Access + Master in Business Law, Arbitration and ADR

Master of Access to the Legal Profession

1. The practice of law: functions, competencies, duties and management of the office 
2. Advice on administrative law and contentious-administrative process 
3. Practical application of fundamental rights and procedures for their defense 
4. Criminal advice and criminal proceedings 
5. Derecho patrimonial 
6. Labor and Social Security advice 
7. International legal advice 
8. Legal advice on competition law, companies and bankruptcy 
9. Civil and commercial procedural practice 
10. Fiscalidad de actos, negocios y contratos 
11. Practices 
12. Master’s thesis 
13. Institutional visits 

Access to the Legal Profession Course – Online

1. LEGAL PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY MODULE (MANDATORY SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

• I and II Civil Practice
• Commercial Practice 

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

Criminal Practice 

LEGAL-PUBLIC PRACTICE 

• Administrative processes and legal-administrative practice 
• tax procedures 

LABOR-LEGAL PRACTICE 

Legal-Labor Practice 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE LAWYER 

Professional exercise: 

• Legal and ethical status of the legal profession. 
• Techniques of argumentation, writing and knowledge management 
• Office organization and client relations 

2. INTENSIFICATIONS MODULE (OPTIONAL SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

Company law 

• Law of damages and responsibility 
• consumer law 
• Family and inheritance law 

LEGAL-PUBLIC PRACTICE 

• Business taxation I and II 
• public contracting 

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

• Economic criminal law 
• Execution of sentences and penitentiary law 

LABOR-LEGAL PRACTICE 

• Company labor law 
• Special regime labor relations 

PROFESSIONAL LAWYER ACTIVITY 

• legal reasoning 
• Legal English 

3. EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS (MANDATORY)

• Practices for the exercise of the legal profession 

4. END OF COURSE PROJECT (MANDATORY)

• Carrying out the end-of-course project. 

*The academic program is subject to change. 

Course for Access to the Legal Profession – Face-to-face

1. LEGAL PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY MODULE (MANDATORY SUBJECTS)

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

• Civil Practice I 
• Civil Practice II 
• Commercial Practice 

CRIMINAL LEGAL PRACTICE 

• Criminal Practice 

LEGAL-PUBLIC PRACTICE 

• Administrative processes and legal-administrative practice 
• tax procedures 

LABOR-LEGAL PRACTICE 

• Legal-Labor Practice 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE LAWYER 

• Legal and ethical status of the legal profession. 
• Techniques of argumentation, writing and knowledge management 
• Office organization and client relations 

2. INTENSIFICATIONS MODULE (OPTIONAL SUBJECTS)

PRIVATE LAW AREA 

• Corporate law 
• Introduction to business accounting 
• Commercial contracting 
• bankruptcy law 
• Competition law: free competition and unfair competition 
• Law of damages and responsibility 
• Intellectual and industrial property law 
• consumer law 
• Family and inheritance law 
• Law of regulated economic activities 
• Financial markets law 

PUBLIC LAW AND TAXATION AREA 

• Urban planning and real estate law 
• Business taxation I 
• Business taxation II 

ÁREA DE DERECHO SOCIAL 

• Derecho laboral de la empresa 

ÁREA DE DERECHO PENAL Y PENITENCIARIO 

• Derecho penal económico 
• Responsabilidad penal de los menores 
• Ejecución de penas y derecho penitenciario 

ÁREA JURÍDICO-INTERNACIONAL 

• Derecho de los negocios internacionales 
• Tutela jurisdiccional en tribunales internacionales 

3. PRÁCTICAS EXTERNAS (OBLIGATORIO)

• Prácticas para el ejercicio de la profesión de abogado 

4. TRABAJO FIN DE CURSO (OBLIGATORIO)

• Realización del trabajo de fin de curso. 

*El programa académico está sujeto a modificaciones. 

Module I: Business Law 

Block 1: Corporate Law 

THE CORPORATE PHENOMENON

1. What type of company to choose in order to start a business?
2. The general partnership of commercial traffic.
3. The limited partnership as an investment vehicle.
4. Forms of capitalist organisation.
5. Groups of companies.
6. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

CAPITAL COMPANIES

1. How are they constituted? Foreign partners.
2. Irregularity in the constitution.
3. How to draw up the statutes: flexibilisation and personalisation.
4. Covenants of partners and conflicts.
5. Shares and participation. Differences. Limitation or extension of rights. Transmission.
6. The administrators and their civil responsibility.
7. Secretary of the Board.
8. Shareholders’ Meeting. Challenge of agreements.
9. Separation and exclusion of partners. Situations of conflict and oppression.
10. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS

1. Bylaw amendments. Capital increase and reduction.
2. M&A operations.
3. Transformation, dissolution and liquidation.
4. IPOs
5. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

