Dual legal education: a case study on teaching and learning in law with French law degrees

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Slide 1: Dual Legal Education: A Case Study on Teaching and Learning in Law with French Law Degrees LILAC 2009 University of Warwick 24 January 2009 Dr. Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy School of Law, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland marieluce.paris@ucd.ie Slide 2: Introduction  Law, a country-specific discipline  Demands of globalisation  Developments in the European context  Multiculturalism?  French legal education in a common law environment Slide 3: Object of Study  BCL/Maîtrise (2005)  Two last years of Degree in University PanthéonAssas  Irish and French students  Dual or double degree  BCL Law with French Law (1999)  One year in France  Irish students  A national degree +  Common aspects to both degrees Slide 4: What about the experience?  Very positive overall in spite (thanks to?) lots of problems and challenges…  Research question : sustainability of Hiberno-French integrated legal education in the European context? Slide 5: Delivering a Dual Legal Education: Curriculum Design Issues  What to teach?  Selection of French and Irish Law courses  The ‘functionalist’ and skills-oriented curriculum  And how?  Parlez-vous comme un juriste?  Differences in legal methodology Slide 6: Promoting Legal Diversity: Degree Programme Issues  So many benefits…  Student’s perspective  Small group teaching  Comparative dimension/Different approaches to teaching and learning the discipline  Career advantages  Reflection as a teaching practitioner and as a lawyer  Transsytemic method, European jus commune and Global Law  Competitive spirit  Exchanges between students and academics from partner universities involved  Lecturer’s perspective  Institution’s perspective Slide 7:  …but so many questions too  Nature of legal education  EU policy input : ‘a unity of differences’  Sustainability of bicultural legal education  Coexistence of a range of programmes involving French legal studies  Recruitment problem (level of French)  Future reforms at national level Slide 8: Conclusion  The study of another legal culture is a valuable academic pursuit in itself  Intertwined issues involving the nature of legal education (vocational v. academic) and the development of European Law itself (harmonization through diversity) Slide 9: Discussion  Should all Common Law students be exposed to Civil Law system? (and vice & versa)  Is it appropriate to combine the study of two legal systems at u/g level?