Master of Laws in International and European Law (European Union Law)

The European Union Law specialist programme presents the best of the Ghent University Law School’s renowned expertise in EU law for students aspiring to specialise in the law and institutions of the European Union. By a careful combination of mandatory core course units and specialised electives , students receive an all-round high-level EU law education, while maintaining freedom of focus on personal career or research needs.

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1 year 60 credits

Faculty of Law and Criminology

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1 General Courses 10

Course	MT1	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
The EU and the US Constitutional Orders Compared	1	year	en	Stanislas Adam	4

LLM Lecture Series	1	year	en	Peter Van Elsuwege	3

Seminar: Foreign Chair	1	year	en	Peter Van Elsuwege	3

2 Courses Related to the Main Subject 33

Course	MT1	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
EU Institutional Law	1	sem 1	en	Erwoan Lannon	6

EU Internal Market Law	1	sem 1	en	Inge Govaere	6

The Autonomous EU Legal Order	1	sem 1	en	Peter Van Elsuwege	6

2.1 Master's Dissertation

15

Course	Ref	MT1	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
Master's Dissertation		1	year	en		15

3 Elective Courses 17

Subscribe to 17 credit units from the following list, with no more than 1 cours with reference a. Subject to approval by the faculty.

Course	Ref	Semester	Language	Instructor	Crdt
European Criminal Policy		sem 2	en	Gert Vermeulen	6

International and European Environmental Law		sem 1	en	An Cliquet	6

EU Competition Law		sem 2	en	Stanislas Adam	6

EU Enlargement and Proximity Relations		sem 2	en	Erwoan Lannon	4

EU and the Wider World: Americas, Africa and Asia		sem 2	en	Erwoan Lannon	4

EU External Relations Law		sem 1	en	Inge Govaere	6

EU Banking and Capital Market Law		sem 2	en	Michel Tison	4

European and Comparative Company Law and Corporate Governance		sem 1	en	Hans De Wulf	4

Constitutional Aspects of EU Integration		sem 2	en	Erwoan Lannon	4

European Labour and Employment Law					4

EU Social Law and International Employment		sem 2	en	Yves Jorens	4

EU Trade Policy		sem 1	en	Guillaume Van der Loo	4

International and European Biodiversity Law		sem 2	en	An Cliquet	4

European Law & ICT		sem 2	en	Eva Lievens	4

Selected Issues: European and International Migration Law and Policy		sem 2	en	Ellen Desmet	6

Moot Court International Commercial Arbitration	a	year	en	Maud Piers	12

Moot Court European Law	a	year	en	Inge Govaere	12

Moot Court International Law	a	year	en	Hendrik Schoukens	12

Advanced Course on Human Rights		sem 1	en	José Gustavo Prieto Munoz	6

European Media Law		sem 1	en	Eva Lievens	4

International Economic Law		sem 2	en	Diederik Bruloot	4

Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic	a	year	nl,en	Eva Brems	8

Data Ethics					4

Healthcare, Innovation and Law					4

Moot Court: Sports Law Arbitration	a	year	en	An Vermeersch	6

Diplomatic Law and Multilateral Negotiations		sem 1	en	Anemoon Soete	6

Contemporary Issues of International and European Law		year	en	Inge Govaere	3

Learning outcomes

Possess an advanced knowledge of the European Union (EU), its institutions, competences, cardinal concepts, and substantive principles.

Have an in-depth knowledge of specific legal areas of European Union law.

Have knowledge of scientific domains that frame and steer the European legal order, including international politics and international economics.

Have both theme-specific and general knowledge of the legal, political, economic, cultural, …, issues of supranational legal integration.

The ability to use, with scientific rigor, legal texts in English in the process of analysing and solving complex problems.

Formulating a defensible legal reasoning in order to analyse and solve complex legal problems.

The ability to formulate independently and to answer a scientific research question, or to operationalize and answer a given research question.

Identifying and qualifying relevant legal facts and to adequately and critically formulate legal issues in complex cases.

Having knowledge and insight into the comparative study of law.

Being able to assess correctly the value of legal sources and an analysis of these sources.

Being able to make comparative analysis of legal concepts originating from different legal systems.

Having the courage to formulate a creative legal opinion based on analysis and logical reasoning.

Assimilating new and/or evolving legal rules through self-study and an being open towards permanent innovation of legal knowledge and thinking.

Having the attitude of independent study, lifelong learning and professional growth.

Reflecting critically on legal rules de lega lata and to formulate proposals de lega ferenda.

The ability to write a clear scientific legal text or a clear text intended for legal practice, adapted to the target public.

The ability to give an oral presentation and a legally reasoned defence of an assigned or a personal opinion, adapted to the target public.

The ability to work, individually or in team, on the scientific analysis and synthesis of a complex legal question with a sense of responsibility and deontology.

Having an open attitude towards insights of colleagues, also from other areas of expertise, in the approach of legal and multidisciplinary questions.

Participation in academic activities in the field of international and European law and its complementary sciences.

Having an open attitude towards and knowledge of the basic techniques of alternative dispute resolution, such as negotiation, mediation and arbitration.

Awareness of the social responsibility of lawyers, also with regard to sustainable development issues.

Ability to assess the legal implications of new social and technological evolutions for the practice and science of law.

Respect for integrity, deontology, and the competence to integrate these norms in scientific work and in the functioning as a starting legal professional.

Creative integration of social engagement in scientific work and in the functioning as a starting legal professional.

Integration of cultural sensitivity and respect for diversity, pluralism and tolerance in scientific work and in the functioning as a starting legal professional.