The courses are all taught in English and the teaching method is based on a case-based approach.
The study plan is spread over three years in which the student is required to achieve 180 credits, and provides for 20 exams, relating to teachings in the fields of law, IT, economics, as well as related and supplementary activities in the fields of internationalist disciplines and management disciplines.
It is also included the study of legal English.
The first year encompasses modules introducing students to the basic legal notions declined in an innovative global perspective. In addition, with a view of ensuring the acquisition of basic linguistic notions in Legal English, in the first semester of the first year, students will be required to sit an exam in Legal English.
The first-year curriculum consists in the following subjects:
• Legal English (6 credits, 36 hours);
• Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics (9 credits, 54 hours);
• Comparative Public Law (6 credits, 36 hours);
• Comparative Private Law (6 credits, 36 hours);
• Transnational Constitutional Law (9 credits, 54 hours);
• Principles of Private Law (9 credits, 54 hours);
• Informatics (6 credits, 36 hours).
The second year encompasses specialised modules in international and transnational legal subjects.
The second-year curriculum consists in the following subjects:
• History of Western Legal Traditions (6 credits, 36 hours);
• International Law (9 credits, 54 hours);
• Roman Foundations of European Law (6 credits, 36 hours);
• European Union Law (9 credits, 54 hours);
• International and European Labour Law (8 credits, 48 hours);
• International and European Criminal Law (8 credits, 48 hours);
• Tax Law or Economics (9 credits, 54 hours).
The third year too encompasses specialised legal modules with a particular focus on civil litigation and cross-border criminal justice, and transnational commercial and administrative law.
The third-year curriculum consists in the following subjects:
• Transnational Business and Insolvency Law (8 credits, 48 hours);
• Comparative Civil Justice (8 credits, 48 hours);
• Shipping and Aviation Contracts or Transnational Law and Religion (6 credits, 36 hours);
• Global and European Administrative Law (8 credits, 48 hours);
• Transcultural Criminal Justice 8 credits, 48 hours).
Students will be able to choose, from a set of options in different fields, two elective educational activities corresponding to 6 credits each.
They can either choose specific training activities offered by the Law Department or attend two courses selected among those taught throughout the University.
The training activities are aimed at
a) strengthening the graduate's knowledge in a transnational and cross-border perspective, by thus consolidating the general framework of the objectives and instruments of transnational law, and
b) enhancing the student's choices, by thus ensuring the flexibility of the training, which may be further specialised in areas already present in the characterising activities.
The final dissertation is awarded 14 CFU.
The final examination completes the course of study, enabling the student to apply the skills, knowledge and logical-communicative abilities acquired with autonomous judgement in the field of legal, economic and technical aspects relating to the topics of the course. It consists of the public discussion, before a committee of lecturers, of a written paper prepared by the student.