Bachelor's degree in Law

Introduction

Objectives and competences

Objectives

• To provide knowledge of the general structure and basic principles of various legal disciplines.
• To develop the capacity to analyse legal problems and address them correctly.
• To develop the capacity to interpret the reality, assess information, identify important facts, distinguish different cases, locate relevant material, legally qualify the facts, take decisions, negotiate, persuade, make oneself understood by anybody, define strategies and advise; all without affecting the subsequent specialization required to work in various legal professions, such as legal practice, as well as public services or corporate or institutional organizations.
• To ensure good professional training to work in the various legal professions.
   

Competences

Generic Competences
 

• Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project/capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
• Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects/capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
• Concern for sustainability (capacity to assess the social and environmental impact of actions taken in a particular setting/capacity to adopt integrated and systemic approaches).
• Respect for fundamental rights, in particular with regard to gender equality, functional diversity and the culture of peace, built on democratic values.
• Capacity for significant learning, respect for the knowledge acquired, and a responsible approach to lifelong learning.

Specific competences

• Understanding of the legal dimension of human and social relationships and their implications in the different areas of legal organization.
• Understanding of the human, economic, social and political contexts of law and the effects of legal norms and legal decisions in these areas.
• Understanding of the historical origins of law and the sources and evolution of different legal systems.
• Critical understanding of the values inherent in law, particularly justice and the application of justice.
• Understanding of and ability to apply the basic and specialized concepts of different branches of the legal system.
• Understanding of the institutional system and the complex forms of law production at the local, regional, national, European and international levels.
• Understanding of legislative structures and capacity to apply criteria for prioritising sources of law to determine the norms applicable to different cases.
• Understanding of the diversity of legal systems in the work, the evolution of an international society and accompanying institutions, their impact on the creation of international and transnational legal norms, and the mechanisms by which these norms are observed in the Spanish legal system.
• Understanding of the legal status of individuals in their dealings with the government and with public authorities in general.
• Understanding of the mechanisms and procedures for resolving legal conflicts.
• Capacity to interpret legal norms according to the specific rules of each area of law and apply them to social conflicts.
• Capacity to consider a range of alternatives for solving a legal problem, determine a suitable hierarchy and decide upon the most appropriate solution.
• Understanding of the new legal phenomena created by the evolution of society and capacity to plan and carry out the research needed to tackle the problems arising from this process.
• Capacity to apply the different sources of legal knowledge: law, doctrine and jurisprudence.
• Capacity to read, understand and analyse different types of legal texts and identify the key information they contain.
• Capacity to use legal language and the terminology of different branches of law confidently and accurately in Catalan and Spanish, and ability to work with documents written in English and communicate fluently in English.
• Capacity to transmit legal ideas and arguments orally and in writing to a diverse range of recipients, adopting the appropriate register in each case.
   

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

Jurists can be defined as people who are familiar with law and are trained to interpret and apply it to resolve the problems that arise in our life in society. Therefore, law students must be sensitive to human and social problems and have a certain degree of common sense.

An academic background in the humanities is not necessarily a requirement. Applicants may also be accepted if they have a background in science or technology, history, philosophy or economics. A good level of cultural knowledge is likely to prove useful. However, what is really essential to be a good jurist is a critical approach, curiosity, a well-organized mind, capacity to identify and differentiate some situations from others and, finally, a certain amount of imagination. A good memory is important, but it would be a great error to consider that legal studies are based exclusively on memorising information.

Law students are people who are in touch with reality, and engaged with analysing social reality and problems, listening to others, putting themselves in others' place, considering underlying interests, and making feasible, sensible, responsible decisions and agreements in line with democratic values.

There is not a specific applicant profile, but anyone who wants to graduate in law must be a good reader (including of the press) and clearly interested in national and international current affairs (politics, economy and social issues among others). Furthermore, students who are good communicators (the capacity for oral and written expression and argument skills are essential) and have a reasonable command of a foreign language (preferably English) are at an advantage.
 

Access requirements and conditions

Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.

Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
 

Pre-enrolment

Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.

For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
 

Enrolment

As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.

Academic information

• Documents required for enrolment
• Procedure to formalize enrolment
• After enrolment
• Grants and financial aid

Schedules

• Academic year 2024-2025

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

• Welcome portal
• Student Support Service (SAE)
• Open days
• Informative sessions

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

List of subjects

Pathways and specializations

Previous years

• Course plans 2023 - 2024
• Course plans 2022 - 2023
• Course plans 2021 - 2022

Teaching staff

Placements

• Regulations on external placements
• FeinaUB

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

The main career opportunities of a Law graduate are the following, although some students may have planned other specific career paths that are also viable:

• Lawyer
• Procurator
• Public notary
• Registrar
• Civil servants employed in the Administration of Justice: judges and magistrates, public prosecutors, legal secretaries
• High-level civil servants in the Administration of Justice: state attorney, expert in civil administration of the state, and other civil servants who work for central, regional and local government.
• Spanish civil servants working outside of the country (diplomatic corps)
• Mid-level civil servants employed in central, regional and local government
• Employees of international organizations: United Nations, Council of Europe
• Lawyer for Spanish national or regional parliaments
• Corporate lawyer
• Lawyer for private associations/organizations
• Legal advisor or counsel

Access to the labour market

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