JUST'ACT

What JUST'ACT does

Just'Act is a non-profit student law association (association loi 1901) founded on August 30, 2020, at the Université de Bordeaux in Pessac, France. It operates a portfolio of three core programs: (1) Procès Fictifs — fictional trials in which law students assume the roles of defendants, witnesses, lawyers, clerks, and magistrates in civil, criminal, and historical cases, conducted in real Bordeaux courtrooms; (2) Parrainage Étudiant — a mentorship program pairing approximately 100 law students annually with magistrates, clerks, and lawyers from the Cour d'appel de Bordeaux, Tribunal Judiciaire de Bordeaux, Tribunal Judiciaire de Libourne, and Cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux; and (3) Pôle Pédagogique — an educational outreach program delivering interactive legal workshops in Bordeaux middle and high schools. The association also organizes legal conferences on contemporary topics such as war crimes and mental health in prisons.

The organization operates with approximately 8 employees and 34 active volunteer student members from Licence 1 to Master 2, organizing roughly five mock trials per year. Its underlying technology is minimal: a basic e-monsite website, an Instagram and TikTok presence (@justact.bordeaux), and email communication. Critically, Just'Act is not a commercial business — it generates no traditional revenue. Its funding comes from membership contributions (small, free for students) and event-specific institutional subsidies from the Université de Bordeaux FSDIE commission and UFR de droit. Activities are promoted through social media and word-of-mouth within the university faculty. The association's strategic value lies in its institutional partnerships with Bordeaux judicial bodies and its role as a pipeline between academic legal education and the practicing legal profession — not in commercial revenue generation.

Name

JUST'ACT

Legal name

Just'Act

Website

https://justact.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Just'Act is a non-profit student law association at the Université de Bordeaux, founded in 2020, that organizes mock trials, professional mentorship, and legal workshops for ~100 law students and multiple Bordeaux-area schools annually through partnerships with Bordeaux courts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Education Services

NAICS

Educational Services (611), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (61131)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Mock Trial & Moot Court (EDAMAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Clinical Legal Education & Legal Aid Clinics (Law School–Run) (EDAHAIAG), Law School Continuing Legal Education (CLE) & Executive Programs (EDAHAIAH)

Keywords

• Legal education services
• Mock trial programs
• Law student mentorship
• Judicial practice training
• Legal workshop outreach

Headquarters

HQ city

Bordeaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership contributions: Students pay membership fees to join the association and participate in activities.
2. Institutional subsidies: Receives funding from the FSDIE commission and UFR de droit de l'Université de Bordeaux to organize mock trials and events.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

JUST'ACT is a student-run non-profit association at the Université de Bordeaux that organizes fictional legal trials (procès fictifs) in real Bordeaux courtrooms, where law students assume the roles of defendants, witnesses, lawyers, clerks, and magistrates. The association also runs a student mentorship program (parrainage) pairing approximately 100 students annually with judges and lawyers from Bordeaux courts, a pedagogical pole delivering legal discovery workshops to middle and high schools, and educational conferences on contemporary legal issues.

