A holistic and international education in Law and business
In the very first year of the program, you’ll combine compulsory subjects in the Bachelor in Law program with others from business and economics such as Macroeconomics, Accounting and Analysis of Financial Statements. This dual legal-business focus will benefit your work as a future legal advisor and increase your professional outlets.
Similarly, you’ll also start taking electives in your specific specialization track, while you’ll be able to take part in the optional semester-long exchange program during the fourth year. This experience along with the subjects related to Transnational Law included in the curriculum will help you to acquire an international perspective that will be enhanced through the language training you’ll receive all four years of the program.
Your subjects, year by year
First year
COMPULSORY
Fundamentals and Structure of Law
In this subject you’ll study how Law has evolved from a historical and cultural perspective and you’ll learn about the basic legal system concepts. Upon completion, you’ll have the knowledge and competencies you need to understand today’s legal system.
Fundamentals of Criminal Law and Theory of Crime
What are the basic criminal concepts? In this subject you’ll discover these concepts and study the criminal phenomenon as a prerequisite to apply Criminal Law.
Fundamentals of Constitutional Law
Discover the connection between the Constitution and the State: In this subject you’ll learn about the Constitution’s normative value and its relation with the State and its institutions.
Microeconomics
Your first contact with economic reality: You’ll study how markets work, the effects that public intervention has and how non-competitive markets are structured.
Introduction to Accounting
In this subject you’ll learn about basic accounting principles and how essential accounting techniques work.
Constitutional Legal System
You’ll explore the concept of the Constitutional system’s primacy and its sources.
General Criminal Law
In this subject you’ll study General Theory of Criminal Law and discover its relevance in applying crime-related laws.
General Part of Civil and Personal Law
A view of Personal Law from a civil perspective: In this subject you’ll become familiar with the necessary systemic elements to understand the sources of Civil Law, the theory of legal-civil norms and the subjects, objects, functions and goals of legal-private relations. This subject will focus especially on laws aiming to ensure equality and non-discrimination and their effectiveness in private legal relationships.
Macroeconomics
What are the key macroeconomic indicators in terms of production, inflation and employment? You’ll discover these through this subject and learn about the basic models that explain the different macroeconomic variables, in particular, fiscal and monetary policies.
Accounting
In this subject you’ll become familiar with the techniques to enter the most common financial-economic operations into the books and financial statements. At the same time, you’ll also learn about the key accounting valuation norms for operations.
English I
This year-long subject comprises three different levels (3 subjects total during the first three years of the program). During the first year, students will be divided depending on their respective levels of English. The final level achieved will depend on your initial level, though the workload will, in all cases, be equivalent to 9 ECTS, which should guarantee that you achieve a C1 level of English or higher.
English II
This year-long subject comprises three different levels (3 subjects total during the first three years of the programme). During the first year, students will be divided depending on their respective levels of English. The final level achieved will depend on your initial level, though the workload will, in all cases, be equivalent to 9 ECTS, which should guarantee that you achieve a C1 level of English or higher.
Second year
COMPULSORY
Theory of Contracts and Tort Law
This subject will introduce you to the necessary concepts to understand the basics of private contracts (structure and function) and civil obligation (structure and function), both in contractual and extracontractual terms.
Constitutional Rights
What specific rights does the Constitution endow us with? This subject focuses on learning about constitutional rights, focusing especially on fundamental rights.
Types of Crimes
In this subject you’ll study the different types of crimes and how this typology is applied, as well as how jurisprudence interprets it.
Public International Law
This subject represents your first immersion in Transnational Law: You’ll learn about the principles and structure of the international legal-political system, highlighting the system of leading international organizations.
Analysis of Financial Statements
In this subject you’ll learn to interpret and analyse basic corporate and institutional financial statements.
European Union Law
What are the key institutions in the EU legal system? In this subject you’ll learn about the main organisms under EU Law and analyse community freedoms and how EU Law is adapted to each member country’s legal systems.
Introduction to Procedural Law
In this subject you’ll study how courts are structured and how they work as well as the basic and common procedural concepts and institutions found in all jurisdictions.
Fundamentals of Administrative Law
This subject offers an overview of Administrative Law: You’ll become familiar with its purpose, functions and basic principles and, in particular, the basic types of public authority administrations, administrative sources and proceedings.