Block 2: Contract law 

1. Obligations and commercial contracts.
2. Non-payment in commercial transactions.
3. The criminal clause.
4. Conventional modifications of responsibility.
5. Formation of the contract. Vienna Convention and non-uniform law.
6. The general conditions of the contracts: Unfair and invalid clauses, rules of incorporation, control of the content.
7. The national and international commercial sale.
8. Collaboration contracts: commission, agency, exclusive distribution and purchase, selective distribution, franchising, mediation.
9. Transport, logistics, warehousing and escrow. Uniform and non-uniform law.
10. Means of payment and guarantees. Transfer of funds. Payment cards. Electronic money and virtual currencies. Documentary credit. Guarantees on first demand. Bail bond. Comfort Letter.
11. Electronic contracting.
12. Business collaboration contracts.
13. Leasing contracts.
14. Corporate financing contracts and banking contracts.
15. Insurance contracts.
16. Contracting in strategic sectors.
17. Artificial Intelligence and contract law.
18. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

Block 3: International commercial contracts 

1. Introduction. Uniform commercial law and non-uniform commercial law. Rules and systematics. Principles of international commercial contracts.
2. The international sale of goods. Incoterms, Construction of industrial plants. Countertrade. International leasing.
3. Financing and means of payment of international transactions. Documentary credits. International transfers.
4. Independent guarantees.
5. International transport of goods.
6. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

Block 4: General Competition Law 

1. The defence of free competition.
2. The discipline of unfair competition. General clause and acts of unfair competition. Actions.
3. Industrial and intellectual property: patents, trademarks, industrial designs and copyright.
4. PRACTICAL WORKSHOP.

Module II 

Block 1: Arbitration 

1. Introduction to Arbitration.
2. The arbitration agreement.
3. The arbitrators.
4. The arbitration procedure.
5. The Award.
6. International Arbitration – International Business Law.

Block: 2: ADR 

1. Negotiation – Harvard Method.
2. Mediation.
3. Conciliation.
4. Dispute Boards.
5. Confidential binding offer.
6. Collaborative law.
7. Hybrid methods.

Block 3: Dispute resolution in practice 

1. Practical Cases: faced with the same dispute, students will have to simulate the resolution of a dispute using all the resolution methods studied in Blocks 1 and 2.
2. TFM/TFD preparatory sessions

Soft skills: 

1. Legal research and writing
2. Public speaking and argumentation
3. Legal English Workshop

Master of Access to the Legal Profession

DIRECTION

• D. Plácido Molina (Cuatrecasas Lawyer)
• Dña. Cristina de Amunátegui Rodríguez (Proffesor of Derecho Civil)

Access to the Legal Profession Course – Online

Course for Access to the Legal Profession – Face-to-face

DIRECTION

Prof. Dr. D. Juan Zornoza Pérez (Catedrático de Derecho Financiero y Tributario de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Off Counsel de Deloitte Legal)

The faculty will be composed of:

– University faculty, with preference for those who accredit experience in professional practice, for example, by being members of the law firm and in any case with permanent and stable links with the Universidad Carlos III and the Il.lustre Collegi d’Advocats de Terrassa.

– Practicing lawyers with more than three years of professional experience, belonging to the companies and professional firms collaborating in the Course. For the selection of these professionals, ISDE has the experience of many years of teaching similar programs, which has allowed it to select not only those who are the most outstanding specialists in the different branches of law, but who have also demonstrated their ability to transmit to the students the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the professional practice.

This combination of faculty from one of the most prestigious universities and professionals with a well-earned reputation in the professional and teaching fields, guarantees that students will be in the best hands for their training as first class lawyers.

Master in Business Law, Arbitration and ADR

Program management – Director:

• Alejandro Halffter Gallego, Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Madrid. 

Assistant to the Director: 

• Urquiola de Palacio del Valle de Lersundi, President of the CAM (Madrid Court of Arbitration). 

Module Coordinators: 

• Module I: Irene Sánchez Román, Director of Legal Counsel of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Madrid. 
• Module II: Urquiola de Palacio del Valle de Lersundi and Marta Lalaguna Holzwarth, Secretary General of the CAM (Madrid Court of Arbitration). 

Module I: Business Law  

• Clara Cerdán – General Director, Legal Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Grupo FerroAtlántica. 
• Marlen Estévez – Partner Roca Junyent 
• César Giner Parreño – Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 
• Álvaro Lobato – Partner Litigation Department of DLA Piper 
• Santiago Martínez-Lage – Corporate Director of Día Group  
• Áticus Ocaña – Partner EY 
• Irene Sánchez Román – Director of Legal Counsel and Procurement 
• Francis Silván – Partner EY 
• Fátima Rodríguez – Associate Lupicinio International Law Firm 
• Marta Zárate – General Counsel KPMG 

Module Two: Arbitration and ADR 

• Urquiola de Palacio del Valle de Lersundi – President of CAM, Partner-Director of Palacio y Asociados 
• Elena Gutiérrez García de Cortázar – Founding Partner of MCG Arbitration 
• Rodrigo Jijón (Ecuador) – Partner Pérez, Bustamante y Ponce 
• Marta Lalaguna Holzwarth – General Secretary of CAM 
• Nicolás Martín de Vidales – Partner Avest Abogados  
• María José Menéndez – Partner Ashurst  
• Félix J. Montero – Partner Pérez Llorca 
• Dámaso Riaño – General Counsel & Head of Institutional Relations 
• Sixto Sánchez Lorenzo – Professor of Private International Law, University of Granada, Spain
• Marianella Ventura (Perú) – Secretary General of the Arbitration Centre of the Lima Chamber of Commerce