Professional Master’s Degree
Selection process
The annual selection process for the Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP is composed of six stages:
• Curriculum analysis
• Motivation Questionnaire
• Letters of recommendation (optional and maximum of two)
• Written test
• English language proficiency test
• Interview
Curriculum analysis takes into account the background, current occupation, time and relevance of professional experience, requiring at least three years of relevant professional experience after the candidate's graduation. The motivation questionnaire provides additional information about the candidate's academic background, professional performance, specific skills, level of commitment and expectations regarding the course. The written test is used to assess technical and academic skills, with an emphasis on problems faced in professional practice. The English language test is intended to assess the level of proficiency, through the ability to read and understand the language.
Financial Assistance
The rule in the Professional Masters is the self-financing of the student, or alternatively the provision of financial assistance by the employer or the institution of origin. However, FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School maintains a fund that allows the student approved in the selection process to finance up to 50% of the monthly fee. Know more
Take a separate course
If you are interested in the Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School, but still have doubts, come and take a separate course.
Individual subjects have a workload of 30 hours of lessons (2 credits) or 15 hours of lessons (1 credit). Credits can be used if the student decides to enter the program in the future. The investment per subject is R$1,813.13 (15 class hours) and R$3,626.25 (30 class hours subjects).
For registration, the following documents are required:
- Copy of diploma
- Copy of ID
- Professional resume
- Letter of interest
Professional Master’s Degree in Law and Entrepreneurship
The Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School is a Graduate Specialization Program that, like traditional academic programs, confers the title of Master of Law. The program, a pioneer among professional Master’s in Law in the country, is aimed at private and public lawyers, regulators, judges, managers and formulators of public policies, as well as the responsible for tax inspection, investigation and criminal prosecution. Its primary objective is the professional training of students, through the development of skills and abilities valued by the labor market, such as intellectual rigor, critical thinking, strategic vision, analytical capacity, multidisciplinary dialogue, international traffic and ethical judgments.
The Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo has been in operation since 2013 and has already qualified more than two hundred students.
Why choose FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School’s Master’s Degree?
Focus on Law and Entrepreneurship
The area of concentration of the Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School is Law and Entrepreneurship, demonstrating the option for a broader approach to socioeconomic reality. The program is committed to generating legal knowledge that is immediately applicable and has practical utility based on properly oriented research activities. It is expected that the research and technological production of the program can contribute to the improvement of professional practice, the legal system and Brazilian institutions.
Lines of action
The program has five lines of action well characterized in terms of their scope, however, articulated among themselves by the common axis of business activity, including the multiple interactions between the public and private sectors: Public Law, Economic Criminal Law, Tax Law, Business Law and Law and Technology. The five lines involve the study and research of legal practices and solutions, from an integrated and multidisciplinary view of reality, and its consequences in the field of business, taxation and interactions between the public and private sectors, including dispute resolution, professional ethics and criminalization of economic conduct. The program's research model focus on the exploration of complex legal problems, insufficiently formalized practices or paradigmatic cases, having empirical and theory as supports for the production of applied and effectively useful knowledge.
Multidisciplinary approach
The transformation of Law, caused by globalization, by the impact of technology on the legal professions and by the expansion of available mechanisms for mediating conflicts and structuring solutions, demands a new approach from professionals and, consequently, from teaching. With a strong multidisciplinary characteristic, the program is based on the premise that the construction of innovative solutions requires a professional prepared to challenge consolidated understandings of legal institutes based on knowledge obtained in fields that complement the Law. Dialogue with areas such as economics, sociology, business administration and public management is added to the use of participatory teaching methodology, in which the student takes the lead in the classroom. This methodology is based on the study of cases and the resolution of concrete problems, allowing for a contextualized and theoretically deepened legal reflection, while working on the student's reasoning ability and intellectual autonomy.
