LAW

What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The course of study in Law lasts five years, with a total of 300 CFU.

It envisages teachings and methodologies that foster the acquisition of knowledge and skills in national and supranational legal systems, professional deontology, legal and forensic logic and argumentation, legal informatics, as well as knowledge of legal language in a foreign language.

The course of study provides for the inclusion in the student's training of related or supplementary subjects, in order to make it relevant and appropriate for access to the professional fields of the law degree and prepares a training project that enables the student to make use of the knowledge and skills acquired and to follow their development independently, both from a technical and methodological point of view.

The range of courses on offer is enriched by a wide range of activities chosen by students, which allow them to personalise their training path according to their inclinations and professional aspirations, as well as by a large number of Erasmus Agreements, which allow students to spend a period of study abroad.

At the Palermo campus, the Italian-language course is flanked by a partially English-language course called Legal Studies, which provides, already in the first four years, a series of English-language courses in place of their Italian counterparts and, in the fifth year, is divided into two professionalising courses:

• Legal Studies
• Private Law and Legal Studies - Public Law.

What do you learn?

The course of study in Law ensures the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the development of legal reasoning, of the general theoretical structures underlying a legal system, of constitutional principles, of the regulatory and procedural models of legal experience also in historical perspective.

The course allows the acquisition of adequate knowledge and understanding of the development of private relationships, in the dynamics of business and labour relations also in relation to the comparison of other legal systems, as well as the purpose and the rules of civil proceedings.

The curricular path, moreover, allows the acquisition of adequate knowledge and understanding of the organisation and functioning of the State also from a comparative perspective, the study of ecclesiastical systems, the organisational design of public administration and administrative justice, the functioning of the European Union, the international legal system, the State tax system, criminal law and the rules of functioning of the criminal trial, the reference models of micro and macroeconomic theory.

What can you do with it?

Law graduates traditionally enter the legal professions, such as the bar, the judiciary and the notary.

In addition, the law graduate spends his/her competences and skills in the professional profiles of national, supranational and foreign companies and public institutions.

As a legal expert, the graduate can work in international organisations, public bodies and non-profit associations.