The Panthéon Centre (French: Centre Panthéon), also known as the École de droit de Paris is an academic building in the Latin Quarter urban university campus, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, located at 12, place du Panthéon. It currently houses the presidencies and head offices of the Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas universities, as well as:
On November 16, 1753, King Louis XV ordered the construction of a building on the summit of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève to house law students and their professors.[citation needed] During the reorganization of the university following the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Lisieux College in 1762, Daniel-Charles Trudaine, administrator of bridges and roads and honorary doctor of the Faculty of Civil and Canon Law, granted the construction of a new building for the faculty on the site of the Lisieux College. Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the great French architect and controller of the King's buildings, was appointed to construct the building, which lasted from 1771 to 1773. Initially located on rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, within the Collège Royal, the building opened in 1774 and was officially inaugurated in 1783. [citation needed]
A École de droit de Paris ("Paris Law School") reopened on November 22, 1805, following the promulgation of the Napoleonic Code, which created modern law schools.[2]