What is law:excel?
law:excel is our study-related excellence program. Through law:excel, we specifically support our best students in thinking outside the box. As part of the program, you will gain a deeper understanding of the connections between different areas of law and the effects of law in society.
With the range of track-specific courses, stays abroad and networking events with experts and specialist representatives, law:excel supports you in getting to know new perspectives and acquiring soft skills. This will broaden your horizons with the knowledge you need to tackle the really big issues: digitalization, globalization and climate change pose major challenges to societies, and thus of course to the law. In order to find suitable solutions for complex issues, you need to think in larger dimensions. More precisely, it requires the expertise of all scientific disciplines as well as consideration beyond national borders. If you want to work in an interdisciplinary and international way and help shape the future, you should choose law:excel.
International Track
Focus: language acquisition, experience abroad, intercultural competence
The core content of the International Track includes two courses with an international focus, the course Anglo-American Legal System and Anglo-American Legal Language - Part 1, a stay abroad (at least 1 semester) and a thesis in a foreign language.
What can I expect as a law:excel student in the International Track?
- Anglo-American legal language course
- 12 additional ECTS from the specialization focus
- One semester abroad including a foreign language certificate acquired in this context
- Soft skills: selection from the range of courses offered by the Center for Social Competence or the course Caught between demands and goals
- Diploma thesis with an international focus in a foreign language (approval by the track coordinator before the topic is announced in the Department of Studies and Teaching)
For the semester abroad, partner universities can be selected from the extensive range offered by the REWI University of Graz . Students of the Excellence Program are given priority in the allocation of places. As soon as you have been nominated for a semester abroad, please contact the law:excel team!
Responsible for the track: Tina Ehrke-Rabel & Paul Gragl
Interdisciplinary Track
Focus: Interdisciplinary learning and work, e.g. on the topics of smart regulation, law & economics, climate change, etc.
The core content of the Interdisciplinary Track includes two courses with interdisciplinary references, the course Interdisciplinary Work, a course on methodological competence and an interdisciplinary thesis.
What can I expect as a law:excel student in the International Track?
- Course "Interdisciplinary work
- Acquisition of methodological competence in one of the following courses:
- Statisticsfrom the Master's degree program in Law, Economics and Society,
- Fundamentals of empirical economic and social researchfrom the Master's degree program in Law, Economics and Society
- a course from the Statistics/Methods module (e.g. Psychological Statistics, Application of Statistical Procedures on the Computer or Practical Course in Research Methodology) or from the Empirical Social Research module (e.g. Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Differential Psychology, Fundamentals of Intra- and Interpersonal Processes or Social Science Methods) of the Bachelor's degree program in Psychology
- Selection from courses designated as "combination courses" or combination subjects
- Acquisition of soft skills:
- Selection from the courses offered by the Center for Social Competence (all courses start with 920.xxx) or
- the course Caught between demands and goals"from the Diploma Program in Law
- Writing an interdisciplinary diploma thesis
Study assistance: Students in the interdisciplinary track have the opportunity to work for two hours per semester or one hour per year as a study assistant for interdisciplinary and international REWI researchers. If you are interested, please contact the law:excel coordinator at law.excel(at)uni-graz.at.
Track coordinator: Brigitta Lurger
Business Law Track
Focus: Business law competence, entrepreneurial thinking, practical experience
Thecore content of the Business Law Track includes two courses on business law, the course Anglo-American Legal System and Anglo-American Legal Language - Part 1, a business administration or economics course, an internship (at least 8 weeks) and a business law thesis.
What can I expect as a law:excel student in the Business Law Track?
- Course Anglo-American legal languagee
- LVLaw, business and society
- Free choice from
- the specialization in Insolvency and Restructuring Law from the Diploma Programme in Law (22W)
- the specialization area of business/business law from the Diploma in Law (18W)
- Module M - Business elective module from the Bachelor's degree program in Business Law for Technical Professions
- Free choice from
- the courses offered by the Center for Social Competence (all courses start with 920.xxx) or
- the LV Caught between demands and goalsfrom the Diploma Program in Law
- Relevant internship (8 weeks in the sense of full-time employment)
- Diploma thesis with a business law topic
Track responsible: Bettina Nunner-Krautgasser
How do I become a law:excel student?
It's simple: you have to apply! The application deadline is once a year, probably in October. Details on the application modalities and the 2024 application deadline will be announced in good time. The selection is made by the track managers.