Master in International Advocacy

Program’s general structure

The study plan for the Master in International Advocacy is based on a series of common modules, which encompass seven credits of soft skills subjects, as well as common contents. The latter entail a total of 21 credits, split in six subjects. Students will have to enroll in both soft skills and the common contents.

These common contents provide knowledge and skills that will be of use in the more specialized courses, which are grouped in intensification modules, with a total of 18 credits, which will enable the students to choose one out of the two pre-defined paths that are offered as specialized content: Transactional and Dispute Resolution.

Students wishing to take an additional path to the first one selected or to register for additional subjects corresponding to the path different from the one chosen may request it from the Program Management before September 10 of the course that is being started. The subjects that correspond to the specialization paths are compatible with each other, so there are no time incompatibilities.

The structure of the Master also includes internships and a Master's Project with a highly practical approach, which will consist in participating in an international moot court or in the Business Transaction Lab (BTL).

(*) The minimum number of students to open a module is 15.

C) Compulsory: 28 ECTS

E) Elective Course: 18 ECTS

Internships: 6 ECTS

TFM) Master's Thesis: 8 ECTS

course Programs

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GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered​: 2017

• Information about Master´s Degree
• Verification Report
• External Evaluation and Monitoring Reports

QUALITY INDICATORS

☛ Master's Degree indicators

☛ Labour insertion indicators

PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).

• Academic Committee

FACULTY AND COURSE PLAN

☛ Curriculum subjects and their faculty

Graduate Profile and Competences

• Graduate profile and competences

Application

The request is made electronically through our application. Before starting the admission process, please, read the following information:

• Documentation that must be uploaded to the on line application
• Calendar and general information about admission 
• Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application for admission

Requirements

For the admission to the Master in International Advocacy the basic requirement is to have obtained or be in the condition to get before the Master starts a Bachelor or Degree preferably in the area of ​​law, or another degree of International Relations or Political Science, as well as its equivalents abroad.

In no case the completion of the Master in International Advocay will mean recognition by the Carlos III University of Madrid of the possibility of subsequently practicing as a lawyer in Spain or abroad.

Students who are admitted without such a law degree should make training supplements that are expected as a requirement to attend the program, so that necessarily have to take the course and pass the corresponding exam. Specifically, students must complete the 0 Course of Introduction to Spanish and European Union Law of 22 hours without cost for them.

This Course 0 will be compulsory, but will not be a requirement to take the program, for those students who have obtained their academic degree outside of Spain, either in other States of the European Union or in third countries. These students must attend the Course, and pass the corresponding test. Once the exam is approved, a certificate of attendance will be provided to those students who request it. The course is cost free for the students.

It is mandatory for the students of the program to take, as a complementary training, a course 0 on Basic Accounting  and other Financial matters. Exempted from this obligation will be: (i) the students enrolled in the Double Master in Legal Practice and the Master in International Advocacy, or (ii) the students who, besides Law, have majored in Business Administration, Economics, Finance and Accounting, or similar degrees, which can attest a sufficient understanding of accounting.

Even if not mandatory, it is advisable to take it for these students as well, if they need, or wish, to refresh their basic accounting and financial concepts and tools, especially for those students enrolled in the Transactional specialty. The course is part of the program and is free for the students.

Likewise, all students of the Program must attend the Transversal Activities organized by the School of Law.

Admission criteria

* Having a Dual Degree will be considered of value.

Notwithstanding the admission criteria Indicated above, the Academic Committee may consider to hold a personal Interview with the candidates if the Committee finds it necessary for its final decision.

Language requirements

You can check the language requirements of the generic language required to study for a Master at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

The Master in International Advocacy is taught entirely in English* on the Transactional path, and is bilingual (English and Spanish) on the path of Dispute resolution.

* The End of the Master Project as well as the Internship might be done in a bilingual way, although it will not be necessary to accredit any level of knowledge of the Spanish language. The Program will guarantee that those subjects might be developed in the English language.

students with foreign university degrees

Once admitted to the Master’s, students with university degrees issued by a higher education institution belonging to an educational system outside the EHEA, must provide, for enrolment, the diploma, legalized by diplomatic procedures or by means of The Hague Apostille. They must also submit the transcript of records, with the grade point average, duly legalized.

More information about Legalization of Foreign Documents.

If needed, documents must be accompanied by an official sworn translation into Spanish.

TUITION fees*

Reservation fee: €800 

• it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
• the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled

60 ECTS in the first academic year:

• EU students: €9,000 (€150/ECTS credit)
• International (Non EU) students: €13,500 (€225/ECTS credit)

✎│Tuition fees

International Teaching of optional courses will be ultimately conditional to the enrollment of a minimum of 15 students in each intensification modules.

NOTE: The enrolment fees do not include the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 22/23 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 23/24 academic year.

