Master's in Law – Specialization in Public Regulatory Law
Lisbon, Portugal
DURATION
4 Semesters
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
28 Feb 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 6,200 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 10.000€: total tuition fee for non-EU candidates
Introduction
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The selection and design of the courses included in the curricular component of the MPRL is driven by the ambition to combine some of the subjects taught at top Law schools with a strong interdisciplinary inclination and with the international-looking legal approach of our teaching body.
The result has been a fully revised course structure where students can benefit from:
- General courses in core areas of Public Law (e.g. European Administrative Law; Constitutional Foundations of State Action; Public Procurement;
- Specialized courses dealing with the different areas that are subject to public regulation (e.g. Law and Public Policies; Regulation and Public Health Hazards; Regulation and Environmental Hazards; Administrative Regulatory Law; State Aid; Law of Administrative Offences).
Ideal Students
Graduates in Law or in other social sciences who wish to acquire or expand their knowledge of Public Law.
Program Outcome
Building on and expanding previously acquired notions of Public Law, combining traditional and innovative areas of Public Law of transnational relevance; fostering and improving research and academic skills, whilst providing additional professional competencies that may prove useful in the job market.
Curriculum
+ 2024/2025 & + 2025/2026
In addition to the mandatory course, students must complete 28 ECTS in the Restricted Option courses listed above and 18 ECTS in Free Option courses that they may choose from any Master’s course taught at NOVA School of Law (subject to availability).
Total ECTS of the Taught Component: 60 ECTS.
From 2024/25, students will need to approve the curricular component with, at least 13,50 points out of 20 (13,5/20) to be able to enrol in the research phase (2nd year of the course).
Completion of the curricular component (60 ECTS), with any positive grade, grants the award of a Diploma in Post Graduate Studies in Law.
1st Year - Taught Component
1st Semester
Mandatory
- Direito Administrativo Europeu
Restrictive Optional
- Constitutional Justice
- Contratação Pública
- Fundamentos Constitucionais da Atividade Administrativa
- Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets
- Regulação e Riscos de Saúde Pública
- Emerging Technologies: Governance and Regulation
- Energy Law
Free Option
- Direito do Trabalho em Funções Públicas
- Introdução ao Direito da União Europeia
2nd Semester
Mandatory
- Metodologia da Investigação Jurídica
- Direito Administrativo da Regulação
Restrictive Optional
- Direito das Contraordenações
- Competition Law
- Data Protection and Management Law*
- E-Governance
- Direito e Políticas Públicas
- Regulação e Riscos Ambientais
- Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
- Energy, Climate and the Just Transition
*Data Protection and Management Law is a course offered by NOVA School of Law’s Jean Monnet Module on European Union Data Protection Law in Portugal (DataporEU)
(The curricular units presented as free options are suggestions and may be changed. In free-option curricular units that are compulsory for other master’s programmes, enrolment and attendance depends on logistical and pedagogical possibilities).
2nd Year - Research Phase
Mandatory
- Thesis, internship at national or international institution or project work
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
Merit Awards
Merit Awards are awarded to:
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 17 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 50% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
- Candidates whose final average admission to a 2nd study cycle at NOVA School of Law, according to assessment and ranking by the appropriate jury, is equal to or higher than 16 points (on a scale of 0/20) and who enroll and attend the same course, benefit from an award in cash corresponding to 30% of the tuition fee for the taught component of the Master’s degree.
In the non-taught phase, three prizes for academic merit are awarded (by master’s degree or area of specialization, in the case of the Master’s Degree in Law). These awards assume the completion of the taught component within the stipulated time.
- The best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 100% of the tuition fee for the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The second-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase, benefits from an award in cash corresponding to 60% of the tuition fee, corresponding to the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree;
- The third-best student of the taught component of each study cycle or specialization area of a study cycle who continues and attends the non-taught phase of the Master’s degree.