Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Panthéon-Sorbonne University, also known as Paris 1, is a public research university in Paris, France. It was created in 1971 when the historic University of Paris, which first appeared in the second half of the twelfth century, was divided after the May 1968 protests. Most professors of the faculty of law founded the new university, joined by colleagues from the faculties of humanities and economics. Its work centres on three areas, economics and management, human sciences, and legal and political sciences, and it teaches subjects ranging from law, philosophy and sociology to history, geography, cinema and art history. Its headquarters stand on the Place du Panthéon in the Latin Quarter, and it also occupies part of the historic Sorbonne campus; the university takes its name from these two symbolic buildings.