Master of Legal and Judicial Studies

This course develops students’ analytical skills to understand the social, cultural, economic, and international influences on the legal system of their society. It focuses basically on the facts that directly impact the judicial process and is closely related to judges and prosecutors’ work in their efforts to achieve ultimate justice following high international standards.

Furthermore, it enables students to understand the relationship between law as a social phenomenon and other phenomena in society. Moreover, this course also highlights the role of law in setting societal behavior within a context of rules to achieve peace within society.

This course enables students to demonstrate detailed knowledge and thorough understanding of the most important cases and topics governing Civil Law and which have not been covered at the Undergraduate level. It also helps students establish a liaison between theory and practicality of Civil Law within the UAE community and to train them on models and practical applications in the domain towards achieving full justice.

This course provides students with a profound knowledge of the most important phenomena in Penal Law which have not been covered at the Undergraduate level. It also aims to link between Penal Law topics and real-life practice in the UAE. By training students on Penal Law practical cases, whether from judge’s, prosecutor’s or lawyer’s perspective, students will be able upon graduation to exercise legal and judicial work effectively.

This course allows students to grasp contemporary topics in Commercial Law, which have not been covered at the undergraduate level. It also intends to establish a practical link between Commercial Law, and relevant commercial topics in real-life practice in the UAE. This is achieved by training students to understand and analyze practical cases in the commercial domain so that upon their graduation, they will become fully competent exercise judicial & legal work effectively in their keenness to pursue universal and comprehensive justice.

This course enables students to understand the most important emerging issues in administrative law and to train them based on practical administrative issues. This will help them practice judiciary work efficiently and achieve comprehensive justice.

This course aims to provide students with a general knowledge of the fundamentals of legal English vocabulary. It presents basic legal English terminology on the concept of law, the judiciary, and the various branches of law.

This course provides students with a broad knowledge of the fundamentals of legal English vocabulary. It teaches students basic legal English terminology on the concept of law across its various branches (public and private law, constitutional law, civil law, criminal law, administrative law, commercial law, and public international law). It presents the general theory of law: sources of law, legal personality, and types of legal rights. This course also provides an overview of universally recognized human rights.

Pre-requisite: LAW606

This course enables students to study and analyze International Humanitarian Law topics, as one of the most important branches of Public International Law. It introduces international legal parameters relating to the conduct of war and hostilities: Law of Armed Conflict and focuses on the role and efforts of the UAE in providing humanitarian assistance to affected countries during armed conflicts.

This course identifies the ethical attributes for judges and lawyers and aims to prepare, legal cadres that adhere to ethical foundations in public and private along with, the litigation process. It sheds light on the Islamic rules and values of the judiciary and the legal profession and provides a combination of Islamic experience and contemporary international best practices, regardless of cultural and religious backgrounds.

This course provides students with a profound knowledge of the most important aspects of Criminal Procedure Law, that have not been covered at the undergraduate level. It also aims to link between the criminal procedure law subjects and real-life practice in the UAE. Through training students on Criminal Procedure Law and practical cases, whether from the judge’s or prosecutor’s lens, students will be able upon graduation to exercise legal and judicial work effectively to establish complete justice.

Pre-requisite: LAW603

This course enables students to understand the most based on cases and issues of Civil Procedural Law within the UAE community. It aims to train students on models and practical cases under Civil Procedures Law, so they will be able upon their graduation, to practice legal and judicial work effectively towards establishing comprehensive and full justice.

Pre-requisite: LAW602

This course presents a high-level overview of key issues on the principles and rules of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Shari’a (such as the rule of “No harm, no foul”). It examines the correlation of Jurisprudence/Shari’a with Personal Status Law. It is intended to form graduates with strong legal skills and contemporary vision and practicum in the field.

