The Course in Transnational and European Legal Studies aims at training experts with flexible and markedly interdisciplinary competences, suitable for access to the international market of legal professions increasingly characterised by the demand for cross-sectoral knowledge and accentuated ability to self-adapt to changing work contexts: from corporate work (in the legal or administrative divisions of large multinational organisations) to institutional careers in the international sphere; from qualified legal consultancy work in companies/banks and services to the world of NGOs and the third sector.
Legal experts in transnational and European law present a training that combines advanced legal knowledge with the possibility of deepening transversal knowledge that enables them to govern legal relations increasingly characterised by transnational elements.
The cultural profile and the specific training objectives have been defined on the basis of the evolution of the labour market, with particular reference to the skills required by lawyers called upon to work in professional sectors that increasingly require international legal knowledge, such as industry, commerce, services, public administrations and non-governmental organisations.
The increasingly markedly transnational character assumed by legal relations, both in the public and private sectors, has led to a profound transformation in the ways in which they are organised and managed, imposing a broadening and hybridisation of the knowledge required of the modern lawyer, which is essential for managing the technical, organisational and managerial complexity of professional activities.
The modern legal expert in European and transnational legal sciences will have to be able to operate in legal contexts that are increasingly conditioned by the demand for skills that make it possible to manage the risk linked to the global dimension of production and exchange activities, suggesting efficient and innovative solutions, of which he is called upon to ensure, first and foremost, compliance with the law, adequately setting up proceedings, planning activities by objectives, solving specific problems in international relations, including the management of critical issues and the deflation of litigation.
The figure to be trained has a high degree of specialisation, which in turn responds to a plurality of job offers from the labour market, either as a legal expert in public administration and business, or as a consultant with versatile know-how with functions similar to those of a paralegal or legal assistant.