Programme Structure

All students must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 120 ECTS in two academic years including a master thesis and a state examination. Mandatory courses of the programme comprise 64 ECTS. Minimum of 40 ECTS shall be chosen from the mandatory-elective courses including participation in one of the moot courts. The remaining 16 ECTS shall be selected by the student form the list of elective courses. Some electives may be offered on a temporary basis.

(explanation to "year/semester": number means year of the study and W, S is the semester of the study - e.g. 1W = 1st year and winter/first semester, 2S = 2nd year and summer/second semester)

Mandatory courses	Year/semester	ECTS
Public International Law 1	1W	5
EU LAW 1	1W	5
Private International Law 1	1W	4
Legal Skills (Interpretation and Argumentation in Legal Practice)	1W	3
Human Rights	1W	4
International and European Labour Law and Social Security Law	1W	4
Public International Law 2 and International Criminal Law	1S	5
EU LAW 2	1S	5
Private International Law 2	1S	5
EU Competition Law and State Aid	2W	6
Legal Ethics	2S	3
Master's Thesis	2S	10
State Examination (either State Examination – public law or State Examination – private law)	2S	5
Total		64

Detailed description of all mandatory courses is available here (in Slovak).

 

The applicant is not admitted to any specific legal concentration, however during his studies, the student can select among the mandatory-elective courses according to his individual interests. One elective concentration offered is Law of International Trade focusing primarily on the private law elements of International and European Business Law. Another elective concentration is Law of International Organizations dealing with public law elements of International and European Law.

Mandatory-elective subjects are divided into several groups of pairs and student is obliged to choose at least one subject within this pair, according to his specialization - e.g. student has to choose one subject from the pair Company Law and International Relations; one subject from History of Private Law and History of Public Law and so on.

Among these mandatory-elective subjects we also include the moot subject (5+5 ECTS) - teaching begins in the summer semester of the first year (1S) and continues in the winter semester of the second year (2W).

Mandatory-elective courses	Year/semester	Concentration	ECTS
Company Law	1W	LIT	3
International Relations	1W	LIO	3
History of Private Law	1W	LIT	2
History of Public Law	1W	LIO	2
Private Comparative Law	1S	LIT	3
Public Comparative Law	1S	LIO	3
Corporate Governance	1S	LIT	3
Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law	1S	LIO	3
Negotiation	1S	LIT	3
International Negotiation	1S	LIO	3
Alternative Dispute Resolution	2W	LIT	3
International Treaty Law	2W	LIO	3
Law of International Trade	2W	LIT	4
Economic and Monetary Union	2W	LIO	4
Mergers and Acquisitions	2W	LIT	3
Immigration and Asylum Law	2W	LIO	3
Intellectual Property Law	2S	LIT	3
WTO Law and Practice	2S	LIO	3
International Taxation and Private Sphere	2S	LIT	3
International Taxation and Incomes of State Budget	2S	LIO	3

* LIT = Law of International Trade; LIO = Law of International Organizations

Detailed description of all mandatory-elective courses is available here (in Slovak).

 

Elective courses

Students have the opportunity to choose also an elective course / courses according to the current offer of courses taught in English (to complete the condition of having in total at least 120 ECTS), with the condition that they didn´t attend this subject / these subjects during their previous studies. That means, that students can´t choose a subject which is classified as a mandatory and mandatory-elective subject in this study structure.

List of these elective courses students can find here.

Students can also choose a subject provided by the Faculty of Arts - Slovak as a Foreign Language, which is for 5 ECTS.

Detailed description of all elective courses is available here (in Slovak).