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Prospects

Due to its characteristics, this course is designed to provide a set of knowledge and skills that can be applied in a predominantly international context. The course represents a training opportunity in the field of law, eminently oriented to address international, transnational and comparative legal phenomena. In this perspective, it fills a training gap in the Italian university system, which appears to be mainly focused on the study of domestic law.
The course provides the same opportunities to students who have already experienced academic legal training and students who have a non-legal degree but who have gained 30 ECTS in legal subjects.
Particularly, the second year focuses on each students’ specifities and specialisations, offering three different tracks: Global and Transnational Legal Culture; Law, Economics and Finance; Human Rights and Social Justice.

Professional Profiles:

- Legal expert in business

Functions performed in the working environment:

The profession of legal expert in business implies the management and coordination of the legal office of companies which operate in a highly internationalized area, as well as dealing with all typical legal issues of business, especially by ensuring that relevant activities, procedures and acts comply with applicable norms, having particular regard of the international dimension in which the institution operates; drafting contracts and other legal acts of both national and, above all, international nature; providing legal advice and legal analysis in an international, supranational and comparative perspective; drawing up administrative acts, practices and measures; taking care of the relations with external bodies and subjects (external legal experts), be they private or public (intergovernmental, governmental, non-governmental entities); managing and monitoring all legal aspects of the institution concerned; ensuring support to the administrative activity of other offices; being part of institutional bodies (commissions, advisory bodies etc.).

Related skills:

Knowledge of the legal sources, relevant case-law and practices, with an emphasis on the comparative, transnational and international dimension of legal phenomena.
Ability in setting and analyzing specific situations in the appropriate global legal framework, supported by:

- ability to draft opinions and acts;

- ability to carry out activities related to business administration and management;

- knowledge of administrative and office procedures;

- knowledge of the principles and practices of economics and accounting;

- ability to manage personnel and human resources;

- computer skills.

Employment opportunities:

This type of legal experts are expected to primarily operate as employees or consultants within industrial and manufacturing companies, banking or insurance institutions, professional firms with a strong international vocation.

These activities can also be performed in other types of private bodies (foundations, research institutes, associations and bodies, including those of the third sector, non-governmental organizations, etc.), operating both at national, European and international level.

The same goes for international environments characterized by interactions between multiple legal structures and systems. 

 

- Legal expert for public administrations

Functions performed in the working environment:

The profession of legal expert in public administration implies the management and coordination of the legal office, as well as dealing with all typical legal issues, of organizations and bodies of the national and international Public Administrations, especially by ensuring that relevant activities, procedures and acts comply with applicable norms, having particular regard of the international dimension of legal phenomena; drafting contracts and other legal acts, of both national and, above all, international nature; providing legal advice and legal analysis in an international, supranational and comparative perspective; drawing up administrative acts, practices and measures; taking care of the relations with external bodies or subjects (external legal experts), be they private entities or public bodies (other branches of the Public Administration or State bodies, other international organizations, non-governmental organizations, research centers/institutes, private companies); managing and monitoring all legal aspects of the institution concerned; ensuring support to the administrative activity of other offices; being part of institutional bodies (commissions, advisory bodies etc.).

Related skills:

Analzying problems issuing comparative considerations and having regard of the interactions between the national and supra-national systems; likewise, these professionals are expected to know the main aspects of the guarantee function that national and international institutions play with a view to safeguarding and promoting specific and given rights (also from an ethical perspective).

Ability in setting and analyzing specific situations in the appropriate global legal framework, supported by:

- ability to draft opinions and acts;

- ability to carry out activities related to business administration and management;

- knowledge of administrative and office procedures;

- archive management techniques;

- management skills

- knowledge of the principles and practices of economics and accounting;

- ability to manage personnel and human resources;

- ability to interact with different professional figures to comprehend the dynamics impacting over the organization of the internal work;

- computer skills.

With specific reference to the Italian legal system, the course of study in Legal Studies responds to an endemic problem of the Italian Public Administration, namely the lack of administrative staff bearing legal skills necessary to interact with colleagues from other countries or working in international organizations.

Employment opportunities:

The legal expert in public administration can operate at national, European and international level.
Graduates from this course are expected to gain the knowledge and skills to successfully apply to public calls for accessing positions in local government bodies and organizations (Municipalities, Regions, Provinces); they can also work in Functional Bodies (ASL, Chambers of Commerce, Universities, Public Companies), national institutions (Government, Parliament), national agencies and Labor Inspectorates.

Regarding the European level, they should also be able to participate to calls for accessing top positions in institutions and other European bodies.

The same applies with regard to international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

- Legal Experts for NGOs, Human Rights and other similar contexts

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These profiles are general, though concrete, indications: graduates in Legal Studies are supposed to be able to understand and critically analyze the relationships between national legal systems and other legal systems, to assess national norms in the wider context of supra-national European legal order, and to handle softer forms of transnational law.
They will be able to act within the international context as a whole.
Graduates should also be able to interact with non-specialists or with specialists from other disciplines; at the same time, consideration is given to critical thinking and problem solving, as nowadays these characteristics are necessary for flexible and independent legal experts.
This opens the path to careers unforeseen and unaddressed in the current page, to freelance consulting activities, to new and disrupting career paths sprouting from an highly international and interdisciplinary academic and practical context.

Of course, graduates in Legal Studies can also complete their legal training by attending specialization schools, II level Master's and specialization courses.

Moreover, the academic career is open to these graduates, granting them the chance to apply for a PhD both in Italy and abroad.

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