Learning through hands-on practice
The Esade Double Degree in Law + Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order will immerse you in professional reality through an innovative methodology based on the practical application of your knowledge. All of these experiences inside and outside the classroom will help you to develop the skills you need for your professional future, such as public speaking, legal reasoning, research for information and applicable jurisprudence, debates, diplomacy, etc.
Throughout the program, you’ll resolve real practical case studies and participate in trial simulations in class, applying the legal foundations and your knowledge of geopolitics and international economics that you’ll gain as the program advances.
Outside of the classroom, you’ll also be able to take part in unique experiences: debate leagues, moot courts and the Model UN, amongst others.
Learning by doing in class
Active classes
You’ll work in small, participatory groups focusing on law and current legal issues. You’ll constantly interact with your classmates and faculty.
Real practical case studies
In class you’ll debate on and resolve real legal cases provided by law firms and corporate legal departments. You’ll analyse the situations and present arguments for possible solutions, applying legal reasoning, and the knowledge you’ve acquired.
Trial simulations
Esade has its own simulated courtroom for trial simulations, with the same recording systems used in courts today. You’ll be able to simulate trials and watch all manner of hearings and trials.
Research projects
You’ll learn to efficiently look for information, dealing with different sources and selecting the key information you need for your strategy or legal arguments.
Teamwork
At Esade we promote teamwork given that this is the way people traditionally work in the professional setting: You’ll learn to work with others to achieve a common goal.
Develop your skills
Throughout the program, you’ll work on developing the fundamental skills and competencies today’s lawyers need: communication, public speaking, leadership, negotiations, teamwork, etc.
Learning by doing outside the classroom
While completing the Double Degree, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in diverse legal experiences outside the classroom, including international moot courts, debate leagues and simulated UN sessions (Model UN).
Microeconomics Challenge
For the first time, Esade has posed a transversal challenge among students of practically all its Degrees, in teams.
They have had to analyze the future of the automobile industry in Europe using economic tools, they have presented their projects before a jury of experts, made up of real companies and institutions, who have announced the winning group.
Engaging with changemakers
Esade Double Degree in Law + Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order students play an active role in important events and conferences.
In 2022, they joined leading European politicians, thought leaders and business executives, as well as international organizations such as the UN, IEA and IRENA, at the GH2 Green Hydrogen Global Assembly and Exhibition. This unprecedented gathering of stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society was aimed at galvanizing global action to accelerate the uptake of green hydrogen. Take a look at the video to see what happened!
Model United Nations
Serve as a diplomat and help to resolve a worldwide challenge
The Model UN is a prestigious international university competition in which, during one week, more than 2,500 students from 120 different countries learn first-hand through a simulated UN session. Students are organised in teams and represent different countries, working together to solve a specific social and political challenge
Success story
During the 25th edition of the Model UN organised by Harvard University, Mohamed Bouzagou, one of our Esade Law School participants, won the prestigious Diplomatic Award for his success in leading the Nature Conservancy, a unique committee whose members were free to interact with other committees to try to influence them.
Capstone Module at the European Investment Bank
Work on a sustainability and renewable energy consulting project
The EIB is the European Union’s lending arm, the world’s biggest multilateral financial institution, and one of the largest providers of climate finance.
Taking the capstone module will allow you to participate, for five months, in a sustainability and renewable energy consulting project for a company. You will work on the project throughout the subject and present it in June to a panel of EIB economists in Luxemburg.
According to one student:
“Our project consisted of using data mining and machine learning to take the pulse of the financial market. To this end, we had to code a program that would allow us to predict the movements of the S&P 500. Despite our lack of prior programming knowledge, I am proud to say that we managed to write a program that predicted the movements of the S&P 500 with an 80% accuracy rate.”
Emma Elise Martínez, Bachelor of Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order student
Debate leagues
Compete in key debate leagues
As a Double Degree in Law + Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order student, you’ll also be able to compete in the different debate leagues in which Esade participates. To win, you have to make the most of your skills: argumentation, critical reasoning, research and public speaking. Don’t hesitate: Enjoy this experience which closely resembles professional legal reality and represent Esade in the debate leagues.
Some of the leagues in which our students have participated:
- Liga de la Xarxa Vives
- Liga Unijés
- Liga UFV
- Ligas del Poder Judicial
International moot courts
Defend real cases at the international level
The Double Degree in Law + Global Governance will also open the doors for you to take part in international moot courts, competitions simulating real trials. To participate, you have to prepare a case and then present it, competing against teams from other international universities before a professional jury.
Jessup: The world’s most prestigious moot court
Organised by the International Law Students Association, 550 law schools from more than 80 countries take part in this International Public Law competition. Each team has to prepare and present both sides of a case, both the prosecution and the defence, presenting their arguments orally before the members of the International Court of Justice, the UN’s main judicial body.
The Moot de Arbitraje de Madrid and the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court are two of the other moot courts in which our students have participated.