Department of Law

The Department of Law was founded in 1974 and became operational the same year. The Department of Law admits on average 500 undergraduate students. The main objective of the Department of Law is the thorough study of jurisprudence viewed as an integral part of social sciences. As such, jurisprudence is not restricted to the study of positive law but it also seeks to identify the social conditions that permeate the evolution of the law. The duration of undergraduate studies at the Department of Law is four (4) academic years, namely, eight (8) academic semesters. The undergraduate curriculum consists of a total of fifty (50) courses, forty-four (44) of which are compulsory modules, while six (6) are compulsory on-demand modules. Undergraduate studies are successfully completed when students successfully pass all compulsory modules of every academic year, as well all respective compulsory on-demand modules as follows: 2 compulsory on-demand modules, respectively, in the 2nd, 3rd and 6th semesters. The second cycle of studies of the Department of Law includes a wide variety of graduate Master’s degree programs in a range of specialized areas.