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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre Sorbonne

📍 Rue de la Sorbonne 17, Paris, 75005🏗 1971-01-01

In Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne—Centre Sorbonne once stood a major outcome of France’s 1968 upheaval: the university was created in 1971 from two faculties of the historic University of Paris, after the May 1968 protests that forced a division of one of the world’s oldest universities. The historic University of Paris itself first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, and was reorganised in 1970 into 13 autonomous universities. Paris 1 was built by faculty choices as much as by policy: most of the economics professors (35 out of 41) of the Faculty of Law and Economics decided to found a multidisciplinary Paris 1, bringing together humanities professors and additional law professors. The institution’s academic focus later grouped into three main areas: Economics and Management, Human Sciences, and Legal and Political Sciences. …

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