Research

The Faculty of Law has a strong and distinct international profile both in education and
in research. Our faculty is an inspiring and lively place where enthusiastic and inquisitive
researchers seek to find answers to the pressing legal issues of today in a multidisciplinary
and interdisciplinary context.

Research involves studying both institutional and substantive developments in the process
of Europeanisation and globalisation and the role of the national legal order therein.

What makes doing research at our faculty so unique?

Watch the video with our former vice-dean of research, Monica Claes to find out.
Researchers are able to flourish in the faculty’s vibrant academic community. They develop their own research projects, within the contours set by the faculty’s research programme.

About the research programme
at the Faculty of Law

Stream 1. Values

Stream 2. Institutions

Stream 3. Markets

Stream 4. Mobility

Stream 5. Digitalisation

Faculty in Focus

Our faculty is always buzzing with ideas, discussions, and events! Across the past period, our students, researchers, and staff have been involved in an impressive range of activities, from helping solve cold cases to organising events on children’s rights, and from exploring legal questions in popular culture to rethinking how we teach law.

This series brings together some of the most remarkable and inspiring stories. Whether in the classroom or outside the faculty's walls — one thing is clear: our community continues to explore, innovate, and make an impact.

Read our Faculty in Focus series

Maastricht Graduate School of Law

The Maastricht Graduate School of Law offers a stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal research. It is dedicated to train excellent PhD researchers and honours students from all over the world to extend, deepen and actively apply their knowledge, so as to become highly qualified researchers.

Visit Graduate School

Agenda

Graduation Ceremonies Bachelors

5 Dec

26 Jun

IGIR Expert Lecture Series

31 Dec

Online Info Session for Parents/Carers – Bachelor European Law School

8 Jan

Conference 'United in Diversity?'

29 Jan

30 Jan

Bachelor's Open Day

7 Feb

News

Virtual companions, real responsibility: call for clear regulations on AI tools used for mental health interactions

Mindy Nunez Duffourc (Assistant Professor of Private Law and member of the Law and Tech Lab) co-authored an article outlining the urgent need for clear regulations for AI characters.

Maastricht Consulates Prize on EU Law 2025 Awarded

Students

On 2 December, the Maastricht Consulates Prize on EU Law 2025 was awarded at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University to Merle Sandhop.

Protecting children’s rights in non-existent states

What happens to the universal rights of a child when their home is a “de-facto” state—a political entity that has all the hallmarks of nationhood, yet is not officially recognised? And who bears legal and moral responsibility for these children when war breaks out? These issues lie at the heart of the...

IGIR Updates Research Clusters and Organisation

The Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR), which now also includes several former members of METRO, recently presented itself to colleagues in the faculty after implementing an update in, among other things, its management and research profile.

ITEM starts a new chapter with Martin Unfried as director

As of 15 October 2025, Martin Unfried will become the new Director of the Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross-Border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM). He succeeds Professor Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn, who has developed ITEM over the past ten years with great enthusiasm and determination.