A prerequisite of the courses taught is knowledge about how the international and national law system work. Therefore, the EURO-JUS law program is only eligible for law graduates. In order to enable practicing lawyers to enroll in the program as well, the EURO-JUS law program is offered as a weekend course. Unlike some other European law training centers such as the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium, or the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, all students of the EURO-JUS law programs of the University of Krems have to attend all courses covering the major fields of the EU law. In order to earn the master degree, they have to complete an EU law research project and present the results in a master thesis.
All students are completely free in their choice of the research project.
They shall have the possibility to specialize in that field of the EU law in which they prefer to practice in their profession later on. In all EURO-JUS law programs, students have to attend basic EU law courses. Since these freedoms were developed very much by the European Court of Justice case studies dominate these courses. Courses on how to interpret EU law compared with interpretation methods of the international and national law. The above mentioned EU law courses are very comprehensive and students have to invest much time, especially when studying the case studies of the European Court of Justice.