Master in Legal Practice and Representation

The syllabus is based on a compulsory module with a total of 39 credits. 15 optional credits are added to this module, enabling students to gain an in-depth knowledge of different aspects of law. The syllabus also includes 30 credits obtained through external work practice under the guidance of tutors designed to ensure that students achieve the skills and abilities needed to exercise the profession of law. Finally, students will be required to carry out a final dissertation which is equal to 6 ECTS.

The Master is face-to-face: it requires attendance to all classes (including mandatory supplementary activities) and the absence of more than 10 percent of the sessions per subject will have an impact on grades.

Signatures control will be carried out to verify the compliance of the attendance to the classes. The falsification of the signature, the improper signature or any similar incident will suppose at least, the loss of the totality of the continuous evaluation of the subject in question, as much in the ordinary announcement, as in the extraordinary one, and according to the gravity of the facts, the loss of the right to take the exam (in any of its calls) for the corresponding subject and, in accordance with the current academic discipline regulations, the expulsion of the Master.

Note: In view of the first transitory provision of Law 15/2021, of October 23, amending Law 34/2006, of October 30, on access to the professions of Lawyer and Court Attorney, it is not currently possible to guarantee the examination model that will be used once the training courses of the master's degree have been completed from the 18th edition onwards.

(**) TFM method Moot

(**) TFM method Laudo (NEW METHOD)

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C= Compulsory: 39 ECTS

E= Elective Course: 15 ECTS

Interships: 30 ECTS

Master Thesis: 6 ECTS

(*) The minimum number of students for electives is 30. The maximum number of places per course is 45 students.
 

During the 1st term, students will proceed to the choice of electives. This choice will be binding, and no change will be possible for any reason whatsoever.

Students who wish to take elective courses in addition to the five that they are required to take, may apply for them once the election process has been closed, enrolling in one or more of those that have been chosen and that are compatible in terms of timetable.

course Programs

◤ Access to previous course programs

The March edition is offered exclusively in combination with a series of specialization Masters (see Double Master's Degrees tab)

The syllabus is based on a compulsory module with a total of 39 credits. In addition to this module, there are optional credits of intensification, which allow to deepen in different areas and which are taken in the specialization Masters with which it is combined. The syllabus also includes 30 credits obtained through external work practice under the guidance of tutors designed to ensure that students achieve the skills and abilities needed to exercise the profession of law. Finally, students will be required to carry out a final dissertation which is equal to 6 ECTS.

The Master is face-to-face: it requires attendance to all classes (including mandatory supplementary activities) and the absence of more than 10 percent of the sessions per subject will have an impact on grades.

Signatures control will be carried out to verify the compliance of the attendance to the classes. The falsification of the signature, the improper signature or any similar incident will suppose at least, the loss of the totality of the continuous evaluation of the subject in question, as much in the ordinary announcement, as in the extraordinary one, and according to the gravity of the facts, the loss of the right to take the exam (in any of its calls) for the corresponding subject and, in accordance with the current academic discipline regulations, the expulsion of the Master.

(**) TFM method Moot

(**) TFM method Laudo (NEW METHOD)

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C= Compulsory: 39 ECTS

Interships: 30 ECTS

Master Thesis: 6 ECTS

course Programs

◤ Access to previous course programs

GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered: 2012

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

QUALITY INDICATORS

☛ Master's Degree indicators (September Edition)

☛ Master's Degree indicators (March Edition)

☛ 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 (September Edition)

☛ Curriculum subjects and their faculty (MarchEdition)

Graduate Profile and Competences

• Graduate profile and competences

Application

The request is made electronically through our application. Before starting the admission process it is important to consult the supporting information that we offer below:

• 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

From the 22/23 academic year onwards, only one admission period per year is established for the total number of places in the two editions (September and March).

Requirements

The basic requirement for admission to the Master is, in accordance with the Order that regulates the professional aptitude evaluation test for the practice of law, be in possession of a Bachelor of Laws degree, Graduate in Law or another university equivalent degree that meets the requirements established in article 3 of the Regulation of the Law 34/2006, of October 30, on the access to the professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts, approved by Royal Decree 64/2023, of February 8, or, in its case, of substitute certifications.

Applicants with qualifications obtained abroad must be in possession of the credential accrediting their homologation. Applicants must meet this requirement prior to admission to the specialized training course for access to the profession of Lawyer in accordance with Royal Decree 64/2023, of February 8, which approves the Regulation of Law 34 / 2006, of October 30, on access to the professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts.

Due to the professional nature of the master the program requires that the candidate must provide the supporting documentation of the approved qualification of the foreign degree in Law by the Ministry of Education of Spain at the time of applying for admission. More information about make equivalent.
 

