179 middle and high school students expressed themselves on discrimination this Wednesday from 2:00 PM at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis,
Stemming from a partnership between the Defender of Rights, the Academy of Nice’s rectorate, the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, the Departmental Council for Access to Rights of Alpes-Maritimes, and A.D.E.A.C., the Heart of Law initiative aims to enable students, both in middle and high schools, to identify as early as possible the discriminatory behaviors prohibited by law.
Each year, about ten law doctoral candidates, accompanied by Master’s II students from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, visit middle and high school classes in pairs to raise awareness among students about discriminatory behaviors and train them in legal matters to combat these phenomena.
After a first phase marked by interventions from students from the Center for Studies and Research in Procedural Law (C.E.R.D.P.) in the classes, the students and their teachers create skits illustrating non-discriminatory and discriminatory behaviors, as well as possible reactions to these behaviors and solutions that can be offered.
At the end of the school year, all classes present skits depicting situations of discrimination and their understanding of the law in front of a jury of experts. The students are rewarded for their creativity and understanding of the law with an olive tree, a symbol of peace.
