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Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Please find useful information below about Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University as an exchange destination. Learn more about the location, the campus, courses and student life! 

About 

The multidisciplinary Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University is a multi-campus university in Paris, specialising in the teaching of  humanities such as economics and law. Until the May 1968 Paris student riots, Panthéon-Sorbonne was part of the wider University of Paris network (generally known as the Sorbonne) and is renowned for having the second-oldest faculty of law in the world after the University of Bologna. Numerous distinguished lawyers, judges and prominent intellectuals have been among its alumni for over 800 years.

Queen Mary exchange students in Law attend the Sorbonne Law School at Panthéon-Sorbonne. In its current form since 1970 and at the very core of the university, the Sorbonne Law School encompasses the Academic and Research Departments of the former Paris Faculty of Law (in existence until the 1968 student protests) and areas of speciality include Administration and Public Sector Law, Business Law, International and European Studies, and General Legal Studies.

Since 2009, the Sorbonne Law School (in French, École de droit de la Sorbonne, often abbreviated as EDS) now includes all Law departments of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University: undergraduate department; Public Law department; Private Law department; International, European and Comparative Law department; and the Economic and Social Administration Institute. The Sorbonne Law School counts 14,000 enrolled students, 300 incoming exchange students annually, 180 full-time professors, 45 annual visiting scholars, and 3 labs. Learn more here.

Consult Pantheon-Sorbonne on QS World Rankings to learn more about their current world ranking and academic reputation in different subject areas, such as being among the top in the world in the field of Law and Legal Studies.

Location

Paris is a beautiful and historic city, known by many as the European cultural capital. Many of Europe’s most iconic features of the world can be found in the galleries, museums and streets of Paris. With teaching taking place across several sites in Paris including Place du Panthéon, the Pierre-Mendès-France Center (commonly referred to as "Tolbiac") and the newer Port Royal, the Sorbonne Law School's central offices are located on the Place du Panthéon in Paris's historic Latin Quarter, which can be easily accessed from all neighbourhoods of the city via public transport. The location of the Latin Quarter, the fifth arrondissement is noted for its bookshops, cafés, student life and libraries – and as the site of the 1968 student protests. There’s a wealth of culture on its doorstep: the Jardin des Plantes botanical gardens, the National Museum of Natural History, the Jardin du Luxembourg, the Panthéon and Paris’s grandest mosque. 

Level of competitiveness

This exchange is only open to students in the School of Law.

Law bilateral agreement: Competitive **

The level of competitiveness (Less competitive * / Competitive ** / Very competitive ***) refers to one's chances of being allocated an exchange space at this partner. This is an approximation determined by the number of applications received for this destination during the last academic year versus the total number of exchange spaces available to Queen Mary students. 

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