Bachelor's Degree in Law

Skills

General competences:

Instrumental Competences of the Bachelor's Degree in Law:

• Analyze and synthesize information that allows them to make judgments that come from personal reflection, especially in the legal field.
• Organize and manage their own activity and time.
• Use their own language correctly both orally and in writing.
• Gather and interpret the relevant data with a legal mentality; transmit correctly prepared information with the appropriate arguments.
• Argue orally in public in an orderly and understandable way.
• Apply ICT to the field of Legal Sciences.
• Solve problems in the legal fields related to the degree.

Personal Competences of the Bachelor's Degree in Law:

• Work in multidisciplinary and specifically legal teams.
• Coordinate and direct work teams.
• Exercise and develop emotional intelligence skills; ability to establish positive interpersonal relationships in their academic and professional activity.
• Value and respect cultural diversity.
• Acquire and strengthen reasoned and autonomous criteria, as well as ethical commitment, in the exercise of the legal professions.
• Work in a legal context of international scope.
• Be sensitive to issues of social responsibility.

Systemic Competences of the Bachelor's Degree in Law

• Develop skills for autonomous learning in the field of Legal Sciences.
• Enhance the ability for initiative, creativity, leadership and improvement in the development of professional life.
• Enhance strategic vision in the development of the profession.
• Motivation for quality.
• Ability to function effectively in an organization in environments under pressure.

Specific competences

The student of the Degree in Law will be able to:

• Integrate the normative, doctrinal and jurisprudential framework of public and private legal relationships.
• Understand the functioning of legal institutions.
• Become familiar with the reading and interpretation of legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal texts.
• Know the legal legislation.
• Handle legal terminology in a second language (level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
• Become familiar with the use of databases of legislative and jurisprudential nature, as well as specific software.
• Acquire a critical awareness in the analysis of the legal system.
• Anticipate and resolve a legal problem judicially or extrajudicially
• Detect legal problems and offer the most adapted solutions to the real situation posed.
• Develop skills related to negotiation, conciliation and transaction.
• Know the genesis and development of the main legal institutions.
• Possess the ethical and deontological knowledge necessary for the responsible exercise of the legal professions.

Calendar and Schedules

Academic calendar

Access Requirements and Admission Criteria

Access requirements

The Antonio de Nebrija University, in addition to complying with the conditions of admission to bachelor's degree studies in accordance with current legislation, requires candidates to pass its own access tests, both for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Likewise, Nebrija University respects the provisions of Article 13 of RD 1892/2008 and its subsequent modifications regarding passing the university entrance exam:

“1. Access to Spanish universities, both public and private, to take the studies leading to obtaining the various diplomas titles of the official university degree that are valid throughout the national territory, will generally require passing the test, referred to in Article 38 of Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, on Education, which is regulated in this royal decree, notwithstanding the other cases provided for in Article 3 of this royal decree”.

Students who are in any of the following academic situations can apply for admission into the first year:

• Students from 2nd year of Baccalaureate and Selectividad (Spanish University Entrance Exam) or COU and Selectividad.
• Students who have completed their secondary education studies abroad and have access to university studies in their country (for member countries of the European Union or signatories of the agreement on the European Economic Area or an agreement of recognition of degrees).
• Students who have completed their secondary education studies abroad and have passed the University Entrance Exam for Foreigners (rest of the educational systems).
• Students who have the degrees of Senior Technical Officer corresponding to the teachings of Vocational Training and Artistic Education, or of Senior Sports Technician.
• Students from higher degree training cycles (2nd grade of Vocational Training).
• People over twenty-five years of age, after examination, who do not meet the requirements set forth in section 2 of Article 42 of Organic Law 6/2001, of December 21, and its subsequent amendments.
• People over forty years of age who certify their work or professional experience and do not have the legally required academic diplomas, and people over forty-five years of age, after examination, in accordance with the provisions of article 42.4 of the Organic Law 6/2001, of December 21, and its subsequent modifications.

On the other hand, students who have completed university studies at another Spanish or foreign university and want to continue them at the Antonio de Nebrija University, or who want to start other studies at this University, can also apply for admission.

Students must present the application form for admission to the University along with the required documentation. The submission of the application for admission, together with the form for choosing the date for the admission tests, can be done in person during a visit to the University, or can be sent by post. Likewise, the admission procedure can be started by filling in the online admission form.

The Promotion and Admissions Department confirms to the candidate having received the printed or online application, and will summon him/her to the admission tests. On the day of the test, the candidate must submit, if he/she has not done so in advance, the following documentation:

• Photocopy of the academic record.
• Photocopy of DNI or passport.
• Two passport-size photos.
• Letter of presentation from a professor/tutor from the center of origin, or person with whom they have had academic or professional contact.