Contemporary curriculum
The program's curriculum consists of subjects that dialogue with the concrete reality of the Law practiced in law firms, companies, public authorities and the third sector. To obtain a master's degree, the student must attend at least 8 subjects of 30 hours, perform extracurricular activities and produce a final work under the guidance of a teacher. The program follows the school calendar: each academic semester lasts for four months (March to June; August to November), interspersed with vacation periods. Classes can take place weekly, fortnightly or monthly, depending on the program line or the class profile. Some subjects are mandatory due to their transversal nature or thematic relevance for each line of the program. There is also a wide range of elective courses, and it is up to the student to choose those that are of interest to him. Part of the course load of subjects can also be fulfilled through monitored activities. Extracurricular activities include participation in methodology and research seminars, monitoring of boards with report delivery, engagement in applied research projects or technical assistance linked to the program, and also the guided production of essays and articles.
Excellent faculty
The program's faculty is comprised of more than 40 highly qualified faculty who combine academic excellence and practical experience. The program also receives guest professors from FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School partner institutions and other national and foreign institutions.
Internationalization
The program offers students a highly internationalized environment, based on constant interaction with foreign actors and institutions, in order to map trends and identify new directions in the legal area. Students have access to courses taught in English by foreign and Brazilian professors on topics related to their lines of research and current legal problems. In addition, the program offers students the opportunity to take courses at institutions with which FGV Direito SP has agreements, as well as to participate in immersions developed specifically for the student body of the Professional Masters.
Professional Masters’ research model
The professional master's program adopted a research model guided by the formalization of innovative, legally sophisticated practices that are still little explored in the national literature.
Qualified reflection on legal practice initially presupposes the understanding of its factual context, followed by the recovery of the theoretical basis, to then allow critical assessment, combined with the proposition of improvements or transformative solutions.
Final papers can explore complex problems, insufficiently formalized practices, or paradigmatic cases. Empiric and theory work as supports for the production of knowledge that is applied and effectively useful to the professional environment.
The works produced in the Professional Masters may be appropriated by the legal community as a public good, contributing to the improvement of Brazilian legal forms and institutions.
At the end of the first semester, the student defines his/her research project, based on which the coordination designates the professor responsible for guiding the final work. To facilitate student choice, the program offers an extensive list of non-binding research proposals prepared by the faculty.
The student must advance in the execution of the research project, in parallel with the disciplines of the second and third semesters, according to the partial delivery schedule defined by the coordination. By the end of the four semesters, the student must qualify the provisional version of the conclusion work, in an open research seminar. After qualification, the student will have two months to deposit the final version, which will be submitted to the examining board.
The examining board is composed of four members and at least three of them must have a doctorate degree. The four members does not require an academic degree, but must be someone from a professional background and with practical experience in the object of the final work.
Below, the program has selected some content related to research and the work of completion of the Professional Masters, which can be useful for candidates and students.
Legal research in the Professional Masters, by professor Mário Engler
Research in Professional Masters’ Degrees – Interview with professor Mário Engler
How to choose an object of research?
As a rule, the program's student wastes precious time trying to define his research object and, many times, the choice ends up being wrong, usually due to the impossibility of executing the project. To mitigate the problem, the Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School offers, from the moment the student enters the program, a wide range of structured research proposals, basically containing a thematic title, a short menu and some key questions.
The proposals were formulated by professors of the program in a suggestive, non-binding way, with the aim of inspiring students in the elaboration of their research pre-projects. They are flexible proposals that allow adaptation and do not exhaust the possibilities for research in the professional master's degree, with the student being assured to choose any other research object of their choice, as long as it is compatible with the program's lines of action.
Research proposals suggestions
Annual Professional Masters Event
FGV Direito SP holds an annual meeting between last year’s graduated students, in which the best end of course works are presented and awarded. Besides awards for the authors, the best end of course works are published in editions of the FGV Direito SP.
