DUAL DEGREES AT FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

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DUAL DEGREES AT FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF
BARCELONA

• Immaculada Barral
• Vice dean for International Relations and Research

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WHY A DUAL DEGREE?

• Because in a global world law tent to be global
  as well
• Because a jurist needs to learn other legal
  systems where these legal systems are applied
• Because this degree can be a vital experience

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UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO

• SINCE 95-96
• DEGREE Juris Doctor
• OPEN TO students in 4th or 5th year
• DURATION two semesters
• NUMBER OF STUDENTS 10 each academic year

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NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY -FLORIDA (EUA)-

• SINCE 02-03
• DEGREE Juris Doctor
• OPEN TO students in 4th or 5th year
• DURATION
• 1t part 1 semester
• 2d part three semesters
• NUMBER OF STUDENTS 5 in the fisrt part each year

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NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY -FLORIDA (EUA)-

• OTHER REQUIREMENTS
• On-line cours Introduction to american law
• Seminar in American Law/Spanish Law at the Law
  Faculties

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GLOBAL LAW

• Global law needs global legal experts
• A step forwards Comparative law
• Dual degrees sharing different legal systems
• In the same legal area supranational and
  comparative law in exchange programs

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DETECTING PROBLEMS,FINDING SOLUTIONS

• Lack of glossaries containing legal terminology
  translated into English
• Core point for Global Law
• Students are unfamiliar with the way the
  university works and the teaching methods
• Orientation day and guided tutorials
• Introduction to the Spanish legal culture (in
  07-08)

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DUAL DEGREES VALUE TO LAW FIRMS

• Big and important Law firms in Barcelona -Baker
  McKenzie, Clifford Chance, Cuatrecasas,
  Garrigues, Roca Junyent, and Uria Menendez
  think that having a Dual Degree gives an added
  value to work with them as legal experts in
  common law and civil law
• Achieving appreciated personal skills, highly
  valued in legal practice personal independence,
  language skills, enterprising students

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Thank you

• Faculty of Law- UB