Private Contracting
This subject will enable you to understand the structure and functioning of civil and mercantile contracts from an inherently practical perspective: You’ll consolidate the knowledge and competencies you acquired in the General Contract Theory subject.
Derecho de la Empresa y Sociedades
This subject will introduce you to the concepts, functions and sources of Mercantile Law. Through this subject, you’ll study the concept of companies and entrepreneurs and you’ll further explore business practice. In addition, you’ll study topics related to the exercise of free competition and the protection of intangible assets (Intellectual Property and Competition Law).
360º Legal Project I
During the second-semester of the second year, you’ll be assigned the macro, multidisciplinary case study for your 360º Legal Project which you will finalise during the third year of the program, applying the knowledge you acquire from the different legal disciplines you’ll study as you advance through the program. In the first session, we will assign you a case and explain the objectives and methodology you should apply. After that initial session, there will be a 2-hour session each week (10 sessions total): in each session you’ll have to answer a series of questions faculty raise whether individually or in groups (faculty will indicate how each session will proceed). You will have to answer these questions either orally or in writing.
Related subjects:
Constitutional Law I and II; Fundamental of Criminal Law and Theory of Crime I and II; General Part of Civil and Personal Law.
360º Legal Project II
English III
This year-long subject comprises three different levels (3 subjects total during the first three years of the programme). During the first year, students will be divided depending on their respective levels of English. The final level achieved will depend on your initial level, though the workload will, in all cases, be equivalent to 9 ECTS, which should guarantee that you achieve a C1 level of English or higher.
Third year
COMPULSORY
Rights in rem
What are rights in rem? In this subject you’ll acquire the systemic elements needed to understand the basics and foundations of rights in rem, in particular, property rights, joint ownership and limited property rights (right of use/usufruct and the right of first refusal).
Civil Procedural Law
In this subject you’ll understand how the different civil and mercantile proceedings are structured. In particular, you’ll study norms governing competencies as well as the types of declarative proceedings and the most relevant procedural specialzations in legal practice. You’ll also analyse the key alternative conflict-resolution mechanisms.
Fundamentals of Tax Proceedings
This subject will introduce you to taxation. To begin, you’ll study the economic, doctrinal and legal foundations of the General Part of Financial and Tax Law. This will enable you to expand your knowledge of the key taxes included in the Spanish tax system more systematically. You’ll also become familiar with the different types of tax proceedings.
Derecho del Mercado
Individual Labour Law
In this subject you’ll learn about the sources of Labour Law and the primary institutions related to Individual Labour Law from a legal and jurisprudence perspective. Together, we’ll analyse the different positions the parties in a labour relation adopt regarding economic and social issues, including gender. You’ll also acquire basic notions on the purpose of the Social Security system and its structure (assistance and contributory schemes).
Public Administration Activity
In this subject you’ll become familiar with general administrative proceedings and, in particular, the framework governing public activity (especially, norms, sanctions and expropriation) and the public sector’s contractual and patrimonial liability systems.
External internships
You will complete your semester-long professional internship during the third year. Students generally carry out this internship during the first semester, though you can opt to do it later. These internships generally imply spending 100 hours at the organisation under the supervision of a professional tutor and an academic tutor. During this internship, you’ll hold a real job in a law firm or company, giving you your first professional experience with activities normally carried out by legal professionals.
Corporate Operations, Bankruptcy and Stock Market Law
Based on the knowledge acquired in the Corporate Law class, in this subject you’ll analyse the key capital and structural change operations. You’ll also learn about the primary functions and normative benchmarks in Bankruptcy and Stock Market Law.
Direct Taxation
What are the most prevalent types of direct taxes? In this subject you’ll discover and learn about norms governing personal income tax and corporate tax, in particular.
Security Rights and Property Registry
In this subject you’ll immerse yourself in the foundations and functions of Real Estate Registration Law and you’ll analyse the systemic elements needed to understand the structure and functioning of security rights.
Collective Labour Law
How are collective bargaining agreements reached? In this subject you’ll become familiar with the key representative instruments for workers and the means to defend their interests as well as make the most of collective bargaining mechanisms. You’ll also analyse the impact employment policies have on the job market.
