LLM in
LL.M. + Master in International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations ISDE Law Business School
Introduction
This joint program allows students to specialize in an LLM offered by GGU and complete their career as an international professional, with a first-hand immersion in global operations where the best firms participate with the Master in International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations from ISDE.
The LLM GGU’s specializations are:
- LLM in US Legal Studies (with a focus in Corporate and Business Law)
- LLM in Intellectual Property Law
- LLM in International Legal Studies (with a focus on International Private Law)
If the student wishes to carry out an itinerary that allows him or her to present and pass the California Bar Exam, he or she must complete the first of the programs (LLM in US Legal Studies (with a focus in Corporate and Business Law), without specialization; and necessarily choosing 4 Bar Subject Courses, one of them being Professional Responsibility.
This joint program also allows students to participate in a course at NYU, in New York City, with workshops at important firms in that city. This way, students will expand their contacts and networking through both coasts of the United States.
Admissions
Curriculum
The program consists in two academic semesters of study in San Francisco (to complete any of the three LLMs offered by GGU), plus one semester in Madrid, to participate in the Master in International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations of ISDE.
In case a student wishes to take the Bar Exam, they must take the LLM in US Legal Studies, necessarily choosing 4 Bar Subject Courses, one of them being Professional Responsibility.
This way, the student begins the program in the fall semester, continues with the spring semester, and takes the Bar Exam in the summer semester. After that, he or she will join the Master in International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations, in October.
In all other cases, the student will begin at GGU in the spring semester, ending the LLM in the summer, and joining ISDE’s Master in International Law, Foreign Trade & International Relations in October.
Career Opportunities
- Law Firms with a strong international character and national law firms of the highest prestige; in areas such as commercial, civil, tax, labour, administrative, industrial and intellectual property, European law, public international, real estate, corporate, procedural, criminal or international trade, among others.
- Business, strategic and global consultancy firms.
- Legal departments of national and international companies
- International organisations such as the European Union, the UN or the European Free Trade Association.
- Other types of entities, such as foundations, which carry out their activity in an international context.