| APPLICATION PERIOD |
From November 7th, 2011 to June 29th, 2012 |
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| DURATION |
1 academic year full time, 2 academic years part time (60 ECTS credits)
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| CALENDAR AND TIMETABLE |
From September to June. Afternoons (10 hours a week, approx). The final research paper may be submitted until September
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| COURSE TYPES |
Academic |
| LANGUAGES |
English, Spanish and Catalan
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| PLACES |
60 |
| ORGANIZATION |
Department of Law |
| LOCATION |
Ciutadella campus |
Presentation
The master's degree course is academic in nature, and focuses both on an introduction to research and professional study of all the major legal disciplines. This is an advanced master's degree course in law that offers cross-disciplinary content in all of the most important legal disciplines, with a strong international and comparative perspective.
One of the main attractions of the master's degree course is that all the subjects offered are optional (the only compulsory subject is the master's degree final project). Students are therefore free to choose and design their academic track. All the students, who are international and come from many countries all over the world, have the opportunity to access research activities of the highest level organized by the Department of Law and all its knowledge areas.
Objectives
This master is addressed to three different audiences:
- Students, Spanish or foreign, seeking for advanced academic training and specialized than the Bachelor degree awarded in an international and prestigious university.
- Legal professionals who want to update their knowledge, or deepen the study of a particular legal matter, or to supplement their training with a more general and an international perspective.
- This master is addressed to students or professionals who aspire to pursue a doctorate and who wish to engage in teaching and research.
Contents
(Although each student, following a tutorial, draws up their own track, the master offers five general tracks)
- Law, administration and public policies:
Students study the principles and factors that determine the makeup of our states and the functioning of public administration and which guide public decision making policies: from providing the basic functions of security and justice right up to achieving an appropriate framework for private relations via market regulation.
- Law, business and society:
Students will study the body of legislation concerning the system of exchanges and the performance of economic and other social agents. The course also involves an interdisciplinary analysis of structural regulation as well as of specific activities from the point of view of public and private law.
- Law, international order and integration:
This track focuses on the institutional and legal aspects of the internationalisation of economic, social and cultural life: ranging from aspects related to the economy and trade right up to the phenomenon of migration and human rights.
- Law and solving disputes:
This track focuses on disputes and how they can be solved. It covers traditional judicial procedures (civil litigation, penal procedures as well as administrative, labour, constitutional, Community, international and ecclesiastic legal procedures. It also looks at alternative procedures (negotiation, conciliation, mediation and arbitration).
- Methods of legal analysis:
The methodological aspects of legal practice, both in relation to research and to the creation and application of law, without leaving aside what is traditionally known as "legal culture".
Languages
The master's degree subjects are taught in Spanish (24 subjects) and English (6 subjects). However, even in those taught in Spanish, the compulsory reading may be in English. This means that all students must have perfect language skills, at least passively, in both Spanish and English, in addition to advanced active competency in one of the two languages.
However, the master's degree course has three official languages - Spanish, English and Catalan. Students are therefore entitled to use any of these three languages in all their communication with teachers, coordinators and the master's degree secretary (questions in class, work, examinations, requests, applications, etc.).
Master's Degree Final Project
In addition to the subjects that students choose a total value of at least 45 credits, the Master must be completed by the mandatory Master's Degree Final Project, worth a total of 15 credits, led by an academic tutor who is made throughout the course and must be qualified by an academic tribunal integrated, at least, by two members.
The student can freely choose the topic of the Final Master's Degree Project under the guidance of his tutor or, in his absence, by the coordinator of the master.
Career prospects
- Training for professional legal practice, especially that of lawyer.
- Advanced academic training of both Spanish and foreign professionals who are already practising, in each of the tracks and sectors of activity indicated.
- Legal teaching and investigation
Grants
This master's degree is included in the postgraduate grant programme for Latin-American students of the Carolina Foundation.
Other grants: http://www.upf.edu/postgrau/es/beques.
