The academic structure of the programme fulfills all the requirements for an LLM at Fordham Law, including admissibility to the New York State Bar Exam, as well as the maximum number of credits transferred for all Università Cattolica Law degree tracks.
Students can sit the New York State Bar Exam only after graduating from Cattolica. Read here more information on the New York Bar Exam, in particular Section IIIA.
By following this link you will be able to view the catalog of specialisation courses offered by Fordham Law.
Fordham courses that cannot be recognised in specific Cattolica courses can be converted in Altre Attività Formative, provided that such courses are legal in their content and that the student passes a final exam with a positive mark or assessment.
Students admitted to the Programme can follow and sit courses up to a maximum of 15 US credits per semester. The credits earned abroad can be transferred to convert maximum two Cattolica courses of the fourth year of studies. Other credits earned can be recognized in fifth year exams based on the conversion Annex (please check the Study plan).
Students admitted to the Programme can sit maximum one Cattolica course online via Teams during the fall exam session (which coincides with the first month of permanence abroad).
All accepted students will be able to determine their specific study plan with both institutions on the basis of potential updates to Fordham Law’s academic offering ad well as each student’s own academic goals. Fordham Law Advisors will be available to students to guarantee that LLM regulations be in line with the Università Cattolica faculty requirements for credit recognition.
Students interested in taking part to the Double Degree Programme should organise their study plan in Cattolica accordingly. This means that they should select, since the third year of studies, optional exams in Cattolica that they will undertake in Fordham and that they should not sit them in Cattolica.