The Graduate School of Law at Matsuyama University develops advanced professionals in legal practice. Its curriculum pairs practical legal skills with an academic outlook that views the present era in context, and it builds two abilities: applying current statutes and precedent to solve problems, and devising new arrangements where existing rules cannot cope.
Five professional directions are named, including public officials, finance and commercial law, public safety and corporate compliance.
Working adults can take classes in the evening, at weekends and in holiday periods, and a long-term scheme lets them study for three or four years on two years of tuition. Applicants with at least three years of work experience and a recommendation from the head of their current organisation (a local government, or the prefectural association of judicial scriveners, administrative scriveners or social insurance and labour consultants) can apply with documents and an oral examination only. The course is a designated course for a general education training benefit from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
