Master’s Program in Law

Overview

The Master of Law (MIH) Study Program was established in 1995 and at that time and until August 2018 was part of the Postgraduate Law Study Program under the Postgraduate School of Parahyangan Catholic University. Since 2018, the management of the Postgraduate Law Program, which includes the Master’s Program and Doctoral Program, has been under the control and management of the Faculty of Law at Parahyangan Catholic University. The Law Study Program (Master’s Program) is accredited “Very Good” based on BAN-PT Decree No.3766/SK/BAN-PT/AK- ISK/M/VI/2022, with an accreditation period valid until September 13, 2025. Based on government policy, while awaiting certainty regarding accreditation regulations, the accreditation status remains valid until further notice, pending the issuance of other policies or regulations.

Within the scope of the Master of Law Program, several special fields of study (concentrations) are offered. The fields of Business Law and Local Government Law began in 1995, and the field of Construction Law, a collaboration between Unpar and the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR), began in 2013. For the Construction Law field of study, the curriculum was designed jointly by Unpar and PUPR. Since 2020, the construction law field of study has also been opened to other students. As an additional note, the Master’s Program curriculum is currently being evaluated and will undergo a revamp.

Master Learning Outcomes

Master are capable to:
1. Attitude

• Be devoted to God Almighty and able to demonstrate religious attitudes.
• Uphold human values in carrying out duties based on religion, morals, and ethics.
• Contribute to improving the quality of life in society, nation, state, and civilization based on Pancasila.
• Act as a citizen who is proud and loves the country, has nationalism and a sense of responsibility to the state and nation.
• Respect cultural diversity, views, religions, and beliefs, as well as the opinions or original findings of others.
• Cooperate and have social sensitivity and concern for society and the environment.
• Obey the law and discipline in social and state life.
• Internalize academic values, norms, and ethics.
• Demonstrate a responsible attitude towards work in their field of expertise independently.
• Internalize the spirit of independence, struggle, and entrepreneurship.
• Becoming an intellectual who upholds truth, goodness, and beauty.
• Being able to empower the community in the social, cultural, economic, and legal fields.
• Demonstrating honesty, nobility, and loyalty in carrying out their profession and work.
• Demonstrating mutual trust, mutual service, and upholding equality in their profession and work.

2. General skills of masters

• Able to apply logical, critical, systematic, and innovative thinking in the context of developing or implementing science and technology that considers and applies humanities values appropriate to their field of expertise.
• Able to demonstrate independent, high-quality, and measurable performance.
• Able to assess the implications of the development or implementation of science and technology that pays attention to and applies humanistic values in accordance with their expertise based on scientific principles, procedures, and ethics in order to produce solutions, ideas, designs, or artistic criticism.
• Able to compile a scientific description of the above assessment in the form of a thesis or final project report, and upload it to the university website.
• Able to make appropriate decisions in the context of problem solving in their field of expertise, based on the results of information and data analysis.
• Able to maintain and develop a network with mentors, colleagues, and peers both inside and outside their institution.
• Able to take responsibility for the achievement of group work results and to supervise and evaluate the completion of work assigned to workers under their responsibility.
• Able to conduct self-evaluation of the work group under their responsibility and able to manage learning independently.
• Able to document, store, secure, and retrieve data to ensure validity and prevent plagiarism.

3. Work ability/special skills

• Apply the principles and norms of Indonesian Positive Law, including International Law, in solving legal problems or cases, and be able to analyze and evaluate the results academically, independently, and responsibly.
• Reasoning and thinking legally in solving legal problems or cases so as to be able to develop concepts for resolving legal problems or cases.
• Recognizing the main problems or issues in Indonesian Positive Law in meeting the developing needs of society, as well as efforts to realize the Indonesian National Legal System based on the values of Pancasila.
• Designing basic legal documents in accordance with the types of legal needs of the community, both in the context of dispute resolution and non-dispute resolution, inside and outside the court, regulatory and non-regulatory, national and transnational, especially laws applicable in the Asia Pacific region.
• Formulating ideas, opinions, analyses, or legal arguments through a process of legal research and thinking, and communicating them in writing and orally based on academic ethics principles.
• Collaborating with colleagues based on humanistic, democratic, ethical, law-abiding, mutually respectful, and nationalistic attitudes.

4. Knowledge

• Mastering the theoretical concepts of Law, Legal Traditions or Systems, and certain Social Sciences closely related to law in order to understand the application and development of Indonesian Positive Law and International Law, especially Law in the Asia Pacific region.
• Mastering knowledge of the history, sources, foundations, principles, and legal norms of all Indonesian Positive Law and International Law, as well as the need to realize a complete, systemic, and comprehensive Indonesian National Legal System; and knowledge of the laws applicable in the Asia Pacific region.
• Mastery of knowledge about the principles, steps, and techniques of drafting concepts for resolving legal problems or cases using legal reasoning methods or juridical thinking methods and knowledge of Indonesian Positive Law.
• Mastering the principles and methods of legal research and writing, especially those that are monodisciplinary, to produce elementary legal documents and/or academic essays in the field of law, in accordance with the characteristics of legal science and academic ethics principles.
• Mastering knowledge of oral and written communication techniques for use inside and outside the courtroom, as well as for establishing cooperation with colleagues.
• Master general concepts of knowledge about Law in order to better understand and recognize problems in the application and development of Indonesian Positive Law.

Master Curriculum

Learning in the Master’s and Doctoral Programs (Postgraduate Programs) at PARAHYANGAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY (UNPAR) is based on the Semester Credit System. This system uses credit units to measure the academic load for one semester for lecturers, students, and program administrators. Students plan the completion of the program according to their individual abilities, both academic abilities and availability of time and funds.

The following is an explanation of several terms related to the Semester Credit System in the UNPAR Postgraduate Program:

• A semester is a unit of time consisting of 14 weeks of lectures or other scheduled activities, along with other accompanying activities, including two to three weeks of assessment activities.
• The Semester Credit System (SKS) is an educational system that uses semester credit units (sks) to express student study load, faculty workload, learning experience, and program implementation load.
• Semester credit units (sks) are a measure of learning experience gained during one semester through scheduled activities per week consisting of one hour of lectures, or two hours of practicum, or four hours of field work, each accompanied by approximately one to two hours of structured activities and approximately one to two hours of independent activities.

In order to graduate from the Master of Law Program (PS MIH), a student must have passed all compulsory courses (general and concentration) and a number of elective courses with a total weight of 54 credits. Furthermore, based on existing regulations, the thesis exam as a final course can only be taken if the student’s Grade Point Average (GPA) reaches a minimum of 2.75.

The PROGRAM-MIH curriculum offers three concentrations or fields of study:

1. Economic and Business Law
2. Public Law and Policy

All courses offered in the UNPAR Faculty of Law Master’s Program are classified into three groups:

1. General Compulsory Course Group, which includes six courses, including the thesis.
2. Concentration Compulsory Course Group, which includes four (or more) courses
3. Elective Course Group, which includes a number of alternative courses. In this case, students are required to take/choose several courses according to their interests.

Courses are offered in odd or even semesters. Meanwhile, research activities and thesis writing as requirements for graduation from the Master of Law Program can be taken in even and odd semesters.