13 june 2016

Studying a Master’s Degree is the way of specialising and making the difference with other candidates when it comes to seeking work. Also, it is a way of complementing the most basic training knowledge the degrees offer since they allow students to update, recycle, complete their knowledge and acquire new competences of higher level.

The interdisciplinary and dynamic approach that characterises the teaching of the Master’s Degree in Law, Business and Justice of the Universitat de València allows students for acquiring the needed knowledge and skills to successfully addressing complex problems from different legal perspectives. The objective, overall, is training first-rate legal, academic and research leaders able of deeply approaching the most complicated current legal matters from a flexible and cross perspective. All of that, in a internationally atmosphere.

The Master’s Degree is thought for Law professionals, specially –but not only– Latin American academics, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, notaries, registrars, attorneys, etc., who want to combine their daily professional activity with the access to a global legal and critical training, coming into contact with the great novelties and lines of thinking in the field of public and private law.

The Master’s Degree is open to all those people who have obtained a qualification of graduate in Law, Legal Profession or equivalent. The teaching load is of 60 ECTS credits distributed in 4 modules, and the elaboration of the Master’s Degree Final Project. As well as what has been already mentioned, the Master’s Degree presents the following characteristics:

Professional and research centred. Thought for Law professionals with a wide professional careers or also for recent graduates that are interested in updating in legal matters and for those who want to access the Doctoral Programme in Law, Political Science and Criminology.

Blended course. Two online modules and two on-site modules as well as the Master’s Degree Final Project:

• Online: the first one (October - December) and the forth (April - September);
• On-site: the second one (January) and the third (February and half of March);
• Master’s Degree Final Project, whose defence can be carried out online or on-site.

Pioneer and unique in Spain. Flexible programme, adapted to the students’ needs.

International first-level Senate. The Master’s Degree has a Senate with professors awarded with excellence, formed by a joint of front-line specialists in each one of the topics covered in it. It is directed by Professor Dr Carlos Esplugues Mota LLM (Harvard), MSc (Edinburgh) and Full University Professor of Private International Law at the Universitat de València.

Support to students

Given its international and blended character, the Master’s Degree has the following support initiatives for students:

1) Online and on-site tutorial action plan during the whole training process.

2) Postgraduate Students integration programme through the first welcome day in the Faculty of Law.

3) Regular meetings with all the professors through meetings and joint activities between the Senate and the students within and out of the Faculty of Law (meals, city tours, etc.).

4) Social and cultural invigorating actions of postgraduate students for their integration in the Universitat.

The Master’s Degree is open to all those people who have obtained a qualification of graduate in Law, Legal Profession or equivalent.

Experience of students

One of the aspects that better describes the Master’s Degree in Law, Business and Justice is the close relation that is established between professors and students, which reflects in some excellent opinions on the part of the students that you can consult in the section Experience at the website of the Master’s Degree. These are some of them:

Viviana  Lucía Rodríguez Blanco (Colombia): “It has given me important tools for my job performance in Colombia due to its programme that emphasises the academic and cultural diversity of students.”

Alejandro Cardona Herrera (Bolivia): “The Master’s Degree has helped me to update my knowledge on the legal sphere and to be at the forefront of the changes that are being produced from the European Law and that, inevitably, influence in our Hispanic-American field”.

Qualitative leap

Studying the Master’s Degree in Law, Business and Justice of the UV constitutes a professional support for many of our students. To give you a recent example, Dr Aníbal Gerardo Acosta, student of the Master’s Degree during the 2015-2016 academic year, he took an oath on 13 May as new Major Public Defender of the Argentinian Judicial North District.

Updated legal information

Recently, the website of the Master’s Degree has renewed its design to make it more intuitive and visual. The main novelty is the incorporation of a Blog  section that includes news related to the topics the curriculum of the Master’s Degree covers. Also, this section constitutes an appealing communication channel to make known the activity of its current and former students.