The Global Lawyer Certificate (GLC) is a degree awarded by the University of Navarra School of Law to those students who obtain their Degree in Law in said law school and, in addition, fulfil the following requirements:
Credit requirements:
Students are required to pass the courses and seminars offered by the University of Navarra School of Law within the AALP (24 optionals ECTS), IBLP (24 optionals ECTS) and GLS during the four years of the Degree in Law.
The University of Navarra School of Law may, on a discretionary basis, allow students to take a number of courses in other national or foreign academic institutions.
Global Law Studies (GLS) includes:
1.- Global Law Courses: These studies will provide law students with a basic knowledge of the legal systems of Japan, China, India and Latin American countries, as well as of Islamic Law (the Shar’ia).
Throughout the four years of the Law Degree, the School of Law will also offer in this module a series of courses and seminars on Global Law and related topics: Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), International Trade, the World Trade Organisation, International Relations,etc. International professors and lawyers will teach these special courses.
2.- Stay abroad requirements
Students are required to spend at least two periods of time abroad, either doing legal research or an internship, during the summer vacation after the second, third or fourth year. Each period to be spent abroad should last for at least one month.
a) Legal research period: One of the two periods may be spent doing research in an academic institution, with a view to writing the final dissertation. Alternatively, subject to the approval of the Law School, students may take an academic course in a foreign academic institution, provided that the contents of the course are related to the topic of the dissertation.
b) Internship: Students are required to spend at least one of the two periods abroad doing an internship in a law firm, Legal Department, Public Institution or the like, previously approved by the Law School. Where the student intends to do an internship in the summer after the second year of the Degree in Law, he or she must have passed all courses in June of that academic year.
At the end of an internship, students must submit to the University of Navarra School of Law a short report, signed by a member of the firm, department or institution where the internship was completed and indicating that the student took advantage of his/her time there.
3.- Dissertation requirements
Students are expected to select a research topic related to any of the courses included in the AALP, IBLP and GLS. The research topic will have to receive the approval of the Law School.
Students are required to submit a final written dissertation in the English language, no later than September 30 following their graduation. The dissertation will be evaluated by a tribunal made up of one or several members of the Faculty of the University of Navarra School of Law or any other lecturers appointed by said law school for that purpose. |