Learn more about the award at the links below:
Annual Professional Masters Event 2018
Annual Professional Masters Event 2019
Annual Professional Masters Event 2020
Annual Professional Masters Event 2021
What do professionals who attended the Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School say?
Watch testimonies from students and alumni of the program. They are professionals who work in different areas of law, in law firms, companies, third sector organizations and public authorities. Find out about the experience and the benefits of investing in the course.
Thaís Rey Grandizoli, alumni of the Professional Masters in Business Law
Marco Antônio Barbosa, student of the Professional Master's Degree in Economic Criminal Law
Daniela Lara, alumni of the Professional Master's Degree in Tax Law
Frederico Bastos, alumni of the Professional Master's Degree in Business Law
Luciane Kravetz, student of the Professional Master's Degree in Public Law
Rodrigo Salinas, alumni of the Professional Master's Degree in Business Law
Douglas Fernandes, student of the Professional Master's Degree in Economic Criminal Law
Cassius Vinicius, alumni of the Professional Master's Degree in Tax Law
A área de concentração do Mestrado Profissional da FGV Direito SP foi definida como Direito e Empreendimento, desdobrando-se em quatro linhas de atuação bem caracterizadas quanto ao seu escopo, porém, articuladas entre si pelo eixo comum da atividade empresarial, incluindo as múltiplas interações entre os setores público e privado. As linhas foram designadas como Direito dos Negócios, Direito Tributário, Direito Público e Direito Penal Econômico.
BUSINESS LAW
The Business Law line involves the study and research of legal practices and solutions adopted in the field of business, from an integrated and multidisciplinary view of reality, with an emphasis on business activity, involving questions and problems about contractual and corporate arrangements, governance corporate and capital markets, technology and intellectual property, procedural strategies and dispute resolution, and professional ethics. All lines of action unfold into projects with more specific thematic cuts. See below for the projects in the Business Law line.
Research projects
Contractual and Corporate Arrangements
The purpose of the Contractual and Corporate Arrangements project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on business structuring and forms of organization of economic activity, covering issues and problems about contractual models, corporate types, company restructuring and banking operations .
Corporate Governance and Capital Markets
The purpose of the Corporate Governance and Capital Markets project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on corporate governance and capital markets, covering issues and problems about corporate financing, investment funds, capital structure, controlling shareholder, corporate bodies, duties and responsibilities of administrators, corporate compliance, financial statements, peculiarities of the publicly-held company and public offering of securities.
Law, Technology and Intellectual Property
The purpose of the Law, Technology and Intellectual Property project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on the production, use, regulatory alternatives and the impact of technology on human activities, notably in the legal profession, covering issues and issues about technology and innovation businesses, technology parks, venture capital investments, intangible asset management, network governance, data protection, internet civil framework, copyright, industrial secret, and trademarks and patents.
Access to Justice and Business Litigation
The project aims to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions to problems of access to justice and business disputes, covering issues on litigation potential associated with the conclusion of deals, formulation of procedural strategies, use of class actions, procedural deals, and means alternatives such as mediation and arbitration.
TAX LAW
The Tax Law line involves the study and research of legal practices and solutions adopted in the tax field, from a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of reality, with an emphasis on business activity, business structuring, taxation policies, collection techniques, resolution of disputes and professional ethics. All lines of action unfold into projects with more specific thematic cuts. See below the projects linked to the Tax Law line.
Research projects
Taxation and Fiscal Management Policies
The purpose of the Taxation and Fiscal Management Policies project is to promote the study and research of practical practices and legal solutions on taxation models and collection techniques, covering issues and problems regarding fiscal justice, fiscal transparency, federative conflicts, fiscal incentives and international discipline taxation.
Tax Governance and Business Management
The purpose of the Tax Governance and Business Management project is to promote the study and research practices and legal solutions on tax conditions for investment decisions, organization of business activity and choice of business models, covering issues and problems on taxation of specific sectors or transactions , tax governance, tax planning and tax liability.
