• An Interdisciplinary Approach: As a future legal expert, you will continue to build on your methodological skills, hone your key legal skills, and sharpen your interdisciplinary problem-solving skills; these include creative design, using targeted and group-oriented language, communication, as well as and understanding of psychology and medicine.
• A Focus on Digitalization: Computational thinking, legal technology, digital government, artificial intelligence, digital law - this degree program has been designed to help expand on and broaden understanding of technology.
• Real-World Experience in the Program: As part of your Master's degree, your hands-on experience in the court (“internship court year”), or in administrative positions, can count as equivalent to one year of your studies.

The Master's degree program in Law includes the following subject areas:

To learn more about the program content and required courses, please see the curriculum and the course catalog.

The Master's degree program in Law:
 

• provides in-depth studies to expand further on subjects taught as part of Bachelor's degree curriculum, such as civil law and civil procedural law, public law, criminal law and criminal procedural law, commercial law; you will focus on interdisciplinary case studies concentrating on multidisciplinary approaches and cutting-edge technologies (legal technology, digital governance, etc.)
• expands your understanding and expertise of gender, diversity and human rights, you will engage in procedural justice and key skills in this area
• gives you the choice between a concentration in general jurisdiction/justice or administration and administrative jurisdiction
• provides an additional core focus based on the Master's thesis and a required seven-month legal internship

The Master's degree program in Law qualifies you to become a skilled, knowledgeable member within the legal community. More specifically, you will learn how to
 

• work independently in a legal context
• address issues from the traditional range of subject areas, as well as address cross-disciplinary challenges (in medicine, digitalization, etc.)
• argue coherently and become well versed in new legal fields (procedural justice, legal technology, digital government)
• apply your expertise immediately to address real-world issues on account of having attended collaborative courses taught by legal professionals and university professors, and by having successfully completed a 7-month legal internship.

Graduates holding a Master's degree in law can pursue a career in just about any legal profession, particularly

• Attorney-at-law
• Judge
• Public prosecutor
• Notary
• Administrative attorney
• Professional activities in legal departments at companies, tax consulting agencies, the public sector, media companies, etc.

This graduate degree program in law will qualify you to pursue new legal professions, such as in software, with AI, social media companies, or in digital government.

On average, graduates in this field usually have a professional job immediately after graduating. After 3 years of employment, the average monthly salary (gross) is € 3,625.

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After successfully completing the Master's degree program, you can opt to pursue a doctorate degree:

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