pass rate for subsequent years is also low. All French universities are legally obliged to allow students to change universities and majors after the first semester of their first year; however, the universities are allowed to accept as few or many students as they like with Assas accepting only 3% of transfer requests. Admission to the second year of the Assas Masters program is selective and sought after, some programs admitting only 1.7% of applicants.
Pantheon-Assas has 17 U.F.R. departments:
. It is only a few blocks away from the original Sorbonne
, the Collège de France
and École Polytechnique
's former campus. Panthéon-Assas shares this spot with Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and they both administer the Cujas Library, the largest law and economics library in France.
The school's largest campus for second year and third year law students, Assas, is located in the rue d'Assas.
The Vaugirard campus, in the rue de Vaugirard, is dedicated to first year studies in law.
The Melun campus south east of Paris is dedicated to the first cycle of law studies for students who are not residents of the city of Paris.
Journalists
Others
was filmed inside the Assas campus.
Public
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research university in Paris, France. The 1968 cultural revolution, commonly known as the French May, resulted in the division of the world's second oldest academic institution, the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
, into thirteen autonomous universities. Pantheon-Assas University is the inheritor of the former law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
and economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
faculties of the University of Paris.
Pantheon-Assas University has been ranked the first law school in France by the 2010 La Tribune
La Tribune
La Tribune is a French financial newspaper that was founded in 1985. The paper is in tabloid format and has a circulation of around 78,000.- External links :**...
French University Report, the 2009 Le Nouvel Observateur
Le Nouvel Observateur
Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation ....
French University Rankings and the 2009 Le Figaro
Le Figaro
Le Figaro is a French daily newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris. It is one of three French newspapers of record, with Le Monde and Libération, and is the oldest newspaper in France. It is also the second-largest national newspaper in France after Le Parisien and before Le Monde, but...
Legalease. It is a founding member of Sorbonne Universités, an alliance with two other prestigious French universities specializing respectively in the humanities and medicine, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University
The Paris VI University , or the Pierre and Marie Curie University , is a university located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France....
.
Pantheon-Assas has eighteen campuses in Paris, with the majority of them located in the historic Latin Quarter and its main campus situated in the Place du Panthéon, twenty four research centers and five doctoral schools. Pantheon-Assas is composed of four departments specializing in law, public and private management, economics and political science. The University enrolls 8,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students with 2,500 foreign exchange students on visit every year.
Since its founding in 1970, Pantheon-Assas has produced 2 French Prime Ministers, 3 presidents of French political parties, 8 French heads of various ministries including Defense, Justice, Interior and Economy and Finance, 2 foreign heads of state and 4 foreign senators and ministers. Its faculty has included Georges Vedel
Georges Vedel
Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.-Biography:Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies...
, of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
, former member of the Constitutional Council of France
Constitutional Council of France
The Constitutional Council is the highest constitutional authority in France. It was established by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958, and its duty is to ensure that the principles and rules of the constitution are upheld.Its main activity is to rule on whether proposed...
, François Terré, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Prosper Weil
Prosper Weil
Prosper Weil is a French lawyer, professor emeritus of the University of Paris II: Panthéon-Assas law school, and a member of the Institut de France since 1999.-Life:...
, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Albert Rigaudière, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques and Joe Verhoeven, secretary general of the Institut de droit international
Institut de droit international
The Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers...
.
History
Panthéon-Assas is often referred to as Assas after the rue d'AssasRue d'Assas
Rue d'Assas is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, named after Nicolas-Louis d'Assas.-Features:* Musée Edouard Branly * Musée "Bible et Terre Sainte" * Main campus of Pantheon-Assas Paris II University...
where its biggest campus is located. It is the heir to the now defunct law and economics faculty of the historic University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
, founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon
Robert de Sorbon
Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris....
.
Origins
The historic University of ParisUniversity of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganised in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
after the student protests of the French May. Following months of conflict between students and authorities at the University of Paris at Nanterre, the administration shut down that university on May 2, 1968. On May 3, 1968, students of the Sorbonne
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
protested the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre. More than 20,000 students, teachers and supporters marched towards the Sorbonne, still sealed off by the police, who attacked the protesters. While the crowd dispersed, some began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat for a time. The police then responded with tear gas and charged the crowd again. Hundreds more students were arrested.
