Welcome to the site for the GGU/UPX Paris Summer Comparative Law Program.
2008 Dates: Sunday June 1 - Sunday June 29Program description: The GGU/UPX Paris Summer Comparative Law Program operates from June 1-29, in partnership with the University of Paris X (Nanterre). All classes are held at the Nanterre campus on the western edge of Paris, and are team-taught by a professor from Nanterre and a professor from the US. Most of the students reside at the Cite International Universite de Paris, a beautiful and comfortable campus located in the 14th arrondissement, on the southern edge of Paris. (Pictured above.)The academic portion of the program is divided into two sessions lasting two weeks each, as described below. All classes are taught in English. (The class schedule is accessible by a link on the right.) All classes meet in the afternoon, leaving time for cultural activities and independent study.During the first session, all students take a single two-unit course, Introduction to French & EU Law. The course is co-taught by our French co-director, Professor Anne Deysine of Nanterre, and GGU Professor Helen Hartnell. Classes meet four days a week for 210 minutes of lectures each day (usually three 60-75 minute sessions), and include lectures by faculty (including a few guest lectures), and by lawyers, public officials and judges at law firms, courts and agencies. Our visits will include at least two of the three French Supreme Courts (the Civil/Criminal Court, the Administrative Court, and the Constitutional Court, with lectures at each by members of the Court), an overnight trip to visit the European Commission in Brussels, and visits to major international law firms (in 2006 we visited Paul Hastings and Skadden Arps; in 2007 we visited Shuburt & Collins).During the second session, students choose one of five two-unit comparative law courses, and are joined in the classroom by French and other EU graduate law students. Students are in class for two 60-75 minute sessions each day, followed by a 60-90 minute panel or mini-conference on a topic of comparative law, four days a week. Each course is team taught by an American law professor and a French law professor from the University of Paris faculty.In 2008, we will offer:
- Comparative Remedies with Professor Sheila Foster of Fordham Law School and Professor Florence Bellivier of the University of Paris.
- Comparative Labor Law with Professor Michael Zimmer from Seton Hall (currently visiting at Northwestern) and Professor Pascal Lokiec of the University of Paris.
- Comparative Corporate Law with Professor and Associate Dean Eric Gouvin of Western New England College School of Law and Professor Thierry Abella of the University of Paris.
- Comparative Criminal Justice with Professor Rachel Van Cleave of GGU and Professor Pascal Beauvais of the University of Paris.
- Comparative Equality Law with Professor David Oppenheimer of GGU and Professor Sophie Robin-Olivier of the University of Paris. (Professor Oppenheimer also serves as co-director of the program, handling all of the US administration, and all fiscal administration.)
During the second session we sponsor a series of small conferences with special guests. In 2005 our guests included Catharine McKinnon of the University of Michigan School of Law. In 2006 our guests included Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School, Nadine Strossen, President of the National ACLU, and Jesse Choper of the University of California Berkeley School of Law. In 2007 our guests included Eva Paterson, President of the Equal Justice Society, Kendall Thomas of Columbia Law School, and Sophie Latraverse, chief counsel of the HALDE (the French equivelent of the EEOC). They have addressed such interesting issues as sex equality and globalization, comparative racial justice, US/EU views of liberty and security after 9/11, and comparative secularism and religious expression. The presentations are open to the public, and attract French and US attendees from the Nanterre campus and elsewhere, including employees of the United States Embassy in Paris.Our 2008 list of special guests will include:
- Maya Harris from the ACLU;
- Maria Blanco from the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Divirsity;
- Luke Cole from the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment;
- Bertrand du Marais, a member of the Counseil d'Etat (the Council of State, which is the French supreme court for administrative law cases);
- Leaders of several European civil rights organizations.
- For more information on our special guests, see the "special visitors" link on the right.
In order to help orient our US students to Paris, and to French law and culture, we sponsor several orientation events. In 2008 we will take a cruise on the Seine, host a dinner in the Latin Quarter, and sponsor a night out on the town with English-speaking French law students (this was the most popular orientation event in 2006 and 2007).For US, Canadian and other common law students, the 2008 program begins on Sunday June 1 with mandatory orientation. Classes begin on Tuesday June 3. The final day of the program is Saturday June 28. Students should not plan on leaving before Sunday June 29, and must check out of their rooms on or before the morning of Monday June 30. We recommend that students plan on arriving in Europe no later than Thursday May 29 in order to adjust to the time difference before classes begin on June 3.For French and other civil law students, the program begins on Monday June 16 and continues through Saturday June 28.US, Canadian and other common law students should contact Professor Oppenheimer at 415/442-6655 or dbo@ggu.edu
French and other civil law students should contact Professor Deysine at anne.deysine@u-paris10.fr
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