Tomorrow

Priorities, personal & collective | Where do you think your studies will take you? Was studying Law only for your career, or might it enrich your private lives, for example with public engagement? What are the most pressing issues today? Do legal professionals have the responsibility — and the power — to change the world for the better?

Purpose | Career

• PPTXSlides W01

• not this week.

Gender equality has come a long way. Is there more to hope for, or have we achieved a fair and efficient social organization? The next great steps of feminism — or would any further step be a mistake?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente
• LIENVidéo (YouTube)

• Are universities like Yale, Cornell & Sciences Po right to offer classes on “Feminist Legal Theory”?
• The Pay Gap Today: Current Situation & Recent Legislations (see Pay Transparency in the EU).
• Gender Recognition Reform in Scotland and the U.K.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Ordre des adjectifs

France believes in a universalist ideal that makes no distinction between groups of people. Should other nations follow? Is there any merit in discriminating if its purpose is to right a wrong?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• Hate Speech Laws around the world.
• Affirmative Action today: legal challenges to corporate and university DEI programs.
• The Debate on Reparations.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Portée de l’adverbe

Is inequality a necessity? Inevitable? Natural? Is there a point of balance, and how do you determine it? Should the Law strive for equality de jure or de facto?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente
• LIENVidéo 1 (YouTube)
• LIENVidéo 2 (YouTube)

• Corporate Tax Rates around the World: any chance of improved international agreements?
• The G20’s proposed “Billionaire Tax”: prospects for international fiscal agreements.
• Note on: Accelerating Global Actions for a World without Poverty, United Nations.
• sujet semi-libre — “Piketty says R > G. So what?” bienvenu.

Verbes à particule

Who holds the most responsibility in tackling climate change? Public policy, investors and engineers, or the habits of most? Assess the hope to be found in the public sector, the private sector and the people at large.

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• Major Legal Difficulties in Tackling Climate Change.
• Carbon Tax vs. Cap-and-Trade.
• Can the Law shape Consumption, or is it just a matter of education and morals?
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Plasticité de la langue

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• A case for forms of more direct democracy.
• A case against more democracy.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Grammar quiz, 45 minutes (20 % de la note).

The sudden rise of artificial intelligence causes a lot of anxiety, and a lot of hope. Reason to rejoice, or cause for concern? How will it play a part in your own careers? Optimist or pessimist?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• Liability for Potentially Inaccurate Artificial Intelligence.
• Intellectual Property Laws at the time of Artificial Intelligence.
• The EU AI Act: a definitive rulebook, or the first of many steps?
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Traductologie pt. 1

As more people present themselves online and demand control over their official identification, is identity self-determined, or the result of other people’s way of perceiving you?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• Misgendering in Canada, Germany, and the United States.
• Should there be a digital identity? Europe & the rest of the world.
• Is identity given, chosen or achieved?
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Traductologie pt. 2

Is migration a moral issue to you, or a pragmatic one? General principles, or public policy modeled after statistics and opinion? Where does the struggle lie: in legislation, or in the execution of established laws?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• The United States: a nation of migration, or a tradition of restrictionism?
• The European Union and Immigration.
• “Sanctuary Cities”: the enforcement of migration laws and federalism.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

LLMs pt. 1

Should the justice system prioritize uncovering the truth, even if it causes additional emotional harm to vulnerable parties involved?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• Perjury, False Statements, and Obstruction of Justice: do Americans handle lying the way French people do?
• Note on: “Memory Laws” and Freedom of Expression, Council of Europe, 2018.
• Druzin & Li, “The Criminalization of Lying”, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2011.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

LLMs pt. 2

Is the very existence of Justice about protecting the common good? Do you believe in common interests, or is it just a matter of managing conflicting positions? Individual rights or collective organizations: which takes precedence?

• À VENIRDocuments de la semaine — donnés la semaine précédente

• The purpose of Justice, according to David Hume.
• The purpose of Justice, according to Jeremy Bentham.
• The purpose of Justice, according to John Rawls.
• sujet semi-libre, à soumettre à approbation.

Quiz (à la discrétion de l’enseignant).

90 minutes. Compréhension et expression écrites, grammaire, questions de culture sur le contenu du semestre — ou une seule question.