Campuses
Paris-Panthéon-Assas University shares a common history with Paris, contributing to its worldwide reputation as a city that pulses with intellectual life and vibrany. The remarkable architecture of Paris-Panthéon-Assas-University at the heart of the historical centre bears witness to the fortune and wealth that the University and its city bestowed upon one another over the centuries.
The historical building of the Panthéon Centre houses the Faculty of Law. As the original premises, located at rue Jean-de-Beauvais, were judged inadequate for purpose, Dean Edme MARTIN obtained the permission of Daniel-Charles TRUDAINE, the director of École nationale des ponts et chaussées and emeritus professor of the Faculty of Law, to build a new Law school on the grounds of the Collège de Lisieux from which the Jesuits had been expelled in 1762. In 1771, as part of a development project for the square in front of the Sainte-Geneviève church (now the Panthéon), which was being built at the time, leading architect Jacques-Germain SOUFFLOT (1713-1780) erected the building which boasts four ionic columns supporting a triangular pediment with a tympanum featuring the coat of arms of King Louis XV. The Faculty of Law relocated to its new premises the following year. Closed in 1793 during the French Revolution, the Faculty of Law opened on November 22, 1805, after the Civil Code (or Napoleonic Code) and the Law of March 13, 1804, were passed, creating modern Law schools.
By the middle of the 19th century, Soufflot’s historic building on the Panthéon’s square lacked the space required to accommodate the vast numbers of French and international students eager to be educated at France’s leading University of Law. At the end of the 19th century, the Third Republic undertook a huge modernisation project of the University of Paris and all the universities located on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Minister of Public Education, Jules FERRY, entrusted architect Henri-Paul NÉNOT with the task of building the new Sorbonne at the exact location of the historical but dilapidated buildings of RICHELIEU, which were then destroyed. The impressive chapel built by Jacques LEMERCIER features Paris’ first Roman-style dome and houses RICHELIEU’S tomb built by GIRARDON, a masterpiece of 17th century statuary. Fortunately, the preserved chapel can still be admired today. The building devoted to the Faculty of Law was then almost doubled, within the quadrilateral that it still occupies today and is encircled by the Panthéon’s square, rue Cujas, rue Saint-Jacques and rue Soufflot which runs between the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Panthéon.
Two and a half centuries later, the same buildings still accommodate the Presidency and final-year classes of the cursus honorum of Paris-Panthéon-Assas University which is heir of the Faculty of Law.
The convent of the Theatines, established in the 17th century, became the College of the Immaculate Conception in the 19th century, under the reign of Louis-Philippe, and played a major role in educating the children of the most illustrious families of France. From the old college, all that remains is the old chapel, which is part of the original architectural complex, and the memory of the large market gardens that shaped the landscape of this former land of the Val Girard, then on the outskirts of Paris.
Young Charles DE GAULLE, who attended the Jesuits’ College, like his father, Henri DE GAULLE, surely must have walked under its century-old trees. Henri DE GAULLE became a professor there and later occupied the position of prefect. After the eviction of the Jesuits in 1905, he kept the college open, until it finally closed its doors in July 1908. Today, the Vaugirard Centre welcomes 3,000 first-year students each year.
Built between 1959 and 1962 by architect Noël Le MARESQUIER, who was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome and worked as a workshop supervisor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, the Assas Centre is beautifully situated in the immediate vicinity of the Jardin du Luxembourg.
It is an impressive urban campus covering 30,000 square meters in the heart of Paris. It has undergone a major restructuring work which was completed in 2016 by architect and urban planner Alain SARFATI, whose other works include the French Embassy in Beijing. Paris-Panthéon-Assas University’s flagship building opens its doors to more than 10,000 students every day. It boasts a niversity library of 2,500 square meters and illustrates a desire to provide students with excellent teaching standards in an ultra-modern and attractive environment. The building caters for new co-working methods, thanks to multipurpose facilities which are perfectly adapted to the requirements of international conferences, exhibitions or concerts. A digital platform allows students to be connected, at any time and from any location, to the documentary and economic, legal, statistical and bibliographical databases. Each professor has their own office, as well as access to interactive meeting and videoconference facilities. Studios enable the recording and production of pedagogical content and thus ensure the teaching of French Law reaches an outside audience beyond the building itself.
