Master in Global Legal Studies
Rome, Italy
MLS
DURATION
5 years
LANGUAGES
English, Italian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The Global Legal Studies program is an Italian / English bilingual program that integrates Italian excellence in legal education with a modern, multicultural and multilingual approach.
“Global Legal Studies” (GLS) is a programme aimed at blending Italian excellence in legal education – it began in Bologna in the 11th century – with a modern, multicultural and multilinguistic approach. The programme is bilingual (Italian / English). Students who graduate receive a Master’s Degree [Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza: LMG/01].
Traditional Law Degree (Laurea in Giurisprudenza), including all the skills required for legal professions in Italy and an international curriculum made of 19 courses entirely taught in English (around 150 credits): 15 of them are mandatory courses, and 4 are left to the free choice of the students.
The courses designated as GLS characterize the new curriculum of Global Legal Studies. All of them are taught in English except for the three named in Italian, which are courses taught in Italian but especially addressed to GLS students.
Students who have been admitted to the GLS programme during the second semester of their first year will have to take – among the others indicated in their curriculum – the following three exams:
- Comparative Legal Systems (GLS), taught entirely in English
- Economics (GLS), taught entirely in English
- Istituzioni di diritto privato I (GLS), taught in Italian and followed by European Private Law, during the first semester of the second year, taught entirely in English.
The new Global Legal Studies track aims at:
- training prospective lawyers and consultants able to work in an international environment, both in Italy and abroad (top-level law firms, European and international organizations, consulting for NGOs and multinational corporations, etc.);
- raising the awareness of the transnational dimension of normativity, as well as of the multilingual character of the contemporary legal system (in particular but not only the EU).
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