The aim of the five-year degree course in Law is to provide advanced legal training and mastery of the cultural and methodological tools necessary for a solid grounding in general and special legal issues, cases and facts. The aim of the modules in the degree programme is to provide a sound knowledge and awareness of the techniques used for legal understanding, interpretation and reasoning.
Furthermore, in the final two years of the course, students can choose from a number of specialist subjects, which reflect their professional aptitudes and objectives.
To this end, the five-year degree course:
provides the basic and advanced knowledge in the disciplines belonging to the areas set out in the table attached to the ministerial decree of 25 November 2005, and provides a general consistency of education by shaping the content to the goals of the degree class;
uses the disciplines within the related, additional and core subjects to characterise the education provided in each of the various professional areas to which the degree course provides access;
provides consistency in the education offered through technical and methodological skills to overcome rapid obsolescence, and to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired remain useful;
provides, by means of modules taught by appropriate methods, a solid knowledge and awareness of: the institutional and organisational aspects of legal orders; professional ethics, logic and reasoning in legal practice; legal sociology; IT and the law; the legal language of at least one foreign language, with a view to their use in post-degree courses for the legal professions.
Career opportunities for graduates in the five-year degree course in Law are: at the bar, in the judiciary and profession of notary; the State prosecution service; high professional positions in public administration (including the diplomatic and consular service); professional positions in the legal administration area in the private sector; university-level teaching and research.
Università di Pavia - Course catalogue