The Business Law Master's Degree Program updates knowledge and fosters innovative legal work to support top managerial decisions and encourage the global competitive performance of an organization.

The graduate advises the company in matters of incorporation, organization, and operation, including timely response to the demands of international economic openness and the constantly-changing competitive environment. His or her job is to supply an element of legal certainty in corporate decision-making.

The Business Law Master's Degree Program offers a dual degree in cooperation with the Law School of Pantheon-Assas University, Paris II.

Objective

To train professionals that can complete and transformer the legal work at the center of executive management and increase the global competitive performance of an organization. We seek to train legal professionals specializing in the responsible legal management of companies who are able to offer alternative legal solutions that address the complexities that national and international business organizations face.

The Graduates from the Business Law Master's Degree Program:

• Analyze and solve legal matters using conceptual and practical knowledge, applying national and international information and concepts.
• Develop skills to offer legal and consulting services for companies in the execution of agreements, as well as in patrimonial and financial contracts.
• Apply new law trends for bidding processes, customs law, immigration, stock-market trading, the organization and transformation of corporations, among others.
• Analyze, synthesize, and interpret the legal frameworks that apply to their clients in a responsible and ethical manner.

Enrollment Profile

• Holds an undergraduate Law degree.
• Has a positive attitude towards challenge and change
• Is strongly inclined towards decision making
• Analytical, committed, and socially responsible.

Graduation Profile

• Able to direct the legal aspects involved in the formation, organization, and control of a corporation.
• Able to analyze, evaluate, and adequately respond to the legal frameworks that affect a company in the execution of binding agreements and property and financial contracts

Knowledge:

• Specialized knowledge of legal argumentation. 
• Specialized knowledge of international corporate law.
• Knowledge of international commerce law. 
• Knowledge of the legal updating mechanisms for corporate law.

Skills

• Leadership and creativity skills. 
• Skills in the use of sound legal principles and values to interpret precepts, laws, contracts, and agreements. 
• Skills in the application of an interdisciplinary vision in legal analysis. 
• Skills in the use of legal sources (legal, jurisprudential, and doctrinal).

Attitudes

• Motivation for quality 
• Ethical commitment towards social, economic, and environmental issues. 
• Commitment to professional and social service 
• Transformational ethical leadership 
• Honesty and integrity

Business Law Master's Degree Program

1st trimester	2nd trimester	3rd trimester	4th trimester	5th trimester	6th trimester
Juridical Regime of Corporations	Juridical Logic and Argumentation	Civil, Penal and Administrative Responsibility of Companies' Managers	Elective Course	Elective Course	Elective Course
Economic Competition Law	Fiscal Regimen of the Company	Seminar on the Company's Global Trends and Scenarios	Elective Course	Elective Course	Thesis Seminar
				Seminar on Juridical Research

Juridical Regime of Corporations
Promote theoretical and practical knowledge of the principles regulating Mexican corporations, both public and private. 

Juridical Logic and Argumentation
Understand, apply and assess formal logic and legal argumentation methods, from the legal hermeneutic approach. 

Civil, Penal and Administrative Responsibility of Corporate Managers
Guide the student toward the legal knowledge of the various civil, penal and administrative responsibilities of corporate managers. 

Economic Competition Law
Understand and analyze the legal and political frame applicable to each field of economy, and its effects on the quality of life of citizens.

Fiscal Regime of the Company
Analyze the main fiscal topics impacting the company, their legal procedures and the ways for challenging that are needed for such effect. 

Seminar on the Company's Global Trends and Scenarios
Analyze the impact of globalization on the main cultural, legal and international trends and scenarios. Integrate the understanding, analysis and discussion of each of these events in order to find their application in one's current and future professional life. 

Seminar on Legal Research
Provide the methodological tools to solve a situation related to the legal environment of a company, in order to provide a research approach and the planning for its dissertation. 

Thesis Seminar
Provide the methodological tools to solve a situation related to the legal environment of a company, in order to prepare a written presentation of the research and its oral defense in front of a jury.

SPECIALIZATION ELECTIVE COURSES

Bankruptcy Law Delve into the new Bankruptcy Law and learn about the conflict of interest related to insolvency within its context, matching the practical and doctrinal aspects.

Selected Topics on Banking and Stock Market Law Encourage the knowledge and analysis of the fundamental aspects of the legal frame and practical aspects of Mexico¿s Financial and Stock Market Law. This includes the study of the market regulators, issuance of securities in Mexico and abroad, and the penalties for infringing the provisions in this matter.

International Contracts and Operations Promote theoretical and practical knowledge on the principles regulating international contracts and operations.