Additional information

• You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
• When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment. If the student enrolls full-time and does not take the double master's degree, he/she must enrol for a total of 60 credits corresponding to all the subjects related to the First and Second semester of Subject 1 (Soft Skills), Subject 2 (Common Contents), and Subject 3 in the corresponding intensification module. In the case of Subject 3, the student must register for all the subjects corresponding to the Transactional area or for all the subjects corresponding to the Dispute resolution area according to his/her choice. In addition to the above and in order to complete the 60 credits, students must register for the subjects: Internships and Master Final Project.
• The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
• Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
  No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.

✎│Enrolment master’s programmes

✎│ECTS credits recognition

Best Practices and Regulations

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• Student disciplinary system
• Ethical code
• Enrollment and permanence rules
• Master's degree access rules
• Master's Thesis rules
• Rules for credits recognition

A. MOOT COURT (Dispute resolution Track)

B. Social Challenge: Research work

BUSINESS TRANSACTION LAW (BTL)

To obtain the Master's degree students must undertake a Master 's Final Project, which will consist of participation in a moot court or a business transaction lab (BTL). Exceptionally it may be a research paper on any of the matters of the Master.

The BTL replicates the practice of a transactional attorney in large operations, on an international scale. The practical case (Case Study) will consist of a simulation of an acquisition of company assets, or both, with a cross - border dimension. Students will not only have to get familiar with the process, but also learn to identify risks, and reflect them through the appropriate clauses, which will have to be incorporated in the contractual documentation they will have to draft.

In order to simulate the cross-border situation in a more realistic manner the students should lead the process, coordinate and negotiate in teams of lawyers, which will be formed with students from other countries. Teams will not be formed on the basis of their nationalities, but on the basis of the parties to the transaction, so that each party-team will be represented in each of the jurisdictions involved.

In the process of coordination, negotiation, drafting and closing students will be tutored by lawyers of prestige and experience in large operations. The ultimate goal will be to achieve the closing of a complex transaction, with its associated documentation.

(*) The minimum number of students to open a module is 15.

C) Compulsory: 28 ECTS

E) Elective Course: 18 ECTS

Internships: 6 ECTS

TFM) Master's Thesis: 8 ECTS

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid uses the BlackBoard Collaborate system so that students can follow the online sessions synchronously, at the same time that some of their classmates do so in the classroom.

TECHNOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS

In order to use this tool, the student must have:

• A device with internet connection
• A device with a microphone and, optionally, a camera to actively participate in the session.

BlackBoard Collaborate is a tool that works on a large number of web browsers that only supports the two most recent versions of the stable channel of the following browsers: Chrome (recommended on Windows, Linux and Mac, and for Android mobile devices), Firefox, Safari (recommended for iOS and iPadOS mobile devices). 

In order to use this system, the student needs to have the following technical equipment:

• Web browser, both from your computer and from your cell phone. It is not necessary to install any additional application. Compatible browsers are (remember that they have to be updated): *Chrome or *Safari 11
• Internet connection: preferably by network cable, if not wifi; as a last option use mobile data, since it is a videoconferencing system that consumes a lot of data. Traffic increases the more videos and applications are shared during the session. 
• Minimum connection: (48 kbps audio + 360 kps x each video + 500 kbps content) A 3G connection might be sufficient, but as it depends on the number of people connected, it is better, as mentioned above, to connect from a network that guarantees at least 8Mbps. 
• You can check your connection quality for example through this speed test page.

ACCESS TO BLACKBOARD SESSIONS

The student will be able to access sessions created in BlackBoard Collaborate through two options:

• The Aula Global platform with the student's credentials and once inside go to the course whose activities they wish to view.
• On this page the student will be able to access the list of course activities and will be able to see the active sessions, future sessions and recorded sessions to be able to view them in case they are not synchronous.
• Through direct access via URL that the manager or the teacher will send to the students. In this case they will access directly to the link provided.

The applications integrated in Aula Global are:

BlackBoard Collaborate

This system allows the student to follow the synchronous sessions at the same time as the rest of his classmates do in the classroom, and to actively participate in them, or to access them later when the student has different schedules. These classes will be recorded with the authorization of the students present in the classroom.

In order to encourage the active participation of students and faculty, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid has implemented the following tools for the dynamization of classes:

Wooclap

This tool allows students to participate in classes through quick surveys that can be answered from their mobile device.

For the professor, this is a way to check if the content is really being understood, since the results of the surveys are obtained in real time. There are a multitude of possibilities: polls, questionnaires, brainstorms or image searches are some of the options.

Kaltura

This is a dynamization system that allows both professors and students to incorporate multimedia content into their courses. In this way, professors are able to create all kinds of audio and video content to add to their classes. Students also have their own space where they can upload multimedia content to incorporate into their deliveries.

At the beginning of the academic year, the University offers incoming students training sessions on the use of distance learning applications, coordinated by the UC3M Vice-Rector's Office for Strategy and Digital Education. You will receive specific instructions and the schedule of these training sessions from your Master's manager.

During these days the student receives training sessions on Aula Global (Moodle):

• How to have access to the contents and tasks that each teacher uploads to the application
• Use of forums for active participation
• Access to questionnaires and grades