University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas

University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas   (University)
Headquarters	Paris
The law school of the Sorbonne University

Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and still frequently referred to by its former statutory name of Paris 2 is a university in Paris, acting law school of the Sorbonne University and often described as the most prestigious and top law school of France.

It is considered as the direct inheritor of the Faculty of Law of Paris, the second-oldest faculty of Law in the world, founded in the 12th century. Following the division of the University of Paris (known as the "Sorbonne") in 1970, after the events of May 68, law professors had to decide about the future of their faculty. Most of the faculty members (88 out of 108 law professors) chose to perpetuate the Faculty of Law of Paris by creating and joining a university of law offering the same programs within the same two buildings that hosted the now defunct Faculty of Law of Paris. The remaining professors joined multidisciplinary universities, including the new Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Panthéon-Assas currently provides the law courses of the Sorbonne University as an independent university, having refused to officially merge into it as a faculty.

The majority of the nineteen campuses of Panthéon-Assas are located in the Latin Quarter, with the main campuses on Place du Panthéon and Rue d'Assas, hence its current name. The university is composed of five departments specialising in law, political science, economics, journalism and media studies and public and private management, and it hosts twenty-four research centres and five specialised doctoral schools. Every year, the university enrolls approximately 18,000 students, including more than 3,000 international students.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Gabriel Attal	16 March 1989		France	Politician	A "rising star" of French politics who attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting, before being put in charge of the French education system.
François Baroin	21 June 1965		France	Politician	French politician who attended the 2014 Bilderberg
Jean-Michel Blanquer	4 December 1964		France		French academic and politician
Patrick Divedjian	26 August 1944	29 March 2020	France	Politician	French double Bilderberg politician
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne	16 November 1953		France	Diplomat Polyglot	Senior French diplomat
Jean-Pierre Hansen	25 April 1948		Luxembourg	Businessperson	Went far to become Vice President of French multinational corporation Suez.
Johanna Möhring				Academic Deep state functionary	A senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft
Jean-Marie Le Pen	20 June 1928		France	Politician
Marine Le Pen	5 August 1968		France	Politician
Panagiotis Pikrammenos	26 July 1945		Greece	Politician Judge	Greek deputy PM who wanted compulsory Covid jabs in 2021. Attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting.
Jean-François Probst	8 March 1949	12 June 2014	France	Politician	Cercle visitor.
Édouard de Rothschild	27 December 1957		France	Banker
Alexander Schallenberg	20 June 1969		Austria	Diplomat Politician	'You don’t only have rights, you have obligations'

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