Bachelor's degree in Law

Duration

Four academic years

Fee

€1,202.32 (Approximate price for EU students. Other types)

Places

260

Admissions

Access to programme

Branch of knowledge

Social and legal sciences

Schedule

Morning and afternoon (full-time students) / morning or afternoon (part-time students, who may enrol for no more than the maximum number of credits permitted under the corresponding regulations)

Academic year

From September to June

Credits

240 ECTS credits
Basic subjects: 60; compulsory subjects: 140; optional subjects (including external internship): 34; bachelor's degree final project: 6

Languages

Catalan, Spanish and English

The studients must take a minimum of 9 ECTS in English.

Venue

Ciutadella Campus

Organizer

Faculty of Law

Why UPF?

You will be able to identify and analyse social conflicts and means of settling them.
You will be capable of using critical legal reasoning to argue and negotiate effectively.
You will become more inclined to use your initiative and take the lead.
You will develop the ability to use foreign technical language fluently.
You will assimilate constitutional principles and values in relation to interpreting law and composing reports, legal opinions and other legal documents.
You will be able to distinguish between different sources of law and use them correctly.
You will recognize the institutions and guiding principles of public and private law.

Objectives

This bachelor's degree programme provides training that enables students to understand the structure and functions of legal systems and their rules, to assimilate basic normative content, and to apply techniques for arguing a case and for interpreting rules of law. The legal training given is complemented by an introduction to other social sciences, such as economics, statistics and political science.

Competences to be acquired

UPF's Law graduates acquire general or cross-disciplinary competences that aid their personal development and can be beneficial in professional activity. They notably include identifying and analysing social conflicts and means of settling them; communicating and negotiating; using initiative and taking the lead; interconnecting knowledge and thinking critically; using foreign technical language fluently; working in a team; and being committed to ethical conduct.

Graduates also acquire specific competences useful for activities in the legal arena. The competences in question revolve around distinguishing between different sources of law and using them correctly; recognizing the institutions and guiding principles of public and private law; mastering legal argumentation; assimilating constitutional principles and values in relation to interpreting law; and composing reports, legal opinions and other legal documents.

Syllabus

Academic Structure access 2024-2025 and earlier

Academic Structure access 2025-2026 and following

Internships

Optional

They are worth 8 of the programme's 34 credits corresponding to optional subjects.

Periods abroad

Optional

Study periods abroad are undertaken in the third or fourth year. The Faculty of Law promotes student mobility through exchange programmes, offering places at universities in the USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and France (including Cornell, Oxford, Regensburg, Bonn, Maastricht, Leuven, Bologna and Paris-Est Créteil).

Career prospects

Lawyer
Solicitor
Civil servant
Judge
Notary public
Registrar
Public prosecutor
Member of academic and research staff
Tax inspector or labour inspector
Diplomat
International civil servant
Legal consultant
Legal advisor to NGOs
Bank, financial service or insurance company employee

About the programme

The programme's curriculum includes basic subjects (60 credits), compulsory subjects (140 credits) and optional subjects (34 credits), and offers the opportunity to undertake an internship (8 credits). It concludes with a bachelor's degree final project (6 credits), through which students demonstrate their grasp of concepts and knowledge in one or more fields of law and their acquisition of the skills no jurist can do without.

It is required to take 10 credits in English, in addition to Introduction to Common Law, in case you accessed in curses prior at 23/24. If you have accessed the course 2023/24 or following, you must take a minimum of 9 ECTS in English.

The programme is taught through a combination of lectures and seminars. Lectures are geared to passing on knowledge with a critical outlook and establishing basic concepts. Seminars, which are taught in small groups, encourage active participation, nurture problem-solving abilities and promote the use of the skills that jurists require.

The basic subjects are taught at the beginning of the course with a view to students receiving cross-disciplinary training in social sciences so as to improve their ability to understand legal phenomena. The compulsory subjects provide knowledge and skills essential to any career in the legal arena and for successfully negotiating examinations to become a lawyer or competitive examinations for the practice of other legal professions (after taking the appropriate additional training).

The curriculum also allows for a certain degree of specialization thanks to its seven optional tracks.

This programme can be studied at the same time as UPF's bachelor's degree programmes in Political and Administration Sciences or Labour Relations.