Master in Transnational Business and Digital Technologies Law

Completion requirements:

Compulsory: 45
Optional: 10
External internships 5
Master’s Final Project: 30
Total: 90

Not contemplated

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  Completion requirements:

  Compulsory: 45
  Optional: 10
  External internships 5
  Master’s Final Project: 30
  Total: 90

• Tutorial action and reception

  Una vez que las/los estudiantes deciden estudiar en la USC, esta pone a su disposición todo un dispositivo de información y acogida para facilitar su inscripción, incorporación e integración como estudiante universitario. La página principal de la universidad contiene información sobre la historia, situación, planos, transporte, residencias, oferta cultural, deportiva, etc. de las dos ciudades en las que cuenta con centros docentes. En la misma página web se puede encontrar información pormenorizada sobre la estructura de la Universidad (Facultades, Escuelas, Departamentos, Institutos Universitarios, etc.), Servicios a la Comunidad Universitaria (Bibliotecas, Documentación y Archivo, Lenguas Modernas, Traducción, Aulas de Informática, Deportes, Salud, Ayudas y servicios al alumnado, Reclamaciones, Valedor de la Comunidad Universitaria, Oficina de Servicios e Integrados de la Juventud, Voluntariado, Cultura, Tarjeta Universitaria, etc.).

  Dentro de todos los servicios que la USC pone a disposición de la comunidad universitaria podemos destacar los siguientes como directamente relacionados con los servicios de apoyo al alumnado:

  - Área de Cultura
  - Área de Orientación Laboral e Emprego
  - Área de Tecnoloxías da Información e das Comunicacións (ATIC)
  - Gabinete de Comunicación
  - Oficina de Igualdade de Xénero
  - Oficina de Información Universitaria (OIU)
  - Servizo de Normalización Lingüística
  - Servizo de Participación e Integración Universitaria
  - Servizo de Relacións Exteriores (SRE)

  En los primeros días de clase el coordinador del Máster organizará una o varias sesiones informativas para comunicar al alumnado cuáles son los objetivos generales de la titulación, las competencias y destrezas que se alcanzarán con la formación ofrecida, así como para dar una visión general de la localización de recursos (aulas, bibliotecas), personas responsables y canales de comunicación.

  También durante los primeros días de clase, y con el objeto de mantener abierta de forma dinámica una vía de comunicación permanente con el alumnado, la Comisión Académica nombrará un tutor para cada uno de las/los alumnas/os, que no tendrá que ser necesariamente su futuro director de Tesis, y cuyas funciones principales serán la de atender a su tutorando, derivando las cuestiones que éste le plantee a los cauces adecuados, y la de hacer un seguimiento que permita localizar posibles dificultades académicas con el adelanto suficiente para ser corregidas.

• Access

  Access

  Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

  1. As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
  2. Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institucion de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
  3. Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que os ditos títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

  Admission

  Modality. General criteria

  Entry qualifications:

  Graduates in Law

  Information is updated in each enrolment call

This Master’s degree has as its aim to provide an innovative training on the field of law of Business from a transnational and international perspective, but, at the same time, approaching the training on the legal aspects derived from the development of processes and digital technologies in the digital society and economy.

It also aims to articulate a solid knowledge of the Portuguese, Spanish and European legal system, and of the digital technologies, training graduate students to respond to companies’ challenges in the international field, specially those that have to operate in the Spanish and Portuguese territories, and that, moreover, have a high degree of digitalization and automatization both on its own activity and on the development of national or international markets.

The master's degree will aim to endow students with skills that will enable them to respond to challenges, for example, and only by way of example, in areas such as contractual issues of all kinds in companies, civil liability on digital economy, privacy and fundamental rights, international taxation of the digital economy, competition law and industrial property, international contracting, European cooperation in civil and commercial matters, among others, with a cross-border perspective in relation with Portuguese and Spanish law, with the aim of enabling legal professionals to access the international labour market, in particular in Portugal and Spain.

• Basic skills

  - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas —usually in a research context.

  - Students must know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their capacity of problem solving in new or uncommon surroundings. All of this, inside broader —or multidisciplinary— contexts associated with their study area.

  - Students must be able to integrate knowledge and confront the complexity of making judgements from information which could be incomplete and limited. This information must include reflections about social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their study areas’ knowledge and judgements.

  - Students must know how to clearly and unambiguously communicate their conclusions —and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them— to specialized and non-specialized public.

  - Students must possess learning abilities that will allow them to continue studying, in a way which would be largely self-directed and autonomous.

• Generic skills

  -To acquire the ability to adapt and respond to the new demands of digital society and economy.
  -To acquire the ability to develop, comprehend, analyze, synthesize, present and argue complex legal information or documents.
  -To acquire the ability to manage knowledge, tools and resources of high level to solve problems related to transnational law of business (Spain and Portugal) and law of digital technologies that affects enterprises, from the perspective of Portugues, Spanish, European and International law.
  - To acquire the ability to run or work effectively and efficiently in interdisciplinary groups, with complex and even multidisciplinary approaches, as an expert on transnational law of business (Spain and Portugal) and law of digital technologies.
  -To acquire the ability to assist, assess or manage strategies focused on solving legal issues on the autonomous professional exercise, in offices, enterprises or administrations.

