A WORD FROM OUR DIRECTORS
Horatia Muir Watt
Professor, Sciences Po
"We wanted to create a highly structured, organized program for those students interested in focusing their legal studies on a very specific field of law while experiencing life in a foreign country.
The Paris Alliance is extremely competitive, reserved exclusively for fifth year students with 8 openings in each institution each year."
George Bermann,
Professor, Columbia Law School
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« This Program, in which I have had the pleasure to be involved since the very beginning, was designed to bring together within a cooperative international project, students with diverse horizons and backgrounds, to provide them with an equally diverse experience in terms of academic environment and teaching methods, encouraging cross-cultural exchange and team work.
Substantively, its fit within a wider intellectual framework of studies in law and global governance, which reaches beyond both national boundaries and traditional disciplines, mixing the public and the private, theory and practice, law and policy. In addition to its excellent professional results, it has generated in one decade a dynamic community of young scholars and practitioners with enduring intellectual and personal links »
Hervé Ascencio
Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne
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« This program is designed to enable students to sharpen their understanding of international business law and international economic law, whilst allowing them to discover different approaches of Law & Economics and Law & Politics during their first semester in the United States. »
THE DEGREE
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The Paris Global Alliance Program is designed for students who wish to strengthen their training via a different academic system abroad. Its aim is to train future practitioners, academics and executives to become specialists in global business law and governance.
The yearlong tripartite program starts in New York in the Fall semester when 8 students from Sciences Po and 8 students from Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne join their Columbia Law School counterparts in studying a specialized curriculum at the Law School. Afterwards, the Columbia students and Paris-based students spend the spring semester in Paris, continuing to follow the program’s curriculum there.
One Program, 3 Degrees
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Students
Master 2 Global Business Law and Governance - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Certificate in Global Governance and Law from Sciences Po and Columbia University
Sciences Po Students
Master Droit Economique - Sciences Po
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Certificate in Global Governance and Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Columbia University
Columbia Law School Students
Juris Doctor - Columbia University
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Certificate in Global Governance and Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po.
CAREER PROSPECTS
It is impossible to exhaustively list the number of professions the Paris Alliance Program leads to. The program trains future scholars, lawyers, corporate officers, public officials, consultants or even politicians. Most of them are specialized in international economic law but many of our alumni have been working on other issues and other fields of the law.
Where are they now and what do they have to say about this formation ? Here is what certain of our Alumni have been doing since completing the program.
Maximilian Eltgen
Consultant, World Bank Group
2017 Alumni
"My year as part of the Global Business Law and Governance Master, which has gone by way too fast, will always be one of the best experiences of my life, causing both my professional and personal development to skyrocket. Throughout the year, I've had the privilege to study under world-renowned professors and researchers, and especially my time at Columbia Law School has allowed me to build valuable links to the US, no doubt helping me to find a position at the World Bank upon graduation. To me, the program is unique in creating a tight-knitted group of students, fostering exciting academic exchange and friendships for life, and I can recommend anyone to apply."
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CONSULTANT
LAWYER
Damien Charlotin
PhD Candidate, Cambridge University, Faculty of Law
2015 Alumni
"Graduating from the Global Business Law & Governance Master was a real stepping stone that allowed me to take my career in any direction, be it to legal practice in top law firms anywhere in the world, or back to academia. Besides, I was fortunate enough during my first semester at Columbia Law School to meet professors who encouraged my research and invited me to come back to a second semester there as a Visiting Scholar - an experience that proved crucial in my decision to start at PhD. I couldn't recommend it more."
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