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proust

Joined: 01 Oct 2007
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Tue Oct 02, 2007 07:34 PM
Pantheon-Assas (Paris Deux, Paris II) is generally understood as the best known for its Law faculty. After all, they were the leader of "Paris Universitas", the group of faculty who insisted on maintaining the traditional subjects taught - Law being one of them --, instead of the division of subjects favoured by the now Paris-IV (Paris-Sorbonne).

Plus, most of their students are from the upper-middle class -- the reason you might want to pick prestigious law schools, or any universities of prestige, really, because you want to get some bloody connections, so attending posh ones are only logical.

But honestly, the question is really what do you want to do? Research? Or do you just want a degree to practice (LLB)? If you want research then check the department and see if they have the supervisor(s) you are interested on working with, and of course, you need to check how much funding they have. But, if you just want an LLB or something of the sort, then go find the university that teaches the kind of law you want to practice. This is perhaps where your question comes into picture, which one is more likely to give me a "good" job. Then I can only suggest that you find an Index that gives you their graduates' employability -- I'm not sure where you can find this sort of Index in Europe, however.

Nevertheless, note that selectivity of getting in to a program does not necessarily mean the program is THE best. It might give you a sense of prestige; getting in to a tough program and all. But some tough universities lack the "proper" connection to the local, or national, industry. So do you research on that as well, that is, if the university has a good relationship with the industry.

Also, don't forget to gauge your potential faculty. If your professors are well connected, then you might be able to get them to notice you. Who knows, you might get hooked up.
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jasq

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Sun Oct 21, 2007 03:18 PM
If you think about Central Europe, probably the best law school is at the Jagiellonian University (the oldest universities are Charles University in Prague /1348/ and Jagiellonian Univeristy in Krakow /1364/). In Krakow there are several LLM programs organized in cooperation with foreign universities (Washington, Dresden, Orleans) which grant their national diplomas. There is also the European Doctoral College (Krakow-Heidelberg-Mainz).
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Siwek

Joined: 25 Sep 2007
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Mon Nov 12, 2007 02:13 AM
Personally I can agree with the opinion of a previous person that Jagiellonian University is one of the best in Europe. Another Polish University which is regarded as one of the best is of course Warsaw University but there is not LLM but MA in English. I read that Dutch Universities are very good in English programms which are very practical and useful for students. Danish , Norwegian and Swedish are regarded as as one best too because of their stndards. If you know well French and you consider French as a place of work Sorbonne is recommended as a higly University. In Germany there are many good proogamms.
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soleillevant

Joined: 25 Dec 2007
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Wed Dec 26, 2007 09:54 PM
As being a french law student, I'd advise you all to choose ASSAS (Paris 2) as your LLM choice if you plan on coming to France. It's considered as the Best Law School in France, and like someone already said, the students that go there come from the upper-middle class, so .. you get it.
Assas is considered by far here as the #1 law school in France. I hope I helped some of you out!
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austriaca

Joined: 15 Jan 2008
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Wed Jan 16, 2008 01:19 PM
I can only agree with the person mentioning that we (Central Europe) are not so much into elitism. Especially in Austria we do not (yet) have elite universities - so we're just "fighting" who has the better reputation, Vienna or Salzburg...:-)

In my opinion it is far more important to choose an llm programm that brings you forward concerning the content. Here in Salzburg we have, for instance, an LLM-Program in Transnational Business Practice which focuses on European and American business law, in collaboration with McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento (which is, as far as I know, among the 100 best universities in the US). The courses are all taught in English, so you do not have any language problems and if you can't decide whether to stay in Europe or the US, you're having both here! There are always very super-qualified lecturers like judges of the ECJ and members of the EC.

It is quite a lot of work and quite exhausting - and surely nothing for people just whishing to collect titles to impress recruiters. But if you really want to gain knowledge, it is - in my opinion - one of the best programmes I know!
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ThomasM

Joined: 16 Jan 2008
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:52 PM
Anyone knows Vienna School of Law is better than Salzburg. And you can tell that after you observe and compare the library facilities, the professors, the student life, the opportunities from Vienna and Salzburg. Actually, I don't think we should really compare the two: they are on different caliber. Vienna enjoys prestige in all Europe ...

(However, Salzburg is very beautiful as a mountain resort. )
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jasq

Joined: 03 Jun 2007
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Re: Best Law Schools in Continental Europe?
Mon Jan 28, 2008 08:41 AM
My friend took the Salzburg/Sacramento programme - it does have a very high level - but it's still lacking wider recognisability (a Central European standard :)
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