Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

The educational mission of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella LLM degree in Law & Economics is to provide leading lawyers, economists, and business graduates with the finest education in Law & Economics available in the Spanish-speaking world. The program´s primary goal is to challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries by teaching and conducting research in fields that require problem-oriented interdisciplinary approaches.

The faculty has both an international and interdisciplinary profile. Professors are drawn from the Law School and other Departments of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella as well as from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Northwestern University and University of Toronto. Strong interaction between professors and participants, inside and outside of the classroom, is a key element of this program.

Prominent members of the legal communities in Buenos Aires and New York have a key role in the design of this program. Their input is instrumental in adapting it to the ever-changing trends in the employment market.

The LLM degree in Law & Economics is a bilingual program and is divided into two stages. The first stage is devoted to providing participants with the foundations of Economics and Corporate Finance, and covers the subjects of Microeconomics, the Economic Analysis of Civil and Commercial Law, the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law, the Economics of Taxation, and the Economics of Regulations. Other courses emphasize areas of law that are particularly important to commercial practice: Antitrust Law, and International Tax Law.

In the second stage of the program, participants are asked to choose between four alternative areas of specialization: Tax Law, the Law of Business Enterprises, Law & Finance, or Law & Public Policy. Participants may choose from a wide variety of elective courses that include: Mergers and Acquisitions, Futures, Options and Swaps, Poverty and Income Distribution. Participants have the opportunity to take courses at leading Law Schools in the United States such as Chicago-Kent Collage of Law; George Mason University, School of Law; Southwestern University, School of Law; University of Texas, School of Law and Universität Göttingen, Germany.

Finally, each participant is expected to produce a 15,000-word paper, in Spanish or English, on a legal topic from a Law & Economics perspective. The paper is developed under the guidance of Argentine, European, or North American professors.

Courses are usually held from March to December on Friday s (3 to 7 PM) and Saturdays (9 AM to 1 PM). Information regarding housing facilities is provided to students coming from aboard or the provinces.

The application deadline for the 2008 academic year is March 6, 2008. For further information and an application form, please clic here.