DepartmentsPublic & Private Policy

Regrouping expertise by discipline

A department groups together professors who share complementary expertise in their discipline. Instruction and curriculum are developed and coordinated for all ESSEC programs in these departments under the management of the department head, who is chosen by his or her colleagues. ESSEC currently has eight departments.


Informations

Department brochure

Contact:
Jennifer Pain
Tel. +33 (0) 1 34 43 28 94

Education

The Public and Private Policy Department teaches students and executives the basic principles of business law, regional and environmental management, real estate economics and management and international negotiation. The department also offers a Legal Program for students seeking a career in business law, and allows them to prepare for admission to the Ecole de formation professionnelle des Barreaux de Paris (Paris Bar School).

Research

Professors in the Department of Public and Private Policy are actively engaged in various applied and theoretical research in the areas of negotiation, corporate real estate, urban governance, philanthropy, market regulation, contract law, corporate law and governance among others.

Faculty

The Public and Private Policy Department has 14 full-time professors and 52 part-time lecturers.

European Center for Law and Economics

Understanding the importance of the role law and legal regulation can play in defining a business strategy, the European Centre for Law and Economics (CEDE) takes an integrated approach to the study of both law and economics. The center is designed as a place for monitoring and analyzing current trends in order to anticipate both legal and economic changes in order to better understand their implications for companies and governments.
Directors: Viviane de Beaufort, Frédéric Jenny
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Associated Research Chairs & Institutes

Chair for Real Estate and Sustainable Development

The Chair for Real Estate and Sustainable Development provides theoretical and practical training in current issues facing the real estate industry. It aims to support both teaching and research in the economics, financing and management of the real estate industry whilst taking into account issues of sustainable development.

Urban Economics Chair

Unique among major schools of management, the ESSEC Urban Economics Chair has been educating second and third-year students for over 20 years on the complex issues and value systems that surround the management of cities and territories. Focusing on both the public and the private, chair graduates are given the tools to promote economic development but also balance social, environmental and urban planning and launch careers as the managers of territorial corporate partners and executives of local bodies and their satellites.

Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation in Europe

The Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation in Europe (IRENE) aims to strengthen and improve negotiation theory and practice in their various fields of application.