The Clinic
The Sciences Po Law School Clinic is an original educational program hosted by the Sciences Po Law School in Paris. An experiential learning program built around a contextual, interdisciplinary and reflective approach to the contemporary practice of law, it enables students and partner organizations to engage in cutting edge public interest and social innovation projects at the local, national and global scale.
The clinic’s pedagogical and public interest mission relies on the active involvement of faculty, students and partner organizations in projects related to current social justice issues.
Research is an integral part of the clinic, which aims to influence public debate within and beyond academic circles through the publication of reports, academic scholarship, as well as public events organized at Sciences Po.
The Sciences Po Law School Clinic covers six specific fields:
- Access to justice
- Corporate social responsibility (RISE)
- Human rights in the context of economic globalization and development (HEDG)
- Migrations
- Environmental Justice and Ecological Transition (JETE)
- DIGILAW
Each field translates into a specific clinical program, articulated around a clinical seminar. Clinical seminars are taught by Sciences Po faculty, as well as professionals drawn from a variety of fields. They are built around the various clinical projects on which teams of students, supervised by professional tutors, work throughout the academic year in partnership with a wide range of organizations.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Economic Law Students can apply to:
- Access to justice
- Corporate social responsibility (RISE)
- Human rights in the context of economic globalization and development (HEDG)
- Migrations
- Environmental Justice and Ecological Transition (JETE)
- DIGILAW
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
To Economic Law Students
Clinic is not compatible with a Moot, a collective project, an exchange abroad or Pre-doctoral initiation to research program (PIR).
Clinical course is associated with another elective course:
- RISE program: Jean-Philippe Robé's Structure juridique du système de pouvoir mondial course (fall 2022)
- HEDG program: Pascal McDougall's Human Rights, Global Poverty and Development course (fall 2022)
- Migration program: Loïc Azoulai's European Migrants Law course (fall 2022)
- JETE program: Luca d'Ambrosio's Droit économique de l'environnement and suggested Alain Pottage's course on Global governance of Climate Change (fall 2022)
- Access to Justice program: Comparative discrimination law: enforcement and effectiveness in a global world (spring 2023) with Marie Mercat Bruns
- DIGILAW programm: AI and Data Governance with de Beatriz Botero (fall 2022)
Annual investment is mandatory.
Course/workshop exemptions :
- Students enrolled in GGS are exempt from 3 workshops (fall) and 2 workshops (spring)
- Students enrolled in EMR are exempt from one elective per semester
- Students enrolled in DPE, CEA or DI are exempt from an elective course in the fall
- Students enrolled in Master Joint droit et Finance are exempt from an elective course in the fall
The Clinical project can be your Grand oral.
To PSIA Students
GRAND O MAY 2023
The next session of the "Grand Oral" examination will be held from Monday, 15 to Wednesday, 17 May then from Monday, 22 to Friday, 26 May 2023.
- By Friday, 10 February 2023, you should prepare and send the question to be addressed in your clinical executive summary (form provided by email). These questions will then be validated by the clinic's teaching team, and you will be notified by Friday, 24 March 2023.
- By Tuesday, 4 April 2023, you will then have to write and send your executive summary to ecolededroit.grandoral@sciencespo.fr
- By the end of April 2023, you will be informed of the date and the panel for your exam
To read on line futher details (duration, executive summary, preparation for your oral presentation…) we invite you to visit our site.
CalendAr 2022-2023
For Sciences Po Law School Students only :
- Call for application: May, 25th, 2022
- Deadline: June, 9th, 2022
- Auditions: between June 14th to June 25th
- Decisions : Early July
Partners
Contact US
- Jeremy Perelman, Sciences Po, Associate Professor, Sciences Po Law School Clinic Director
- Marie Mercat-Bruns, Sciences Po, Lecturer, Access to justice Project manager
- Julie Babin d'Amonville, Sciences Po Law School, Executive Director
- Caroline Johnson, Sciences Po Law School, Academic Advisor
