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2020/2021

Work Placement

Code: 104153 ECTS Credits: 12
Degree Type Year Semester
2500786 Law OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Arantza Libano Beristain
Email:
Arantza.Libano@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Prerequisites

There is no prerequisite for taking the "External Internship" course.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The main objectives of the course External Internships are:

a) To contribute to the integral formation of the student complementing the theoretical and practical learning.
b) To facilitate the knowledge of the working methodology appropriate to the professional reality of any legal field.
c) To promote the development of technical, methodological, personal and participatory skills.
d) To obtain practical experience to facilitate their integration into the labour market and improve their future employability.
e) To promote the values of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
To this end, each entity collaborating with the Faculty of Law will appoint a tutor, responsible for ensuring the proper functioning of the student's internship. This tutor, who needs to have the appropriate knowledge, will contribute to define the student's training project, ensure the student's training and, once the internship is over, will have to prepare the final report evaluating the internship.

Competences

  • Arguing and laying the foundation for the implementation of legal standards.
  • Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
  • Drawing up and formalising works, reports, documents, rulings.
  • Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
  • Identifying the underlying conflicts of interest in disputes and real cases.
  • Identifying, knowing and applying the basic and general principles of the legal system.
  • Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
  • Mastering the computing techniques when it comes to obtaining legal information (legislation databases, jurisprudence, bibliography...) and in data communication.
  • Negotiating and mediating between different people or institutions in the context of a conflict (between public administrations-administrators, family and child protection related conflicts, between business-workers and their representatives, parties to a case..).
  • Planning and organising: managing of time, resources, etc.
  • Presenting in front of an audience the problems of a concrete law suit, the applicable legal regulations, and the most consistent solutions.
  • Respecting the professional confidentiality.
  • Students must be capable of learning autonomously and having an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Use different information and communication technologies.
  • Working in teams, being either a member or a coordinator of working groups, as well as making decisions affecting the whole group.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Applying the mediation and negotiation mechanisms between the parts of a civil or criminal process.
  2. Applying the mediation and negotiation mechanisms to a conflict between companies and employees.
  3. Applying the mediation and negotiation mechanisms to conflicts of family and child protection nature.
  4. Applying the meditation and negotiation mechanisms in a conflict between public administrations and administrators.
  5. Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
  6. Demonstrating knowledge about the main legal databases (legislation and case law).
  7. Developing a practical activity in the field of the various branches of Law.
  8. Drawing up and formalising works, reports, documents, rulings.
  9. Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
  10. Identifying problems and solving them with a cross-cutting perspective.
  11. Identifying the foundations of legal matters studied in the theoretical training.
  12. Managing bibliographic and documentary resources: databases, browsing, etc.
  13. Planning and organising: managing of time, resources, etc.
  14. Respecting the professional confidentiality.
  15. Students must be capable of demonstrating in a practical way the legal concepts and explaining them.
  16. Students must be capable of learning autonomously and having an entrepreneurial spirit.
  17. Use different information and communication technologies.
  18. Using the specialised bibliographic bases in the computing systems that are most frequent in the legislative and jurisprudential field.
  19. Working in teams, being either a member or a coordinator of working groups, as well as making decisions affecting the whole group.

Content

In view of the diversity of places on offer, there is no single content programme for external internships. The contents of each of the internship places is reflected, in its basic lines, in the offer made by each collaborating entity. All the internship offers are contained in the application you will have to acceed to select the internship place.

The content will be specified by the collaborating entity with each of the selected student.

Methodology

The External Internship can only be carried out in one of the public or private law Entities listed in the application of the Law Faculty of the UAB.

In mid-September, the list of vacancies offered by the different entities will be published. The student will have to choose, in order of preference, the places to which he/she wants to access. The places will be distributed in October.

The main element in the distribution of places will be the academic curriculum. In the case of work experience in public administrations, knowledge of the Catalan language, written and spoken, is required.

Once the place has been assigned to a specific entity, an agreement will be drawn up, which establishes the regulatory framework for relations between the student, the collaborating entity and the Faculty of Law. The agreement must include the timetable and calendar of the internships, the area in which they will take place, the name of the tutor of the entity and the system of permits, among other matters.

Each student enrolled in the External Internship course will follow the training project agreed with the collaborating entity, in which the tasks to be carried out must be specified; these must be directly related to the studies of the Law Degree.

The internship may not begin until each party (UAB, collaborating entity and student) has its original agreement.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Execution of external internships 295 11.8
Type: Autonomous      
Elaboration of the report 5 0.2

Assessment

The grade of the subject is the result of weighing the assessment made by the tutor of the entity (70%) and the report that must be delivered to the academic coordinator of the practices once they have finished (30%). In due course, the date of delivery of the report will be indicated, which will have to be made effective in the Academic Management of the Faculty.

In the final report, the student will have to include: a) a detailed description of the tasks and work carried out; b) an assessment of the tasks carried out with the knowledge and skills acquired in relation to the studies of the Degree in Law; c) a list of the problems raised and the procedure followed to resolve them; d) the main contributions that, in terms of learning, the stay in practice has entailed; and e) the final assessment of the practices.

Failure to submit the report within the specified period will result in the qualification of "not presented" in the subject's qualification report.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Academic Tutor Assessment 30% 0 0 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 15, 5, 7, 9, 12, 10, 11, 13, 8, 14, 16, 19, 17, 18
External Tutor Assessment 70% 0 0 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 15, 5, 7, 9, 12, 10, 11, 13, 8, 14, 16, 19, 17, 18

Bibliography

The bibliography will be recommended by the external tutor/academic tutor.