Admission criteria

At the Antonio de Nebrija University, the admission procedures established by university legislation will be carried out with particular reference to the guiding principles of access to Spanish universities: equality, merit, ability, universal accessibility and adjustment to the criteria of the European Higher Education Area.

The admission process consists of several phases that are described below:

1.- Submit documentation

All candidates who wish to apply for admission must submit the following documentation:

1. Application for admission, completed and signed.
2. Receipt of payment of the registration fees.
3. Photocopy of the DNI (on both sides) or passport.
4. Two passport-size photographs.
5. Although it is not a mandatory document, we recommend a letter of introduction from a teacher/tutor from the center of origin where the student studied, to be attached to the academic documents submitted for the application.

In addition, according to the student's access path to the Bachelor's Degree, the following documentation will be requested:

6. Baccalaureate Academic Record.
7. University Access Exam (PAU).
8. Access credentials to the Spanish University issued by the UNED, for students from the International Baccalaureate or with a European Community Baccalaureate Degree.
9. Specific university access test for international students.
10. For candidates with a completed university degree or with Advanced Vocational Training Programs, academic record of the completed degree.
11.For the students who come through record transfer, academic record of the subjects taken and curricula of each of the subjects passed.

Only candidacies who have submitted the required documentation within the deadlines established by the Admissions Department will be processed. In addition, the student will be asked for all the additional information that is deemed appropriate to know the candidate's suitability for the Bachelor's degree.

2.- Admission tests

For the purposes of pre-admission and admission, the evaluation of the candidate will be made with a scale of 0 to 10 points, taking into account the following criteria and percentages:

1.- Academic record of the student's path of origin: 60%

2.- Psychotechnical multiple-choice test: 10%

This test consists of a competences/skills assessment test related to: skills in intellectual work, attitudes towards cooperation and teamwork, time and resource management. We will try to determine if the candidate has sufficient motivation, training and knowledge, abilities, aptitudes, communication skills, extracurricular activities and future interests necessary to be admitted as a student in the Bachelor's Degree in Law at the Antonio de Nebrija University.

3.- English level test: 10% Students who wish to take the subjects Common Law Basics and Privacy and Data Protection in English must prove to have a B2 level (CEFR) or higher in that language.

In addition to the competences established in the Bachelor's Degree in Law, another has been included that is related to adequate knowledge of the English language, both oral and written. To this end, the Vice-Rector's Office for Academic Planning has established a series of strategies of a diverse nature to facilitate the acquisition of said competence by students, among which are the use of materials in English and the programming of subjects in English.

In order to know the students' real English level, the Department of Modern Languages will carry out a level test at the beginning of the studies. Based on the results of this test, the students will simultaneously take the Bachelor's Degree in Law, depending on each student's placement, and the "Diploma in Modern Languages (English)". The subjects that are part of this Diploma are extracurricular, but certification of C1 level is guaranteed for graduates.

The English level test is a written exam with multiple-choice questions on oral and written comprehension and use of the language. It lasts 60 minutes and the student must demonstrate to have at least knowledge of the English language at an A2 level (CEFR) to take the Bachelor's Degree in Law in Spanish, and a B2 level (CEFRL) or higher to take the Bachelor's Degree in Law with the option of subjects in English: Common Law Basics and Privacy and data protection (CEFR). The tests are taken in person and are carried out in computer rooms on each campus.

4.- Specific test of knowledge about the Bachelor's Degree in Law. It is a multiple-choice test, and consists mainly of specific contents of some of the main areas of general knowledge that will be taken in the degree chosen by the candidate, in addition to other elements common to all degrees. This test will be 20% of the total.

5.- Personal interview: a strategy to know the characteristics of the applicants, carried out by the psychopedagogical orientation department, as a diagnosis of all the candidates, we will apply a personality test that explores the emotional, intellectual, social and norms and values areas of each candidate of the Bachelor's Degree in Law at the Antonio de Nebrija University.

In the event that an applicant presents any clinical indicator, an in-depth interview will be carried out with the psychologists of the Department of Educational Psychology, and if necessary, will be sent for clinical evaluation by the specialist professors in Psychiatry or/and Clinical Psychology.

All tests and student records will be assessed and evaluated by the Bachelor's Degree Admissions Commission, taking into account the criteria reflected in the "PGA_11 Procedure for the Operation of the Bachelor's Degree Admissions Commission", which are part of the Internal Regulations that regulate the access of the candidates to the University.