This course is intended to engage students in the active pursuit of knowledge and understanding of criminal and civil scientific evidence processes. It also elaborates on the interpretation of legal and judicial principles, and the Judge’s power to discern all scientific pieces of evidence presented (such as fingerprint and electronic evidence), and demonstrates the role of judicial expertise in the field of criminal and civil evidence and examination of expert reports.

Pre-requisite: LAW611

This course aims to enable students to become familiar with the methods and approaches to legal scientific research. Students will hone their research and writing skills across various challenging legal topics research and need to present their research outcomes at a high standard of coherence, clarity, authenticity, and persuasion while adhering to the controls and standards of scientific integrity. Furthermore, the course aims to provide students with the ability to research scientific resources in both Arabic and foreign languages.

This course enables students to discover the factors and determinants behind the judge’s decision-making process. The course also prepares students as judges, prosecutors and legal professionals, and determines their decision-making methods to achieve justice while practicing judicial work.

Pre-requisite: LAW611 and LAW612

This course mainly provides students with a broad knowledge of the economics of justice, ways to improve the efficiency of court administration, develop justice aides, understand functions of judges, lawyers, notaries, and judicial assistants, and the most efficient methods in resolving and settling disputes. This will be achieved by training students on practical models and applications so that upon their graduation, they will be ready to practice judicial work effectively to achieve comprehensive and global justice.

This course aims to provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical experience and skills to understand the different methods and means of settling judicial disputes in non-traditional ways. Furthermore, the course focuses on alternative ways of resolving disputes, terms of recourse, and their role in achieving justice.

Pre-requisite: LAW612

This course aims to develop students’ strong legal knowledge and analytical skills in judging lawsuits, building strong arguments, and drawing sound conclusions for all involved parties. Legal reasoning will help students use formal logic and other methods of exposition and give grounds (reasons) for one’s statements to argue persuasively, or to engage in discourse.

This course provides students with knowledge in public finance and tax legislation, through demonstrating the concept of public finance and their governing principles in comparative legal and economic systems, especially public finance sources public revenues, expenditures, and the consequent role of the regulatory institutions, such as Central Bank and its role in regulating the banking system, and the Securities and Commodities Authority, and its role in supervising the capital market, also the Accounting Office and its role in overseeing the finances of executive agencies in the UAE.

Moreover, the course provides in-depth study on the comparative tax systems and Islamic Law, through several axes, the most important being the concept of tax policies and mechanisms, and a study of the tax burden and related problems, with a focus on practical applications of tax legislation, such as value-added tax, income tax, and methods of estimation, along with the methods of resolving disputes.

This course enables students to understand labor disputes and legal settlement procedures at courts. It also aims to establish a correlation between theory and practice in connection with the UAE labor market, by training students on practical and applicable models in the field of settling labor disputes.

This course aims to enhance students’ legal writing skills in general, and judicial writing in particular, pertaining to Civil and Penal cases. Students will gain familiarity with legal writing and will learn to master the conventions and techniques of writing judicial contexts, and to craft their rhetoric, persuasive and rigorous writing experience. Moreover, students will learn how to scrutinize all types of legal documents presented before courts of all instances and governing bodies, in terms of accuracy, validity and factuality.

Pre-requisite: LAW611 and LAW612

This course aims to trains students on the skills required to practice various legal work, through theory and practice, by honing public speaking and oral advocacy skills, critical thinking, investigation, interrogation, and arguments.

Pre-requisite: LAW611 and LAW612

In this research project, the student will produce a master’s-level research paper in Judicial Studies.

This course explores the political and constitutional structure of the United Arab Emirates. Topics include: general theoretical bases of constitutional systems and forms of governments; the structure of the U.A.E. constitution; the formation of the federal system of the U.A.E.; federal and local powers; legislative, executive, and judicial powers; the working of major ministries and federal institutions such as the Federal National Council and the judicial system. Topics covered also include checks and balances between federal and local institutions, human rights in the U.A.E. constitutional system, and the theory of separation of powers. The course also explores the structure of major institutions dealing with monetary and trade relations at the federal and local levels.