Maastricht Institute for Legal Education

Research

MILE provides for a pioneering research environment that is closely intertwined with the ‘values’ pillar of the Faculty of Law’s research programme. Every jurist’s path starts with their legal education. In these formative years, the foundation for every jurist’s career are thoroughly laid. Seeing how fundamental the importance of legal education is, it is noteworthy that research on legal education traditionally focusses on what should be studied in legal curricula. MILE seeks to shift this onus more to how law should be taught, not only by doing research in the scholarship of teaching and learning of law, but also by doing fundamental normative research into legal education. While realising that input and methods from other disciplines can be valuable, MILE seeks to do this research primarily through the legal discipline’s own methodologies.