Since the Master's Degree in Law Practice is offered to meet the training requirements and professional practice that establish the Law of Access, is established as a requirement of acceptance laid down in the Article 2.1.a) of the Royal Decree 775/2011, 3 June, which approves the Regulations of the Law 34/2006, 30th October, on the access to the professions of Lawyer and Solicitor:
"Students with a Licenciatura in Law, with an undergraduate in Law and any other university degree equivalent that meets the requirements established in the Article 3 of this Regulation."
According to Article 3 of the Royal Decree 775/2011, 3 June, which approves the Regulations of the Law 34/2006, 30 October, on the access to the professions of Lawyer and Solicitor, said requirements are as follows:
1. The undergraduate university degrees to which the Article 2(a) refers should recognise the acquisition of the following legal competences:
a) To know and understand the elements, structure, resources, interpretation and application of the implementation of the legal order and to interpret the sources and the fundamental legal concepts for each one of the different legal orders.
b) To know and understand the processes and procedures for the resolution of legal conflicts, as well as the legal position of persons in their relations with the Administration and in general, with the public powers.
c) To know how to apply the priority criteria of the sources in order to determine the regulations applicable in each case, and specially the criteria of conformity with the regulations, the principles and the constitutional values.
d) To interpret the legal texts from an interdisciplinary perspective using the legal principles and the values and social, ethical and deontological principles as analysis tools.
e) To declare oneself with a convincing legal argument on a theoretical question related to the different areas of law.
f) To resolve case studies in accordance with the current Positive Law, which implies the prior elaboration of material, the identification of problematic issues, the selection and interpretation of the data of the applicable Positive Law and the argumented statement of subsumption.
g) To handle legal language with skill and accuracy, and the specific terminology of the different branches of law: to write in an orderly and easy to understand way legal documents. To communicate orally and in writing form ideas, argumentations and legal reasonings using the appropriate registers in each context.
h) To use the information technologies and communications for searching and obtaining legal information (legislation databases, jurisprudence, bibliography, etc.) as well as work and communication tools.
In case of foreign students, the Committee for Academic Coordination may demand the accreditation of knowledge of Spanish language (B2 level), carrying out, in the event, a specific level test.
In case that the number of student applications exceeds the offered places, the planning of them for the purpose of acceptance will be carried out in accordance to the average score of the academic record of Licenciatura or a Law degree. If that is the case, the Master's Degree Coordinating Committee may also give preference to the students applying who need to enrol in the Master's degree over those who are or may be collegiate members without the need of obtaining the professional title of lawyer in accordance to the Law of Access.
For the purposes of scaling the student’s academic record, the marks and average mark must be expressed on a 0-10 scale. Where it is not the case, students must submit a request to ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain) to obtain their grade point average equivalence. For more information about how to apply, please visit:
http://www.aneca.es/Equivalencia-de-notas-medias
Average mark will be increased in a point for students
with double degrees, as long as these come from the area of Juridical Sciences complemented with Social sciences disciplines.
Also the Master’s degree Coordinating Committee will give priority to applicants who need to study the Master’s degree in front of those who are or might be a collegiate member without the necessity of obtaining a professional title of lawyer according to the Access Law. Priority will be stablished as following: those applicants that need to study the Master’s degree to obtain the professional title of lawyer will se their average mark multiplied by two; the average mark of the other applicants will remain the same.
The Master’s degree Coordinating Committee could incorporate to the admission criteria a personal interview. In the personal interview will be valued their legal and training competences, the suitability of their profile to the characteristics of the Master’s degree and their motivation. Personal interview will be carried out if necessary for the evaluation of specific cases and will be done by the Master’s degree director or person authorised by him.
