It currently houses the presidencies and head offices of the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas universities, as well as: It was designed by architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot between 1771 and 1773.

[1] On November 16, 1753, King Louis XV ordered the construction of a building on the summit of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève to house law students and their professors.

[citation needed] During the reorganization of the university following the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Lisieux College in 1762, Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator of bridges and roads and honorary doctor of the Faculty of Civil and Canon Law, granted the construction of a new building for the faculty on the site of the Lisieux College.

Initially located on rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, within the Collège Royal, the building opened in 1774 and was officially inaugurated in 1783.

A École de droit de Paris ("Paris Law School") reopened on November 22, 1805, following the promulgation of the Napoleonic Code, which created modern law schools.