LLM in International and European Law

The LLM in International and European Law offers the broadest spectrum of options available for students with an international career or research orientation. It allows students to handpick courses from a wealth of topics of European (EU) or international relevance, enabling students to create educational programme tailored to their personal interests and career needs.

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 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

Hans De Wulf

HANS DE WULF is the Coordinating Director of the Ghent LLM Programmes and Academic Director of the LLM in International Business Law. He is a full-time professor at the Financial Law Institute of Ghent University (since 2003). He also holds an LLM degree in German civil law (Karl-Eberhards University of Tübingen, 1994). Mr. De Wulf teaches various courses on corporate law, including two courses in English on European Company law and Corporate Governance and on Mergers & Acquisitions. His research is mainly focused on corporate law, but he is also well versed in capital markets regulation (including enforcement with a special focus on securities class actions) and international insolvency, on which he has also published. He is a member of EMCA, a network of professors from almost all the EU member states that has prepared a Model Companies Act for Europe and is a member of the 4-person expert committee that drafted a completely new 2018 Belgian Companies and Associations Act at the request of the Department of Justice. He is a part of the committee of editors-in-chief of the Revue de droit commercial belge, the leading commercial law review in Belgium, and has been a visiting professor at the law schools of Vanderbilt University (USA), Bond University (Australia) and Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania) as well as a regular teacher at Bratislava’s ELSA summer school on European corporate law.

Courses

General Courses (7 Credits)

Seminar: Foreign Chair (3 Credits)
Hans De Wulf
Skills For Lawyers and LLM Lecture Series (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf / Emma Wood / Dirk Vandermeersch / Dirk De Meulemeester

Elective Courses (38 Credits)

Students may subscribe to 38 credit units from not less than 1 and not more than 2 modules from the following list. Subject to approval by the faculty.

Introductory Course

Students may subscribe to not more than 3 credit units from the following list. Subject to approval by the faculty.