Legal Ethics
Practicing Law has ethical implications: In this subject you’ll study and analyse the ethical aspects of Law and its practice.
360º Legal Project III
During the third year you’ll continue working on your 360º Legal Project, a multidisciplinary macro-case study begun during the second year and finalising during the second semester of the third year. As in the previous year, this subject consists of one 2-hour session per week (10 sessions total): In each session you’ll have to answer a series of questions faculty raise whether individually or in groups (faculty will indicate how each session will proceed). You will have to answer these questions either orally or in writing. There will be a final exam at the end of the subject. Your final mark will take into account your ongoing assessment mark for the in-class sessions. Participating actively during class sessions may give you extra points to improve your final mark.
Fourth year
COMPULSORY
Commercial Contracts and Securities
Based on the Private Contract knowledge you’ve acquired previously, in this subject you’ll analyse the primary types of mercantile contracts as well as securities.
Indirect Taxation
In this legal-economic subject, you’ll become familiar with the primary types of indirect taxes, in particular, norms governing the value-added tax as well as transfer tax and the tax on documented legal acts.
Private International Law
In this subject you’ll understand the function, traits and structure of Private International Law. The ultimate objective is for you to be able to interpret and apply the different Private International Law norms, in particular, in the EU Law area.
Family and Inheritance Law
You’ll acquire the foundations needed to understand the primary institutions in the Family and Inheritance Law area, all from a perspective which takes into account social changes that have occurred over time and their legal relevance.
Criminal Procedural Law
What are the principles and institutions involved in criminal proceedings? In this subject you’ll learn about criminal proceedings, their functions, principles and basic institutions from a jurisprudence perspective.
Final Degree Project
The Final Degree Project encompasses a complete multidisciplinary case which you have to resolve. It serves to demonstrate that you have successfully incorporated the knowledge, skills and competencies addressed throughout the programme. You’ll have the support and guidance of a tutor throughout the project. At the end, you’ll be required to present an original written report with a well-argued and duly-based resolution which you will then also have to defend orally.
TFG: Clinicum de Derecho Público
TFG: Clinicum de Derecho Privado
Subjects
Electives
50 ECTS distributed amongst subjects offered throughout the programme and which will allow you to complement your education and improve your competencies based on your specific interests. This category also includes the exchange programme.
The list of electives is tentative and could change in the next courses.
Electives
- Big Data
- Derecho y Deporte
- Introducción al Derecho Alimentario
- Introducción al Derecho Farmacéutico
- Personas Jurídicas en el Mundo del Deporte
- Tecnologías Disruptivas: Introducción
- Fundamentos de hoja de cálculo y gestión económica y empresarial
- Fundamentos del Derecho Privado: análisis de cuestiones de actualidad
- Contract techniques: standardisation of contract structure and contents
- Copyright: Fundamentos y sectores
- Criminology
- Debates de Economía
- Derecho de Refugio
- GSI: Introduction to Programming with Python
- Gestión de costes en empresas de servicios profesionales y despachos jurídicos
- Ignacio de Loyola: Líder y Formador de Líderes
- Inteligencia Emocional en el Entorno Empresarial
- Organizaciones internacionales, Instituciones, Politica y poder
- Women's and gender studies
- Contratación y Negociación de Contratos en el Ámbito Farmacéutico
- Derecho Penal Económico
- Derecho Sancionador Deportivo
- Explotación Comercial de Derechos de Imagen
- Pensamiento Político Moderno
- Programación
- Protección de Datos, Ciberseguridad y Ciberdelincuencia
- Ética en el Ámbito de las Life Sciences
- Sociologia y Derecho
- Sociología II: Postmodernidad y cambios actuales
- Técnicas de Negociación
- Interdisciplinary Seminar: Derecho Humanos (DDHH) 2022-2023
- Aspectos Jurídicos de la Inteligencia Artificial
- Aspectos jurídicos de las Tecnologías Disruptivas
- Colaboración público-privada en entornos de gobernanza contemporáneos
- Derecho Ambiental y Derecho de los Negocios
- Global Justice in Action- SUD I
- La innovación en el derecho alimentario
- La innovación en el derecho farmacéutico
- Resolución judicial y extrajudicial de conflictos civiles y mercantiles
- Régimen fiscal en el Deporte
- Régimen laboral en el Deporte
- Derechos Humanos en Accion: SUD II
Debate League (3 ECTS)
In this subject you’ll participate in debates on current legal issues in teams. This subject is compulsory for students who want to participate in the interuniversity debate league competitions in which Esade habitually takes part.
