Strategic programme
The faculty’s strategy focuses on implementing its mission: Carrying out border-crossing and innovative research into the internationalisation and Europeanisation of law (European law, international trade, comparative law, European private law, international environmental law, European criminal law, international human rights, European history of law, European and international parliamentary systems, migration, European administrative law, European corporate law). This research is embedded in the Maastricht Graduate School of Law.
Permanently investing in and innovating education by paying increasing attention to (international and English-taught) skills and moot courts, the continued development of education, international exchange, practical training, all via Problem-Based Learning (PBL).
The aim is to further develop into a faculty with a large, international mix of programmes, education, staff and students with an annual intake of 500 bachelor’s and 500 master’s students. To achieve this, the faculty offers a variety of outstanding programmes in Dutch and English.
Investment in education leads to the further development of facilities, professional and research programmes, and training for moot courts and the robed professions. For example, the faculty offers a Toga minor, Toga master, extensive moot court facilities and training programmes, and participation in The Maastricht Forensic Institute.
Crucial to strengthening and further developing research at FL is the aim to increase the annual number of PhDs to 20; in other words, each year a minimum of 20 PhD candidates can start their research. They will be trained and employed at the Metro Graduate School of Law.
Faculty policy focuses on intensive and extended international collaboration and exchange, specifically focusing its student recruitment activities on the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey, India, China, Indonesia and the US – though the faculty’s general international network is of course broader.
FL is an active member of the International Association of Law Schools and the American Association of Law Schools, and participates in the European/Chinese consortium of the Europe–China School of Law in Beijing and, together with the universities of Leuven and Hasselt, in the law bachelor’s in Hasselt (Belgium).