Negotiations broke down and students returned to their campuses after a false report that the government had agreed to reopen them, only to discover the police still occupying the schools. The students now had a near revolutionary fervor. Another protest was organized on the Rive Gauche
Rive Gauche
La Rive Gauche is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two: looking downstream, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank is to the right....
by students on May 10. When the riot police
Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité
The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité are the riot control forces and general reserve of the French National Police. The CRS were created on 8 December 1944 and the first units were organised by 31 January 1945. The CRS were reorganized in 1948...
again blocked them from crossing the river, the crowd threw up barricades, which the police then attacked at 2:15 in the morning after negotiations once again foundered. The confrontation, which produced hundreds of arrests and injuries, lasted until dawn of the following day.
Well over a million people marched through Paris on Monday, May 13; the police stayed largely out of sight. Prime Minister Georges Pompidou
Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.-Biography:...
personally announced the release of the prisoners and the reopening of the Sorbonne. However, the surge of strikes did not recede. Instead, the protesters got even more active.
When the Sorbonne reopened, students occupied it and declared it an autonomous "people's university." Approximately 401 popular action committees were set up in Paris, including the Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne, and elsewhere in the weeks that followed to take up grievances against the government and French society.
After the tumeltous events of May 1968, the presidency
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
proposed various drastic reforms of the French university system. In 1971, the five ancient faculties of the former University of Paris were split and then re-formed into thirteen interdisciplinary universities by the Faure Law
Edgar Faure
Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.-Career:Faure was born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon. He trained as a lawyer in Paris and became a member of the Bar at 27, the youngest lawyer in France to do so at the time...
, Pantheon-Assas University inheriting the Sorbonne's Faculty of Law and Economics.
After May 1968
The faculty of the University of Paris was divided into two factions. The first group was in favour of establishing five Parisian universities each inheriting one of the five ancient faculties of the Sorbonne. They sought to preserve the Sorbonne's heritage despite the social changes of the French May. The second faction desired to create a generalist university divided into independent, small departments. The first faction ultimately founded the universities of Paris II Pantheon-Assas (based on the former Sorbonne Faculty of Law and Economics) and of Paris IV Paris-Sorbonne (based on the former Sorbonne Faculty of Humanities). The second faction founded Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. The split at the Sorbonne Faculty of Law was nearly even: all the law professors save one went to Paris II, while all the professors of economics save one chose Paris I.Since its establishment following the university reforms, Pantheon-Assas has been governed by eight presidents: the founding president, jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
Berthold Goldman, was succeeded by civil servant and former member of the Constitutional Council of France
Constitutional Council of France
The Constitutional Council is the highest constitutional authority in France. It was established by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958, and its duty is to ensure that the principles and rules of the constitution are upheld.Its main activity is to rule on whether proposed...
Jacques Robert, who was followed by private law jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
Jean Boulouis. Next came another private law jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
Georges Durry and subsequently Philippe Ardant, a civil servant and former president of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Andorra
Andorra
Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...
and former president of the Institut du monde arabe. Pantheon-Assas was then headed by Bernard Teyssié, a specialist in social law, who was succeeded by Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, a public law jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
. Since 2006, Louis Vogel, a renown private law jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
, is president of Pantheon-Assas. These various presidents have implemented numerous innovations whose aim has been to adapt the education given at the Sorbonne to the demands of the 21st century.
Administration
At the head of Pantheon-Assas is the President, elected by members of the Council of Administration for a four year tenure. The current president is Louis Vogel.Council of Administration
The President of Pantheon-Assas presides over the Council of Administration which meets multiple times during a school year who heads Pantheon-Assas' administration and academics and votes upon its annual financial budget. The President is assisted by two Vice-Presidents and several professors elected by their respective academic departments.Central Councils
Three Central Councils made up of elected members from the student body, professors and the administration reflect on important questions concerning the University's current and future projects and academics. Each member serves a two year tenure and is elected by the student body.Scientific Council
The Scientific Council, composed of professors elected by the Council of Administration, reflects upon various possible changes to current research techniques and standards of the University. It ensures a strong link between the University's teaching and research.Academics
Pantheon-Assas University ranks 1st in France in law according to La TribuneLa Tribune
La Tribune is a French financial newspaper that was founded in 1985. The paper is in tabloid format and has a circulation of around 78,000.- External links :**...
university rankings of 2010. It is a founding member of Sorbonne Universités, an alliance with two other prestigious French universities specializing respectively in the humanities and medicine, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University
The Paris VI University , or the Pierre and Marie Curie University , is a university located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France....