 IMPORTANT 

In any case, the date of completion of the Degree in Law or the homologation of the degree obtained abroad, which is stated in the supporting document provided, must be prior to the start date of the master's degree classes (September editions, individual and double master's degree).

Students of Double Master's Degrees combined with the Legal Practice March edition, must provide proof of completion of previous studies in Law:

• Before November 30 if the Bachelor's Degree in Law is a prerequisite for access to the Master's Degree with which Legal Practice is combined
  • Double Master's Degree in International Advocacy and Legal Practice and Representation
  • Double Master's Degree in Telecommunications & I.T. Law and Legal Practice and Representation
  • Double Master's Degree in Law of the Regulated Sectors and Legal Practice and Representation
  • Double Master's Degree in Advanced Studies in Public Law and Legal Practice and Representation
  • Double Master's Degree in Intellectual Property and Legal Practice and Representation
• Before February 28th of the year in which the Master's program begins if the Bachelor's Degree in Law is not a prerequisite for access to the Master's program with which it is combined.
  • Double Master's Degree in Labor Legal Consulting and Legal Practice and Representation
  • Double Master's Degree in Taxation and Legal Practice and Representation

Failure to comply with this requirement will result in the withdrawal from the Master's program of those who have been admitted without having accredited the qualifications as indicated.

Admission criteria

✍ │ Extracurricular practice certificate
 

WARNING: No merit will be assessed without documentary evidence.
 

Apart from the above criteria for admission, the Academic Committee will assess the possibility of a personal interview with candidates if it is deemed necessary in order to make a final decision on a student's eligibility for the course.

The Admissions Committee will proceed to assign the places, successively according to the calendar of resolutions, attending first to the candidates with an average grade equal to or higher than 7 in the Bachelor's Degree in Law.

Language requirements

Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

students with foreign university degrees

In accordance with Royal Decree 889/2022, of October 18, establishing the conditions and procedures for the homologation, equivalence and validation of university degrees from foreign educational systems and regulating the procedure to establish the correspondence to the level of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education of official university degrees from previous academic systems, all foreign students wishing to take the Master's Degree in Legal Practice and Representation, whether or not they are European, must meet with the requirements and procedure established in the said Regulation.

On this website of the Ministerio de Universidades you will find all the relevant information.

This is a procedure that is completely alien to the Master's Degree in Legal Practice and Representation, which may force students to study at a University in addition to those they already possess. In accordance with Order PRA/696/2017, of 25 July, students with a foreign degree must have the homologation of the degree at the time of being admitted to the master's degree. Without this homologation, the student will not be able to apply for enrolment in the official entrance examination for the practice of law, which is organised by the Ministry of Justice.

TUITION fees*

Reservation fee: €600

• 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
   

✎│Tuition fees
 

The teaching of elective subjects is conditional upon minimum enrollment of 25 students in each subject.
 

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the  the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 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.
• 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

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

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Work experience in professional law firms

The Master's program aims to provide excellent training, which will be further enhanced during the external internship period. Master's students will complete these internships exclusively at nationally and internationally recognized companies and professional firms that have already committed to collaborating with the University, such as:
 

LAW FIRMS ACTING AS SPONSORS

• A&O SHEARMAN
• BACKER & McKENZIE
• CUATRECASAS. GONÇALVES PEREIRA
• CLIFFORD CHANCE
• DELOITTE
• GOMEZ-ACEBO & POMBO
• HOGAN LOVELLS
• LINKLATERS
• PEREZ-LLORCA
• PWC
   

COLLABORATIVE LAW FIRMS

The methodology of the master's degree is based on the approach to the reality of professional practice, through simulations and negotiation exercises carried out in the classrooms by teams selected for this purpose, both in the development of some subjects, mainly electives, and through additional activities. Among these activities developed in the last editions, the following may be mentioned:

• The art of negotiation UC3M and ISDE, by Pérez Llorca Abogados.Two teams of students, from the UC3M Access Master's Degree and the Access Course at ISDE Barcelona, face the negotiation of a simulated transaction of purchase and sale of a company with various contingencies, each team representing a party to the contract. To this end, the terms of the transaction are analyzed and successive sessions are held from the two sites in Madrid and Barcelona for the closing of the corresponding contract.
• Legal Performance, by Hogan Lovells. 
  Music for lawyers in three acts, in which an exercise of advice to record companies for the development of web portals is practiced. Based on a case, legal advice is simulated for a client whose objective is to develop activities in the digital environment. The different ways of implementing the collaboration between the different operators involved, the aspects related to intellectual property and data protection, among others, are addressed.  The international nature of the exercise means that it is conducted, at least in part, in English. 
• Simulation of a General Shareholders' Meeting.
  Students receive information to represent the different interests involved in the meeting of a company facing different conflicts. The meeting is convened, its celebration is simulated, as well as the adoption of resolutions.

The type of exercises and the offices involved may vary in each edition of the Master.