Business Law (Master)

The joint master's programme in Business Law offered by the University of Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt offers both a scientifically based and practice-oriented preparation for a legal career. Building on their previous knowledge in the fields of law and business, it provides students with the required key competences for exercising classical legal professions. Students acquire the necessary legal expertise and learn how to apply their knowledge by the proper use of jurisprudential methods. A major focus lies on legal subjects that are particularly relevant in a business environment. The wide range of elective subjects enables students to explore the principles of law and extend their legal competences in business and commercial law.

Courses take place at the University of Vienna and the Universität Klagenfurt. For each location two study semesters are planned.

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Study Programme

Compulsory subjects of the degree programme (69 ECTS): civil procedural law, international law, criminal law and criminal procedural law, fundamental rights, family law, inheritance law, administrative procedural law as well as civil law and private business law.

Students have to pass restricted electives to an extent of 24 ECTS. From the combination of elective subjects I, students can choose from the following thematic areas: procurement law, private-law aspects of corporate succession, banking law, capital market law, specific issues in the field of tax law (advanced course), law concerning business creation, social security and contribution obligations, intellectual property right as well as specific issues in the field of commercial law. From the combination of elective subjects II, students can choose from the following courses to an extent of 8 ECTS credits: Principles of Law, Capacity Building in Business Studies and/or Capacity Building in Other Fields of Knowledge Related to Law. At least 4 ECTS credits must be completed in the course Principles of Law. 

These courses must be partly completed at the University of Klagenfurt.

Students must choose free elective subjects of 6 ECTS credits in total.

To complete the programme, students have to write a master’s thesis in a specific thematic field of business law. The master's thesis comprises 20 ECTS credits; the master’s examination 1 ECTS credit.