Master in Procedural Law

Start date: April 2026

Workload: 748h (includes 588 hours of face-to-face/online coursework and 160 hours of individual tutoring and follow-up for the preparation of the final project)

Duration: 2 years

Days and times: Fridays from 15:00 p.m. to 21:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 08:30 a.m. to 14:30 p.m.

Modality: *The course will be in-person, with up to 30% of the coursework delivered virtually. For those living within 150km of the Faculty's headquarters, up to 49% of the coursework will be delivered virtually.

Graduate profile

The design, practices, and various requirements of the Master's program will be geared towards training professionals who are recognized for:

• The handling and mastery of theoretical foundations and litigation skills, fueled by a perspective of confluence between civil and criminal procedural law.
• The accuracy and speed in making decisions in all types of trials according to the outlined procedural strategy.
• The ease and creativity to solve cases and procedural challenges based on a methodology suitable for the treatment of the teachings and appropriate decisions that come from doctrine and jurisprudence.
• The development of critical thinking applicable to different situations, where research is valued as a working method.
• The seriousness originating from an excellent preparation conceived from ethics and respect for human dignity as premises for the performance of the legal profession or judiciary.
• The ability to support and argue in favor of the choice made and against the alternatives rejected.
• Teamwork with the potential for synergistic action with other colleagues and professionals from other disciplines.
• High level of training in the use of legal-procedural tools that facilitate access to different resources that allow for the efficient development of teaching and research work in the subject, either during the Master's program or once the Master's degree has been obtained.

Structured Path

First year – Compulsory Subjects

• General Theory of Procedure I
• Case theory
• Precautionary measures and advance claims
• Evidentiary Law
• Assessment of the evidence
• General Theory of Procedure II
• Procedural Law and New Technologies
• Oral litigation techniques
• Methodology of legal research

Second year – Compulsory Subjects

• Methodology of procedural legal research
• Civil Procedural Law
• Criminal Procedural Law
• Constitutional Procedural Law
• Administrative Procedure
• Labor and Social Security Procedure
• Family Procedure
• International Procedural Law
• Domestic and international arbitration
• Social Ethics
• Philosophy of Procedural Law
• Ethics of the lawyer and the judge

Unstructured Pathway – Elective Subjects

• Mediation and conciliation
• Collective processes
• Corporate Procedural Law and Insolvency Proceedings
• Tax procedure
• Procedures in the International Human Rights System
• Fees and costs
• Jury trial
• Extraordinary resources
• Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in procedural matters
• Current debates in Procedural Law
• Comparative Procedural Law
• Judicial management

Complementary activities

• Tutoring and follow-up for the preparation of the final project

Title: Master in Procedural Law

The Faculty of Law has an exhaustive and demanding Regulation of Master's and Specializations, which governs the life of the different actors in all its postgraduate programs: directors, professors, officials, students.

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