Two days ago, on the 25th of March, the second year students of the Grande Ecole du Droit were invited to EY’s offices in La Défense, as known as “Tour First”. We often go there but this time, and for the first time, we were received in a different type of room. That is not even really a room because that/it is truly a wide place. There are so many windows looking out onto the ceiling of Paris that it is hard to believe that we are really inside a room: this amazing place is “The Cube”. It is a real privilege to be in the Cube and that was the first time that students from the Grande Ecole du Droit were allowed (to enter it) in. This place is usually used to receive legal department’s managers from international companies.

 The Cube @EY Société d’Avocats

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We had to read this book for our course of American constitutional law. It was one of the first books I have read in English. I have never found such a book, even in French! This book is very special, very interesting and very poignant. It is a true story which happened in the early 20th century in a southern United States still marked by racism. This is the story about a young woman raped, who assumes that the attacker is a black man. It is not anymore about finding the culprit but about pinning the blame at all costs on a black man. The story mingles political ambitions and the difficulties of the federal system of the United States at that time. The book explains perfectly how the ambitions of some can cause the death of another. Ed Johnson, a young black man, was arrested and immediately considered as the culprit. Despite evidences showing his innocence, judges did not believe him and he was soon considered as public enemy number one.

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