Selected Topics on Labor Law Analyze the main topics concerning labor matters in industrial, commercial or service organizations, according to the Mexican doctrine and jurisprudence.

Alternative Methods for Controversy Solving Learn and apply alternative methods for solving controversies within the general context of the Law. Become aware of the current Mexican reality, which compels us to identify, understand, and solve problems derived from international legal traffic.

Industrial and Intellectual Property Encourage the theoretical and practical knowledge of Industrial property in Mexico and the main international treaties, including the rights derived from it.

International Commerce Legal Regime Analyze the legal frame of international commerce, and free trade agreements. Analysis of the domestic legal framework projected to import-export operations in order to convey a global vision of Mexico¿s foreign trade.

International Negotiations Develop skills in the fields of international negotiations and international communication.

New Technologies Law Study the relationship between Law and Computer Sciences. Analyze the main aspects of the information society.

100 out of the 546 course hours in the MDE program will be taught by professors endorsed by the University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II.

The courses offered in this program meet weekly from 18:30 to 22:00 hours.

A student with a full course load will have a schedule similar to following:

	M	T	W	TH	F
May	Legal Regime of Corporations		Economic Competition Law
June	Legal Regime of Corporations		Economic Competition Law
July	Legal Regime of Corporations		Economic Competition Law
August	Legal Regime of Corporations		Economic Competition Law

A student with a half course load will have a schedule similar to the following:

	M	T	W	TH	F
May			Economic Competition Law
June			Economic Competition Law
July			Economic Competition Law
August			Economic Competition Law

The UDEM's demanding admission criteria assure academic excellence in its graduate groups.

• Have completed an Undergraduate Law Degree with at least an 85 average.
• Have at least two years of job experience or be an honors graduate.
• Submit your résumé and a written document stating your purposes for studying and your areas of interest. This document must contain three folios.
• Attend an interview with the Law Master¿s Degree Programs Director.
• Submit an Application for Admission to the Graduate Program along with the required documentation.
  [See the application in PDF format: admision_posgrado {admission_graduateprogram}]
• Pass the Graduate Studies Admission Test ¿ [Prueba de Admisión para Estudios de Posgrado (PAEP)] with 550 points and take an English diagnostic exam.

Notes:
*The price per course will have an additional 15% cost added to the amount shown.
*Financial aid will not reduce the 15% additional payment.

Establishing projects that connect the academic world to productive and social organizations is a fundamental objective of the UDEM. To meet this goal, we have been signed research or applied innovation agreements with renowned national and international institutions.

Some of the research projects supported by this process are listed below:

1. The Company's Ethical-Juridical Vision: A Juridical Proposal to Implement a Code of Ethics and Corporate Consultation Program.
   Student: Rodrigo Vargas Narro
   Advisor: Carlos Leal Isla
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
2. Problems Related with Bankruptcy Law and its General Regulations.
   Student: Benjamín Cruz Luévano
   Advisor: Carlos Sepúlveda
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
3. Juridical Analysis of Commercial Acts Held by Trade Unions with Institutions from the Banking and Financial System.
   Student: Hugo Fernando Valdés Osuna
   Advisor: Carlos Lear Isla
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
4. Rejection of a Society's Juridical Capacity
   Student: Luis E. Romero-Schober
   Advisor: Eduardo Rocha
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
5. Indirect Expropriation in Mexico Under the Light of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
   Student: Gloria María García Ramírez
   Advisor: James Graham
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2007
6. Validity in Labor Matters of Electronic Payroll Receipts with Advanced or Reliable Electronic Signature.
   Student: Octavio Benavides Narro
   Advisor: Carlos Leal Isla
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2007
7. No-Competition Clause in Inter-Companies Stock Purchase-Sale Contracts
   Student: Cynthia López Almaraz
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2007
8. Incorporation of the Promissory Note for Business and Civil Transactions in Mexico.
   Student: José A. Castillo Hernández
   Advisor: Carlos Sepúlveda
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2007
9. Protection of Personal Information
   Student: Irasema Garza Quiroga
   Advisor: Myrna E. García Barrera
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2006
10. Juridical Study on the Resolution for Non-Compliance Derived from Default on Related Commercial Contracts in Mexico
    Student: Angelina I. Valenzuela Rendón
    Advisor: Myrna E. García Barrera
    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2006
11. Law Challenges in the Information Society
    Student: Oscar A. González Moreno
    Advisor: Myrna E. García Barrera
    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2006

 

Arturo Azuara Flores

MDE Academic Program Director

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arturo.azuara@udem.edu.mx

Building 5, 4^th Floor 

T. (81) 8215-1000 ext. 1229
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