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The LLB European Magister is a four year dual qualification degree;
students will be studying English law in English and German law in German.
They will spend three years at the University of Exeter
and their fourth year will be spent at a German university in Saarbrucken.
During their three years at Exeter they will be studying
the core English law modules and besides that, they will be studying
German law modules
such as German Constitutional Law and German Law of Applications.
Law in general is a very versatile subject so it opens all your doors
so on top of that you can study a second
legal system, which is the Civil Law system, which will open even more doors
for you and make you
more employable, more global and also for
for this degree because it is so specialised, we have
small groups so the students will be... maximum number we teach is 25 students.
Besides the lectures you will have seminars and tutorials;
it is a lot more interactive, a lot more personal,
a lot more specialised with that smaller group.
Candidates applying to this course should have
an A level standard of German; they don't have to be mother tongue German,
their German just needs to be up to a standard so they
can understand a tutor speaking to them in German
and that they're able to reproduce their legal ideas in German.
On top of that candidates need to be enthusiastic about Europe,
they need to be enthusiastic about the world as a global place.
LLB European Magister students spend their fourth year
in Saarbrucken at the University of Saarland
where they study towards their Magister.
The Magister is divided into two semesters; the first semester
is studying towards exams
and the second semester, students write a
dissertation, an extended essay, and on completion
of that, students come back to Exeter where they are awarded their
two degrees, the dual qualification.
With regards to employability, the advantages of this dual qualification degree
are versatility, expediency
because students will study two degrees in one degree within four years,
if they did one after the other it would take them seven/eight years,
by studying two legal systems, the Common Law system for the English
legal qualification, and the Civil Law system
for the German qualification, they
broaden their perspective. A good lawyer argues
from different perspectives so the wider your base
the wider your argument, the stronger you argument, so it makes
a lawyer who's already versatile, more effective
in their arguments, and this will stick out, this is what
employers are looking for.
Personally, I chose to come to this university because of the German Law
course that was offered here, because it's one of very few institutions in the United Kingdom
that offer such a dual Qualification Course in both English and German Law, and I felt that by
pursuing a degree
in these fields, it would enhance my employability prospects in the long run dramatically.