The Master's Degree in Business Law responds to a growing need in the legal market, especially outside of Lima: for lawyers capable of advising companies, entrepreneurs, family groups, productive organizations, and institutions operating in increasingly dynamic and complex regional contexts. In these regions, corporate lawyers often face diverse problems—contractual, corporate, labor, tax, regulatory, administrative, and dispute resolution—that demand a comprehensive, practical, and strategic understanding of the law.
The program's value proposition lies in offering specialized training in Business Law, designed for lawyers practicing in provincial areas who need to strengthen their ability to respond to the main legal challenges of business activity. The curriculum integrates commercial contracts, corporations, corporate governance, family businesses, compliance, The program covers finance, regulation, taxation, labor relations, economic criminal law, and conflict resolution. It also combines a solid conceptual foundation with the analysis of real-world cases and courses in legal research methodology, aimed at developing rigorous and applied academic thinking.
The program is designed for lawyers, legal advisors, public officials, judges, consultants, university professors, and professionals in the regional business sector who seek to enhance their professional profile and expand their tools for advising, mitigating risks, and making high-level legal decisions. It is also intended for those who work or aspire to work in law firms, corporate legal departments, public entities, regulatory bodies, private companies, trade associations, or academic institutions.
Upon completion of the Master's program, participants will be better prepared to analyze complex business problems, prevent legal contingencies, design applicable legal solutions, and provide comprehensive advice to companies and organizations in their region. In this way, the Master's program aims to contribute to the training of lawyers capable of supporting business growth in the regions with technical expertise, strategic judgment, and a practical vision.
- To understand in a comprehensive, up-to-date and strategic way the main legal problems related to business activity, especially in regional contexts.
- Analyze, prevent and solve legal risks in contractual, corporate, financial, tax, labor, regulatory, administrative and corporate compliance matters.
- Providing legal advice to companies, SMEs, agribusinesses, family businesses, productive organizations and entities linked to regional economic development.
- Design practical and viable legal solutions to business conflicts, contractual contingencies, corporate disputes, administrative audits, labor problems and situations of regulatory non-compliance.
- Applying corporate governance, compliance and risk prevention criteria to strengthen the organization, sustainability and decision-making of companies.
- Integrate legal knowledge and business criteria to participate more strategically in advising, managing and solving problems of public and private organizations.
- To use the case method and the analysis of real situations as tools to develop practical legal reasoning applied to Business Law.
- To develop legal research applied to the business field, through rigorous methodological training that allows the development of relevant academic and professional proposals.
- Lawyers and legal advisors who practice in regions and who seek to specialize in the analysis, prevention and solution of legal problems related to the business activity of their environment.
- Professionals who advise or aspire to advise private companies, SMEs, agribusinesses, family businesses, productive associations, trade organizations or entities linked to regional economic development.
- Lawyers who work or wish to work in law firms, corporate legal departments, academic institutions or specialized consultancies, and who need comprehensive training in Business Law to respond to contractual, corporate, labor, tax, regulatory and dispute resolution problems.
- Public officials, magistrates and professionals from regulatory bodies or public entities who, from the regional level, need to understand business activity from a legal, regulatory and strategic perspective.
- Consultants, university professors and professionals linked to the business sector who seek to strengthen their professional and academic profile in Business Law, with special attention to the needs of companies and organizations that operate outside of Lima.
The Master's program will be offered at the Piura Campus, with two options to choose from: in-person and blended learning. Classes will be held on Saturdays from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, allowing for concentrated academic sessions and facilitating the participation of working professionals.
The in-person format requires students to regularly attend scheduled sessions at the Piura Campus. This format allows for direct interaction with instructors and classmates, fostering academic dialogue, case studies, discussions of professional experiences, and networking opportunities.
The blended learning format will combine online sessions with mandatory in-person sessions at the Piura Campus. In this format, students commit to attending six in-person sessions per module, held on Saturdays, which will correspond to the assessments for six of the seven subjects that comprise each module. These sessions will allow for verification of learning outcomes, strengthen academic interaction, and ensure a learning experience compatible with the demands of a professional master's degree.
Students will have access to the UDEP Virtual platform, where they can share academic materials, readings, working documents, and program communications. The availability of recordings, if applicable, will be subject to the University's academic and administrative guidelines.
The Master's program will have a theoretical-practical approach, aimed at ensuring that participants not only learn about the legal institutions applicable to the company, but also develop criteria to solve real problems in professional practice.
The learning process will combine lectures, case studies, discussions of business problems, review of case law, analysis of contractual and corporate documents, and interactive sessions with instructors. In this way, students will be able to connect legal theory with concrete situations that commonly arise in advising companies, SMEs, agribusinesses, family businesses, public entities, regulatory bodies, and regional production organizations.
The classes will be taught by professors specializing in various areas of Business Law, who will encourage active student participation through questions, legal debate, practical case studies, and analysis of professional experiences. Each course will aim to enable participants to identify risks, evaluate alternatives, and propose viable legal solutions for business activities.
Furthermore, the Legal Research Methodology courses will progressively support the development of research, argumentation, and academic production skills applied to Business Law. This will enable participants to strengthen their ability to formulate legal problems, analyze sources, construct arguments, and develop rigorous proposals related to business realities.
The program may rely on institutional digital platforms for the delivery of materials, readings, working documents and academic communications, ensuring an orderly, dynamic learning experience connected to the professional needs of the participants.
Upon successful completion of the curriculum and fulfillment of the corresponding academic, administrative, and financial requirements (including the successful defense of a thesis or research paper), the student will obtain the degree of Master in Business Law, with one of the following specializations:
- Master of Laws in Business Law with a Specialization in Corporate Law.
- Master of Laws in Business Law with a Specialization in Commercial Contracting.
- Master of Laws in Business Law with a Specialization in Market Regulation.
- Master of Laws in Business Law with a Specialization in Labor Law.
- Master of Laws in Business Law with a Specialization in Tax Law.