Master's degree in Economic Criminal Law

Basic Information

What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?

The proposed Master offers specialized and multidisciplinary training, essential for those lawyers who guide their professional activity in the field of economic criminal law and corporate criminal law, also equipping them with the instruments and skills necessary for practice law in this branch of law. Without prejudice, to offer sufficient theoretical knowledge to those future researchers who intend to develop their scientific work in this matter.

Is this degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?

Yes (final verification report is attached), starting the first course in the academic year 2012-13.

Final verification report turned out FAVORABLE

Favorable report first modification

Is it necessary to pass an access test?

It is not necessary.

What is the minimum number of credits for which I can enroll?

You can see it in the rules of permanence in this link

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Students who have possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees in the country that issued the degree.

Objectives

The general objective of the Master that is proposed is to satisfy the demand for specialized and quality Postgraduate training in Economic Criminal Law, providing students with the necessary theoretical knowledge and the skills and abilities essential for the professional exercise of legal practice in the of Economic Criminal Law.

So that the student acquires specialized knowledge and analytical and professional skills in the field of socioeconomic crimes, investigation and expertise regarding this form of crime, principles and foundations and constitutional limits of economic criminal law.
To satisfy this objective, a study plan has been designed whose subjects are aimed at achieving the knowledge and skills necessary to function professionally in this environment. The Master offers complete and multidisciplinary training for legal practice in this area, combining subjects with a strictly criminal legal content – fundamentals and constitutional limits of Economic Criminal Law; general issues of economic criminal law; socioeconomic crimes; crimes against the Public Treasury and Social Security; Penalty system for the environment and land use planning; or corruption and crimes against the Public Administration, among others-, with complementary and essential subjects for the understanding and proper treatment of the problems that arise in this environment, such as: Criminal Procedural Law, Commercial Law and Analysis of Financial Statements.

The studies proposed in this Master are not only a continuation of the studies of the Degree in Legal and Social Sciences, but also constitute an essential pillar for developing professional activity in a highly complex and specialized sector that requires complementary training such as that provides this Master. On the other hand, the proposed Degree makes it possible to satisfy the growing demand of professionals in the sector who need to update their knowledge in a subject that has undergone a profound transformation in recent years and is currently undergoing a reform process.

Competences

Among the general and specific skills that students must acquire during their studies and that will be required to obtain the Degree, we highlight the following:

A) General Competencies:

CG01 - Achieve a perception of the unitary nature of the Legal System and the necessary multidisciplinary approach to legal problems and, in particular, to the problems posed by Economic Criminal Law.
CG02 - Become aware of the importance of Law as a regulatory system for social relations and, in particular, economic relations.
CG03 - Ability to understand and use constitutional principles and values as a hermeneutic tool for the rest of the legal system and, in particular, the criminal legal system in socioeconomic matters.
CG04 - Ability to search, understand and interpret legal sources: legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal.
CG05 - Command of new information and communication technologies to obtain legal information.
CG06 - Development of dialectical skills and techniques of argumentation and legal oratory.
CG07 - Development of the ability to write legal documents correctly.
CG08 - Development of analytical skills development of critical thinking in the planning, approach and solution of legal problems.
CG09 - Acquisition of the ethical values and principles enshrined in the Constitutional Order that should guide the exercise of any professional activity -equality, non-discrimination- and, in particular, the legal professions.

