Master in Law – Specialization in International and European Law
Lisbon, Portugal
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 6,200 **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 1st phase of applications: 3rd to 28th February
** 10.000€: total tuition fee for non-EU candidates
Key Summary
Introduction
The Master’s in International and European Law, lectured in English, offers students the opportunity to expand their legal knowledge in an area that is becoming increasingly essential considering world globalization, in which national boundaries are losing importance.
Operating within an increasingly transnational and globalized world requires legal knowledge that today is less focused on classical issues of public international law, and more on areas that focus on issues related to the internationalization of businesses and private/public transnational legal relationships, as well as human rights, humanitarian law and new developments in international criminal law. European integration is part of the new geopolitical environment. This explains the focus of the master’s on several areas of European Union law such as the freedom of movement of people and the European jurisdictional system. It is crucial for a lawyer to be familiar with the diverse and increasingly vast areas of International Law and European Union Law in order to successfully address the theoretical and practical challenges they face.
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Ideal Students
Graduates in Law or in other social sciences who wish to deepen their knowledge.
Program Outcome
Building on the knowledge acquired in the bachelor’s degree in the fields of International Law, this Master's in Law develops the interdisciplinary nature of both International and European Law, namely in the area of the protection of human rights. It addresses the development of skills in scientific research and prepares students for their professional life.
Curriculum
+ 2024/2025 & 2025/2026
1st year - Taught Component
In addition to the mandatory course, students must complete 32 ECTS in the restrictive optional courses listed above and 22 ECTS in free-option courses that they may choose from any Master’s course taught at NOVA School of Law (subject to availability).
Total ECTS of the Taught Component: 60 ECTS.
From 2024/25, students will need to approve the curricular component with, at least 13,50 points out of 20 (13,5/20) to be able to enrol in the research phase (2nd year of the course).
Completion of the curricular component (60 ECTS), with any positive grade, grants the award of a Diploma in Postgraduate Studies in Law.
1st Semester
Restricted Option
- Diplomatic and Consular Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Law of the Sea and International Courts
- Direito das Organizações Internacionais
- Environmental Law
- Comparative Equality Law
- Advanced EU Law
- Transitional Justice
- Legal English
- Direito Administrativo Europeu
- Emerging Technologies: Governance and Regulation
- International Economic Law
- Business, Human Rights and Sustainability
- Introdução ao Direito da União Europeia
2nd Semester
Mandatory
- Methodology of Legal Research
Restricted Option
- Human Rights International Protection Systems
- International Tax Law
- Competition Law
- EU Asylum and Migration LawInternational and European Security Law
- Data Protection and Management Law*
- European Law of the Sea
- Moot Courts
Free Option
- Clinical Course in Cross-Border Child Protection Services**
- Direito da Família e da Criança
- War & Law
*Data Protection and Management Law is a course offered by NOVA School of Law’s Jean Monnet Module on European Union Data Protection Law in Portugal (DataporEU)
**Limited to 10 students, with preference given to those enrolled in the EU Migration and Asylum Law curricular unit.
(The curricular units presented as free options are suggestions and may be changed. In free-option curricular units that are compulsory for other master’s programmes, enrolment and attendance depends on logistical and pedagogical possibilities).
2nd year - Research Phase
Mandatory
- Dissertation, internship at national or international institution or project work.
NOVA School of Law participates in THEMIS, a network that encourages the internationalization of master’s students. The THEMIS certificate is granted when students complete a semester of mobility, participate in an international conference, and complete an international internship under the THEMIS Programme.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Merit Awards
Merit Awards are awarded to:
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 17 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 50% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 16 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 30% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
In the non-taught phase, three prizes for academic merit are awarded (by master’s degree or area of specialization, in the case of the Master’s Degree in Law). These awards assume the completion of the taught component within the stipulated time.
- The best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 100% of the tuition fee for the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The second-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase, benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 60% of the tuition fee, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The third-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree.