Maastricht Graduate School of Law
The Graduate School of Law offers a stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal research. It is dedicated to training excellent PhD researchers and honours students from all over the world, extending, deepening and actively applying their knowledge on their journey to becoming highly qualified researchers.
Fast facts
- Offers a stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal and interdisciplinary research
- Provides expert supervision in various areas of law
- Offers a Master’s Honours Research Track and flexible PhD research programmes
Research & training
Research
We aim at supervising research carried out in the areas of law in which our institutes and inter-university research schools are specialized:
- Global justice
- Institutional transformations
- Globalising markets
- Cross-border cooperation and mobility
- Law and Technology
The main focus is the role of law in an ever-globalising society and the institutional and substantive legal developments in Europeanisation and globalisation. Research is rooted in the research groups and institutes and in the domains of the inter-university Ius Commune Research School (the common law of Europe).
Training
The Maastricht Graduate School of Law offers sound and tailor-made training to PhD researchers and Master’s Honours students. Both training programmes focus on research methodology, research integrity, skills training and career development.
In addition, PhD researchers may teach Bachelor’s and Master’s courses at Maastricht University in their field of expertise.
Four PhD Positions Faculty of Law Maastricht University 2024 - Call for Proposals
In 2024, the Faculty of Law provides funding for four paid fulltime PhD positions. You will find the application procedure here and this is the format for the research proposal. The closing date is Friday 19 January 2024 (17:00 hours).
LAW PhD Defences
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11 Dec16:00
PhD conferral John Boniface Nakutta
"A human rights analysis of housing informality in Namibia: Challenges, Ambitions, and Misses"
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14 Dec10:00
PhD conferral Sung Yoon Yang
"A Comparative Study of Legal Developments concerning Platforms in the EU, US, and Korea Focused on abuse of dominant position and creating a level playing field"
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18 Dec13:00
PhD conferral Cenay Aliye Elisa Akin
"Improving the assessment of pure ecological harm"
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18 Dec16:00
PhD conferral Zoë Louise Miller
"Mapping authorship and ownership in contemporary art conservation: A study of law and practice"
News
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PhD thesis written by Alice Giannini
The idea of criminal behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is nothing new. In fact, science fiction has been dealing for decades with evil robots rebelling against humans and taking control, or with machines that go crazy and act unpredictably. Yet, it... -
PhD thesis written by Sander Paul Martijn Kramer
A growing number of mobile individuals, who take advantage of their European freedoms of movement, face a lack of comprehensive pension information. This obstacle can hinder those who need pension information the most in making well-informed retirement... -
PhD thesis written by Haiyang Yu
Professional marine salvors who have the emergency response capacity to maritime casualties traditionally are rewarded on a ‘No Cure-No Pay' basis under the maritime law of salvage. However, in cases involving potentially significant environmental damage, such as...
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As per 1 November 2023, UM’s Executive Board has appointed Dr Maja Brkan as endowed professor of Digitalisation and EU Law.
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27 September 2023, Brussels | “The green transition in mobility is going well, but it could be a lot better. Until 2040 and 2050, the infrastructure we need to build, will be impossible to achieve on an individual level.” With this conclusion, Turi Fiorito director of the European Federation of...
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The EU-funded project FullCompensation aims to make the compensation of pain and suffering damages more equitable and efficient. To this end, the project led to the development of a model legislative proposal and guidelines, based on comparative and empirical evidence. These documents are intended...