B) Specific skills:

CE01 - Acquire specialized theoretical knowledge in matters of criminal law and economic criminal procedure, both from the perspective of the general part and of specific crimes, which allow developing the capacity for analysis and argumentation in practice.
CE02 - Acquire the theoretical knowledge necessary to be able to understand the constitutional principles and limits that inspire the economic model designed in the Spanish Constitution and its implications for the actions of economic agents and public authorities
CE03 - Acquire knowledge about community and international regulations on economic crime CE04 - Learn to define the scope and limits of penalties in economic criminal law.
CE05 - Acquire specific knowledge about the scope of criminal liability of legal persons in economic crimes
CE06 - Acquire the knowledge and management of the different criteria about the prescription of economic crimes
CE07 - Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge to be able to request precautionary measures in matters of economic crimes
CE08 - Acquire the skills to distinguish the different types of economic expertise suitable for each process
CE09 - Acquire the ability to react quickly to the imposition of a sanction on a company for economic crimes and thus be able to write appeals
CE10 - Acquire the specific knowledge necessary to proceed to the identification of the characteristics of crimes against the environment
CE11 - Acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to recognize the different types of crimes and fraud against the Public Treasury and social security
CE12 - Acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to write/present lawsuits or writs in crimes against the Public Administration.
CE13 - Acquire the ability to analyze the financial and consolidated statements of companies involved in economic crime processes in order to be able to evaluate them correctly
CE14 - Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to interpret and be able to use, from the criminal sphere, the accounting and financial information of a company or client
CE15 - Acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to exercise control over the phases that are carried out in the Audit of Accounts of a company
CE16 - Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to identify all commercial figures existing in our legal system
CE17 - Acquire the theoretical knowledge necessary to be able to argue the difference between the crime of fraud and unfair administration
CE18 - Acquire the necessary knowledge to correctly manage the defense or accusation in technological crimes and fraudulent falsehood
CE19 - Acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to advise a client (or the lawyer himself) in avoiding its use for money laundering and fraud.
CE20 - Acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to manage procedures for both corporate crimes, competition crimes and crimes against the free market
CE21 - Acquire the necessary knowledge to be able to draft and present protection actions to consumers
CE22 - Acquire the practical skills necessary to design procedures to prevent the use of privileged information in companies, which avoid criminal liability of the same
CE23 - Acquire the knowledge and skills to recognize habitual practices of crimes against social security and manage accusation or defense procedures of the same
CE24 - Acquire knowledge of economic crimes in the field of taxes.
CE25 - Acquire the ability to carry out procedures against crimes of prevarication, bribery, influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds and fraud, all of which are considered economic crimes
CE26 - Acquire the ability to identify the signs in those crimes committed by public officials
CE27 - Acquire the necessary practical skills in the field of business to be able to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the rest of the subjects
CE30 - Acquire the theoretical knowledge and the skills of bibliography search, schematization, organization and elaboration of conclusions necessary to carry out the research work successfully.
CE28 - Acquire or develop the ability to work in a team in legal practice in the field of economic criminal law.
CE29 - Acquire precise intellectual and emotional skills for the legal debate on economic criminal law, the negotiation between different positions in the process and the conciliation between different opposing positions.
CE31 - Acquire the capacity for written expression and public presentation of the conclusions of their research work.

Admission and enrollment

Admission:

The requirements for access to the proposed title are according to article 18, of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28:

Possession of an official Spanish Graduate or Graduate university degree or equivalent is a condition for accessing a Master's Degree, or, where appropriate, having another University Master's degree, or titles of the same level as the Spanish Bachelor's or Master's degree issued by universities and higher education institutions in an EHEA country that in that country allow access to Master's degrees.
In the same way, people in possession of titles from educational systems that are not part of the EHEA, which are equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, will be able to access a Master's Degree in the Spanish university system, without the need for homologation of the title, but verification by of the university of the level of training that they imply, as long as in the country where said title was issued it allows access to university postgraduate level studies. In no case will access through this route imply the homologation of the previous degree held by the person concerned or its recognition for other purposes than that of carrying out the Master's degree.

Recommended requirements:

The specific qualifications that will facilitate access to the Master are the following:

Degree in Law and double degrees with Law
Degree in Criminology
Economics Degree
Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management

In the admission process for students from Economics or Business Administration, an interview or test of legal knowledge will be carried out, in which the degree of knowledge that said students have of the basic presuppositions of criminal law, both general criminal law and special criminal law, necessary to be able to understand the content of the subjects of the Master.

