The establishment resulting from the merger of two Parisian universities is accused of having “captured” a historical and geographical identification that goes back to the Middle Ages.
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When there is thirteen heirs, nothing authorizes two of them to capture the manna, even if it appears from the symbolic. This is the lesson just received from the Council of State the University of Paris – from the merger between the Paris-Descartes and Paris-Diderot Universities and the attachment of the Institute of Physics of the Globe. This experimental public institution, created in March 2019, was recalled to order by a judgment of 29 December that cancels its founding decree.
The decision of the State Council legally closes a battle not only semantics both the names of names and brands have become strategic in higher education. “Existing internationally” is erected in priority, particularly since the Shanghai rankings imposed its criteria in 2003. The notoriety of teachings and researchers but also the financial interest of attracting students from around the world are The main engines.
The high administrative jurisdiction has acceded to the PARIS-II University Panthéon-Assas, which launched a procedure in 2019, “said the University of Paris. This was then already gratified – while it was only at the project stage – the “Idex” Excellence Label by an international jury in 2018, ensuring additional financing and a promising attractiveness.
“mislead the general public”
The President of Paris-II, at the time Guillaume Leyte, disputed “the capture of a collective name and a historical and geographical identification common to all universities derived from the University of Paris”. The name “resumes that of the university created in Paris in the XII e century and the university founded in 1896 to consolidate, in particular, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine “, recalls the Council of State. The law of 12 November 1968 then gave birth to several institutions having received a denomination of the terms “Paris University” and Roman figures – “which continues to be that of many of them” continues.
The judge considers that “by attributing the Name of University of Paris to the new establishment, the undertaking is likely to mislead the students, the French and foreign partners of the Parisian universities and more generally the general public, This denomination suggesting that this new establishment is the only successor of the former University of Paris and also that it is the only multidisciplinary university “. The High Jurisdiction therefore considers the decree attacked “tainted with a manifest error of assessment” and condemns the State to pay € 3,000 in Paris-II for legal costs.
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