The 1968 cultural revolution, commonly known as the French May, resulted in the division of the world's second oldest academic institution, the University of Paris, into thirteen autonomous universities. Pantheon-Assas University is the inheritor of the former law and economics faculties of the University of Paris. Pantheon-Assas University has been ranked the first law school in France by the 201
0 La Tribune French University Report,[1] the 2009 Le Nouvel Observateur French University Rankings[2] and the 2009 Le Figaro Legalease.[3] It is a founding member of Sorbonne Universités, an alliance with two other prestigious French universities specializing respectively in the humanities and medicine, Paris-Sorbonne University and Pierre and Marie Curie University. Pantheon-Assas has eighteen campuses in Paris, with the majority of them located in the historic Latin Quarter and its main campus situated in the Place du Panthéon, twenty four research centers and five doctoral schools. Pantheon-Assas is composed of four departments specializing in law, public and private management, economics and political science. The University enrolls 8,000 undergraduate and 9,000 postgraduate students with 2,500 foreign exchange students on visit every year. Since its founding in 1970, Pantheon-Assas has produced 2 French Prime Ministers, 3 presidents of French political parties, 8 French heads of various ministries including Defense, Justice, Interior and Economy and Finance, 2 foreign heads of state and 4 foreign senators and ministers. Its faculty has included Georges Vedel, of the Académie française, former member of the Constitutional Council of France, François Terré, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Prosper Weil, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, Albert Rigaudière, member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques and Joe Verhoeven, secretary general of the Institut de droit international.
