International and European Law
The research program of the Department of International and European Law covers the following areas:1. Globalization and Human Rights
Coordinator: Prof. M.T. Kamminga
This research program examines how (international) human rights standards and human rights procedures may be employed to mitigate the negative consequences of globalization. The program favors interdisciplinary research with a focus on public international law, criminal law and social sciences. Examples of current research topics include: state collapse and human rights; business and human rights; privatization of security functions and international humanitarian law; corruption and human rights; access to pharmaceuticals and human rights; justiciability of violations of economic and social human rights; the extraterritorial application of economic and social rights; victims rights; and the impact of human rights law on general international law.
2. European Law
Coordinator: Prof. E. Vos
Research on European law is done within the context of the research programme: Integration, Differentiation and Flexibility, that studies the challenges that the 21st-century EU-27 is facing in the process of increasing integration and the need to accomodate different wishes and requirements of current and future Member States. Current themes that are studied within this programme are e.g. EU governance (agencies), free movement of goods and the protection of non-economic values, EU non discrimination law, disability law, European migration law, free movement of persons, services and education, competition law and external relations.
3. International Economic Law
Coordinator: Prof. P.L.H. van den Bossche
The research of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR) focuses on the economic aspects of the process of 'global economic governance', and most particularly on those mechanisms, instruments and rules aimed at achieving a balance between global economic integration (characterized by free trade and freedom of investment) and other important societal values and interests (such as environment, human rights, public health, public order and morals, cultural identity and minimum labour standards). It is part of the Ius Commune research programme Constitutional Processes in the International Legal Order.
4. Intellectual Property Law
Coordinator: Prof. A.W.J. Kamperman Sanders
Research on intellectual property law is also undertaken by the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR) and fits within the Ius Commune Programme Intellectual property.