The Melun Institute of Law and Economics was created in 1987 thanks to a partnership with local authorities (Town Council of Melun, then Melun Val-de-Seine Conurbation Authority) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.
Built on 4 sites on Saint-Étienne island in the centre of Melun, some 50 kilometres away from the capital, the Institute of Law and Economics welcomes nearly 2,000 students, mainly undergraduates. They benefit from excellent teaching standards and amenities with large amphitheatres, tutorial rooms, a library and other user-friendly facilities in a pleasant environment by the River Seine. Since 2010, the Melun Centre has been home to the Institute for Equal Opportunities. Bearing witness to the University’s desire to support equal opportunities for civil service candidates, some classes préparatoires intégrées have been established in connection with the network of schools for future civil servants, which includes the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA) or the École Nationale de la Magistrature (ENM). Their purpose is to reduce inequality in entrance examination preparation by welcoming deserving students who do not have sufficient financial resources to access private preparations. The University also works closely with Melun’s École des Officiers de la Gendarmerie Nationale and the École Nationale de la Police de Cannes-Écluse.
Dubai Campus: in the heart of the DIFC, a renowned business center
The branched off courses of the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University in Dubai is meant both to align itself with the overarching educational mission of the mother university in Paris, a longstanding 13th century old knowledge hub, while enhancing the needs and aspirations of the Emirates of Dubai as outlined in Dubai Vision 2021, by providing the highest quality education of world renown at affordable cost, in line with its being a public non for profit institution of higher learning. The Paris-Panthéon-Assas University branched off international courses in Dubai aim to expose the brightest students of the UAE to the finest quality of knowledge that a law school could offer with courses that are in line with the vision of the UAE leadership and the local culture, and that live up to their highest aspirations. It purports to contribute to forming the country’s elites by bringing to their threshold the know-how of accumulated knowledge of 13 centuries of broadly gauged knowledge and deeply focused research.
Mauritius Campus: a unique student experience in Mauritius
The Paris-Pantheon-Assas University is hosted by Uniciti Education Hub, located at Pierrefonds. With over 1,800 students enrolled in prominent international higher education institutions in 2020, the Uniciti Education hub is a unique concept encompassing education, research and innovation through tangible partnerships with top-notch international institutions. The Uniciti Education Hub is an integrated campus which consists of state-of-the-art facilities, student housing and other facilities such as a sports complex, shopping and recreational activities. The campus hosts several international institutions, making it an exciting and enriching pluridisciplinary learning environment.
Singapore campus: an outstanding experience in Singapore campus
Singapore has become one of the most prosperous countries in the world and positions itself as the region’s financial and high-tech hub. Assas International, Singapore campus is hosted at INSEAD Asia within One-North, an area dedicated to education, research, innovation and business industries.
Paris Campus: in the heart of the Quartier Latin
Considered as France’s first Law university and very well-known among many foreign countries, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University is dedicated to upholding the tradition from which it arose, preserving, yet ever-striving to raise its level of excellence with respect to all fields of Laws.
- Assas Centre
92 rue d’Assas 75006 Paris - Charcot Centre
36 rue Charcot 75013 Paris - Desgoffe Centre
4 rue Blaise-Desgoffe 75006 Paris - Fossés-Saint-Jacques Centre
26 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques 75005 Paris - Guy-de-la-Brosse Centre
1 Rue Guy de la Brosse, 75005 Paris - Melun Centre
19 rue du Château 77000 Melun - Panthéon Centre
12 place du Panthéon 75005 Paris - Sainte-Barbe Centre
4 rue Valette 75005 Paris - Saint-Guillaume Centre
28 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris - Saint-Jacques Centre / Maison du droit public et de la science politique
26 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques 75005 Paris - Thénard Centre
10 rue Thénard 75005 Paris - Ulm Centre
1 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
On all its campuses, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University ensures the quality of its services and infrastructure to provide the best working and living conditions for the entire academic community.