.
The Pantheon-Assas undergraduate law program is selective, with an acceptance rate of 14%. The first year pass rate at Assas consistently hovers in the 30% region; the pass rate for subsequent years is also low. All French universities are legally obliged to allow students to change universities and majors after the first semester of their first year; however, the universities are allowed to accept as few or many students as they like with Assas accepting only 3% of transfer requests. Admission to the second year of the Assas Masters program is selective and sought after, some programs admitting only 1.7% of applicants.
Pantheon-Assas Rankings
| Ranking | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Ministry of Education (rating) | A+x10; Ax2 | |||||||||||
| French Ministry of Education (investments in research) | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| SMBG Droit des Affaires | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| SMBG Droit Social | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| SMBG Fiscalite | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| SMBG Banque Finance | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| SMBG Ingénierie Financière de Haut de Bilan | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||
| SMBG Management General de l'Organisation | 1 | 10 | 5 | |||||||||
| Communication | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | |||||||
| ENM French National School for the Judiciary The French National School for the Judiciary is a French school, where French judges and public prosecutors are trained. The institution was created in 1959 as the "National Centre for Judicial Studies" . It became the French National School for the Judiciary in 1972... (number of students admitted) |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Le Nouvel Observateur Le Nouvel Observateur Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation .... (law only) |
1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Legalease (law only) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Unité de Formation et de Recherche
The Savary Law of 1984 restructered academic departments in French universities. Each department was made into a U.F.R., "Unité de formation et de recherche" or Research and Formation Unit that offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Each U.F.R. at Pantheon-Assas is governered by a director elected from the department and heads over a council of elected professors who control its curriculum.Pantheon-Assas has 17 U.F.R. departments:
- Licence in Law
- Master and Doctorate in Law
- Economics
- Public and private management
- Legal journalism
- Judicial studies
Joint Programs
Pantheon-Assas offers several undergraduate and graduate joint programs with other prestigious French universities and institutions. Admissions into these programs are extremely competitive.- Paris-Sorbonne University
- Licence in Law and History
- Licence in Law and Art History
- ESSEC Business School
- Masters of European Business Law
- Paris Dauphine University:
- Masters of Economics
- École nationale supérieure des mines de ParisÉcole nationale supérieure des mines de ParisThe École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris was created in 1783 by King Louis XVI in order to train intelligent directors of mines. It is one of the most prominent French engineering schoolsThe École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (also known as Mines ParisTech, École des Mines de...
- Masters of Science and Technology
- HEC Paris
- Masters of European Business
Campus
The administration offices and postgraduate studies are located in a building which is in the plaza that rings the Parisian landmark of the PanthéonPanthéon, Paris
The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens...
. It is only a few blocks away from the original Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
, the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
and École Polytechnique
École Polytechnique
The École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, Essonne, France, near Paris. Polytechnique is renowned for its four year undergraduate/graduate Master's program...
's former campus. Panthéon-Assas shares this spot with Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and they both administer the Cujas Library, the largest law and economics library in France.
The school's largest campus for second year and third year law students, Assas, is located in the rue d'Assas.
The Vaugirard campus, in the rue de Vaugirard, is dedicated to first year studies in law.
The Melun campus south east of Paris is dedicated to the first cycle of law studies for students who are not residents of the city of Paris.
Notable alumni
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, member of European ParliamentEuropean ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world... - Marine Le PenMarine Le PenMarine Le Pen is a French politician, a lawyer by profession and the president of the Front National since 16 January 2011...
, President of the Front nationalFront NationalFront National can mean:* Front National , a French political party* Front National , a World War II French Resistance group* Front National , a Belgian political party...
, member of European ParliamentEuropean ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world... - Alain MadelinAlain MadelinAlain Madelin is a French politician and a former minister of that country.Madelin, a strong supporter of laissez-faire economics, was a candidate in the 2002 French presidential election as the leader of the Démocratie Libérale party, where he scored 3.91% on the first round...
, former Minister of Economy and Finance, mp, ex-President of Démocratie Libérale - Sherman MintonSherman MintonSherman "Shay" Minton was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the most educated justice during his time on the Supreme Court, having attended Indiana University, Yale and the Sorbonne...
