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The Master's degree in Personal and Family Law aims to consolidate skills in the fundamental subjects of private law and to deepen knowledge of personal and family law. It offers students a solid education in these subjects, covering both non-property and property aspects.
The courses offered combine substantive law and litigation mechanisms. Students will take general courses and specific courses in civil procedure and evidence law, enabling them to acquire the cross-disciplinary perspective necessary for their professional integration.
The aim is therefore to acquire theoretical and practical skills for the contentious and non-contentious management of situations in the field of personal and family law. Thanks to the small number of students per class (20), teaching can be truly interactive and support individualized.
 

"Ubi jus, ibi societas: he [the lawyer] is not essentially a loner. The lawyer serves society and must understand it.", B. Beignier, " Vetera et nova. Rénover la formation des étudiants en droit" (Old and new. Revamping the training of law students), Revue Commentaire 2016, 154.

News for the 2023-2024 academic year

• Legal clinic: A group of students from the Master's in Public Policy (M1 and M2) worked on raising awareness of transgender issues through the lens of law. Some gave three presentations at a high school (two two-hour training sessions for seniors and a one-hour conference open to the entire school). Others provided training at the UGA University Health Center. The students also worked on writing explanatory sheets and a podcast (which the students will continue to work on in 2024-2025). Another group of students worked on a project in coordination with the Abbé Pierre Foundation, related to the right to housing.
• October 3, 2023: "Becoming a doctoral student in law. Research in personal and family law, " Meeting with Mickaël Gros, currently a doctoral student and teaching assistant.
• November 10, 2023: Students were invited to attend a symposium entitled "Justice and Parental Separation: Towards New Tools, " co-organized bythe University of Grenoble and the CAMI ( Center for Mediating Lawyers of Isère). Discussions were initiated with a view to implementing the Belgian model of parental consensus within the courts of Grenoble and Privas.
• November 18, 2023: Working session on medically assisted reproduction with Professors Pascale Hoffmann (PU-PH, gynecologist-obstetrician at the Couple-Child Center of Grenoble University Hospital) and Sylviane Hennebicq ( PU-PH, Director of the Reproduction Laboratory-CECOS at Grenoble University Hospital).
• November 24, 2023:The EVA Tutelles association, a legal representative service for the protection of adults, opened its doors to students for half a day.
• November 29, 2023: Meeting with Séverin Célaudon, a former DPF Master's student who worked for many years as a lawyer at the CAF.
• November 2023: Seminar on "Medicine and Law on Domestic Violence. " The first morning brought together medical interns and students from the M2 Law of Persons and Families program to discuss proven or suspected cases of abuse (child abuse, domestic violence). The afternoon and the following morning brought together victims, doctors, child protection professionals, associations, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, the public prosecutor, police representatives, etc., for discussions on the subject.
• January 11, 2024: Meeting with Dominique Mattano, member of the Isère Women's and Family Rights Information Center.
• January 26, 2024: Meeting with Ms. Urso, a notary in Eybens, who came to share her passion for the notarial profession and her approach to the job.
• February 23, 2024: Meeting with Jimmy Messinéo, who came to share his career path as a lawyer specializing in child protection, fromthe French Adoption Agency to the International Social Service.

Partners

• The Department of Isère, in particular the Solidarity Division, responsible for child protection
• Magistrates (36 hours of classes taught by magistrates and conferences)
• The Grenoble Bar Association / Center for Mediating Lawyers of Isère
• Judicial Protection of Youth
• The Faculty of Medicine / Grenoble Alpes University Hospital
• Abbé Pierre Foundation
• Eva Guardianships
• Isère Women's and Family Rights Information Center
• International Social Service
• ...

Testimonials

Johanna Serve and Leïla Bensaloudji, judicial assistants to magistrates at the Grenoble Courthouse:
"We are fortunate to have studied this master's program, as the complementary nature of the subjects is very beneficial for the cases we have to deal with at the court and allows us to feel completely at ease with the work of magistrates."

Marion Auger, former student :
"I have since started preparing for the ENM, which involves daily work to assimilate the program, but I will be helped by what I learned in the M2. I think this feedback could be useful for the new class if any of them are planning to take the ENM competitive exam or the bar exam.
The family law classes we had gave us a broad overview of what we are expected to learn this year about property and non-property rights, and I realize that there are ultimately few concepts that I still need to clarify. We are therefore well ahead of the civil law program. The family law procedure course and the final exercise allowed me to focus on practical cases, and here again, the M2 program meets the expectations of the exam.
In the field of civil procedure, it is appreciated that the course on contemporary developments has covered all the major technical issues that are still relevant this year and which, in my opinion, would have been more difficult to grasp on my own.
In short, when we compared what we learned last year with our professors' expectations for this year, Zélia, who is following the same preparation program as me in Bordeaux, and I were relieved to have acquired large parts of the program during the M2.

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Double diplomas

This master's degree can be considered as part of a dual degree program with theUniversity of Sherbrooke (Canada)).

Graduate school BVBV

The BVBV "Bien Vivre Bien Vieillir" graduate school is a transdisciplinary research training program that prepares French and international students, during their two-year master's degree, for doctoral research or professional integration in the field of aging. Given the demographic curve, this is a highly promising subject.

The program combines 12 master's degrees offered by seven departments, including the master's degree in Personal and Family Law at the Grenoble Law School. Since GS@UGA students are enrolled in master's degrees in different departments, the graduate school is a truly interdisciplinary environment. This encourages different teaching methods and ensures that research is not confined to a single discipline.

The GS begins with a two-day summer school at the end of September, including a field trip. Twelve evening classes are then offered, with lectures in various disciplines. Finally, a four-day thematic school is organized in June. There is also a research project carried out by several students (at least two), which will be supported during the thematic school. In the thematic program "Living Well, Aging Well" (BVBV), some lectures are in English and others in French.

Participation in the BVBV program exempts students from taking one unit from semester 2 of M1 or M2 (equivalent to 6 ECTS credits) each year.