Université de Lausanne Faculté de droit

The University

The University of Lausanne has been engaged in teaching law since 1537 when the Academy of Lausanne (Académie de Lausanne) was founded. Professors like Jean Barbeyrac (1771), Leon Walràs (1871) or Alfredo Pareto (1893) have taught at what today is the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences of the University of Lausanne.

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The Law School

Since 1991 the Faculty of Law and Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne has established Switzerland's most important Centre for the teaching of European Union law within the Center for Comparative, European and International Law. During his tenure as a professor of law, Professor Roland Bieber, the European Parliament's former Legal Adviser, has developed and managed between 1991 and 2007 the programme in the field of EU law.

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Location

A further strength of the programme stems from the fact that the campus of the University of Lausanne hosts also the renowned Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SICL) with an important collection of materials in comparative and international law. The European Documentation Centre hosted by the Institute and the importance of its collection contribute to the outstanding working conditions at the University of Lausanne.

The Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe and Centre for European Research are located a few steps from the Center for Comparative, European and International Law at the Ferme de Dorigny.The Foundation's important archives of the origins and development of the European communities are available to universities and researchers, including the personal archives of Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Robert Marjolin, François Fontaine, Jacques Van Helmont, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Robert Triffin, and the Earl of Perth.

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http://www.unil.ch/llm/