Bachelor's Degree in Law

⁽¹⁾ Ord: ordinary call, Ext: extraordinary call. Cut-off mark for the 2026/2027 academic year
⁽²⁾ Tuition fees for the ECTS credits of the first year. Other fees not included
⁽³⁾ Discount equivalent to 99% of the tuition fees for first-time enrolment, under a decree of the Xunta de Galicia

Description

The Bachelor's Degree in Law gives students a general, theoretical and practical, basic and comprehensive legal education in all branches of law, enabling them to know and handle basic legal concepts and to acquire the competences and skills needed to practise the legal professions. It will enable them to identify legal facts and problems, draw legal consequences and present information and solutions orally and in writing. Independent learning by students, together with proper ethical conduct and social responsibility, are essential goals of the programme.

Specialisations

The Bachelor's Degree in Law gives students a thorough, high-quality theoretical and practical legal education. Its structure in specialisations makes it especially attractive and competitive for access to legal professions in the public and private sectors. It allows students to design their own pathway of optional subjects and, if they wish, to specialise in the fourth year in Judicial Law or in EU Law and Sustainable Development. The specialisation is added to the Law degree certificate when the student takes at least five optional subjects belonging to the same area. A degree with a specialisation certifies to third parties the specialised training obtained by the student, without prejudice to the core training that the degree guarantees. There are two pioneering specialisations in the degree offered by the Faculty of Law in Ourense:

• The Specialisation in Judicial Law, the more classic and general of the two, offers students with a legal vocation a solid training programme in law that prepares them for public or private legal practice in general. It is especially aimed at students who wish to work in judicial practice within the Administration of Justice or to practise as lawyers
• The Specialisation in EU Law and Sustainable Development, more innovative and with a supranational approach, offers specialised, high-quality training in European law. It is of particular interest to ambitious students who are sensitive to the challenges of a globalised world, and also to international students who wish to take part in international mobility programmes and deepen their study of the EU's own institutions and sources of law

Applicant profile

• It is not an essential requirement, but it will benefit students' all-round education to have knowledge of Language, History, Philosophy, Ethics and Economics and to be able to use foreign languages. In particular, it is advisable to have a certain capacity for comprehension, analysis, systematisation and synthesis, oral and written expression, relating ideas, argumentation and critical reasoning.

Access and admission

• Baccalaureate with the university entrance exam (PAU) passed
• Higher vocational training qualifications
• Entrance exam for people over 25 or over 45
• Previous university degree

Career opportunities

Liberal professions

• Lawyers
• Court representatives (procuradores)

Private-sector employment

• Employment in the legal, labour and human resources areas, in insurance, mutual societies, cooperatives, banking and credit institutions, consultancies, NGOs and development cooperation bodies...
• Skilled posts in companies or self-employment for which legal training is necessary
• Other jobs for which legal training is not strictly necessary but is useful or advisable

Public-sector employment

• In the European Union and other international organisations
• In the State: judges, public prosecutors, court clerks (letrados de la Administración de Justicia), notaries, land or commercial registrars, State lawyers, legal advisers to the Council of State, legal advisers to the Spanish Parliament, Social Security legal advisers, labour inspectors and sub-inspectors, tax inspectors and tax officers, public auditors and comptrollers, administration officers...
• In the autonomous communities: legal advisers to regional parliaments, legal services of regional governments, administration officers...
• In local administrations: secretaries or comptrollers of local government, lawyers or legal advisers, administration officers...
• Others: diplomats, legal services of other public bodies (e.g. universities, military legal corps...), university lecturers...