Exchange students – Department of Legal Studies

Exchange students @Department of Legal Studies

Welcome to the University of Bologna! Please use always your Unibo credentials and your institutional email address @studio.unibo.it.

First, read carefully the complete general guide for incoming students where you will find all the necessary information during your stay: getting ready (organizing your trip, language requirements, healthcare, accomodation), during the mobility (check-in, online study plan, changing the duration of the exchange) and at the end of the mobility (check-out and transcript of records).

Welcome Day 

- On 19th September 2024 (h. 12.00-13.00) it is planned a welcome day for law incoming students arriving on 1st Semester a.y. 24/25 in Aula 2 (ground floor) di Palazzo Poggi, via Zamboni 33, Bologna. The event will be also aired on MSTeams on this link.

The material used during the presentation has been uploaded on this page (section "Files").

Academic Calendar

Our exchange students usually arrive in Italy a few weeks before the start of the courses, so they have enough time to get to know a little bit about Bologna and our University before attending lectures. 

The official Academic Calendar 2024/25 of the Department of Legal Studies is the following:

• Courses in the 1° semester: 16/09/2024 - 6/12/2024
• Exam Session 1° semester: 7/01/2025 - 21/02/2025

• Courses in the 2° semester: 24/02/2025- 16/05/2025
• Exam Session 2° semester: 26/05/2025 - 25/07/2025

Exchange students are usually able to sit one exam up to 3 times (“appelli”). Exams should be held during the official exam session only. For more info regarding the assessment method and exam date you can get in touch directly with the dedicated Professor in charge of the course.

Learning Agreement

Within partner universities  of the Erasmus+ programme, the University of Bologna can manage the Digital Learning Agreement with the exchange of data via EWP (Erasmus Without Paper). Check directly with your home University if they manage the Learning Agreement via EWP and follow their guidelines for accessing the online platform and fill it out. After presenting your Learning Agreement, it will be automatically received by the reference office of your field of study or Campus for the dedicated check, approval and signature. In case of refusal, you will be notified via email and  you will have to make the needed changes, repeating the procedure.

If your home university does not manage yet the Learning Agreement via EWP, you can fill a pdf version of Learnig Agreeement and upload it on your personal AlmaRM page. You can ask the template directly to your home University or download it from the dedicated page of the European Commission. The Learning Agreement will be checked, approved and signed and you will then be able to download it in pdf. In case of refusal, you will be notified via email and  you will have to make the needed changes, repeating the procedure on AlmaRM.

If the signing of a Learning Agreement is not required for your mobility programme, you must still submit your study plan to the dedicated office to verify that the course units you have chosen are available and therefore allow you to attend lectures and sit the exams.

Which courses? You are allowed to take courses from any of our Law degree programmes according to your semester of stay. Following, please consult our formative offers at these links: Single-Cycle Degree in Giurisprudenza (Law), Bachelor Degree in Consulente del lavoro e delle relazioni aziendali (Labour and Corporate Relations Advisor) and the Second Cycle Degree Programme in Legal Studies.

Course units in English from the Department of Legal Studies are accessible here and on the complete course catalogue where you can filter by area, language, level, campus, etc..

IMPORTANT! As an Erasmus+ student, please mind that there are several rules that you have to follow when completing your Learning Agreement (LA) :

• you are required to take at least 50% of all courses in your LA from the Department of Legal Studies (unless you are from an Overseas programme or from a Cooperation Agreement) ;
• you are not allowed to insert courses from double degrees programmes (the Italian-French Law programme) which are reserved to enrolled students only;
• for courses from the LLM in Legal Studies (LEGS) it is necessary to check in advance with the dedicated Professor for possible prerequisites (since it is a Master level degree programme), and the required English proficiency level. For more information, get in touch with the Degree Programme Director (Professor D. Senzani). 
• For a.y. 2024/25, Legal Studies' following courses are not open to incoming students: 62514 - PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (prof. Zanobetti) and 91364 - FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC COMPARATIVE LAW (prof. Mancini). The same courses can be replaced with the dedicated ones open to incoming students held by the same Professors: B6121 - PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW and 69926 - COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM. For further information we advise to get in touch directly with the Professor in charge of the course before the beginning of lessons.  
• In order to attend the law clinic: B2592 - VITTIME DISCRIMINAZIONE E DIRITTO (CLINICA LEGALE) it is necessary an adequate knowledge of the Italian language and a prior authorisation by the Professors in charge of the course. 
• if you want to take courses from other Departments or Campuses, you are required to contact the dedicated International Mobility Office and ask permission for each specific course, including information regarding your year in your home-University (the contact by study field can be accessed at this link). After you receive the formal approval, please forward it to us in a single email. Only afterward we will sign your LA;
• if you want to insert in your LA a transferable skill course (competenze trasversali), please mind that you will have to check with the dedicated office since places are limited. 
• if you choose a course divided into groups (ex. A-C) you should follow the group with the letter of your first last name as registered on Studenti Online. Exclusively in case of overlapping, it will be possible by asking for the authorization of the Professor in charge of the new group by signing the module “Group Change - Form" in the section "Files" of this page) only within 30 days from the beginning of the course. The signed module has to be sent to the International Mobility Office. The lack of authorization within the deadlines will not allow changing groups. It won’t be possible to accept requests after the deadlines. 
• exchange students, even if undergraduate (Bachelor level), can take courses from any year of the 5 years Single Cycle degree programme in Giurisprudenza (Law) and from the Second Cycle degree programme in Legal Studies prior check with the dedicated Professor in case pre-requisites are needed.
• if your mobility is ongoing for only one semester, you are required to insert only courses offered in that semester.

Please note that courses and timetables might have slight changes just before the beginning of the semester, so if you have already uploaded your Learning Agreement, wait up to the first weeks of lessons if you need to make changes in your LA; we will not accept more than 3 changes in LA during the whole mobility programme and within 6 weeks from the beginning of the course. 

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Timetables are progressively updated on these pages: 

- for units from the Single Cycle degree programme in Giurisprudenza here; 

- for units from the First Cycle degree programme in Consulente del Lavoro e delle Relazioni Aziendali here; 

- for units from the Second Cycle degree programme in Legal Studies here. 

Italian Language courses for incoming students

In order to make the most of your exchange period, our University Language Center (CLA) offers free Italian courses for exchange students, upon registration. Please remember to check deadlines so you won’t miss the registration period (places are limited. More information about Italian courses for international students can be found on this page. 

Lastly, please remember to check your Unibo e-mail because all communications will be sent to your institutional inbox only.

Enjoy your stay in Bologna!

The International Mobility Office - Law Staff