Paris-Panthéon-Assas University shares a common history with Paris, contributing to its worldwide reputation as a city that pulses with intellectual life and vibrany. The remarkable architecture of Paris-Panthéon-Assas-University at the heart of the historical centre bears witness to the fortune and wealth that the University and its city bestowed upon one another over the centuries.
The historical building of the Panthéon Centre houses the Faculty of Law. As the original premises, located at rue Jean-de-Beauvais, were judged inadequate for purpose, Dean Edme MARTIN obtained the permission of Daniel-Charles TRUDAINE, the director of École nationale des ponts et chaussées and emeritus professor of the Faculty of Law, to build a new Law school on the grounds of the Collège de Lisieux from which the Jesuits had been expelled in 1762. In 1771, as part of a development project for the square in front of the Sainte-Geneviève church (now the Panthéon), which was being built at the time, leading architect Jacques-Germain SOUFFLOT (1713-1780) erected the building which boasts four ionic columns supporting a triangular pediment with a tympanum featuring the coat of arms of King Louis XV. The Faculty of Law relocated to its new premises the following year. Closed in 1793 during the French Revolution, the Faculty of Law opened on November 22, 1805, after the Civil Code (or Napoleonic Code) and the Law of March 13, 1804, were passed, creating modern Law schools.
By the middle of the 19th century, Soufflot’s historic building on the Panthéon’s square lacked the space required to accommodate the vast numbers of French and international students eager to be educated at France’s leading University of Law. At the end of the 19th century, the Third Republic undertook a huge modernisation project of the University of Paris and all the universities located on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Minister of Public Education, Jules FERRY, entrusted architect Henri-Paul NÉNOT with the task of building the new Sorbonne at the exact location of the historical but dilapidated buildings of RICHELIEU, which were then destroyed. The impressive chapel built by Jacques LEMERCIER features Paris’ first Roman-style dome and houses RICHELIEU’S tomb built by GIRARDON, a masterpiece of 17th century statuary. Fortunately, the preserved chapel can still be admired today. The building devoted to the Faculty of Law was then almost doubled, within the quadrilateral that it still occupies today and is encircled by the Panthéon’s square, rue Cujas, rue Saint-Jacques and rue Soufflot which runs between the Jardin du Luxembourg and the Panthéon.
Two and a half centuries later, the same buildings still accommodate the Presidency and final-year classes of the cursus honorum of Paris-Panthéon-Assas University which is heir of the Faculty of Law.
The convent of the Theatines, established in the 17th century, became the College of the Immaculate Conception in the 19th century, under the reign of Louis-Philippe, and played a major role in educating the children of the most illustrious families of France. From the old college, all that remains is the old chapel, which is part of the original architectural complex, and the memory of the large market gardens that shaped the landscape of this former land of the Val Girard, then on the outskirts of Paris.
Young Charles DE GAULLE, who attended the Jesuits’ College, like his father, Henri DE GAULLE, surely must have walked under its century-old trees. Henri DE GAULLE became a professor there and later occupied the position of prefect. After the eviction of the Jesuits in 1905, he kept the college open, until it finally closed its doors in July 1908. Today, the Vaugirard Centre welcomes 3,000 first-year students each year.
Built between 1959 and 1962 by architect Noël Le MARESQUIER, who was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome and worked as a workshop supervisor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, the Assas Centre is beautifully situated in the immediate vicinity of the Jardin du Luxembourg.
It is an impressive urban campus covering 30,000 square meters in the heart of Paris. It has undergone a major restructuring work which was completed in 2016 by architect and urban planner Alain SARFATI, whose other works include the French Embassy in Beijing. Paris-Panthéon-Assas University’s flagship building opens its doors to more than 10,000 students every day. It boasts a niversity library of 2,500 square meters and illustrates a desire to provide students with excellent teaching standards in an ultra-modern and attractive environment. The building caters for new co-working methods, thanks to multipurpose facilities which are perfectly adapted to the requirements of international conferences, exhibitions or concerts. A digital platform allows students to be connected, at any time and from any location, to the documentary and economic, legal, statistical and bibliographical databases. Each professor has their own office, as well as access to interactive meeting and videoconference facilities. Studios enable the recording and production of pedagogical content and thus ensure the teaching of French Law reaches an outside audience beyond the building itself.
