COURSES & FACULTY
The Master 2 English and North American Business Law forms uses a comparative approach to train students in English and North American business law. This training has several specificities.
First, the teachings are provided in the English language. When choosing to write a “mémoire”, students are also encouraged to write it in English. This allows them to develop their language skills, indispensable when mastering a foreign law. Its usefulness is, today, indisputable in terms of research and legal practice, especially in business law.
Secondly, the teachings are provided by renown French, English and American professors with backgrounds in English and/or American law coming from the world's leading universities. In the classroom, professors are encouraged to use the methods and notation systems used in their home university in order to introduce students to other forms of teaching, including the Socratic and other interactive methods.
Furthermore, this program allows an important intellectual openness towards other disciplines, such as philosophy, legal epistemology, or the history of law in Common Law countries.
Finally, this program combines practice and theory by giving students concrete examples of how Common Law operates as well as the methodological tools needed to understand and compare legal systems.
Courses Model
FIRST SEMESTER
COMPARATIVE LEGAL REASONING
PIERRE LEGRAND. Comparative legal epistemology taught by Pierre LEGRAND, Professor of Law at Sciences Politiques and the Sorbonne, through the study of judgments.
PRIVATE CONTRACTS & ANTI-DISCRMINITATION
SOPHIE ROBIN-OLIVIER. Course In partnership with the University of Berkeley, California. Online course on the impact of Covid-19 on inequalities within the world, with the director of the master, Sophie ROBIN - OLIVIER.
SOURCES & METHODS OF US LAW IN CONTRACTS (ENVIRONMENTAL LAW)
KIRK JUNKER. Theoretical seminar on comparative law through the study of American and European environmental law taught by Professor Kirk JUNKER, a lawyer in the United States and Professor of Law in charge of the Department of Environmental Law at the University of Cologne in Germany.
US BUSINESS LAW
JUNGMIN CHO. Practical study of the rules of American Business Law (procedural aspects, sources and principles) with Jungmin CHO, Harvard graduate, former lawyer at DENTONS and now a lawyer for Total.
COMPARATIVE CONFLICTS OF LAW
SARAH LAVAL. Comparative approach to private international law and conflict of laws with Professor Sarah Laval, associate of law faculties and Professor at the Université Littoral Côte d'Opale. Researcher and Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Law School, New York.
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UK COMMON LAW
ALEXANDRINE GUYARD-NEDELEC. Introduction to the great principles of British Common Law (history, sources, judicial practice and actors) with Alexandrine GUYARD--NEDELEC, Professor at the Sorbonne.
US COMMON LAW
MARIE MERCAT-BRUNS. Introduction to the main principles of the American Common Law (history, sources, judicial practice and actors) with Marie MERCAT--BRUNS, Professor of Law at Sciences Politiques and the Sorbonne.
SECOND SEMESTER
ANGLO AMERICAN LEGAL THOUGHT
RUTH SEFTON-GREEN. This course focuses on the institution of the trust and the practice of Equity in the context of commercial and financial law. He is taught by Ruth SEFTON--GREEN, Lecturer in Private Law at the Sorbonne School of Law at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
US BUSINESS LAW (ENTITLEMENTS & EXCHANGES)
RICHARD BROOKS. In-depth study of U.S. Business Law (corporate law, contract law, commercial regulation, investment law) by Mr. Richard BROOKS, Professor of Law at Yale University and New-York University (NYU). He has also taught at Cornell University and is a specialist in contracts and institutions, with cross-cutting expertise in Law and Economics.
COMPARATIVE CONTRACT & CORPORATE LAW
SERGE TATAR. Practical seminar on Comparative Contract Law. Use of different Rights (French, English, Italian, German, international, American, European).
GLOBAL ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW
HUGHES HUBBARD & REED Law Firm. Practical seminar on Anti-corruption Law (especially the American, British and French Laws) taught by Mr. Ernesto ALVARADO, Mrs. Athena ARBES, Mr. Jan DUNIN--WASOWICZ and Mr. Sergon SANCAR, lawyers and partners at this law firm.
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
ANTOINE ADELINE. Practical seminar on international trade and arbitration law with Antoine ADELINE, partner in the International Dispute Resolution department of the law firm SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS. His experience has led him to practice as a lawyer specializing in international arbitration in France and England.
COMPARATIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
ALFRED YEN. U.S. Intellectual Property Law (and more specifically, copyright law) is taught by Alfred YEN, Professor at Law School Boston College in the United States, during a dedicated seminar.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: FASHION LAW, ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE
JOAN DIVOL. Intellectual property class (patents, trademarks, designs) focusing on the fashion industry. In addition to intellectual property issues, this course also deals with image rights and fashion shows, across the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom (with a special focus on the US).
LAURA SPITZ. This course focuses on corporations' role in American society through cultural representations and legal concept(s) of “citizenship". It is taught by Laura Spitz, Professor of Law and Vice-Provost at the University of Seattle. She was a Vice-Provost and Associate Dean at Cornell University, and before that, she served as a lawyer in the corporate commercial group at Miller Thomson LLP.
ROLE OF CORPORATIONS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
THE NEW LOUCINE CENTRE
Previously located at the Malher Centre, the courses have been taking place since the beginning of 2019 at the new Lourcine Centre, on the Port-Royal Campus of the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, at 37 Boulevard du Port-Royal. The premises are home to numerous equipped classrooms, an amphitheater and a library, one floor of which is reserved for Master II students.
HCERES EVALUATION
NOTE : A
"The pedagogical project articulates knowledge of English and American law, and cross-cutting skills in both courses. English is thus a working language. The partnership with American universities allows some students, through a scholarship system, to continue their training in LL.M after graduation. The educational project thus appears to be of excellent quality. The teaching team is excellent: internationally renowned, it also has several guest teachers."