Department faculty offers courses that provide ESSEC students with general training in business law and ensure them understand the challenges of territorial and environmental management. The department offers the legal program, and seminars in 3 Chairs and 2 Institutes.

The legal professions are open to graduates with dual degrees in law and business. The ESSEC Legal Program has been designed to provide the specific legal training required to understand legal reasoning and/or to prepare entry to the Ecole de formation professionnelle des Barreaux de Paris (Paris Bar School).

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In a school that emphasizes social and management responsibility, it is essential that courses cover three aspects: corporate territorial and environmental strategy, management and strategy of local communities, and property economics and management

The department includes 10 full-time faculty members, whose resumes can be consulted, and 33 part-time lecturers.

 Viviane de Beaufort, Doctorate 

 Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas, Doctorate

 Laurence de Carlo, Ph.D

 Jacques Delga, Doctorate

 Alain Lempereur, Doctorate 

 Ingrid Nappi-Choulet, Doctorate 

 Alain Sallez, Doctorate 

 Thierry Sibieude, Doctorate

 Olivier de Tissot, Doctorate 

 Franck Vallerugo, Doctorate

 Part-time lecturers

Created in 1994, the Urban and Regional Management Institute builds on the success of the ESSEC Urban Economics Chair to train a new generation of experts specialized in urban and public services management.

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More about its Directors, Adjunct Professor  Thierry Sibieude and Senior Lecturer  Franck Vallerugo

The negotiation process is a core ingredient of the decision-maker’s job, hence the need at IRENE not only for applied research and inventories of practices but also formulation of recommendations. IRENE's research program also includes case studies and simulations that are then included in training programs for professionals.

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 ESSEC Institutes

The increasingly financial nature of the real estate business, the development and globalization of property markets, and the increasing importance of the position of real-estate director in corporate strategy have given rise to new issues in the property sector. The Real Estate Chair offers students theoretical and practical courses, research conferences and seminars, and meetings with professionals from the real estate sector.

More about the Chair-holder, Associate Professor  Ingrid Nappi-Choulet

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 ESSEC Chairs

The ESSEC Chair of Social Entrepreneurship was created in January 2003 with the support of the MACIF, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the Fondation de France, and the Délégation Interministérielle à la Ville. It helps to develop teaching and applied research to social enterprise and the management of private initiatives that serve the collective interest

More about the Chair's head, tenured professor  Thierry Sibieude

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 ESSEC Chairs

The choice of a site for urban development and the quality of urban life are vital for any corporation. The Chair was set up to train executives to manage the environment while developing their company, as well as public officials who must understand and manage the balance between social, urban, and ecological issues.

More about the Chair-holders, Professor  Alain Sallez and Senior Lecturer  Franck Vallerugo

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 ESSEC Chairs