Programme Structure
The programme is divided into five curricular profiles, designed to offer a balanced and complete combination of courses, even within the scope of optional training activities, and to achieve specific cultural and professional vocations:
- forensic
- administrative
- international
- business
- criminal-criminological
Among the elective seminars, whose attendance entails the recognition of 1 credit (ECTS), it is worth mentioning Justice and Literature organized by the Graduate School “Federico Stella” on Criminal Justice (ASGP): it is a seminar cycle on the theme of justice in literature that is inspired by Law and Literature courses organized in many British and American universities, but broadening their perspective in an original way. The meetings aim to put the participants, thanks to meetings with eminent writers, literary critics and jurists, in contact with the interpretations of significant texts pertinent to the topic of justice (especially criminal justice), thus refining the openness to interdisciplinary dialogue, the cultural sensitivity and the "sense of justice" of members of the world of professions, not only legal ones, and students.
Also worth mentioning are the seminars on Forensic Oratory, Business Law in China, the "Moot trials" on criminal law and finally the cycle of lectures on Digital law research. Since the academic year 2015/16 the Faculty of Law has been organising legal practice experiences in administrative law, civil and commercial law, international law, criminal law, according to the Anglo-Saxon academic model of learning by doing. The aim is to transmit to students in the last years of the graduate degree some of the skills of the legal profession.
The verification of attendance and learning for the aforementioned seminars involves the recognition of 4 ECTS. For more information on the setting up of these training activities, please refer to the Faculty Guide (www.unicatt.it/giurisprudenza).
ECTS
To obtain theintegrated degree, 300 credits (ECTS) must be acquired. Credits are acquired by taking the assessment tests for the various courses and other training activities. Each exam is awarded a given number of credits, the same for all students, and a grade (expressed out of 30) that varies according to the level of preparation. Students who, at the end of the integrate degree programme, have obtained (with supernumerary examinations or other activities accredited by the Faculty) a number of credits greater than 300, will be granted an increase in the initial grade with which they present themselves for the final examination equal to 0.1 points for each excess credit (up to a maximum of 10 credits). The grade of the final examination is expressed out of 110.
Since the academic year 2015/16 the "legal clinics" have been activated, called Legal Practice Experiences in Administrative Law, Civil and Commercial Law, International Law, Criminal Law, according to the Anglo-Saxon academic model of learning by doing. The aim is to transmit to students in the last years of the integrate degree programme who are admitted to it, some of the skills of the legal profession. The verification of attendance and learning for the aforementioned seminars involves the recognition of 4 ECTS. For more information on the setting up of these training activities, please refer to the Faculty Guide.