Master in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking, and Finance
Rome, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
Italian, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 1,999 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The Master Course aims to train people with law degrees, to become a specialized professional in the field of financial regulation. The course combines the traditional training of a lawyer with economic and financial skills typical of graduates in Economic and Business Sciences. The students will also be able to understand the legal and economic impact of recent technological developments in the financial sector (fintech).
The structure of the course and the teaching methodologies of the course, on the one hand, aims to prepare students to work in financial firms, in particular in the compliance or regulatory offices of banks and other financial firms or to become the General Counsel of those firms. On the other hand, the contents of the courses provide the necessary set of skills to apply for a job in national and European institutions, such as the Bank of Italy, Consob, the European Central Bank and the authorities of the European System of Supervision of Financial Intermediation. The course also provides the skills necessary to work in the "regulatory departments” of Law firms with international operations, having offices in European countries, but also in other countries with a developed financial market, such as UK.
During the two years of the Degree Course, the student will acquire the tools deemed suitable to understand the functioning of the financial markets.
The Master's Degree Course in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking and Finance consists of two different curricula, one taught in Italian and another taught in English (named “Law and Finance”). Both curricula include a "legal English" course. The "Law and Finance" curriculum allows the qualification obtained to be used in the European job market. In this sector, in fact, the high degree of harmonization of the rules and the centralization of powers in the hands of European institutions (see the case of the ECB, the supervisory authority for all significant banks in the euro-area countries) make the scientific training acquired in a European university exploitable in any other country of the Union.
In order to get the students acquainted with the job market, there is the possibility of carrying out an internship period with external subjects (banks, financial companies, law firms, financial authorities) equal to 4 credits. Alternatively, the 4 training credits can be achieved by attending seminars offered by the Department of Law and the Department of Business Economics, which allow students to strengthen the professional skills useful for tackling the job market or research.
First Year
Semester I
- Corporations
- Economics of Digital Competition and Innovation
- European Union Law
Semester II
- Legal English
- Risk and Accounting
- Fintech e Digital Money
- Capital Markets
- Optional Course
Total CFU per year: 58
Second Year
Semester I
- Business Administration and Financial Intermediaries Strategies
- Comparative Competition Law
- Eu Financial Law: Institutional Framework
Semester II
- Advanced Administrative Law
- Optional Course
- Internship/Training Course
- Thesis
Total per year: 62
Graduates in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking, and Finance must:
- Have an in-depth knowledge of national, European, and international financial regulation;
- Be able to monitor punctual compliance with existing regulations in banking and financial structures;
- Be able to actively contribute to the complex analysis of problems that are the subject of the mandate of bodies and supervisory authorities in the banking and financial sector, combining both legal and economic skills;
- Understand the legal and economic impact of technological innovation in the financial sector (fintech).
The graduate in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking, and Finance will be able to contribute to work groups with the drafting of analytical texts of a legal and economic nature in the field of banking and financial regulation, with particular reference to the impact of regulations.
The graduate in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking, and Finance will have the following skills: i) analysis of case studies, legal qualification of the case, understanding of problems, and orderly representation of issues; ii) updating of one's skills to the evolution of regulations; iii) development and application of original ideas in a research context, both independently and autonomously, and in groups; iv) clear and unambiguous communication of conclusions, as well as the knowledge and reasoning underlying them, to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors; v) coordination of work groups in relevant subject areas.
Regarding the skills associated with the role, the graduate in Legal Sciences in Law, Banking, and Finance has a clear understanding of the legal fundamentals underlying the regulatory framework, combined with an understanding of the economic mechanisms underlying the functioning of banking and financial markets.
They are highly specialized professional figures compared to other more generalist educational paths but maintain a broad overview of the rationale underlying the overall regulatory framework.
As for career prospects, graduates can be employed in roles of responsibility in public administrations, companies, national, European, and international institutions, as well as wherever discernment, analytical skills, and sensitivity to contextual data are required in the application of legal rules, with specific reference to banking and financial topics.
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