Law (Distance Learning)

The Law (Distance Learning) program fromUniversity of Nicosia particularly highlights special legal issues that are of great theoretical and practical importance, encouraging a comparative approach to legal science, within the contemporary European context.

It is expected that the Law (Distance Learning) program offered by University of Nicosia will provide its graduates with additional qualifications and that it will enhance their cognitive as well as their managerial capacities when dealing with issues relevant to Law; this will help them enrich their career opportunities. Graduates of the program also have the opportunity to pursue further studies at a PhD level.

Key Facts:

• Students are given the opportunity to engage in academic research and the application of legal practices and models, gaining well-founded specialization in legal fields of particular importance.

• It is noted that the Law School has been offering with great success a conventional classroom-based LLM in Law with specialization in the aforementioned fields (a. European Business Law and b. Human Rights and Social Justice) since 2013.

Career Prospects

The Law (Distance Learning) program from University of Nicosia mainly, but not exclusively, addresses itself to individuals who work or intend to do so in fields relevant to legal science: lawyers, judges, legal consultants or in general employees of companies and of other private sector entities or organizations, members of the public service or of some other public or semi-public agency or organization, members of non-governmental organizations, diplomats etc.

Courses include:

• Applications of European Law

• European Comparative Law and Policy

• Legal Research and Methodology

• Public Procurement Law

• Energy and Environmental Law

• Competition Law

• Finance and Credit Law