Ce cours apparaît dans les formations suivantes :
• Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Sciences - Licences & Prépas - Licence 2 Internationale d'Economie et de Gestion - S4 - 3 ECTS

Contenu du cours

Class 1: The legal system

• The courts: hierarchy, jurisdiction, juries


• The legal profession : professional / lay judges, lawyers


• The plaintiffs : individuals / class actions


• The remedies : punitive damages


• The sources : Laws, statutes, case-law, common-law, equity


• The rule of judicial precedent : comparison with the French system


• The hierarchy of norms : international conventions, specificities in the USA (federal statutes, codes, constitution, checks and balances, judicial review) and specificities in England (European law, communautary law, Brexit)


• Comparison between common law and civil law systems : conflicts, different languages, different logics


• Civil rights and liberties

Class 2. Business entities - Business disputes

• Business entities : Law of persons (legal personality), Company / corporate law (types of companies / corporations), Law of trusts (comparison between trusts and French fiducie, american trusts)


• Labor law : types of contracts, comparison with French labor law, affirmative action


• Business assets : Goodwill, Incorporeal assets, intellectual property law (trade marks, copyright, patents, designs, goodwill, trade names, know-how)


• Business disputes : contract clauses, moot case


• Alternative dispute resolution : Arbitration, mediation, arbitrators, mediators, arbitral courts, jurisdiction, contract clauses

Classes 3-4. Contract and tort

• Contract law: civil contracts, commercial contracts. Formation, consideration, discharge, breach, damages, exemption clauses.


• Consumer law : consumer protection, unfair terms.


• Tort liability, remedies

Classes 5-6. Sale contracts and products liability

• Special rules, international / domestic rules


• Products liability, strict liability

Classes 7-8. Distribution contracts - Competition law

• Different types : exclusive / selective distribution agreements, franchises, etc.


• Different clauses : supply, territory, exemption, price, competition, confidentiality, etc.


• Antitrust, abuse of dominant position, unfair competition, partitioned markets

Class 9. Data protection

• Data protection and the GDPR

Modalités d'enseignement

Organisation du cours

The entire written and oral course is in English

Before the session: The course material is sent by e-mail to each student a few days before the session (about 10 pages). The students have the entire theoretical course before the session : they must read it very carefully and understand it, in order to have assimilated the fundamental theoretical knowledge necessary for the application during the session.

During the session :

• Assimilation of knowledge : explanation and discussion of the course sent beforehand


• Putting knowledge into practice


• Analysis of legal situations and development of a solution using the legal rules studied : moot cases


• Reading and analysis of documents with legal content (consultation on the Internet in class) : institutional sites, newspaper articles, court decisions from various jurisdictions, reading and analysis of contracts


• Work in pairs or small groups


• Some exercises collected and evaluated : moot cases, commentary on contract clauses


• At the end of the session: short MCQ test to check understanding and to encourage the student to listen carefully during the session

Méthodes pédagogiques

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