Despite being a pioneer of higher education with its auditorium and the lectures of Ausonius ( ? 310-394) in the 4th century of our era, Bordeaux had to wait a long time before the opening of its first official university. A rich city and major trading port, it only became a place of legal education during the 15th century with the creation of the Universitas Burdiagalensis. Its structure remained substantially the same for nearly 350 years before being swept away by revolutionary impulses. The city produced many renowned jurists such as Nicolas Boerius (1469-1539), Bernard Automne (1574 ?-1666), Étienne Cleirac (1583-1657), Abraham Lapeyrère (1598 ?-1690 ?), or even famous member of parliament Charles Louis de Secondat, baron of La Brède and Montesquieu (1689-1755). In Bordeaux as in many otherpour lire la suite…
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Toulouse and Paris : the ties of competing law schools
Paris and Toulouse are the two most important law schools in France. Throughout the 19th century, they dominated the French academic landscape, notably by their attractiveness, their enrollment numbers and the degrees they awarded. They and a dozen other legal faculties on the territory created by Napoleon from as early as 1804 shared the same professionalization objective : they organized examinations and delivered the titles necessary for the practice of legal and judicial professions (magistrates, lawyers, teachers, etc.) to children of the most privileged classes. Everywhere, education was focused on civil law, Roman law and procedural law. Little to no provision was made for other branches of law (administrative law, commercial law or legal history). The contemporaries, among whom some famous writers (Balzac, Zola and others),pour lire la suite…
Institutions and their history
15 June 20239 November 2023 Des facultés sur le front du droitInstitutions and their history Toulouse and Paris : the ties of competing law schools Paris and Toulouse are the two most important law schools in France. Throughout the 19th century, they dominated the French academic landscape, notably by their attractiveness, their enrollment numbers and the degrees they awarded. They and a dozen other legal faculties on the territory created by Napoleon from as early as 1804 shared the same professionalization objective : they organized examinations and delivered the titles necessary for the practice of legal and judicial professions (magistrates, lawyers, teachers, etc.) to children of the most privileged classes. Everywhere, education was focused on civil law, Roman law and procedural law. Little to no provision waspour lire la suite…
Institutions in the Great War
In France and abroad, all the components of higher education were caught up in the war. Old or recent, French or foreign, their daily lives were permanently disrupted. The human and practical impact of mobilization being felt in various ways, depending in particular on whether they were in a non-occupied or occupied area (Lille, Belgium), how did law schools (and their libraries, which with the Third Republic in France became the support of the scientific mission that the faculties must also fulfill) adapt to the new context sparked by the Great War ? Where and how was law taught ? How were the faculties reorganized ? How did they function on a daily basis ? What were the forms of their involvement in the war effort ? Institutions and theirpour lire la suite…