MA/MS in Law and Pre-trial Investigation

This blended-format master's programme develops a deep understanding of the legal principles, procedures, and practice involved in organising pre-trial processes, training specialists to navigate complex legal issues within law enforcement and public security. Students learn to plan and conduct comprehensive security and process evaluations within institutions carrying out pre-trial investigations, integrating knowledge of the pre-trial process's different stages and linking individual institutional mechanisms together. Learning outcomes include identifying, analysing, and evaluating critical situations in the pre-trial process that are legal, managerial, or economic in nature, with links to state and societal security, analysing security-science and practice texts drawn from national and international sources, covering the legality of pre-trial activities and human-rights protection, and adapting advanced international law-enforcement practices for use in national law. Students also develop skills in creating an efficiently functioning pre-trial investigation organisation amid geopolitical and security changes, and in communicating ethically across cultures while building cooperation between law enforcement bodies both nationally and internationally.