Master in Law and Financial Markets
NOVA School of Law
Key Information
Campus location
Lisbon, Portugal
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 semesters
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 6,200 **
Application deadline
Request info *
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* 1st phase of applications: 1st to 29th February
** 10.000€: total tuition fee for non-EU candidates
Introduction
The Master’s in Law and Financial Markets is a product of an innovative partnership bringing together NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) and NOVA School of Law (NOVA Law).
Consistently ranked by Eduniversal among the top master’s courses in Western Europe and lectured in English, the Master’s in Law and Financial Markets offers students the challenge of an innovative set of courses in law and finance, opportunities to meet and network with leading financial institutions, to gain hands-on experience through an internship in a financial institution and to benefit from an international experience at a top university in Europe or beyond, through NOVA School of Law’s membership of the Themis Network.
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Ideal Students
Candidates with a background in law will be given preference in admission. However, holders of any bachelor’s degree or equivalent are eligible to apply. We are keen to attract talented current or future professionals with an international focus who wish to prepare for a wide range of careers in the highly competitive financial sector.
Program Outcome
This Program aims to deepen law graduate’s mastery of the law, particularly in those fields that have the closest bearing on financial markets and investments, as well as provide an insight into the organization and functioning of the general financial system, and the three main financial markets: banking, insurance, and capital markets. The Program offers an opportunity to acquire key financial analysis and evaluation skills of the main financial instruments traded in the capital markets and to identify intervention strategies in capital markets. The Program aims to stimulate a critical and interdisciplinary approach to knowledge, providing lawyers with the necessary tools to solve complex problems or issue judgments on situations of incomplete information.
Curriculum
The curricular component corresponds to 60 ECTS and consists of 10 mandatory course units (52 ECTS) The remaining 8 ECTS correspond to electives that may be chosen from any Master course taught at NOVA School of Law (subject to availability).
Completion of the taught part (60 ECTS) grants the award of a Diploma in Postgraduate Studies in Law and Financial Markets.
1st year – Taught Component
1st Semester
Mandatory
- Banking Law
- Financial Markets and Investments
- Principles of Corporate Finance
- Financial Instruments Law
- Insurance Law
- Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets
Optional
- Legal English
2nd semester
Mandatory
- Risk Management in Financial Contracts
- Introduction to Data Analysis
- Banking and Insurance Operations
- Introduction to Financial Derivatives and Risk Management
Optional
- Optional Curricular Unit*
*Optional Curricular Units
The course units presented as optional course units are suggestions and may be changed. In the free choice course units that are compulsory for other master’s degrees, enrollment and attendance depends on logistical and pedagogical possibilities.
- Methodology of Legal Research
- Cybercrime
- International Tax Law
- Direito Penal Económico
- Data Protection and Management Law*
- Competition Law
- Energy, Climate, and the Just Transition
- Fintech
- EU Criminal Law
(The above list does not exhaust all options on offer.)
*Data Protection and Management Law is a course offered by NOVA School of Law’s Jean Monnet Module on the European Union Data Protection Law in Portugal (DataporEU).
2nd year – Research
Mandatory
- Thesis, internship at a national or international institution, or project work.
This Master's offers students the challenge of an innovative set of course units and finance, opportunities to meet and network with leading financial institutions, to gain hands-on experience through an internship in a financial institution, and to benefit from an international experience at a top university in Europe or beyond, through NOVA School of Law’s membership of the THEMIS Network.
It is ranked among the best in Western Europe in International Business Law by Eduniversal, an international agency that publishes the annual ranking of the best MBA and Master's programs in the world.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Merit Awards
Merit Awards are awarded to:
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 17 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 50% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 16 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 30% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
In the non-taught phase, three prizes for academic merit are awarded (by master’s degree or area of specialization, in the case of the Master’s Degree in Law). These awards assume the completion of the taught component within the stipulated time.
- The best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 100% of the tuition fee for the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The second-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase, benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 60% of the tuition fee, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The third-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree.