Master of Law – (LL.M.)

Contents

The curriculum of the Master of Laws contains 120 ECTS. The programme has a special focus on European and International Law, and offers the student a wide selection of specialisations in his/her particular area of interest. You may obtain exemptions for credits you have obtained previously at our Faculty (e.g. in the context of an Erasmus programme).

Master of Lax (LL.M.)

Compulsory Courses

• Constitutional Law of the European Union (6 credits)
• Public International Law (6 credits)
• International and European Human Rights Law (6 credits)
• Substantive Law of the European Union (6 credits)
• European Perspectives on Relgion and meaning (3 credits)

European Law

Major European Law: Students must attend courses for at least 24 ECTS
Minor European Law: Students must attend courses for at least 16 ECTS

• European Taxation (6 credits)
• Conflicts of Laws (4 credits)
• European Family Law (4 credits)
• European Contract Law (6 credits)
• Regulation of Financial Services in Europe (4 credits)
• European Competition Law (4 credits)
• European Criminal Law (6 credits)
• European Company Law (4 credits)
• European Insurance Law (4 credits)
• Judicial Protection in the European Union (6 credits)
• European Banking and Investment Services Law (4 credits)
• The Law of the External Relations of the EU (4 credits)

International Law

Major International Law: Students must attend courses for at least 24 ECTS
Minor International Law: Students must attend courses for at least 16 ECTS

• The Law of International organizations (6 credits)
• International Arbitration (4 credits)
• International Taxation (6 credits)
• The Law of External Relations of the EU (4 credits)
• International Business Law (6 credits)
• International Criminal Law (4 credits)
• The Law of the World Trade Organization (4 credits)

Additional elective courses

Students choose for a total of at least 18 ECTS

• European and International Social Security Law (4 credits)
• European and International Labor Laws (4 credits)
• Discrimination Law (4 credits)
• Chinese Law from a European Perspective (4 credits)
• Humanitarian and Security Law form a European Perpective (4 credits)

Reflection Courses

Students choose for a total of at least 10 ECTS

• Law and Religion (4 credits)
• Economic Analysis of Law (5 credits)
• European Legal history (4 credits)
• European Legal Theory (5 credits)
• The Court of Justice and the Emerging Common Law of Europe (5 credits)
• Antropology of Law (5 credits)
• Philosophy of Law (5 credits)

Master's Thesis

2 seminars to be selected from the list of Dutch courses of the Master programme without an English equivalent and for which the chair accepts individual guidance in English 8

• Master seminar (5 credits)
• Master paper (12 credits)

Compulsory courses

Constitutional Law of the European Union

Advanced course that aims to deepen the knowledge of the EU institutional structure as developed in the Bachelor and positions the substantive law of the EU in its overall constitutional perspective. The first part of the course aims at clarifying the relationship between the national legal orders and EU law. The second part of the course will focus on the most topical and/or controversial items of EU constitutional development.

The first part of the course aims at clarifying the relationship between the national legal orders and EU law. It analyses the nature and application of the principles of supremacy, direct effect and effet utile and the reception of EU law in the legal orders of the Member States while contrasting the process of European integration with the experience derived from other federal systems. The second part of the course will focus on the most topical and/or controversial items of EU constitutional development, such as the legal personality of the EU, the contents of the principles of democracy and accountability, the protection of fundamental rights and the relationship between the EU and the ECHR, citizenship of the Union and the "horizontal" invocability of EU legal instruments.

Public International Law

Thorough study of, and attention for new developments relating to, selected problems of public international law: sources of international law, including issues of treaty law, conflicts and hierarchy of norms; interactions between international and national law; subjects of international law, in particular non-state actors and their rights and obligations; jurisdiction of States and jurisdictional conflicts; responsibility of international subjects; dispute settlement and law enforcement.

Substantive Law of the European Union

Aim of this course is, adding up to the Bachelor courses "Commercial, company and economic law", "Labour law and social security law" and "International and European law" extending the insight in function of fundamental rules of the European internal market (free traffic of goods, persons, services and capital, information and harmonisation of law) and in the elaboration of those rules within the internal legal order. Market operation and cooperation are the central key points, but the rules of the internal market become more coloured by aims of another kind: socially, politically, protecting the environment, health, consumers... Also these "side" measures continue in national law.

International and European Human Rights Law

This lecture deals with certain aspects of international and European law and human rights. The aim is at critical reflection on the rights of the individual, in relation to rights of other persons and the merits of society. In addition to that, the importance of basic rights for the daily right practice is clarified.

After a short introduction to a few characteristics of basic law, two major topics are dealt with. The first topic deals with international and European law regarding human rights in general. In this respect, following aspects are discussed: institutional and normative framework (pacts concerning human rights, with emphasis on the international management mechanisms), the kind of obligations of the states (negative and positive), the continuing of international law regarding human rights in the national justice order. The next topic deals with a few basic laws specifically. Following aspects will be dealt with: civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, the basic principles of equality and non-discrimination.

European Perspectives on Religion and meaning

This course examines the phenomenon of religion as it has come to expression in the European context, and reflects on the past, present and future significance of religion as an element of European thought and culture. To this end, the course combines historical, empirical and theological reflection.

Starting from this central purpose, a few more specific aims can be narrowed down. Firstly this course wants to provide sensitivity for religious items in today's culture and society. Secondly the course aims at gaining insight to the way in which Christian religion understands itself, using a wide range of methods and interpretative frame works. Thirdly the course encourages the personal opinion of students concerning religion, using complex learning contents as well as reflexive attributes.