Master in Law and Economics
Objective of the program
The educational mission of the Master in Law & Economics is to provide leading lawyers, economists, and business graduates with the finest education in Law & Economics available in the Spanish-speaking world. As the first of its kind in Latin America, the program´s primary goal has been to challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries by incorporating a new set of analytical tools to help understand and, ultimately, find solutions to legal problems. Prominent members of the legal community – academics, practitioners and judges- have a key role in the design of this program. Their input is instrumental in adapting it to the ever-changing trends in the theoretical and professional fields.
Adhering tightly to UTDT Law School’s emphasis on cutting edge legal research, the Master in Law & Economics strives to incorporate new frameworks of analysis into the traditional structure of legal education. In this regard, students face an in-depth introduction to both microeconomics and financial theory as a way to supply key concepts to be used when faced with any legal problem. As a result of this exposure and the quality of the student body, graduates routinely publish in Argentine Law Reviews original work that uses this analytical framework to study local and regional legal problems.
Structure of the program
The Master in Law & Economics is divided into two stages The first stage is devoted to providing participants with the foundations of Economics and Corporate Finance, and comprehends courses such as “Microeconomics”, “Economic Analysis of Civil and Commercial Law”, “Economic Analysis of Corporate Law” or “Economics of Regulations”. Other courses emphasize areas of law that are particularly important to commercial practice, such as Antitrust Law and Corporate Restructurings.
In the second stage of the program, participants are asked to choose between three alternative areas of specialization: Tax Law, Business Law & Finance, or Law & Public Policy. Participants may choose from a wide variety of elective courses that include among many others: “Mergers and Acquisitions”, “Futures, Options and Swaps”, “Poverty and Income Distribution”, “International Tax”, “Intellectual Property”, “Advanced Topics in Law & Economics”, and “Complex Litigation”. Participants have the opportunity to take courses at partner law schools both in the United States and elsewhere.
At the end of the program, each participant is expected to produce a thesis on a legal topic from a Law & Economics perspective. The thesis is developed under the guidance of one or more professors of the Master in Law & Economics and after the completion of a semester long workshop on methodology.
Admission
In accordance with the Argentine post-graduate culture, participants embark in UTDT’s Master in Law & Economics as part-time students. The program admits thirty-five to forty students per year.
Admitted students come from Argentina and other countries The diverse student-body, coupled with teaching techniques that incorporate different analytical frameworks, generate a fertile environment for ideas to be exchanged and discussed.
The admissions process is divided in two periods. Every year, the first period closes in December and the second period ends at the beginning of March. The second period only opens if the December period leaves any vacancies available.
Professionals interested in this Master should submit an essay to UTDT, the application form, personal and medical data, and two reference letters. A payment is required to reserve the vacancy until student admission is confirmed. Please, contact our Admission offices for more information.
Faculty
The faculty as both an international and interdisciplinary profile. Professors are drawn from the Law School and other Departments of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella as well as from other universities around the world, such as the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, American University or the University of Montreal.
Exchange Program
The Master in Law & Economics offers several opportunities for students in the second stage of the program to earn course credit abroad. The semester-long exchange program enables students to immerse themselves in a foreign legal culture, study substantive areas of law which may be covered in greater depth abroad, and/or gain exposure to the common law system.
The Master in Law and Economics has signed formal legal exchange programs with Arizona State University School of Law, Bucerius Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Northwestern University School of Law, Sothwestern University School of Law, The International University College of Turin, the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, University of Texas School of Law, Universitat Erfurt, and Universite de Neuchatel.
