DU Diploma in Legal Studies (étudiants internationaux exclusivement)

Objectives of the Diploma

To develop students’ expertise in the different facets of French, International and Comparative Law

To help students’ integration into the professional world at both European and international levels

To enhance graduates’ applications for admission to other exchange programme and graduate level French degrees

This Diploma is meant to be completed in one year of full-time study. Students take 7 subjects each semester, each course representing 20 class hours. Students in this programme have the opportunity to improve their French by attending, in small groups, courses of French as a Foreign Language (FFL).

The lecturers of the programme are mainly from the Grenoble Law School. In addition to this, some lectures are given by other French lecturers, or by invited professors, coming from various countries, to teach in their legal specialisation.

Extra-activities

On the margins of the Diploma, the students will be invited to discover the cultural, environmental or artistic heritage of the region.

This can take the form of a commented visit to the Musuem of Modern Art, the former Parliament of the Dauphiné (used for a long time as a tribunal), the organization of a wine testing, a ski trip or a hiking in the surrounding mountains, etc.