Law

At BI, you receive a professional legal education with a clear focus on business law. The master’s programme builds on what you learned in your bachelor’s degree and further develops your skills in legal method, that is, how to identify, interpret and apply legal rules in a sound and systematic way.

You gain advanced breadth across public law and regulation, public international law, private law, criminal law and criminal procedure, as well as dispute resolution (the process of resolving conflicts in and outside the courts). At the same time, you develop specialised insight into business law: corporate and finance law, tax law and VAT law, and how technology influences legal practice.

You will practise analysing the facts (what actually happened), assessing the law as it stands (de lege lata) and discussing how it ought to be (de lege ferenda). You learn to argue precisely, both in writing and orally, in Norwegian and English, and to draft contracts, articles of association and other legal documents.

The programme trains you to work confidently with international legal sources, particularly EEA law (the EEA Agreement linking Norway to the EU’s internal market) and the ECHR (the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides a framework for protecting fundamental rights in Europe).

This master's programme is taught in Norwegian. More detailed information about the programme can be found on our Norwegian pages.

This education qualifies you for legal roles in law firms (typically as an associate), in the courts (for example, as a deputy judge or legal officer), with the prosecution authority and the police, in central and local government, the non-profit/organisational sector, business, and higher education and research institutions.

The business-law profile makes you particularly suited to roles that require an understanding of how business operates in interaction with public authorities and in an international context.

Typical positions include in-house lawyer or legal adviser in private enterprises or the public sector, with responsibilities in contracts and company law, compliance, data protection (GDPR), tax and VAT, transactions, and dispute resolution.

You will be trained to use both Norwegian and international legal sources (such as EEA law and the ECHR) and to communicate legal assessments in Norwegian and English.