I chose to join the Magistère Droit Journalisme et Communication in 2017 because this training was in line with my career path, once I had graduated from the ENS D1 preparation class. These three years have been very formative, thanks to the wide range of courses offered: law, journalism, economics, communication, marketing... But also with the "Synergy" missions specific to the Magistère which allow you to immerse yourself in the professional world once a week. This is a real added value for students who are thus confronted with the realities and constraints of the working world. These missions have taught me how to manage my stress, with public speaking and regular exchanges with professionals, senior civil servants... and event organisation. With other Magisterial students, I was able to organize conferences in the Faculty of Law, where I had to present the speakers. Today, as a Media Officer for the Havas advertising group, I am no longer intimidated by public speaking and everything I have learned is a real strength, especially during presentations to clients.

The Magistère enabled me to discover and learn the fundamentals of the journalistic profession, to discover communication, while deepening my knowledge of law, history and economics, thanks to the common courses with the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in law. These courses are very useful in terms of general culture and allow a better understanding of many subjects when you are a journalist. The whole thing forms a good balance between theory and practice. The Magistère of course gave me my first professional experience through internships and Synergie missions, which quickly confirmed my desire to become a journalist, especially my first internship at the newspaper La Provence, which allowed me to practice the profession in the field. The number of internships and assignments allows us to have different experiences and therefore to realize what we like the most, in order to make the best choices later on. Today, after two years of work experience at France Télévisions, I have been a freelance journalist for the Franceinfo channel for a year and a half.

I joined the Professional Master II Corporate Law and Taxation in September 2017 after a Master I Business Law. The teaching schedule is organized in the form of alternating between theory and practice every other week. The courses, taught by leading professors from Aix-Marseille University as well as high quality lecturers (notably lawyers), allow students to learn the knowledge necessary for the practice of taxation and to develop a critical mind of positive law. The integration within a law firm allows to approach the concrete exercise of the profession, the follow-up of files over a large period and the acquisition of a great work force. On a personal note, the law firm that welcomed me nearly 4 years ago for my work-study is the one where I am a tax lawyer today and will soon be the one where I will work for the first time as a lawyer. In a few words: This is a quality training course both in its professional and human dimensions.

It is with great pride that I joined the Master 2 Law of the Execution of Sentences at the beginning of the 2019 academic year. We are received by Mrs GIACOPELLI who assures us that we will have to work hard but that we will come out of it full of assets to face the professional world and the civil service exams. We all look at each other, each one hoping to succeed in what he wanted: DSP, DPIP, CPIP, magistrate... Our year begins strongly, we meet a great man in the defence of human rights and the control of places of detention. And it is without a doubt that we will bear his name: we will be called the DELARUE Class. We followed theoretical courses, colloquiums, simulated public hearings, and interactions with professionals: public prosecutors, enforcement judges, prison clerks, directors of prison services, etc. It was my best academic year, both in terms of theory and pre-professional work and the results I obtained that year. This master's degree allowed me to perfect my criminal law, and more precisely the law of the application of sentences; secondly, to enrich my knowledge of practice thanks to the interventions of numerous professionals, and thirdly, it allowed me to be in total immersion for two months in a penitentiary establishment. Also, for those who are more passionate about the law of the execution of sentences, this M2 offered us the possibility to participate in a criminology seminar at the Luynes prison. This experience was rich, formative and full of meaning. Students aspire to concrete things and this professional M2 offers concrete things, practical things. But it is also concrete that it has enabled those who have completed it to integrate the Integrated Preparatory Class of the ENAP, to become Director of Penitentiary Services, Lawyer, Police Commissioner... Today, I am a Penitentiary Insertion and Probation Counsellor. And everything I have learned during this year of M2 is useful to me every day, so THANK YOU. I wish all the future students to spend a year as rich as mine. Have a good school year!

If the diploma is to be considered as a tool offered to each student for his or her future life, I would say that if it is well prepared, the Master 2 in Civil Law and Private International Law will become an undeniable asset in the professional life of any lawyer. First of all, this year is a logical extension of the Master 1 in Private Law in that it goes into all the subjects of civil law but also the fundamentals of private international law. This course allows students to consolidate their knowledge, but above all, it offers a logic of reflection to students. It is important to understand that this year requires work and personal investment. However, on the one hand this reinforces a work habit and confers rigour; on the other hand, this year marks a timely transition between the university and the professional world. Secondly, this complete training offers many opportunities between the main competitive examinations or the choice of an academic career. This is reflected in the choice between writing a thesis or doing an internship. For me, writing a thesis was an extremely enriching experience from a legal and personal point of view. My preparation for the CRFPA is easier than some of my classmates thanks to the many points covered during my year of Master 2 but especially thanks to the habits and research methodologies that I have acquired. The diversity of the interventions (between lawyers and foreign professors) also confers a playful and open aspect in the discovery or the increase of your legal culture. This enriching perspective is also found in the presence of numerous oral exercises (mock pleadings, presentation of research, grand oral, etc.) and greatly diversifies the ways of practicing law. Finally, from my own experience, I have observed a special dedication from some professors during the whole year but also during the first confinement linked to the health crisis. The human and personalized dimension remains in my opinion the strong point of the teaching staff of the Master of Civil Law and Private International Law.

Before joining the M2 Civil Law and Private International Law, I myself was not convinced of the intellectual added value of an extra year of law, pragmatically thinking that I had done all the subjects to prepare for the competitive exams I wanted to take. However, after careful consideration and discussion with practitioners and academics, I decided to complete my training at the Faculty of Law. This decision was a good one, as I feel that I have progressed as a lawyer much more than in my previous four years. Indeed, the course up to the M1 allows to acquire raw material, knowledge about law. It is also the way to learn legal reasoning. On the other hand, the M2 is the place for deepening one's knowledge. What to do with this accumulated knowledge? During this year, I learnt to take a step back from the law, to think more deeply about the meaning of reforms and the spirit of laws, but also to really dissertate, with a degree of understanding that I had not imagined before. Furthermore, the M2 was the opportunity to write a thesis, the highlight of my university course. This work was an opportunity to test and improve my legal research methods, but also to find new ones, and I have certainly grown from it. If there is one certainty, it is that I am a better lawyer than I was at the end of my M1, and that I have acquired weapons that will be invaluable for the preparation of my competitive examination. The M2, at least the one I had the honour of studying in, is the best the faculty has to offer, since it allows those who love the legal field deep down to discover another facet of law, to be intellectually stimulated and to have a privileged relationship with the teachers, since a limited number of students favours a closeness that is unfortunately not allowed in a lecture hall. Indeed, in addition to being all more competent than the others, the lecturers are all very benevolent, and are keen to discuss the law with their students. I regret however that the health situation has tainted this year by imposing a period of distanciel, hoping for better days for the following classes.