The Melun Institute of Law and Economics was created in 1987 thanks to a partnership with local authorities (Town Council of Melun, then Melun Val-de-Seine Conurbation Authority) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.
Built on 4 sites on Saint-Étienne island in the centre of Melun, some 50 kilometres away from the capital, the Institute of Law and Economics welcomes nearly 2,000 students, mainly undergraduates. They benefit from excellent teaching standards and amenities with large amphitheatres, tutorial rooms, a library and other user-friendly facilities in a pleasant environment by the River Seine. Since 2010, the Melun Centre has been home to the Institute for Equal Opportunities. Bearing witness to the University’s desire to support equal opportunities for civil service candidates, some classes préparatoires intégrées have been established in connection with the network of schools for future civil servants, which includes the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA) or the École Nationale de la Magistrature (ENM). Their purpose is to reduce inequality in entrance examination preparation by welcoming deserving students who do not have sufficient financial resources to access private preparations. The University also works closely with Melun’s École des Officiers de la Gendarmerie Nationale and the École Nationale de la Police de Cannes-Écluse.
Dubai Campus: in the heart of the DIFC, a renowned business center
The branched off courses of the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University in Dubai is meant both to align itself with the overarching educational mission of the mother university in Paris, a longstanding 13th century old knowledge hub, while enhancing the needs and aspirations of the Emirates of Dubai as outlined in Dubai Vision 2021, by providing the highest quality education of world renown at affordable cost, in line with its being a public non for profit institution of higher learning. The Paris-Panthéon-Assas University branched off international courses in Dubai aim to expose the brightest students of the UAE to the finest quality of knowledge that a law school could offer with courses that are in line with the vision of the UAE leadership and the local culture, and that live up to their highest aspirations. It purports to contribute to forming the country’s elites by bringing to their threshold the know-how of accumulated knowledge of 13 centuries of broadly gauged knowledge and deeply focused research.
Mauritius Campus: a unique student experience in Mauritius
The Paris-Pantheon-Assas University is hosted by Uniciti Education Hub, located at Pierrefonds. With over 1,800 students enrolled in prominent international higher education institutions in 2020, the Uniciti Education hub is a unique concept encompassing education, research and innovation through tangible partnerships with top-notch international institutions. The Uniciti Education Hub is an integrated campus which consists of state-of-the-art facilities, student housing and other facilities such as a sports complex, shopping and recreational activities. The campus hosts several international institutions, making it an exciting and enriching pluridisciplinary learning environment.
Singapore campus: an outstanding experience in Singapore campus
Singapore has become one of the most prosperous countries in the world and positions itself as the region’s financial and high-tech hub. Assas International, Singapore campus is hosted at INSEAD Asia within One-North, an area dedicated to education, research, innovation and business industries.
Paris Campus: in the heart of the Quartier Latin
Considered as France’s first Law university and very well-known among many foreign countries, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University is dedicated to upholding the tradition from which it arose, preserving, yet ever-striving to raise its level of excellence with respect to all fields of Laws.
- Assas Centre
92 rue d’Assas 75006 Paris - Charcot Centre
36 rue Charcot 75013 Paris - Desgoffe Centre
4 rue Blaise-Desgoffe 75006 Paris - Fossés-Saint-Jacques Centre
26 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques 75005 Paris - Guy-de-la-Brosse Centre
1 Rue Guy de la Brosse, 75005 Paris - Melun Centre
19 rue du Château 77000 Melun - Panthéon Centre
12 place du Panthéon 75005 Paris - Sainte-Barbe Centre
4 rue Valette 75005 Paris - Saint-Guillaume Centre
28 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris - Saint-Jacques Centre / Maison du droit public et de la science politique
26 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques 75005 Paris - Thénard Centre
10 rue Thénard 75005 Paris - Ulm Centre
1 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris