To obtain the undergraduate degree, 180 credits (ECTS) must be acquired, an average of 60 per year. Credits are acquired by taking the assessment tests for the various courses and for other training activities. Each exam is awarded a given number of credits, the same for all students, and a grade (expressed out of 30) that varies according to the student's level of preparation. The final examination is expressed in a mark out of 110.
For the third year, the Faculty suggests four specialization paths, responding to different cultural and professional vocations:
- Legal Assistant (Judicial Assistant and "Paralegal")
- Public Administration Law Specialist
- Labour and Trade Union Relations Consultant
- Privacy & Information Security Officer
The programme aims at the training of court clerks, staff working within professional firms, corporate legal departments as well as legal functions established in trade associations and representative bodies. Alongside the traditional figure of judicial assistants, the role of the new generation legal assistant, also defined by the Anglo-Saxon term "paralegal", is a novelty of increasing importance and frequency in organised professional structures and companies. In a context of increasing professionalisation and specialisation, legal assistants who provide qualified assistance to judges and professionals working in the legal sector - for example lawyers, in-house lawyers, members of boards of statutory auditors and supervisory bodies, secretaries of boards of directors - must possess an adequate level of technical competence, such as to allow them to consciously manage activities potentially capable of producing relevant legal effects. The establishment of a programme dedicated to the training of legal assistants responds to the growing need for qualified human resources, who can carry out tasks involving a basic level of technical-legal competence. Among the possible activities there are the material activity of keeping electronic files in civil or administrative proceedings (and in the future hopefully in criminal proceedings), the duties of the registry, the management of company books as well as the support activities for boards of statutory auditors and supervisory bodies within commercial companies.
The programme aims to provide a solid basic competence in the main areas of law, with particular attention to the field of public administration. The aim is to guarantee graduates an adequate level of preparation to carry out qualified activities in public institutions and private bodies that regularly interact with the public administration. At the end of the programme, the student will have acquired a solid set of flexible and versatile legal skills necessary to respond to different needs. These skills will enable students to find employment in public bodies such as Municipalities, Metropolitan Cities and Regions, as well as in private companies, with roles such as legal expert in urban planning, construction and the environment, legal consultant for public contracts, protocol manager, internal audit officer, transparency officer, corruption prevention officer, and consultant on regulatory compliance and environmental sustainability.
It is a well-established path in the three-year undergraduate degrees in legal services sciences on the Italian scene, also thanks to the professional outlet offered by labor consultancy. The programme aims to offer basic legal knowledge and skills, with a more in-depth study of subjects related to employment relationships, social security and industrial relations. Among the professional outlets, the more traditional ones of the freelance profession in labor consulting and inclusion in company functions related to personnel management (personnel management in the strict sense and Human Resource Management) are worth mentioning. However, the demand for experts in labour law is also growing in the world of employment agencies, trade unions and trade associations, where there is a demand for professionals capable of contributing to the new institutions of the labour market and corporate welfare.
The programme aims to prepare professionals able to offer consulting services on privacy and data protection to institutions, companies and professional firms. At the end of the programme, students will have acquired in-depth knowledge of national and EU regulations, as well as practices related to privacy and data protection. This training will provide them with a solid legal foundation and the skills they need to pursue emerging careers in the privacy and information security industry.
One of the most significant innovations introduced by the new regulations on the subject, issued in May 2018 in Italy and in the European Union with EU Regulation no. 2016/679, is the professional figure of the Data Protection Officer (DPO), mandatory for all public authorities and many private entities that manage personal data on a large scale or sensitive data.
The programme also trains privacy specialists, in charge of supporting public and private organisations in the correct implementation of data processing, and privacy consultants, experts in civil, criminal, and labor law. These consultants offer support to DPOs, manage privacy issues in the absence of a DPO, and take care of the protection of the rights of natural persons, also through interaction with the Data Protection Authority.
In addition, the programme prepares professionals specialised in cybersecurity management, providing essential skills to face the increasingly significant challenges of protecting IT systems.
For those wishing to learn more about digitalization and its impact on legal relations, the Advanced Training Course in "Cybersecurity & Data Management" is also available, activated at the Faculty of Law starting from the 2022-2023 academic year.
As an alternative to the suggested paths, students can submit an individualised study plan for the third year.