Moot Court (6 ECTS)
Esade participates in some of the most prestigious interuniversity competitions which simulate legal or arbitration proceedings (these include, amongst others: Moot Vienna, Moot Madrid and Moot Jessup). To participate, you have to complete this subject which, in groups and based on a practical case study, consists of presenting a written statement of claim and statement of defence and simulating hearings in a trial or arbitration proceeding. More information is available about these moot courts in the Learning by doing section.
Exchange Incoming Students
For more information visit the Exchange Factsheet 2024/2025 and check the Grade Conversion
Themis Fall
- A comparative approach to Sports Law
- Alternative dispute resolutions issues
- Climate Geopolitics
- Comparative Law
- Derecho de Sociedades, Fusiones y Adquisiciones
- Derecho de la Competencia
- Diplomatic & Consular Law & Practice
- Disruptive Innovation for the legal industry
- Financial System, Banks & Insurance
- Fundamentals of Sports Law and Legal structure of Sports
- Global Corporate Compliance
- Globalization: Economics and Politics
- Integrity, Ethics and Good Governance in Sports
- Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Criminal Law
- Introduction to Spanish Law
- Legal Aspects of Real Estate Transactions
- Legal Ethics
- Negotiation Skills
- Wolrd Trade Law
- Intensive Spanish: Beginners
- Intensive Spanish: Intermediate +
- Globalización y Mercados Emergentes
- International Contracts
Law Exchange Program (Fall)
- A comparative approach to Sports Law
- Actividad de las Administraciones Públicas
- Alternative dispute resolutions issues
- Análisis de Estados Financieros
- Climate Geopolitics
- Comparative Law
- Contract techniques: standardisation of contract structure and contents
- Derecho de la Competencia
- Derecho de Sociedades, Fusiones y Adquisiciones
- Derecho Individual del Trabajo
- Derecho Procesal Civil
- Derecho Público Internacional
- Digital Technologies Impact on Organisations
- Diplomatic & Consular Law & Practice
- Disruptive innovation for the legal industry
- El populismo como amenaza al constitucionalismo, la democracia y el estado de derecho
- Español Intensivo Intermedio+
- Español Intensivo Principiante
- Fundamentals of Sports Law and Legal structure of Sports
- Fundamentos de Derecho Constitucional
- Fundamentos y Procedimientos Tributarios
- General aspects of Sports Law
- Geoeconomics
- Geopolitics
- Gestión de los Conflictos Internacionales
- Global Corporate Compliance
- Globalization: Economics and Politics
- Habilidades de comunicación a través de técnicas de actuación y teatro
- Integrity, Ethics and Good Governance in Sports
- Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Criminal Law
- Introducción al Derecho Español
- Legal Aspects of Real Estate Transactions
- Legal Ethics
- Modalidades Delictivas
- Negotiation Skills
- Practical aspects of Sports Law
- Relación Jurídico Real
- Sistema Financiero, Banca y Seguros
- Sociología
- Teoría del Contrato y Derecho de Daños
- The future of Sports
- World Economic History
- World Trade Law
Law Exchange Program (Spring)
- Comparative Law
- Contract techniques: standardisation of contract structure and contents
- Derecho Colectivo del Trabajo
- Digital Technologies Impact on Organisations
- Diplomatic & Consular Law & Practice
- Disruptive innovation for the legal industry
- European Union External Relations
- Global Political Economy
- Gobernanza Pública y Privada
- Institutions & Decision-Making
- International Economics
- International Sales Law
- Introducción al Derecho Español
- Introduction to Financial Markets
- Legal Aspects of Real Estate Transactions
- Legal Ethics
- Macroeconomics
- Natural Resources and Geopolitic Strategies
- Negotiation Skills
- Pensamiento Político Moderno
- Self-Determination & Minority Rights
- Strategic Thinking for Global Governance