Ghent University Law School has a wide array of English language courses on a great variety of European and international law issues. This LLM programme provides students with an opportunity to design their own curricula in accordance with their career priorities. It enables them to gain expertise on many contemporary topical issues of European and international comparative law.
For students seeking to broadly develop their skills and knowledge for a career with an international dimension, this programme offers the best possible personal preparation. While enabling students to focus on particular subjects of interest, it also fully accommodates the needs of those students who seek a general European and international law education. With its combination of academic and practical skills modules, the programme prepares students for the international professional life that is increasingly the reality of law professionals all over the world.
Director
Inge Govaere
INGE GOVAERE is Professor of EU Law, Director of the Ghent European Law Institute (G.E.L.I.) and Director of the LLMs at Ghent University. She is also the Director of the European Legal Studies Department at the College of Europe in Bruges.
She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy). Inge Govaere was Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Cornell University (Ithaca NY, USA) and has been a visiting professor or given conferences and guest lectures at many universities worldwide, inter alia Columbia University (N.Y., USA), Yale University (C.T., USA), Curtin University (Perth, Australia), University of Sao Paolo (Brazil), Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II, France), Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany), the European University Institute (EUI) (Firenze, Italy), and Cambridge University (UK).
Her academic interests vary from EU external relations law to Internal Market and EU intellectual property rights. Her latest (co-edited) books are “The Division of Competences between the European Union and its Member States: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future”, Hart Publishing (2017, paperback 2020); “The EU Better Regulation Agenda”, Hart Publishing (2018, paperback 2020); “The Interface Between EU and International Law: Contemporary Reflections”, Hart Publishing (2019); “Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union”, Hart Publishing (2019); “EU External Relations Post-Lisbon: The Law and Practice of Facultative Mixity”, Brill (2020); “Internal Market 2.0”, Hart Publishing (2020, forthcoming).
Inge Govaere is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB).
Courses
General Courses (10 Credits)
- The EU and the US Constitutional Orders Compared (4 Credits)
Stanislas Adam - LLM Lecture Series (3 Credits)
Inge Govaere - Seminar: Foreign Chair (3 Credits)
Inge Govaere
Mandatory courses related to the main subject (15 Credits)
- Comparative Law: Function and Method (3 Credits)
Marc Kruithof - Legal Systems of the World (3 Credits)
Marc Kruithof - International and EU Procedural Law (4 Credits)
Wannes Vandenbussche - International Private Law (5 Credits)
Inge Govaere
Elective Courses (20 Credits)
Students may subscribe to 20 credit units from the following list. Subject to approval by the faculty
- International and European Environmental Law (6 Credits)
An Cliquet - Advanced Course on Human Rights (6 Credits)
Eva Brems - European Criminal Policy (6 Credits)
Gert Vermeulen - Advanced EU Competition Law (6 Credits)
Stanislas Adam - Advanced EU External Relations Law (6 Credits)
Inge Govaere - Advanced EU Institutional Law (6 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - Advanced EU Internal Market Law (6 Credits)
Inge Govaere - The Autonomous EU Legal Order (6 Credits)
Peter Van Elsuwege - Air and Space Law (4 Credits)
Frank Maes - Contemporary Issues of IP Law (3 Credits)
Simon Geiregat - Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Law (4 Credits)
Tom Ruys - EU Enlargement and Proximity Relations (4 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - EU and the Wider World: Americas, Africa and Asia (4 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - European Banking and Capital Market Law (4 Credits)
Michel Tison - European and Comparative Company Law and Corporate Governance (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf - Constitutional Aspects of EU Integration (4 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - Selected Issues: European and International Migration Law and Policy (6 Credits)
Ellen Desmet - European Labour and Employment Law (4 Credits)
Filip Van Overmeiren - European Media Law (4 Credits)
Eva Lievens - EU Social Law and International Employment (4 Credits)
Yves Jorens - EU Trade Policy (4 Credits)
Guillaume Van der Loo - International Commercial Arbitration (4 Credits)
Maud Piers - International Business Transactions (4 Credits)
Inge Govaere - International Economic Law (4 Credits)
Diederik Bruloot - International and European Biodiversity Law (4 Credits)
An Cliquet - Law of the Sea (4 Credits)
Klaas Willaert - Laws of Armed Conflict (4 Credits)
Tom Ruys - Selected Issues: Organised Crime (4 Credits)
Jelle Janssens - Mergers and Acquisitions (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf - Transport Insurance Law (3 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - Maritime Transport Law (4 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - European Private Law (ius commune) (4 Credits)
Maud Piers - European Law and ICT (4 Credits)
Eva Lievens - Human Rights in Developing countries (5 Credits)
Yves Haeck - Human Rights in the Americas (4 Credits)
Clara Burbano Herrera - Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic (8 Credits)
Eva Brems - Moot Court: International Commercial Arbitration (12 Credits)
Maud Piers - Moot Court: European Law (12 Credits)
Inge Govaere - Moot Court: Public International Law (12 Credits)
Frank Maes - Moot court law of armed conflicts (6 Credits)
Tom Ruys - Pax Moot Court (6 Credits)
Jinske Verhellen - Data Ethics (4 Credits)
Mahsa Shabani - Healthcare, Innovation and Law (4 Credits)
Mahsa Shabani
Master Dissertation (15 Credits)