Master in European and International Business Law (joint programme)
Vilnius, Lithuania
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
19 Aug 2024*
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,294 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for EU/EFTA applicants | June 17th - for non-EU applicants
Introduction
Looking for your law degree specialization? Do you feel motivated to work for big business or in an international scene? Are you looking for a challenging internship to start your career in business law?
If any of the above questions came down to a positive answer, consider your master's degree in European and International Business Law. It is a challenging 2-year degree, with a reward of a double diploma from our joint studies partner in UniversitéSavoie-Mont-Blanc, France.
Start your first year of study in Vilnius, where you will lay the foundation for your knowledge of European and international business law. You will cover the topics on international tax, banking, insolvency, company, labor, competition, industrial property laws at European and international levels, as well as international commercial litigation. You will also go through language study of French – the common international legal language.
Study at UniversitéSavoie-Mont-Blanc in Chambéry, France. Continue your law studies in English, while deepening your knowledge on various topics of contract law, delve into issues of business law, economic integration of the European Union, and so much more. You will continue your French language lessons as well. You will also have a chance at an internship in international law firms and companies. At the end of your Master's thesis, you will have become a true, experienced master of law at an international level.
To take full advantage of this program, you will be required to know English at the B2 level.
During 2 years in Europe, you will receive your double master’s degree in the field of law. After completing your degree, you will be able to workin the private and public sectors, in academic and research institutions, commercial litigation bodies, and other organizations.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
MRU seeks to ensure that all of our students receive high-quality education regardless of their financial situation, therefore, please find all the available scholarships for prospective international students listed below.
Note:
- All the listed scholarships are funded either by the Government of Lithuania or Mykolas Romeris University
- There might be additional funding from students’ countries of origin
- All EU citizens can apply for state-funded studies
- Scholarships for current international students are listed here
State scholarships for full-time master degree studies
Each year, the Education Exchanges Support Foundation opens applications for Lithuanian state scholarships for international full-time Master’s degree students accepted at Lithuanian higher education institutions.
The scholarship includes a monthly stipend and a grant covering study costs.
Curriculum
STUDY PROGRAMME PLAN
| Course units | ECTS credits |
| 1st YEAR | 60 |
| 1 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| European and International Company Law | 6 |
| International Tax Law | 6 |
| International Banking Law | 6 |
| European and International Insolvency Law | 6 |
| European and International Labour Law | 6 |
| 2 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Foreign Language (French) | 6 |
| Industrial Property Law | 6 |
| European and International Competition Law | 6 |
| International Commercial Litigation | 6 |
| Master Thesis | 6 |
| 2nd YEAR | 60 |
| 3 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 27 |
| Comparative Contract Law and Economic Analysis | 5 |
| International Transport Law | 2 |
| Special Contracts of International Business | 5 |
| Economical Integration of the European Union | 4 |
| Conferences on Contemporary Issues of Private Law and International Law | 1 |
| European and International Principles of Contract Law | 5 |
| Contemporary Issues of International Business Law | 5 |
| Alternatively elective course units 1 | 3 |
| Foreign Language (English) | 3 |
| Foreign Language (French) | 3 |
| 4 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Master Thesis | 24 |
| Internship | 6 |
Rankings
MRU is #1 in the area of Law among all Lithuania’s universities according to “QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023”.
Program Outcome
General Competencies and Learning Outcomes
- Personal and social abilities
- Ability to plan the learning process independently and purposefully, to choose the direction of professional activities‘ development, to adapt to the changing work environment, and to act in a multicultural business environment responsibly, honestly, and transparently;
- Ability to act as an independent expert and, using acquired knowledge of business law, to self-initiate, develop, manage, and end transnational and European business, to asses and model business creation, development, management, and end situations analytically;
- Ability to generate new ideas in a multicultural business environment, to make socially responsible and ethical decisions, and to assess alternative solutions and their potential impact on the business environment.
Subject-specific competencies and learning outcomes
- Knowledge and its application
- Ability to analyze and explain the transnational and European business environment characteristics, the forms of business organization, particularity of their legal regulation and procedures, peculiarities of dispute resolution, specific features of transnational and European regulation of labor relations, business contracts and other particular branches of business law;
- Ability to critically analyze, interpret, compare, and assess the legislation for transnational and European business legal relations, to provide creative suggestions for the improvement of this legislation to ameliorate the business environment.
- Research skills
- Ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the data necessary for scientific research of business legal environment and innovation in this field, to integrate the knowledge of business law, to apply scientific knowledge methodology, to clearly and unambiguously formulate logical conclusions based on business law knowledge, focusing on professional development and improvement and to convey these findings to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in a native and foreign language.
- Special Abilities
- Ability to advise on issues related to establishment, management, performance, and termination of activities of European and international companies, to deal with a wide range of legal problems, including extremely complex, when there is incomplete or limited information, to provide suggestions that would enable the reduction of the rise of problems detected as well as interests alignment and satisfaction of the individual business participants;
- Ability to draft, analyze, and assess European and international business contracts professionally;
- Ability to provide representation and dispute resolution legal services in multicultural transnational and European business environments professionally both in a team and independently.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the European and International Business Law programme will be able to work in the private sector (law firms, business consulting companies, various international companies and national organizations having business interests abroad, banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, notaries’ offices, etc.), as well as in public sector (national, European and international institutions promoting business growth, business supervising and monitoring agencies), in academic and research institutions in which graduates will be able to deepen their knowledge in the field of international and European business law and continue their research and give lectures (for example, in Lithuanian and foreign universities, institutes, research centers), also in commercial litigation bodies (institutions of pre-trial dispute settlement, tribunals, courts of arbitration) and other organizations (such as associations promoting and defending interests and rights of consumers and employees). In addition, diploma holders will be able to work as independent consultants or set up their own companies providing legal business consulting services. Excellent possibilities for graduates’ career and employment can be demonstrated by the fact that the joint master's program will be carried out in the universities of two different countries and this will allow students to gain more diverse and versatile experience, get more knowledge and skills, improve professional foreign language skills, gain international work experience and develop the ability to work in a multicultural environment.