Tax Process
The purpose of the Tax Process project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on administrative and judicial tax process, covering issues and problems about procedural strategies, decision-making models, judging bodies, impact of court decisions on tax relations and mechanisms of linkage of jurisprudence.
PUBLIC LAW
The Public Law line involves the study and research of legal practices and solutions adopted in the interactions between the public and private sectors, based on an integrated and multidisciplinary view of reality, with an emphasis on public contracts, corporate models, partnerships with the third sector , economic and sector regulation, public policies with an impact on business activity, instruments of control and public governance, dispute resolution, professional ethics and criminalization of economic conduct. Research should prioritize the achievement of innovative and immediately applicable results in the professional environment. See below the projects under the Public Law line.
Research projects
Institutional Governance and Public Management
The purpose of the Institutional Governance and Public Management project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on the organization and functioning of the public sector, budget, accounting and public finance and fiscal responsibility, covering issues and problems about management models, policies public, public controls, administrative sanctions, ethics, corruption and compliance.
Public Bids and Contracts
The purpose of the Public Bids and Contracts project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on public tenders and contracts, covering issues and problems about contracts, agreements, concessions and public-private partnerships, partnerships with third sector, corporate arrangements , infrastructure projects and public asset demobilization programs.
Economic and Sectoral Regulation
The purpose of the Economic and Sectoral Regulation project is to promote the study and research of legal practices and solutions on the regulation of private activity, the exploitation of public goods and the provision of public services, covering issues and problems on antitrust law, regulatory models in sectors of infrastructure, banking and capital market regulation, self-regulation, structure and functioning of regulatory agencies.
Theory, Methodology, Teaching and Legal Professions
The purpose of the Theory, Methodology, Teaching and Legal Professions project is to promote study and research, with an emphasis on the practical application of questions and problems about the theory of law, teaching and research methodology, labor market trends, impact of new technologies in the legal area, organization and deontology of professional practice, and ethical dilemmas.
ECONOMIC CRIMINAL LAW
Research projects
Accessory in Criminal Economic Law
The project focuses on the aspect of accessory of Criminal Law, in relation to the presuppositions of punishment (unfair and culpable), covering the elements of remission of the criminal type, the agent's error in these cases, the risk allowed in the basic regulation for typicality criminal, the impact of the definition of elementary norms by extra-penal instances. In the case of sanctions, the theme of accessory involves the concept of sanction and the application of the ne bis in idem principle. Questions are also faced about the need to end the administrative process for criminal prosecution, the reciprocal effects of criminal and extra-criminal decisions, the limits of sharing, validity and valuation of evidence.
Criminal guardianship of the company and in the company
The project focuses on the company as a space for the practice of crimes and as a victim of criminal conduct, comprising two axes. The first axis connects with the general part of Criminal Law, covering the themes of individual criminal responsibility of directors for crimes committed within the company and the criminal responsibility of the company itself. The second axis goes back to the special part of Criminal Law and considers the company as a victim of crimes, such as the patrimonial infidelity of its directors, the unfair administration and the practices of private corruption.
Law and technology
The Law and Technology line explores the relationships between the legal system and new technologies in the contemporary scenario, with an emphasis on complex legal problems, whose solution becomes challenging given the lack of appropriate regulations, consolidated jurisprudence and even academic production based on knowledge of the concrete reality and properly grounded from the theoretical point of view. See below the research projects under the Law and Technology line.
Research projects
Technology as a catalyst for social and legal conflicts
The project seeks to understand the functioning of technologies that generate social conflicts linked to complex legal issues, such as privacy and protection of personal data, artificial intelligence, cryptoasset and blockchain, data encryption and information security.
Technology as a tool for providing legal services and teaching law
The project aims to analyze technology as a tool in the provision of legal services in different types of organizations (law firms, magistrates' offices, legal departments, legal consultancy), understanding the impact of new technologies in jurisdictional provision, the new technological contours for offices law, the figure of lawtechs, legaltechs and investment in startups in the legal market.
