European Law

Welcome to the department of European Law
The Department of European law has become a key academic player thanks to the top quality of its teaching and research outputs. Its work focuses on both EU institutional and EU substantive law and covers a wide range of EU policy areas, including digital rights, protection of the environment, fundamental rights and internal market law, which all play a prominent place in the Faculty of Law’s teaching and research programmes.

The Department offers a wide and comprehensive range of courses, both at undergraduate and graduate level, as well as moot court trainings and summer schools. The courses are taught in English or in Dutch. As part of their studies, students are also offered the possibility of an internship.

Researchers participate actively in faculty and interfaculty Research Centres and Institutes, first and foremost to the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL), but also MCfHR, CERiM, IGIR, MACIMIDE, Studio Europa, and the Globalisation and Law Network. They also contribute to several disciplinary and interdisciplinary research networks, both national and international. The Department has developed extensive connections with partner institutions around Europe. These relationships provide for the exchange of students and staff between Maastricht and other leading institutions, and offer opportunities to share knowledge, develop understanding and enrich the research and academic life of the Faculty as a whole.

The Department provides facilities for visiting researchers from around the world to further their own research. While in Maastricht, they meet with other scholars in the field and gain encouragement and direction from the many distinguished European lawyers associated with the Department. Visiting scholars are encouraged to participate fully in the activities of the Department and the Research Centres.

The Department is committed to the advancement of scholarship in European law through research, documentation, dialogue, and publications. Regular programmes of lectures and seminars are run by its associated research centers on topical issues featuring leading academics and practitioners.