15 Degrees in General Law Studies in South America for 2024
- Fortaleza Alta, Brazil
On-Campus
Portuguese
The FURB Master's Program in Law is aimed at holders of a diploma of higher education in Law or in other courses in the area of Applied Social Sciences and aims to train professionals in the legal area to act as teachers and researchers in undergraduate courses. and post-graduate studies, as advisors, consultants, civil servants of Justice and the State, public managers, entrepreneurs, and trainers of qualified opinions, with a view to consolidating the Democratic Rule of Law and improving legal practices that promote fundamental rights in contemporary international society and, thus, of constitutional policies. Therefore, it is intended to promote the following characteristics: a) General training to act as teachers and researchers in higher education or in research and innovation centers; b) Qualification for conducting research in the different fields of Legal Sciences and in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary environments; c) Sensitivity to act in areas of law considered a priority in the country and in its regional contexts; d) Ability to create and interpret empirical data on the regional and national context that allow the formulation and analysis of public policies; e) Ability to recognize demands from pressure groups, minorities, socio-environmental issues, and sovereignty, as well as from the market economy and its numerous forms of relationship with the law.
- Historical Centre, Brazil
On-Campus
Portuguese
The Postgraduate Law Program (PPGD) began its trajectory in 2013, with the approval of the Master's Degree in Law - concentration area “law and society” - which, reaching grade 4, can plead with CAPES the offer of the Doctorate. On June 6, 2019, the new course proposal was approved. Thus, the Postgraduate Program in Law was consolidated, having as fundamental for research the following questions: a) the positivization of Law and its fulfillment by society; b) the observation of social changes and the perception of how they influence and modify the Law; c) the distance between the positive text and the Brazilian social reality.
- Bogotá, Colombia
On-Campus
Spanish
Law is the normative and institutional order of human behavior in society inspired by postulates of justice and legal certainty, the basis of which is the existing social relations that determine its content and character in a given place and time. Our general purpose is to train competent professionals in legal science, capable of understanding and transforming the social reality in which they are immersed with social, political, and economic leadership, for the resolution of conflicts and the promotion of the human person.
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Part time
4580 hours
On-Campus
Portuguese
The graduation in Law at Ibmec addresses Law in an integral way, encouraging the student to work on the interconnection between its various branches and also its connection with other areas such as Economics and International Relations. The student absorbs the technical knowledge necessary for a professional in the legal field, while being prepared to discuss in depth all the reality that surrounds him.
- Bogotá, Colombia
On-Campus
Spanish
The Faculty of Law and the Postgraduate Institute of the Free University, consistent with its historical project, form integral jurists committed to the defense of justice and law based on the foundational, ethical, freedom, equity, and tolerance principles, based on scientific, universal and interdisciplinary rigor, applied to the transformation of the social and national reality.
- 1873, Argentina
On-Campus
Spanish
In general, the Master's Degree in Notarial, Registry, and Real Estate Law aims to provide superior training in these disciplines, from a theoretical and technical point of view, with a commercial and business orientation, developing research skills and criteria for the critical evaluation of the state of knowledge.
- Cundinamarca, Colombia
On-Campus
Spanish
The master's degree in Family Law is a graduate program that aims to instruct the student in certain substantial and procedural knowledge of family law. It has an emphasis on deepening and research of the student's choice. 1. Distinctive rank: it is the first master's degree offered in the country with an emphasis on research and the second with an emphasis on deepening, in this specific area of law. 2. It is a graduate program that aims to instruct the student in certain substantial and procedural knowledge of family law. 3. The curriculum has an interdisciplinary component represented in the modules of genetics and bioethics, influential social transformations in the family, and psychological dynamics of family conflicts. 4. It has national and foreign teachers and researchers of the highest quality.
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
On-Campus
Portuguese
The master's course in Law at UCP intends to assume the role of promoting an academic policy for the training of teachers and researchers to cover the demand for quality staff in teaching and scientific production in the country and, especially, in Rio de Janeiro, in view of the growing number of undergraduate law courses. The Program was conceived, among other reasons, to supply a set of training and qualification demands for research in the legal area, taking especially into account the absence of such a course in the city of Petrópolis and in the Mountain Region that the encircles.
- Bogotá, Colombia
On-Campus
Spanish
To train postgraduate students who want to deepen and investigate the object of study of the philosophy of law and legal theory, as a component of training excellence in the treatment of new currents of law, which seek to overcome the positivist perspective and account for legal realities, intimately linked with the reflection of the foundations of the normative processes of human action; Furthermore, it wants to account for the new currents of law linked to globalization processes.
Master's Program in Law
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- Pituaçu, Brazil
On-Campus
Portuguese
The Master's Program in Law, with an area of concentration in Alterity and Fundamental Rights, has two lines of research, namely: Line A called Bioethics, Alterity and the Social Environment and Line B entitled Public Policies and the Implementation of Fundamental Rights. Fostering otherness as a principle capable of giving all polarities equal rights of expression. (BYINGTON, 2015) is the great paradigm that guides the course. It seeks to promote the training of researchers who absorb the need to produce knowledge capable of overcoming predatory and exploitative attitudes of the environment in which they operate and act with a loving, ecological, democratic, and compassionate vision that we hope can ensure the future of humanity (BYINGTON, 2008).
- São Paulo, Brazil
Full time
5 years
On-Campus
Portuguese
Law is the science that studies laws and their application in relations between people in society. The analysis of legal texts, Court decisions, called jurisprudence, uses and customs, in addition to the guiding values of social life, is an instrument for citizens to be able to realize all their potential in individual and collective life.
- Trindade, Brazil
On-Campus
English
The program aims to prepare professionals for the legal practice, while equipping them with technical knowledge, a critical view and social and political consciousness. The program’s curriculum includes a strong humanist base, which combines the need for a dogmatic and practical training and an education concerned with the development of a truly conscious and participatory citizenship. For degree completion, in addition to achieving the number of credits required for mandatory courses and completing a final thesis (TCC), students must obtain 324 class hours of elective courses, 360 hours of internship experience and 360 hours of complementary activities (including research and outreach activities, extracurricular courses and internships, and student representation).
- Viña del Mar, Chile
On-Campus
Spanish
The Bachelor of Legal Sciences from the Andrés Bello University has a strong professional seal, with emphasis on training for litigation, social responsibility, which conceives the Law as an instrument of justice and that understands the logical principles that inform the regulatory system, which gives it the tools to work with different legal systems and with the ability to adapt to change.
- 1873, Argentina
On-Campus
Spanish
The Specialization presents a professional profile, oriented towards the management of judicial conflicts. Within this framework, it presents the following objectives: Provide in-depth knowledge of the judicial process and alternative methods of conflict resolution with legal relevance, Training on the different aspects that the process contains: philosophical and legal principles, foundations of normative systems, conceptual instruments, and what is linked to its real operation.
- Salta Province, Argentina
On-Campus
Spanish
The degree is approved as Face-to-face, also due to the current context the teaching of classes is being given from 4 to 8 pm. on Tuesdays and workshop on Fridays, under the virtual modality.