Transactions and risk management in technological scenarios
The project is dedicated to formulating models for analyzing ethical and legal risks in the preliminary phases of developing products with technological innovation, considering the time lag between their launch and the publication of legal norms adapted to the new reality. Topics will be prioritized on algorithmic ethics, technology contracts, legal structuring of venture capital investment, accountability of health professionals, bioethics in systems, internet of things, and management and control of online content.
Schedule program and extracurricular activities
Last updated: 10/12/2020
The curricular structure of the Professional Master's Program is connected with the lines of action and research projects, as it works with thematic content that supports the student completion work. The disciplines encourage students and professors to think about and discuss theoretical issues and practical problems, which can be the object of further studies and research within the scope of their respective projects.
Disciplines were organized around fields of experience, not fragments or clusters of pieces of legislation. Instead of courses on contracts in kind, indirect taxes or administrative acts, traditionally guided by their legislative systematization, students are exposed to real problems that involve, but are not limited to, the legislative treatment given to these matters.
Students must take common compulsory courses, specific compulsory and common electives, totaling at least 8 courses of 30 hours.
The student must also carry out academic activities of an extracurricular nature, including participation in methodology and research seminars, monitoring of boards with report delivery, engagement in applied research projects or technical assistance linked to the program, and also the guided production of essays and articles.
The program's curriculum consists of subjects that dialogue with the concrete reality of Law practiced in law firms, companies, public authorities and the third sector. To obtain a master's degree, the student must attend at least 8 subjects of 30 hours, perform extracurricular activities and produce a final work under the guidance of a professor. The program follows the school calendar: each academic semester lasts for four months (March to June; August to November), interspersed with vacation periods. Classes can take place weekly, fortnightly or monthly, depending on the program line or the class profile. Some subjects are mandatory due to their transversal nature or thematic relevance for each line of the program. There is also a wide range of elective courses, and it is up to the student to choose those that are of interest to him. Part of the course load of subjects can also be fulfilled through monitored activities. Extracurricular activities include participation in methodology and research seminars, monitoring of boards with report delivery, engagement in applied research projects or technical assistance linked to the program, and also the guided production of essays and articles.
The common mandatory subjects cut across all lines, without prejudice to any customization, covering Theory of Law, Law and Economics and Finance and Accounting. Compulsory subjects show the concern with recovering the theoretical basis from a critical perspective, however, committed to practical applicability in the professional environment. In addition, they serve to develop in the student the capacity for multidisciplinary dialogue, without aspirations for specialization, in order to implement the program's proposal.
The specific mandatory disciplines work on concepts, issues and problems directly related to the thematic cut of each line of action of the program, although they can also be taken on an elective basis by students linked to the other lines. The objective in this case is not the transmission of systematized knowledge (as is normally done in specialization courses), but the selective approach to topics that encourage the student to exercise critical judgment and continue their studies independently, notably through guided research of the completion paper.
Elective courses are offered on a regular basis and can be taken by students linked to any of the program lines. They make it possible to broaden the integration between the different lines, as well as deepen the study of more specific themes, according to the interest of each student and their research proposal in the context of the final work.
The program seeks to encourage circulation and academic coexistence among students, regardless of the line to which they are linked, as a way to promote studies and research with multidisciplinary approaches that meet the objective of broader and more qualified professional training.
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Rules and assessments
The experience of the Law area with professional master's degrees is still recent, although this type of course is expanding rapidly and has great potential to attract the public interested in improving professional qualification.
FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School was a pioneer in proposing and operating the first professional master's degree in the area of Law, followed by the formulation of a model of applied legal research specifically for this type of course.
The Professional Master's Degree at FGV Direito SP: São Paulo Law School obtained grade 4 in the last four-year evaluation of CAPES (2013 to 2016 period), as shown in the specific Evaluation Report of its program.
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