University of Paris Faculty of Law

[2][3][4] Pierre Abélard, founder of modern law, was its precursor, as a teacher at the cathedral school of Notre-Dame de Paris, Andrea Alciato, founder of legal humanism, was a professor there, and Saint Ivo, patron of lawyers and "Advocate of the Poor" according to the Catholic Church, had studied there.

Between the French Revolution and its dissolution in 1970, numerous important people in France and in the world taught or studied there, including Victor Hugo, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tocqueville, and Honoré de Balzac.

At the dissolution of the Sorbonne in 1970, its two main buildings were place du Panthéon and rue d'Assas.

With this doctrine, Abelard created in the Middle Ages the idea of the individual subject central to modern law.

Hence, Molière, Calvin, Perrault, Cujas, Rabelais, Fermat, La Boétie and others went to this faculty.

"Doctorate courses" existed in legal studies at that time until they were replaced in 1925 by the "Diplôme d'études supérieures".

[13] In 1753, Louis XV decided that a new building would be constructed for the faculty of law on the place du Panthéon.

Jacques-Germain Soufflot, alumnus of the faculty who had become the architect of the King designed and supervised the construction.

It was designed by Charles Lemaresquier, Alain le Normand and François Carpentier[15] to accommodate the growing number of students at the University of Paris.

[17] At the time of its inauguration, its main lecture theatre was the largest in France, with 1,700 seats[18] The Pope forbade the teaching of Roman law in Paris in 1223 with the decretal Super Specula.