, DemocraticDemocratic Party (United States)The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
United States SenatorUnited States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
from IndianaIndianaIndiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
and an Associate JusticeAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesAssociate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States...
of the Supreme Court of the United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases... - Hervé MorinHervé MorinHervé Morin is a French politician, leader of the New Center party and a former French Minister of Defence.-Member of National Assembly:...
, Minister of Defence - Prokopis PavlopoulosProkopis PavlopoulosProkopis K. Pavlopoulos is a Greek lawyer, university professor and politician. In 2004-2009 he was Minister for the Interior .-Academic career:Pavlopoulos studied at and was an...
, Minister of the Interior of Greece - Jean-Pierre RaffarinJean-Pierre RaffarinJean-Pierre Raffarin is a French conservative politician and senator for Vienne.Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin...
, former Prime MinisterPrime ministerA prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime... - Cecilia SarkozyCécilia Ciganer-AlbénizCécilia María Sara Isabel Attias was the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy until October 2007....
- Jean TiberiJean TiberiJean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. , he is mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris....
, mp and mayor of Paris' 5th arrondissement - Daniel TurpDaniel TurpDaniel Turp is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He has served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly .- Biography :...
, member of National Assembly of QuebecNational Assembly of QuebecThe National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the... - Dominique de VillepinDominique de VillepinDominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as the Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007....
, former Prime MinisterPrime ministerA prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime... - Francisco Javier Domínguez BritoFrancisco Javier Domínguez BritoFrancisco Domínguez Brito Francisco Domínguez Brito Francisco Domínguez Brito (born Francisco Javier Tadeo Domínguez Brito October 28, 1965 in Santiago de los Caballeros, is a Senator of the Dominican Republic (2006–2010). Politician and lawyer.-Early life:...
, former Attorney general of the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
and current senator for the province of Santiago
Journalists
- Claire ChazalClaire ChazalClaire Chazal is a French journalist, romance writer, and director of news at a national television station, TF1....
- Jean-Marie ColombaniJean-Marie ColombaniJean-Marie Colombani is a French journalist, and was the editor of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1994 until 2007.-Biography:...
- Stéphane DiaganaStéphane DiaganaStéphane Diagana is a former French athlete who won the gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens over 400 metres hurdles. In 2002 he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Athletics in Munich in the same event. Diagana also set the European record of 47.37...
- Cyrille Emery
- Marc-Olivier Fogiel
Others
- Humbert BalsanHumbert BalsanHumbert Balsan, born Humbert Jean René Balsan was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was renowned for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films.In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company,...
, French film producer and chairman of the European Film AcademyEuropean Film AcademyThe European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.- European Film Academy :... - Yves BotYves BotYves Bot is a French magistrate and currently serves as Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.In 1995, Yves Bot was nominated by Jacques Toubon as prosecutor of Nanterre, then minister of justice...
, advocate General of the European Court of JusticeEuropean Court of JusticeThe Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges... - Renaud CamusRenaud Camus-Biography:He was born in 1946 in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He spent some time studying in England and traveling in the United States, particularly New York and California...
, French writer - Henri Giscard d'EstaingHenri Giscard d'EstaingHenri Giscard d'Estaing is a French business figure and son of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.-Biography:...
administrator of Groupe CasinoGroupe CasinoGroupe Casino is a large French multinational corporation, formerly part of the CAC 40 index, whose main business is with retail and distribution in hyper and supermarkets. The company's head office is in Saint-Étienne.... - Éric HalphenÉric HalphenÉric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.- Timeline :...
, French judge (investigating magistrate) - Arno Klarsfeld
- Anne Méaux
- Alexandre NajjarAlexandre NajjarAlexandre Najjar is an award-winning Lebanese novelist and literary critic. He was born in Beirut and went to university in Paris. A trained lawyer, he specialized in banking and finance law. He is the author of more than 30 books. In addition to poetry and fiction, he has written the biography of...
- Daniel PicoulyDaniel PicoulyDaniel Picouly is a French writer. near ParisHe was raised in a family of 13 children, his parents were born in the French overseas territory of Martinique.He became a professor of economics in Paris....