• Specific skills

  -Ability to understand and identify the way in which the digitalization of economy and society affect the functioning of enterprises, including cross-border ones, as well as the legal regime of merchant societies, including the duties of administrators and the soft-law
  -Ability to understand and identify contractual relations in and with the company in Portuguese national law and in Community law, and the impact that artificial intelligence and other digital technologies have on said contractual relations
  -Ability of understanding and developing professionally the formulation, management or solvement or problems derived from international contracting.
  -Ability to understand and identify the different types of international contracts and business and contractual relations that affect several jurisdictions.
  - Ability to understand and determine the general framework of civil liability in digital society and economy
  -Ability to prevent and solve issues related to responsibility for damage caused by the use or creation of digital objects, systems or processes at Spanish, Portuguese, European and international level.
  -Ability on managing ethic rules applicable to research on social sciences and humanities and to mastering the sources of law.
  -Ability of knowing and using the methodological resources of research in social sciences, and the methodology of multidisciplinary investigation in order to solve problems derived from the digital society and economy.
  -Ability to prevent and solve issues related to competition, intellectual property and advertising law at Spanish, Portuguese, European and international level, and that are affected by the impact of digital technologies.
  -Ability to prevent and solve issues related to industrial property linked to the use or creation of objects, systems or processes at Spanish, Portuguese, European and international level.
  -Ability to understand the system and functioning of the international market and the compatibility and articulation with the European Union system.
  - Ability to master the legal framework of the international electronic market and to solve the issues related to the regime of international trade contracts.
  -Ability to professionally define scenarios and propose measures on emerging aspects with legal relevance in the Portuguese-Spanish cross-border area.
  -Ability to analyze and understand the emerging aspects with legal relevance that affect the professional environment (autonomous, of the enterprise or of public administrations), related to the products, systems or processes of digitalization and automatization.
  -Ability to understand and manage the fundamentals and rules of the Transnational public law and Spanish and Portuguese administrative law, applicable to the personal data protection, cybersecurity and the digitalization of public administrations in the context of the digital society and economy
  -Ability to understand and manage the fundamentals and rules of data economy and the legal aspects of the enterprise’s security and cybersecurity.
  - To be able to elaborate, autonomously present and defend a theoretical research project on the Transnational Law of Business and Digital Technologies, which integrates the knowledge taught in the Master's Degree.
  -Ability to understand and manage or to deal with the mechanisms and instruments of European cooperation in civil and commercial matters.
  -Ability to understand, master and use the European Union legislation and the international conventions applicable in Europe in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters for the resolution of international civil and commercial disputes.
  -Ability to understand and manage the national, communal and international mechanisms, rules, process and organizations linked to the international taxation for the digital economy and society as well as the law applicable to cross-border companies between Spain and Portugal.
  - Ability to understand, manage and work professionally in law offices, enterprises or public administrations, which activity is linked to the cross-border activity between Spain and Portugal and with one or more aspects of the digital society and economy.
  -Ability to understand and manage the alternative means and institutions of solving controversies and to develop professional solutions using said means.
  -Ability to understand and manage the digital tools based on intelligent systems with the purpose of working professionally in law offices, enterprises or public administrations.
  -Ability to understand and manage the international, European, Portuguese and Spanish regulatory framework for artificial intelligence and the data economy

• Transversal skills

  -To express themselves correctly, both orally and in writing, in the official language both of Portugal and of the autonomous community of Galicia
  -To use the basic tools of information and communication technologies (ICTs) necessary for the exercise of their job and for their lifelong learning.
  -To learn to exercise citizenship that respects democratic culture, human rights and the gender perspective.
  -To develop the ability of working in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary teams in oder to offer propositions that contribute to an environmentally, economically, politically and socially sustainable development
  -To value the importance of technological research, innovation and development in socioeconomic and cultural progress of society and economy.
  -To have the ability of time and resources management: develop plans, prioritize activities, identify critiques, establish deadlines and fulfill them.

Mobility

The bodies responsible for the university master's degree at each of the participating universities shall establish the necessary mechanisms for the mobility of the teaching staff concerned and, where appropriate, the students, as well as the supervision and development of the placements to be carried out, in accordance with their specific regulations.

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programs are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programs (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):

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Internships

This Master's Degree includes 5 credits of external internships, in which the following specific competences will be acquired:

- Ability to understand, manage and develop professionally in law firms, companies or public administrations, of any size, whose activity is linked to cross-border activity between Spain and Portugal.

- Ability to understand, manage and develop professionally in law firms, companies or public administrations, of any size, whose activity is linked to one or more aspects of the digital society and economy.

The objective of the Master's Thesis (TFM) is to introduce students to a research and/or development topic with specific and achievable objectives in a short period of time. At the end of the project, students will be able to:

- At the cognitive level: to integrate the acquired knowledge in order to apply them to a specific research and/or development project
- At the subjective level: to present and defend the result of the project in front of a specialized audience.

The project will consist on the study of a research and/or development topic of one of the two dimension in which the Master's Degree is focused on, that is, in the dimension linked to digital technologies based on artificial intelligence, or in the dimension linked to the issues related to the cross-border area between Portugal and Spain, being of particular importance that in the case of Spain the project is focused on Galicia. In the project, the student must apply the knowledge and competence acquired in both compulsory and optional subjects and internships.

TThe Master's teaching staff is made up of professors from the University of Santiago and the University of Minho, with a very relevant and professionally recognised teaching and research career, as well as highly specialised in the subjects that will be taught. The seminars of the course will complement the specialisation in technological fields, especially those linked to artificial intelligence.