Educational goals

The aim of the five-year degree course in Law is to provide advanced legal training and mastery of the cultural and methodological tools necessary for a solid grounding in general and special legal issues, cases and facts. The aim of the modules in the degree programme is to provide a sound knowledge and awareness of the techniques used for legal understanding, interpretation and reasoning. Furthermore, in the final two years of the course, students can choose from a number of specialist subjects, which reflect their professional aptitudes and objectives. To this end, the five-year degree course: provides the basic and advanced knowledge in the disciplines belonging to the areas set out in the table attached to the ministerial decree of 25 November 2005, and provides a general consistency of education by shaping the content to the goals of the degree class; uses the disciplines within the related, additional and core subjects to characterise the education provided in each of the various professional areas to which the degree course provides access; provides consistency in the education offered through technical and methodological skills to overcome rapid obsolescence, and to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired remain useful; provides, by means of modules taught by appropriate methods, a solid knowledge and awareness of: the institutional and organisational aspects of legal orders; professional ethics, logic and reasoning in legal practice; legal sociology; IT and the law; the legal language of at least one foreign language, with a view to their use in post-degree courses for the legal professions. Career opportunities for graduates in the five-year degree course in Law are: at the bar, in the judiciary and profession of notary; the State prosecution service; high professional positions in public administration (including the diplomatic and consular service); professional positions in the legal administration area in the private sector; university-level teaching and research.

Career opportunities

Professional opportunities For those who wish to work as a lawyer or notary it is necessary to be awarded a law degree. It is also necessary to access to the roles of the judiciary, senior public administration or diplomatic career. This master degree will also allow graduates to work as professionals or consultant in many work contests such as management of public and private firms, in all roles and areas of administration and judicial system, in all roles and areas of government administration, in all roles and areas of administration of regions, provinces and municipalities, professional and consulting, national and international financial, banking and insurance institutions, public and private international organizations, national and international onlus and non-profit organizations, agencies and organizations involved in mediation, IT companies, associate companies in the political and trade union organizations.

Admission requirements

The possession of a high school diploma or other qualification obtained abroad, recognized as suitable according to current laws, is required. Please refer to the Educational Regulations of the study course for the specification of further knowledge necessary for access to the degree course and the definition of the obligations envisaged in the event of an unsuccessful assessment. The Faculty will activate intensive assistance and tutoring services for first-year students, also aimed at facilitating the overcoming of any educational deficits.