, French writer - Lolita PilleLolita PilleLolita Pille is a French author, best known for her two novels: Paris 75016: Hell's Diary and Bubble Gum.- Bibliography :* Hell, Grasset, 2002, ISBN 224663251X* Bubble Gum, Grasset, 2004, ISBN 2246644119...
, French author - Philippe RisoliPhilippe RisoliPhilippe Risoli is a French television host with Italian origins. He is also an unsuccessful singer.-Canal + and France 3:...
- Jean-Marc Rouvière
- Jacques Schwarz-BartJacques Schwarz-BartJacques Schwarz-Bart is a New York based jazz saxophonist. His mother is the Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, author of The Bridge of Beyond. His father was French Jewish author André Schwarz-Bart. The two published a joint novel, Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes, in 1967...
, jazz saxophonist - Ludwik Sobolewski, head of the Warsaw Stock Exchange
- Jean SarkozyJean SarkozyJean Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa is the son of the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy from his first marriage, to Marie-Dominique Culioli. Jean is a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and registered as a 1st year Law student at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 2007...
, son of French president Nicolas SarkozyNicolas SarkozyNicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....
Notable faculty
Professors- Georges VedelGeorges VedelGeorges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.-Biography:Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies...
, of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
, former member of the Constitutional Council of FranceConstitutional Council of FranceThe Constitutional Council is the highest constitutional authority in France. It was established by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958, and its duty is to ensure that the principles and rules of the constitution are upheld.Its main activity is to rule on whether proposed...
. - François Terré, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
- Prosper WeilProsper WeilProsper Weil is a French lawyer, professor emeritus of the University of Paris II: Panthéon-Assas law school, and a member of the Institut de France since 1999.-Life:...
, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques - Albert Rigaudière, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
- Joe Verhoeven, secretary general of the Institut de droit internationalInstitut de droit internationalThe Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, whose membership comprises the world's leading public international lawyers...
- Claude Blumann
- André Castaldo
- Serge GuinchardSerge GuinchardSerge Guinchard, born on May 9 1946 in Lyon is a French jurist, teacher emeritus professor of the University of Paris II. Lawyer often asked to give its views on matters within its scope, both in France and abroad, currently specializes in issues of justice and lawtrial,he has combined a dual...
- René Chapus
- Jean CarbonnierJean CarbonnierJean Carbonnier was a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Poitiers from 1937–1955, then at the Sorbonne until 1976....
- Roger-Gérard SchwartzenbergRoger-Gérard SchwartzenbergRoger-Gérard Schwartzenberg is a French politician. From 1981 to 1983 he was President of the Movement of Radicals of the Left in the French Parliament.He was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques....
- Nicole Catala
- Edmond AlphandéryEdmond AlphandéryEdmond Alphandéry is a French politician, born 2 September 1943 in Avignon, Vaucluse.-Education and early employment:* Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris – Fulbright Fellowship...
- Jean-Claude MartinezJean-Claude MartinezJean-Claude Martinez is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He was a member of the Front National, and was among the Non-Inscrits until the 2007 formation of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group in the European Parliament...
- Hugues PortelliHugues PortelliHugues Portelli is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Val-d'Oise department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is also the mayor of Ermont, a city located in the North of Paris He is a Professor of Political science at the prestigious Faculty of Law of...
- Philippe Raynaud
- Jean-Paul Betbèze
- Dominique Chagnollaud
- Gilles J. Guglielmi
- Gérard CornuGérard CornuGérard Cornu is a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Eure-et-Loire department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.-References:*...
- Yves Gaudemet
- Yves Lequette
- Nicolas Molfessis
- Hervé Lecuyer
- Bernard Teyssié
- Louis Vogel
Trivia
The Cairo Airport scene in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of SpiesOSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a French film directed by Michel Hazanavicius. It is a parody of the spy film genre. The film follows the exploits of a French secret agent, OSS 117, in Cairo in 1955.-Plot:...
was filmed inside the Assas campus.
External links
- CORPO, Assas' Student Association
- Assas.net — An Assas website and forum managed by students (in French).
- BerMüPa — Website of the double degree program between the Humboldt University (Berlin), Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich) and Paris II, maintained by students (in French and German).
- Magistere de Juriste d'Affaires DJCE— Website of the Magistère de Juriste d'Affaires of Paris II Assas.
- Master in Banking & Finance— Official website of the Master's Degree in Banking & Finance of Paris II.
- Master Finance— Website of the Master 2 in Finance of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.