Bachelor's Degree in Law

The Bachelor’s Degree in Law can be accessed from any type of secondary school and any of the university entrance exams, without the need for separate entrance exams. Their abilities must include a personal and social maturity that allows them to act responsibly and autonomously, have reading, study and discipline habits, as well as a good level of command of the Spanish language.
The most suitable profile is that of a student who is particularly interested in social and legal sciences (which is why it is ideal for them to have completed the Humanities and Social Sciences Secondary School Certificate) with a strong desire to learn and to strive to achieve it, with communication skills (oral and written) and an analytical, reflective and critical spirit.

The Bachelor’s Degree in Law can be accessed from any type of secondary school and any of the university entrance exams, without the need for separate entrance exams. Their abilities must include a personal and social maturity that allows them to act responsibly and autonomously, have reading, study and discipline habits, as well as a good level of command of the Spanish language.
The most suitable profile is that of a student who is particularly interested in social and legal sciences (which is why it is ideal for them to have completed the Humanities and Social Sciences Secondary School Certificate) with a strong desire to learn and to strive to achieve it, with communication skills (oral and written) and an analytical, reflective and critical spirit.

Each year, at the beginning of the academic year, the USC organises Welcome Days, organised by the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, which take place in all the University Centres during the first fortnight of the academic year, with the aim of introducing new students to the opportunities, resources and services offered by the University.
Welcome events in the centres, attended by both the Dean’s team and course coordinators, are also a means of providing information about courses so that new students can familiarise themselves with them.
The centres also have student tutors who provide information throughout the academic year.

When an official degree is suspended, the USC guarantees the effective development of the studies started by its students until their completion. To this end, the Governing Council approves the criteria related, among others, to:
• The admission of new enrolments in the degree programme.
• The gradual suppression of teaching.
• If the extinct degree is replaced by another similar one (modifying the nature of the degree), it establishes the conditions that facilitate students’ continuity of studies in the new degree and the equivalences between the subjects of one and the other plan.

The general requirements for access to degree programmes are set out in article 15 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of 28 September, which establishes the organisation of university education and the procedure for quality assurance. More information can be found at the following link:
Access to Degree

1. Capacity to apply theoretical knowledge to the practical resolution of legal problems.
2. Capacity to use constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the interpretation of the legal system.
3. Capacity to search for, handle, understand and interpret legal sources (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal).
4. Capacity to interpret legal documents.
5. Development of legal oratory. Ability to express oneself appropriately in front of an audience.
6. Capacity to write legal briefs.
7. Capacity to interpret the legal system on the basis of critical reflection.
8. Capacity for the elaboration and defence of legal arguments and the resolution of problems with a legal mentality.
9. To solve complex legal problems.
10. To be able to analyse, develop and defend individually a problem in the disciplinary field of the Degree, applying the knowledge, skills, tools and strategies acquired or developed in the same.
11. To respect human rights and fundamental rights, democratic values, freedom of thought and teaching, tolerance and recognition and respect for diversity, equality of all people, the elimination of all discriminatory content or practices, the culture of peace and participation, among others.
12. To respect the principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination.
13. To respect the principles of universal accessibility and design for all with special attention to the rights of persons with disabilities.
14. To address sustainability and climate change.

1. Ability to understand, analyse and synthesise.
2. Ability to organise and plan.
3. Ability to obtain and manage information.
4. Problem-solving skills.
5. Critical reasoning.
6. Ethical and deontological commitment.
7. Teamwork, including interdisciplinary teams.
8. Working in an international context.
9. Interpersonal skills in a professional context.
10. Recognition of diversity and multiculturalism.
11. Autonomous learning.
12. Adaptation to new situations.
13. Creativity.
14. Leadership.
15. Initiative and entrepreneurship.
16. Motivation for quality and professional excellence.
17. Sensitivity to social, economic and environmental issues.
18. Spirit of effort and self-improvement.
19. Knowledge and integration of the principles and values of the culture of peace and of democratic political systems.
20. Development of the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
21. Ability to communicate correctly both orally and in writing.
22. Ability to use computer tools and communication technologies.
23. Collective discussion skills.

1. Awareness of the importance of law as a regulatory system for social relationships.
2. Knowledge of the basic principles and concepts of the legal system, in a global, plural and changing context.
3. Acquisition of knowledge, skills and socio-legal values for the interpretation of the legal system, maintaining technical rigour.
4. Perception of the unitary character of the legal system and the necessary interdisciplinary vision of legal problems.
5. Knowledge of the different forms of creation and application of the Law in its historical evolution and in its current reality.
6. Knowledge of the main public and private institutions as a whole.
7. Knowledge of the procedures of the legal system.
8. Linguistic knowledge (spelling, phonological, lexical and grammatical) necessary to express oneself fluently in English both orally and in writing (level B2.1 Common European Framework).
9. Knowledge of legal terminology in English.
10. Knowledge of the technical structures of English legal language.
11. Knowledge of the procedures and techniques of the activity of legal professionals in English.

Graduates for future employment in the legal and paralegal professions.