Law School Law at the Top

The Master's in Law and Public Administration (DCAP) is an innovative program designed to train senior administrative executives in the state and local civil service (attachés and administrators, contract employees, department heads), political executives (directors and chiefs of staff, political advisors), and high-level advisors (public law attorneys, consultants, audit firms) for tomorrow's public administration. It prepares students for careers in the administrative judiciary (advisors to administrative tribunals and administrative courts of appeal, advisors to regional chambers of accounts).

Spanning two years, the Master's degree in Local Government Law provides students with high-level legal skills. This master's program includes essential courses (administrative contract law, public property law, environmental law, civil service law, local public finance law, urban planning law, etc.) as well as innovative and rare courses (public liability law, political election law, participatory democracy law, mountain law).

Professional scenarios are organized (regional legal clinic, optional internship in M1 and mandatory internship in M2, case studies, project development, conferences with practitioners, etc.). The second year consists of apprenticeships (apprenticeship contracts) with local authorities, decentralized administrations, law firms, etc.
 

Dual degree program in Territorial Governance

Within the Local Government Law program, students can choose to follow the Local Governance track, in partnership with Sciences Po GrenobleThis selective program leads to a double degree in Local Government Management and Local Government Law.

For more information, visit the Master's in Territorial Governance.

Local Government Law Clinic

Since 2018, students enrolled in the Local Government Law track at the Law School have been participating in the Local Government Law Clinic, a unique learning environment in France, both in terms of its focus (local public administration) and its teaching methods (the “clinical” approach).

This clinic, the result of a partnership between the Law School the Grenoble Bar Association, is designed to enhance the legal education of students at the Law School , particularly through rigorous, supervised practical application of their knowledge in areas related to local government law in the broadest sense, that is, all areas of law that local governments must deal with in practice. It allows participating students to familiarize themselves with the concrete challenges faced by local governments, to review actual petitions, documents, and case files, with the goal of providing well-reasoned legal responses to the issues raised. The challenge for students is to find themselves in a situation as close as possible to their actual work in the context of their future professional lives. The work carried out by students within the clinic does not constitute legal consultation within the meaning of Law No. 71-1130 of December 31, 1971, but rather an educational exercise.

The clinic consists of an educational team comprising the clinic director, Professor Romain Rambaud, the head of the Grenoble Bar Association's Administrative Law Committee, Sandrine Fiat, lawyers wishing to offer students past or current cases, and, where applicable, teacher-researchers wishing to participate in the clinic's activities.

Lawyers are responsible for providing clinical training to students, following an adaptable three-session model:

1. Preparation and presentation of the case file to the students in the clinic: facts of the case, requests to be processed, main legal issues, expectations regarding proposed responses;
2. Monitoring students in the processing of their files, answering questions, providing updates;
3. Correction of final work submitted by students and grading. Where possible, at some stage during the processing of their files, students are put in direct contact with a representative of the local authority (member of a department, elected official, etc.) or a party involved in the case in question.

In the event that the clinic is approached spontaneously by a local authority, it determines whether it is possible to offer, in partnership with lawyers, an educational exercise to students following this request and under what conditions.