Poitiers University - Law and Social Sciences Department

Having inherited from a long tradition of legal teaching inaugurated in 1431, and selected by Napoleon after the troubles of the Revolution as one of the nine French establishments in charge of informing on the newly-written Civil Code, the Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Sociales of Poitiers still contributes today in a determining way to the elaboration and teaching of knowledge in the domains of law, economic and social administration.