Research

The department’s research covers a wide range of areas and policy fields of European Union institutional and substantive law, as well as the interaction between the EU, domestic, and international legal orders. It is organized and developed most notably in the context of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL), but the Department’s researchers contribute also to the activities of other Faculty and interfaculty centers, including MCfHR, CERiM, IGIR, MACIMIDE, Studio Europa, and the Globalisation and Law Network. The department contributes to the national research schools of Human Rights and Ius Commune. Several research projects carried out in the context of these programmes are funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the European Union.

Maastricht Centre for European Law
The Maastricht Centre for European Law is a large research community in EU law and consists of over 50 scholars. The Centre covers a broad range of areas of research in both institutional and substantive EU law, and the relation between EU law and national law.