Master's in Law – Specialization in International and European Law
Lisbon, Portugal
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
28 Feb 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 10,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international students: 10,000 EUR | national students: 6,200 EUR
Introduction
General course information
- Duration: 4 semesters
- Number of ECTS: 120
- Number of places: 120 in the Master’s in Law – The places will be distributed by the jury between the various areas of specialisation (International and European Law, Public Regulation Law and Social and Innovation Law), according to the number of applications submitted for each of them.
- Teaching language: English
The Master’s in International and European Law offers students the opportunity to expand their legal knowledge in an area that is becoming increasingly essential considering world globalization, in which national boundaries are losing importance.
Operating within an increasingly transnational and globalized world requires legal knowledge that today is less focused on classical issues of public international law, and more on areas that focus on issues related to the internationalization of businesses and private/public transnational legal relationships, as well as human rights, humanitarian law and new developments in international criminal law. European integration is part of the new geopolitical environment. This explains the focus of the master’s on several areas of European Union law such as the freedom of movement of people and the European jurisdictional system. It is crucial for a lawyer to be familiar with the diverse and increasingly vast areas of International Law and European Union Law in order to successfully address the theoretical and practical challenges they face.
This master’s is taught in English.
Ideal Students
Target Applicant
Graduates in Law or in other social sciences who wish to deepen their knowledge.
Admissions
Curriculum
In addition to the mandatory course, students must complete 32 ECTS in the restrictive optional courses listed above and 22 ECTS in free-option courses that they may choose from any Master’s course taught at NOVA School of Law (subject to availability).
Total ECTS of the Taught Component: 60 ECTS.
From 2024/25, students will need to approve the curricular component with, at least 13,50 points out of 20 (13,5/20) to be able to enrol in the research phase (2nd year of the course).
Completion of the curricular component (60 ECTS), with any positive grade, grants the award of a Diploma in Postgraduate Studies in Law.
1st year - Taught Component
1st Semester
Restricted Option
- Diplomatic and Consular Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Law of the Sea and International Courts
- Direito das Organizações Internacionais
- Environmental Law
- Comparative Equality Law
- Advanced EU Law
- Introduction to International and Regional Human Rights Systems
- Transitional Justice
- Legal English
- Direito Administrativo Europeu
- Emerging Technologies: Governance and Regulation
- International Economic Law
- Business, Human Rights and Sustainability
- Estudos Interdisciplinares (Direito e Cinema)
- Human Rights Moot Court
- Introdução ao Direito da União Europeia
2nd Semester
Mandatory
- Methodology of Legal Research
Restricted Option
- Human Rights International Protection Systems
- International Tax Law
- Competition Law
- EU Asylum and Migration Law***
- International and European Security Law
- International Commercial Law
- Data Protection and Management Law*
- European Law of the Sea
- Moot Courts (Commercial Arbitration)
Free Option
- Clinical Course in Cross-Border Child Protection Services**
- Direito da Família e da Criança
- War & Law
2nd year - Research Phase
Research Phase
Mandatory
- Dissertation, internship at national or international institution or project work.
Program Outcome
Goals
Building on the knowledge acquired in the bachelor’s degree in the fields of International Law, this Master's in Law develops the interdisciplinary nature of both International and European Law, namely in the area of the protection of human rights. It addresses the development of skills in scientific research and prepares students for their professional life.