Thirty years after creating the first Master's degrees in Spanish, combining continental law with Anglo-Saxon teaching methods, the Universidad Austral It is once again a pioneer with its LL.M. This is the first master's degree of its kind in Latin America, and one of the first in the world outside the Anglo-Saxon sphere, conceived at the level of the most prestigious LL.M. programs in the Law Schools of the United States.
The Master's program offers great flexibility and the unique feature that the curriculum is structured as a personalized program, largely chosen by the student according to their interests and possibilities.
The LL.M. Master's degree with a focus on Arbitration, Litigation and International Contracts aims to train professionals with an international focus, capable of performing in a world with a greater number and complexity of international business and disputes.
The support provided by UNIDROIT enhances this objective by ensuring an in-depth study of its instruments and projects, which enriches the training of students with an essentially transnational perspective.
The Master of Laws (LL.M.) program with a focus on Arbitration, Litigation, and International Contracts features leading national and international experts in the field, who will share their knowledge and experience with students so they can develop the skills necessary to perform in the world of business and international arbitration and litigation.
The program content is updated to reflect current best practices, and the case method allows students to see the application of the topics in real and hypothetical situations. In this way, they will expand their intellectual tools and professional skills to successfully pursue their careers in a truly global environment.
It should be emphasized that The course structure, the breadth of options, the curriculum, among other things, of the LL.Ms in the United States is substantially the same as the plan of this Master of Laws.
➤ To offer a broad and flexible program, suitable for satisfying a high degree of depth and knowledge of Law, which aims to provide the possibility of choosing between the specific knowledge and practical skills of most or all fields of Law, and also to provide a training environment for those seeking to pursue higher studies with academic interests, but without intending or being able to access a Doctoral training, or as a preliminary step towards it.
➤ To provide the theoretical and practical tools that allow the updating and deepening of knowledge and techniques in the area and specific sub-areas of interest to the student, as well as Law in general, without losing sight of the ideals of truth and justice.
➤ To promote an intercultural, internationalist, comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of Law.
➤ Encourage interaction between national and foreign students.
➤ To promote greater communication among students from the various majors and programs of the Faculty.
➤ To enrich the theoretical and practical analysis of the legal problems under discussion, through the contribution of study perspectives not limited to the discipline of each career.
➤ To enhance cooperation and coordination among the various postgraduate programs of the Faculty.
The LL.M. of the Universidad Austral Its most distinctive feature is its great flexibility, without losing any of the high standards that have characterized its Master's programs for two decades.
This flexibility manifests itself in multiple ways, the main ones of which are highlighted here:
This Master's Degree in Law of the Universidad Austral Its overall objective is to provide legal professionals from various fields with a solid academic foundation that integrates the philosophical, ethical, scientific, and practical elements necessary for professional practice related to law. Thus, it aims to ensure that students obtain a higher education in their chosen area of law, deepening their training according to the current state of knowledge in each discipline, with an openness to research geared toward professional practice.
A distinctive feature of the Faculty is its use of participatory teaching methods, which include prior study and analysis of materials and cases by students. The aim, primarily through the case method in its various forms, is to help students develop their imagination and legal reasoning skills, enabling them to argue logically and rationally in the field of law at a postgraduate level. Furthermore, the Faculty strives to train them in the skills required for their professional practice.
Among the objectives of these postgraduate programs at the Faculty is also the acquisition of a solid foundation in legal doctrine, reaffirming the importance of the proper study of theory. While prioritizing participatory methods, each professor also incorporates the necessary theoretical elements into the bibliography and lectures, thus guiding students toward a critical, rather than dogmatic, understanding of the content.
The various requirements of the LL.M., like the various postgraduate programs of the Faculty, are geared towards training students so that, as graduates, they have the abilities to:
a) To act with critical thinking in their work reality and to value reflection and legal research as a working method.
b) Learn to perceive and relate all the facts of legal cases and problems, selecting relevant information and distinguishing it from irrelevant information.
c) Identify the law applicable to the facts submitted for consideration and interpret it.
d) To easily make appropriate, prudent and fair decisions in the face of various legal situations.
e) Argue in favor of the choice made and against the rejected alternatives and express these arguments orally and in writing.
g) To be professionals prepared axiologically and technically to perform a function of agreement, justice and equity in the conflicts of interests that the legal phenomenon raises and, in the case of magistrates and officials of the Judicial Branch, to resolve with justice, equity and technical competence the cases submitted to their judgment.
h) To acquire a methodology of permanent training in the legal field, and the awareness that it is essential to always resort to updating and learning in the face of the dynamic and complex regulations of social life, in order to better serve the community.
i) Working as a team, developing the potential for synergistic action with other colleagues.
j) Be qualified to participate in the strategic planning of the needs of clients, the organization, the State or judicial bodies.
k) To be trained to provide a high-quality service to the community through their skill in properly raising the various legal problems that arise in community life and in finding, in different circumstances, fair solutions to them.
