Single-cycle Master's Degree in Law
Milan, Italy
LLM
DURATION
5 years
LANGUAGES
Italian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
The Master's Degree in Law aims to provide in-depth and structured training, both systematic and methodological, in the field of legal institutions, taking into account their national and international dimension and within a broad interdisciplinary cultural horizon. In addition to traditional theoretical lessons, classroom teaching activities include seminar-based support that allows students to strengthen their reading skills and acquire interpretative skills of doctrinal positions and case law.
Attentive to the international dimension, Giurisprudenza offers numerous courses in English and a wide choice of training courses abroad, which in addition to exchanges within the framework of the Erasmus+ program include participation in double degree programs, summer schools, moot courts and internships at important law firms and international institutions.
Regional scholarships
Regional scholarships offer financial support (from a minimum of €1,296 to a maximum of €7,316), exemption from the second installment of academic fees, and free access to university canteen services.
These scholarships are awarded through a competitive selection process to students who meet specific merit, income, and enrollment requirements and who are regularly enrolled in a program at the University of Milan.
The call for applications is usually published in July. For more information, visit: Regional Scholarships | University of Milan
1st Course Year
- Constitutional Law
- Economics
- History of Medieval and Modern Law
- Philosophy of Law
- Private Law
- Roman Law
2nd Course Year
- Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Labour Law
Elective courses
- Comparative Private Law
- Comparative Public Law
- General Theory of Law
- Sociology of Law
3rd Course Year
- Administrative Law
- Civil Procedural Law
- Criminal Procedural Law
- European Union Law
- International Law
Elective courses
- Advanced Roman Law
- Exegesis of the Roman Law Sources
- Fundamentals of European Law
- Greek Law
- History of Human Rights
- History of Modern Codification
- History of Roman Law
- History of the Criminal Justice
- History of the Legal Professions
- Ius Commune
- Law and History
- Roman Law
- Roman Law of People and Family
4th Course Year
- Administrative Justice
- Tax Law
Elective Courses
- Advanced Administrative Law
- Advanced Corporate Law
- Advanced Criminal Procedure
- Canon Law
- Company Crisis and Insolvency Law
- Comparative Private Law
- Comparative Public Law
- Constitutional Justice
- Criminal Law - Special Part
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Economic Policy
- European Union Competition Law
- History of Roman Law
- History of the Criminal Justice
- Labour Law (Advanced)
- Law of Obligations
- Private and Procedural International Law
5th Course Year
- Civil Law
- Final Exam
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Graduates of the Law program acquire:
- A baseline knowledge of Italian, European, international, and transnational legal foundations, as well as general principles and foundations of positive law
- An in-depth knowledge of Italian law at all levels, and the interconnections between the same
- A solid understanding of the historic dimensions of the law, and the diachronic evolution of legal institutions
- An appreciation of comparative law and foundations of positive law
- An understanding of how to position legal phenomena within the broader context of socio-economic dynamics
- An in-depth understanding of the legal methods and rules, and how to perform legal analysis and criticism accordingly
Legal training, and the mastery of certain methodologies and tools intrinsic to the legal profession, allow the graduates of the Law program to translate their knowledge into the skills required of the legal professions, both in a traditional sense (barrister, judge, notary, and the like), and through the application of legal expertise in other fields, including public administration, HR consultancy, diplomacy, international organizations, business, independent supervisory authorities, as well as in more innovative areas of economic and social development, not traditionally viewed as a career in the law.
Moreover, within the scope of various disciplinary areas (private law and public law, criminal law, international and European law, legal history, philosophy, sociology, and Law & Economics), graduates of this program will gain the ability to:
- Understand legal texts, and how to correctly interpret them
- Identify, within a complex array of sources, the authority to resolve a legal dispute
- The ability to identify questions of law, to structure them methodically, and to propose solutions that are procedurally and substantively valid
- The ability to draft legal documents (laws and regulations, court / administrative orders and opinions, legal treatises, etc.) that abide by the principles of structural and formal cohesion, and properly state the law
- The ability to provide a legal perspective on social issues and scientific questions, applying legal knowledge to real-world issues faced by institutions and companies
- The ability to identify ways that the law might solve some of the 21st century's most challenging problems
These objectives are pursued not only through lectures but also through a variety of learning modules, laboratories, seminars, law clinics, internships, and work experiences, providing an excellent balance of traditional learning and interactive learning by doing.
The Master's degree program in Law prepares students to launch a traditional career in the field, as attorney magistrate or notary, whilst providing students with the opportunity to explore a number of other law-related career paths, for which a thorough knowledge of law is required - either in a self-employed capacity or as salaried employees.