The Law and international management Specialized Master combines 8 months of teaching with a 4- to 6-month work placement. Students will also be required to write and defend a professional thesis.
The curriculum
The program is designed to teach participants to master the necessary tools and to encourage personal development.
Lessons are held at HEC and at ESCP-EAP depending on the modules. The program includes 80 hours of seminars, 225 hours of compulsory courses and 90 hours of elective courses. Students choose 3 electives during the first phase and another 3 during the second.
In addition to these teaching hours, students will attend conferences held by outside personalities as well as follow-up sessions hosted by professors in their respective subjects.
Students’ choices will have to reflect a certain level of coherence with respect to their professional objectives.
As an general guide, the year is organized as follows:
Opening seminar
This workshop aims at putting the questions raised by the relationships between law and management into perspective.
European seminar
It focuses on decision-making processes within the European Union, and more specifically competition law.
Closing seminar
It wraps up the Specialized Masters program around a case study allowing students to put into practice the knowledge they have acquired.
Phase I (september to december)
Compulsory courses : general and financial accountancy, social law and company management, corporate law;
Electives: industrial property law, marketing, human resources management, international distribution law, financial markets.
Phase II (january to end of april)
Compulsory courses: the practice of contract law, international taxation, Anglo-Saxon corporate law, the practice of international contracts, legal engineering, bankruptcy law,
Technical subjects: Business English and practical and legal information technology Electives: corporate strategy, financial engineering, competition law, new information technology, corporate penal law.
Professional placement
The placement phase lasts a minimum of 4 consecutive months. Its aim is to allow students to put into practice what they have learnt during the theoretical phases. They will be required to give concrete answers to projects of an operational or strategic nature.
The professional thesis, the culmination of the program:
Students reflect on a chosen issue, and apply field observation as well as theoretical research in order to develop their chosen skill set. In doing so, they will also provide an active contribution to the company in which their mission has been carried out. Every year, the HEC Foundation rewards the best professional thesis.
A few examples of studied topics:
• Liability guarantees in the transfer of social rights
• Commercial agency international contracts
• Selective distribution and commercial strategy
• Securitization common debt funds
• Pros and cons of simplified joint stock companies