Product overview

JUST'ACT is a student-run association at the University of Bordeaux offering a portfolio of legal education services centered on fictional trials (procès fictifs), student mentorship programs (parrainage étudiant), and pedagogical outreach (pôle pédagogique). The core offering consists of mock trials in civil and criminal law, where students assume roles of legal professionals in real courtrooms. Supporting services include student-mentor pairing with practicing judges and lawyers, and interactive legal workshops for high school students. The association also organizes conferences on contemporary legal issues. All activities are conducted in partnership with Bordeaux judicial institutions including the Cour d'appel de Bordeaux, Tribunal Judiciaire de Bordeaux, and Cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Procès Fictifs (Mock Trials) Fictional legal trials where law students take on roles as defendants, witnesses, experts, lawyers, clerks, and magistrates, simulating civil or criminal hearings in collaboration with Bordeaux courts including the Tribunal Judiciaire de Bordeaux, Cour d'appel de Bordeaux, and Cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux. Students learn to draft legal documents (procedural filings, summons, conclusions, and judgments) under the guidance of practicing lawyers and professors.
• Parrainage Étudiant (Student Mentorship) Mentorship program pairing approximately 100 law students from Université de Bordeaux annually with legal professionals (magistrates, clerks, and administrative court judges) from Bordeaux courts for observational experiences lasting at least half a day, including document drafting, case file preparation, hearings, and meetings. Students apply via questionnaire, motivation letter, CV, and writing sample.
• Pôle Pédagogique (Educational Outreach Workshops) Educational outreach program delivering interactive legal workshops to middle and high schools in Bordeaux, including mock trials in civil and criminal law, debates, eloquence sessions, and legal studies discovery for students at Collège Noès, Collège Gérard Philipe, Lycée Brémontier, Lycée Camille Jullian, Lycée Nord Bassin, Lycée Saint Louis, and Lycée François Magendie.
• Conférences Juridiques (Legal Conferences) Educational conferences on contemporary legal topics such as war crimes, mental health in prison settings, and contaminated blood affairs, featuring legal professionals and academics. A 2026 conference on mental health in prisons was co-moderated with PEB.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5 mock trials organized annually
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cour d'appel de BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Signed convention for student mentorship allowing law students to be paired with professional magistrates and clerks from the Court of Appeal. Approximately 100 students are sponsored annually through this partnership.
• Université de BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJust'Act was founded by and is closely associated with law students from Université de Bordeaux. The university provides institutional support, subsidies from FSDIE commission and UFR de droit, and hosts activities at the Pôle juridique et judiciaire. The association serves as a bridge between academic legal education and practical judicial experience.
• Tribunal Judiciaire de BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partner providing courtroom space for mock trials during European Heritage Days and other events. Legal professionals from the tribunal mentor students through the sponsorship program.
• Tribunal Judiciaire de LibourneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipates in the student sponsorship convention, providing legal professionals to mentor students from the Bordeaux law faculty.
• Clinique du Droit de BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides practical civil law cases for Just'Act's mock trials. Students work on real case files from the legal clinic, including medical liability and succession disputes.
• La Tribune MontesquieuminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRhetoric and eloquence association that partnered with Just'Act for a creative mock trial event where students played roles from the video game Bowser. Both associations conducted mutual workshops on trial procedure and public speaking.
• Libre de droitminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociation focused on sexual violence awareness that partnered with Just'Act for an educational workshop on gender-based violence during the student integration day.
• Cour administrative d'appel de BordeauxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRecent partnership (since 2020) allowing students to discover administrative magistrates' professions. Hosts civil law mock trials at the court's facilities.
• PEB (Presidio des Études Bordelais)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Just'Act for the 2026 conference on mental health in prison settings. PEB representatives co-moderated the conference alongside Just'Act members.
• Barreau de Bordeaux (Bordeaux Bar Association)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLawyers from the Bordeaux Bar Association provide professional guidance for mock trials, helping student-lawyers draft summons, conclusions, and pleadings. They participate as coaches and evaluators.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Village de la Justice: Major French online media and community platform serving law students and legal professionals with job postings, event listings, and training resources. Comparable as an adjacent ecosystem player that supports student engagement with the legal profession in France, but operates as a media/community platform rather than a student-run association.

Broad incumbents

• École Nationale de la Magistrature (ENM): France's national school for training magistrates, hosting Just'Act's final lycée mock trial at its Bordeaux facilities. Comparable as a broader, established judicial-education institution that also trains future legal professionals in courtroom procedure, but at a national scale rather than student-association scale.
• Barreau de Bordeaux: Professional bar association for lawyers in Bordeaux, and an active partner of Just'Act supplying lawyers to coach and evaluate student mock trials. Comparable as a larger, established professional body in the same Bordeaux legal ecosystem that also engages in legal training and mentorship activities, albeit with a much broader remit.

Regional players

• ADJ – Association des Doctorants Juristes (France): National French association for law doctoral students and legal researchers, organizing academic and professional events. Comparable as a peer French legal-student association focused on career development and academic training, but oriented toward postgraduate students rather than Just'Act's Licence-to-Master range.

Direct peers

• Conférence LvP – Concours de procès simulés de la Sorbonne: Sorbonne-affiliated moot/mock trial competition and student association running simulated court proceedings. Directly comparable to Just'Act's procès fictifs (mock trials) format, with similar objectives of training law students in procedural practice and oral advocacy in a French university setting.
• Clinique Juridique de Paris (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas): Law clinic at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas delivering practical legal training and pro-bono case work to students. Comparable as another French law-school-affiliated clinical education program focused on bridging academic and practical legal experience, like Just'Act's pedagogical pole and mock trials.
• Clinique du Droit de Bordeaux: Law clinic at the Université de Bordeaux providing students with hands-on civil case work. Directly comparable to Just'Act's mission of bridging theory and practice, and an active partner supplying real case files (medical liability, succession) for Just'Act's civil mock trials.
• Clinique du Droit de Lyon: Law clinic based at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 offering practical legal exposure to students through real case files. Comparable to Just'Act in mission (university-based clinical legal education for students) but operating in a different French city, illustrating how Just'Act's Bordeaux-anchored model could be replicated.
• ELSA France (European Law Students' Association – France): French national chapter of the European Law Students' Association, a student-run organization for law students across French universities. Comparable to Just'Act as a peer law-student organization offering practical legal training, networking with legal professionals, and moot-court-style events, although at a broader national scale and without Just'Act's exclusive Bordeaux-court conventions.

Emerging players

• Tribune Montesquieu: French rhetoric and eloquence student association that has co-organized creative mock trial events with Just'Act. Comparable as a peer student association with overlapping topics (advocacy, public speaking, trial procedure) but centered on rhetoric training rather than full procedural mock trials.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/justact.bordeaux
• TikToktiktok.com/@justact.bordeaux
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/justact-bordeaux

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