Master in International Law
Vilnius, Lithuania
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
19 Aug 2024*
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,384 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for EU/EFTA applicants | June 17th - for non-Eu applicants
Introduction
A Master of Law program delivered by leading practitioners and experts in the field of international law within an innovative and vibrant environment aimed at increasing the employability of those who want to work globally.
This 1.5-year program of 90 ECTS, delivered in English, builds upon the University’s value of preparing students for the future. It provides students with the choice of specializing in either Public International Law or Private International Law and offers several subjects in both fields. It will assist students who wish to work for international institutions, state departments, diplomatic missions, international law firms, international businesses, and non-governmental organizations:
- Through practical teaching, including role-playing and moot courts, students will get to learn how to use skills such as legal research, legal writing, legal reasoning, and advocacy in different fields of international law;
- They will learn how to use soft skills such as problem-solving, strategic thinking, and leadership;
- These will be applied in experiential, case-study-based scenarios, where students will get to see how these skills are used in real-life international law issues, developing a practical awareness of how international law works;
- Students will explore contemporary issues of global concern;
- These soft and other skills are globally desired.
The University provides strong student support and is a member of many local, regional, and international networks. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is an official partner of the program and experts from across the world are invited to deliver talks. Students are also provided with the opportunity to travel abroad under the institutional Erasmus+ and Nordplus mobility network.
The program is delivered by leading practitioners and experts. This includes many country specialists and present and former international and constitutional judges, officials of international organizations, and litigation specialists. All contributors are actively involved in international scholarship and research, including international human rights law, cyber security, international humanitarian law, international family and succession law, and international dispute resolution, etc.
The Law School is recognized as the number 1 Law School in the country by the ‘QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022’. It has a very strong research ethos and actively encourages interdisciplinary and innovative research in international law.
To enroll in this program, you will need to have a bachelor's degree in law and have attained English at the B2 level. We offer attractive tuition fees are also available. Additional support is available for students from Ukraine.
Admissions
Curriculum
| Course units | ECTS credits |
| 1st YEAR | 60 |
| 1 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 12 |
| International Human Rights Litigation | 6 |
| Dispute Settlement in Private International Law | 6 |
| Alternatively elective course units 1 | 18 |
| International Humanitarian Law | 6 |
| International Law of the Sea | 6 |
| Refugee Law | 6 |
| European and International Company Law | 6 |
| International Family and Succession Law | 6 |
| Litigation in International Consumer Cases | 6 |
| 2 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| International Law of Treaties | 6 |
| Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights | 6 |
| Privacy and Data Protection | 6 |
| International Aviation Law | 6 |
| International Dispute Settlement | 6 |
| 2nd YEAR | 30 |
| 3 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Master Thesis | 6 |
| Master Thesis | 12 |
| Master Thesis | 12 |
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 abilities and social abilities
- Ability to independently analyze international legal documents and complex practical situations, identify and describe possible problems related to international legal norms creation, interpretation, and application, as well as propose motivated legal solutions to these problems or situations and their prevention;
- Ability to work in a team, plan complex activities, comprising various interconnected international legal problems and issues, and effectively collaborate with colleagues and clients;
- Ability to make well-grounded, logical conclusions summarising and applying information generated from various international legal sources;
- Ability to clearly and unambiguously advise and familiarise with international law, its regulation, and international legal situation the stakeholders who do not have specific international law knowledge.
Subject-specific competencies and learning outcomes
- Knowledge and its application
- Ability to apply international law knowledge, legal norms, and international judicial, arbitration, and administrative decisions/jurisprudence to concrete situations with a view of resolving international legal problems in new or unfamiliar contexts or broader (multidisciplinary) contexts related to the study area, as well as applying legal norms in a way that safeguard the human rights, environment, and friendly relations among states;
- Ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills in representing the state in international or European institutions, implementing international projects, and/or assigned tasks in a practical (work-related) environment in a foreign country.
- Research skills
- Ability to identify the problems of international legal research and research hypothesis, verify it, determine concrete and practically attainable research objectives and tasks, as well as to achieve them in the course of research;
- Ability to search for information necessary for research, segregate relevant information from a variety of sources, synthesize and summarise it with a view of reaching the research objectives and tasks and verifying research hypothesis;
- Ability to make independent decisions, oriented to regulation and improvement of international legal relations, including the drafting of international legal documents and national legal acts, and implementing international legal regulation.
- Special Abilities
- Ability to resolve certain practical complex legal situations that may arise in international relations through the application of knowledge acquired during studies and individual work, international legal documents, and national legal acts;
- Ability to independently determine the nature of international legal situations and/or disputes between international law subjects;
- Ability to independently determine and propose the means and ways for legal regulation/resolution of international disputes, which best responds to the situation and expectations of the parties to a dispute;
- Ability to clearly and unambiguously deliver logical, knowledge-based expert conclusions to specialist and non-specialist audiences while evaluating international legal documents, another international legal source, or the national legislation in the context of international legal regulation;
- Ability to integrate knowledge of various international law sub-branches and other branches of law and resolve complex international law problems (in court or legal practice contexts) by proposing ethically and socially responsible (including human rights orientation) decisions based on international and national law.
Program Tuition Fee
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.
Career Opportunities
Graduates who acquire a Master’s Degree in law after completing the study program will be able to seek employment as specialists in the departments of international law of State institutions; as lawyers in international arbitration or other judicial institutions; as diplomats; as leaders of international business; as a policy-makers, as an employee in international organizations and EU institutions; as an employee of the law departments in international companies working in Lithuania and abroad; law firms; as an employees in a international agencies for research and in non-governmental sector.