As a subsidiary to training for professional practice, efforts are made to discover among the students those who have a vocation for research and higher teaching in the field of Law, and to sow in them the seed of academic life.
For the reading and study of doctrinal and jurisprudential materials, the Faculty provides the material in digital format in advance.
There are many benefits to using these digital tools:
To protect copyright, the Faculty takes charge of a license for each student who pays CADRA through the use of bibliographic materials.
The texts in digital format are downloaded from the postgraduate virtual platform, which is accessed with a username and password.
MANDATORY CONTENT OF THE GUIDANCE
Diploma in Commercial and Investment Arbitration (120 hours)
Diploma in International Contracts and Litigation (120 hours)
UNIDROIT Module (20 hours)
MANDATORY CONTENT OF THE LL.M.
Philosophy of Law
Professional and social ethics
Investigation methodology
SUGGESTED CONTENT OF THE ORIENTATION
Program on the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Corporate Arbitration Course
International contracts and finance
Issues of Tort Law in International Contracts
Construction Law
Practice and Intensive course on legal English
Contract drafting workshop
Course on International Commercial Contracts
General contract theory
Contract drafting techniques
Contracts in particular
Contracts in intellectual property and new technologies
International and comparative law of intangible assets
Program: Techniques for drafting contracts and legal opinions
Regional Economic Integration
Fundamentals of International Trade
International law in a global world
Protection of Human Rights
Introduction to the acquisition of goods, services and works financed by multilateral credit organizations
Oral litigation techniques
Oral and written expression techniques. Argumentation and clear language in judicial decisions.
The proposed curriculum consists of specific mandatory subjects that are linked to international arbitration, litigation and contracts, plus 4 (four) mandatory subjects specific to all Master's degrees in the Faculty of Law.
The required courses for this specialization are drawn from the content of the Diploma in Commercial and Investment Arbitration and the Diploma in International Contracts and Litigation, as well as the UNIDROIT Module. For the unstructured portion of the program, courses are electives, and students can choose from: 1) the list of suggested courses related to the specialization's subject matter, detailed in this document; or 2) the LLM's general course catalog, which includes courses from master's programs, diplomas, and other programs offered by the Law School, taught by approximately 200 professors with Master's or Doctoral degrees who possess extensive training, academic experience, and professional expertise.
Students aspiring to obtain the Master of Laws diploma with a focus on Arbitration, Litigation and International Contracts must successfully complete the 260 hours corresponding to the mandatory subjects of the focus, as well as the hours of the mandatory subjects of the Master of Laws – LL.M.
You will also need to complete the unstructured pathway related to elective subjects, and submit the Final Project according to the guidelines explained in this document.
In the same Personalized Study Plan, the student You must state the topic you intend to address in your Master's Thesis. and the objectives and goals you intend to achieve, whether in applied law or legal theory; or indicate the specific orientation within a subdiscipline of law on which your applied law or legal theory work will focus, if you have not yet decided on your specific topic for your Final Project. In addition, you must propose your Final Project Supervisor, or submit a request to the Executive Directorate for one to be assigned.
The Personalized Curriculum is reviewed by the LL.M. authorities, who They can propose modifications or changes.
During the course of the LL.M. studies, the student You may submit a reasoned request to the Master's authorities to modify your Plan Custom.
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In light of the general objectives of the Faculty's Master's programs, combined with those of the LL.M., the profile of the graduates of the Master's in Law emerges, which is achieved as a direct result of the wide range of subjects and courses available.
This graduate profile is that of A lawyer who, having completed their general, basic, undergraduate legal training, and having been integrated into the new training needs, can offer society, both in small towns and villages, as well as in large national cities, as well as in the interaction with other countries or by going to work in other legal systems, the ability to provide a personalized professional service or to integrate academically according to their interestsAnd he can do the above because, within a vast body of legal knowledge, he has acquired the knowledge necessary for individualized training, tailored to his professional or academic requirements.
Alongside the above, due to the inherent diversity of this dynamic and open Master's program, the LL.M. prepares its graduates to incorporate new and new skills and knowledge in the future.
Specifically, the characteristics of the LL.M., as well as its different requirements, are geared towards training students so that, as graduates, they have the ability to:
The various departments maintain relationships with their hundreds of graduates a close relationship through meetings and activities which arise from the initiative of both parties. Many graduates are called upon to work as academic authorities in specific activities, conferences, special programs, courses and seminars that the Faculty carries out.
A significant number of graduates publish books with publishing houses that have agreements with the Faculty and articles in journals and repositories. Overall, Faculty members, students, and graduates have published approximately 300 books and 2.000 legal articles. All of this has become a powerful engine for generating ideas.which are a continuous contribution of research that provides society with new tools and solutions to the most varied conflicts.
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