Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
22 Jul 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
25 Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 380 / per credit
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
In its endeavor to fulfil its part of the University mission, building “enlightened citizenship” for a civil society and a “world of truth, justice, love, and freedom” under the rule of law, the Faculty developed the Lebanese Bachelor of Laws to answer the need for a better education in Law.
The new program, accredited by the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), adds the English language component and the American educational approach to law studies. It maintains excellence in the coverage of state-required materials and augments them with a wealth of additional courses, dealing with contemporary and futuristic topics and using the most advanced teaching methodologies and techniques. Our graduating jurists will enrich the profession with advanced expertise and fresh perceptions acquired by adhering to the highest international standards of academic excellence while enhancing their service capabilities to the community and their employability with local, regional and international firms, and properly connecting Lebanon and its institutions to the globalized markets, laws, and systems.
This curriculum and this degree, however, do not allow the students to join any Bar Association in any foreign country unless they duly fulfil the requirements stipulated by each country.
Mission
Acknowledging the rule of law as the core premise for societal civility and development, the program aims at providing students with the most evolved education of all legal systems: Romano-Germanic, Civil Law, Common Law, Islamic Law, and all branches of Law (i.e. public, private, comparative, domestic, and international.) It also aims to graduate successful jurists who emerge as professional and societal leaders in pursuit of justice, committing themselves to ethical service of clients and the public, defending human rights, and standing out as the ultimate vanguards of proper citizenship and the rule of law.
Program Educational Objectives
The Bachelor of Laws program aims to:
- Prepare students to pass the licensure exam.
- Equip students with adequate theatrical and research backgrounds to follow graduate studies in the fields of law.
- Provide students with skills to integrate technology and learned professional techniques into practice.
- Instill leadership and efficient management qualities in graduates.
- Integrate ethical principles and lifelong learning in future professional practice.
- Integrate ethical principles and lifelong learning in future professional practice.
- Develop an understanding of law in both English and Arabic.
Admissions
Curriculum
Liberal Arts Curriculum (12cr.)
- English and Arabic Communication (9cr.)
- Religion (3cr.)
Core Requirements (41cr.)
- LAW 250 Romano-Germanic Legal System
- LAW 252 International Political Economy
- LAW 253 Introduction to Common Law
- LAW 254 European Union Law
- LAW 255 Civil Law VII
- LAW 350 Personal Status
- LAW 351 Legal Terminology
- LAW 352 Measures of Execution
- LAW 353 Intellectual Property Law and WTO
- LAW 450 Money, Banking Law, and Islamic Finance
- LAW 451 Labor Law and Social Security
- LAW 452 Lebanese Finance and Taxation Law
- LAW 453 Air and Maritime Law
- LAW 454 Arbitration Law
Major Requirements (79cr.)
- LAW 201 Civil Law I: Introduction to Law I - Theory of Law
- LAW 202 Civil Law II: Introduction to Law II: Theory of Right
- LAW 203 Civil Law III: Obligations and Contracts - Sources
- LAW 204 General Constitutional Law I
- LAW 205 Special Constitutional Law II
- LAW 206 General and Lebanese Administrative Law I
- LAW 207 Civil Procedure Law I
- LAW 208 General Criminal Law
- LAW 301 Civil Law IV: Obligations and Contracts - Regime
- LAW 302 Civil Law V: Special Contracts I
- LAW 303 Civil Law VI: Special Contracts II
- LAW 304 Commercial Law I: Commercial Acts, Traders, Goodwill
- LAW 305 Commercial Law II: Corporate Law
- LAW 306 General and Lebanese Administrative Law II
- LAW 307 Civil Procedure Law II
- LAW 308 Special Criminal Law
- LAW 309 Public International Law
- LAW 310 Criminal Procedure Law
- LAW 311 Public Function
- LAW 401 Estate Law
- LAW 402 Civil Law VIII: Inheritance, Will, and Donation
- LAW 403 Commercial Law III: Commercial Contracts, Negotiable Instruments
- LAW 404 Commercial Law IV: Bankruptcy
- LAW 405 Private International Law I: Conflict of Laws
- LAW 406 Private International Law II: Conflict of Jurisdictions, Nationality, Foreigners’ Regulations
- LAW 495 Thesis: Graduation Project Guidelines
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Program Outcome
Upon graduation from the Laws program, students shall be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of all legal systems (Romano-Germanic, Common Law, and Islamic Law).
- Demonstrate an understanding of domestic and international Law.
- Demonstrate an understanding of comparative Law.
- Demonstrate an understanding of private and public Law.
- Develop an understanding of banking, commercial, financial, and investment Law.
- Develop the art of oral argument.
- Law, criminal law, procedure law, banking law, personal status law, intellectual property law, labor law, arbitration law, contract law, tort law, administrative law, real estate law, international criminal law, constitutional law, civil liberties and human rights, maritime and air law, obligations law, and public and private international law).
- Stipulate contracts, legal consultations, legal research, judgments, and arbitration awards.
- Develop an understanding of Law in both English and Arabic.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The study of the program, the resulting skills acquisition and readiness of students prepare them for a professional life by enabling them to:
- Join the Beirut or Tripoli Bar Association in Lebanon.
- Join the Institute of Judicial Studies in Lebanon.
- Apply to become a public notary.
- Apply to any public or private job-whether administrative, advisory, or diplomatic.
- Work in the trade sector and the private investment sector in both Lebanon and abroad.
- Work as a legal advisor in both Lebanon and abroad.
- Work as a university professor in both Lebanon and abroad.
- Work in official national, international, or non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- Continue to study the Law in both Lebanon and abroad at higher levels of study (L.L.M., J.D., Ph.D.).