Department of Law
The Department of Law is distinctive among its European peers in its commitment to contribute to a better understanding of the role law and legal institutions play and can play at different levels in contemporary European and global society. We do so in a cosmopolitan and vibrant research environment that is uniquely situated outside the backdrop of national legal systems. The Department’s professors, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral candidates and LL.M. candidates Head of Department: explore the most significant challenges facing the EU and the Professor Deirdre Curtin world. Their ambition is to shape the terms of legal debate in Europe and beyond, especially on themes of European integration as well as international and transnational cooperation. We offer a highly structured Ph.D. programme, which is designed to train future legal scholars. Researchers work closely with their departmental supervisor but also other professors to develop and implement their projects. In addition, the LL.M. programme is geared to strengthening students’ research skills. Ph.D. and LL.M. researchers admitted in 2019 and their research topics can be found at the following link.
Major research fields and impact
Despite the small size of the Department, research is foregrounded on very salient themes in a manner that is leading and innovative in Europe. The Department has a strong reputation for carrying out research on issues of contemporary importance and placing legal institutions in their wider social and economic context. In addition to disseminating departmental re-
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