The admission profile is the knowledge, skills and abilities of the students who access the degree.
In general, the Master's degree will allow access to graduates who meet the requirements of art. 16 of RD 1393/2007, preferably those students who also have a B2 or, where appropriate, B1 in English, as provided in the requirements for admission. access.
More specifically, regarding the recommended entry profile, it should be noted that this Master's degree is aimed at those wishing to enter the profession of Court Attorney. Its main objective is to improve the professional training of lawyers as relevant collaborators in the administration of justice, ensuring that citizens are guaranteed quality legal advice, defense, and technical representation as essential elements for exercising the fundamental right to effective protection. Therefore, the law establishes a system of training in excellence whose basic pillars are the completion of this Master's degree, where students will acquire a set of specific professional skills, the development of an external internship, and the completion of a professional aptitude assessment that culminates the training process prior to registration with the corresponding professional association. Therefore, we must not only refer to Royal Decree 1393/2007, amended by Royal Decree 861/2010, in its Article 14. 16 establishes that in order to access official Master's courses, but also to Royal Decree 775/2011, of June 3, which approves the Regulation of Law 34/2006, of October 30, on access to the professions of Lawyer and Court Attorney, which establishes that students must have a degree in which they have acquired the following legal skills:
a) Know and understand the elements, structure, resources, interpretation and application of the legal system and interpret the sources and fundamental legal concepts of each of the different jurisdictional orders.
b) Know and understand the mechanisms and procedures for resolving legal conflicts, as well as the legal position of individuals in their relations with the Administration and, in general, with public authorities.
c) Know and know how to apply the criteria of priority of sources to determine the applicable rules in each case, and especially that of conformity with the rules, principles and constitutional values.
d) Interpret legal texts from an interdisciplinary perspective using legal principles and social, ethical and deontological values and principles as analytical tools.
e) Provide a convincing legal argument on a theoretical issue relating to various legal matters.
f) Resolve practical cases in accordance with current positive law, which implies the prior preparation of material, the identification of problematic issues, the selection and interpretation of applicable positive law data and the reasoned exposition of the subsumption.
g) Skillfully and accurately handle legal language and terminology specific to the different branches of law: draft legal documents in an orderly and comprehensible manner. Communicate legal ideas, arguments and reasoning orally and in writing, using the appropriate registers in each context.
h) Use information and communications technologies to search for and obtain legal information (legislation and jurisprudence databases, bibliographies, etc.), as well as work and communication tools.
The Master's degree is designed so that graduates can prove their professional training upon completion, allowing them to correctly and adequately practice both the profession of Lawyer and Attorney and their professional insertion. In addition, it offers graduates the appropriate preparation to successfully pass the final evaluation test that certifies their professional training for the practice of Lawyer and Attorney, which is essential for official membership in the bar association for graduates. It is also a very valuable training complement for the performance of the legal profession.
The practice of the professions of Law and Attorney that will be carried out by the graduates of the Master's Degree, once they have obtained the corresponding professional title after passing the state test, may be carried out individually or collectively, on their own account (self-employed lawyer or attorney) or on behalf of others (lawyer or attorney of an entity).