It is named after the French Resistance fighter Jean Moulin and specialises in Law, Politics, Philosophy, Management and languages.

University Lyon 3 was established in the early 1970s (26 July 1973), part of the reorganisation of higher education following the events of May 68 that rocked the academic world.

The new university was named after Jean Moulin, a wartime resistance leader who was captured in Lyon.

[5] The Lyon Law School, was created by decree issued on 29 October 1875, by Marshal Mac Mahon, was inaugurated by French President Felix Faure on 1 May 1896.

[citation needed] Cambodia was also the scene of the development of the Lyon Law School, before the Vietnam War.

[14][15] The law school offers several joint programs in business law with EM Lyon business school,[16][17] in criminal science with the faculty of medicine of university of Lyon,[18] in security studies with France's National Police College.

[19] The faculty organise conferences with INTERPOL, France's National Police College (ENSP) and Handicap International on a regular basis.

The professorial staff of the Faculty of Philosophy of Lyon 3 included Régis Debray and includes Mauro Carbone,[24] Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Jean-Claude Beaune, Jean-Pierre Ginisti, François Guéry, Bruno Pinchard, Bimbenet Etienne, Jean-Joël Duhot.

The foreign languages taught include German, English, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Sanskrit and Hindi.

[27] The iaelyon School of Management is located in the historical complex of the "Manufacture des Tabacs" in the heart of Lyon.