Candidate selection:

For students who come from economics degrees, a personal interview and a written test have been chosen to assess the mastery of basic knowledge in Law that allows students to take advantage of the knowledge imparted in the master's degree, as a method unique for the admission of the student. The body in charge of carrying it out will be a commission formed by the director of the master's degree and two professors appointed by him, one in the economic field and the other in the legal field.

For the selection of applicants, if necessary, assessment of the student's curriculum, based on their professional experience, their projection in relation to the objectives of the master's degree, (that is, specific professional experience in economic criminal law in specialized offices or in institutions specialized in economic criminal law, for example, the Public Prosecutor's Office), as well as their academic record.

Academic record: 50%

Professional experience: 30%

Projection in relation to the objectives of the master: 20%

Offer of places: 26 seats. If the minimum number of students envisaged is not reached in a course, the University may choose not to open the teaching group.

See admission and enrollment

Training itinerary

Master's Teaching Guides

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Training Itinerary

Custom code	Subject	Semester	Type	Number of ECTS
613101	Constitutional principles and foundations of Economic Criminal Law.	First semester	mandatory	6
613102	Problems of the General Part of Economic Criminal Law.	First semester	mandatory	6
613103	Criminal Procedural Law. the expertise	First semester	mandatory	6
613104	Commercial Law and Analysis of Financial Statements.	First semester	mandatory	6
613105	Socioeconomic crimes I: Criminal protection of heritage.	First semester	mandatory	6
613106	Socioeconomic crimes II: Criminal protection of free competition, the market and consumers	Second semester	mandatory	6
613107	Socioeconomic crimes III: Crimes against the Public Treasury and Social Security. Labor Criminal Law. Penalty system for the environment, land use planning and historical heritage.	Second semester	mandatory	6
613108	Corruption and Crimes against the Public Administration.	Second semester	mandatory	6
613109	External Internships	Second semester	mandatory	6
613110	Master's thesis	Second semester	mandatory	6

Material resources

External Internships

The External Practices subject is a curricular subject whose main objective is to promote a comprehensive training of the student through the practical application of the knowledge acquired during the Master's degree, which facilitates direct contact with the professional activity and the opportunity to join the professional world with a minimum of experience. All practices are designed so that the students who participate in them acquire professional experience in real situations and conditions, applying the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are acquired in the training processes throughout the degree. The internships represent a decisive opportunity for the personal development and professional future of the students.

Internships are activities carried out by the student in companies, institutions and organizations; that is, in centers outside the university premises, which aim to enrich and complement their university education, while providing them with a deeper knowledge about the skills they will need in the future.

The External Practices subject will consist of two phases.

First. Completion of the internship period that offers professional experience related to any of the profiles that are expressed in the Verification Report of the degree.

Second. Preparation of memory.

Documentation:

Degree Training Project

For more information: External Internship Unit

Social Security contributions for interns starting January 1, 2024

Mobility programs

University Master's degrees, due to their duration and characteristics, in general do not specifically contemplate the mobility of their students. However, the Rey Juan Carlos University has different mobility programs for both students and University workers (PDI and PAS) and has procedures for collecting and analyzing information on these mobility programs.

URJC Mobility

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COEXISTENCE REGIME

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SCHOOL INSURANCE

School Insurance

ASSOCIATIONS

Regulation student associations

Quality guarantee

RUCT link

BOCM Link

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Results report

Once the monitoring of the Master's Degree has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the monitoring of said Degree is displayed, differentiated by academic year.

Report by course:

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:

- Student profile

- Teacher evaluation

- Degree of satisfaction:

Of the students
of the graduates
From the Faculty
Administration and Services Staff

- Labor insertion

- External internships:

Satisfaction of interns
External tutor satisfaction
Employer satisfaction

Survey results:

Improvement actions

The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”