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
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 (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.
- European Law: The Basics (3 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon
Core Elective Courses
Students may subscribe to not less than 35 and not more than 38 credit units from the following list. Subject to approval by the faculty.
- International and European Environmental Law (6 Credits)
An Cliquet - Selected Topics of International Human Rights Law (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 in EU Law (3 Credits) - Course will not be given in AY 2020-2021
Inge Govaere - Contemporary Issues in European and Comparative Law (3 Credits)
Hans De Wulf - Contemporary Issues of IP Law (3 Credits)
Hans De Wulf / Eric De Gryse - Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in International Law (4 Credits)
Tom Ruys - EU Enlargement and Proximity Relations (4 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - EU External Relations: Selected Topics (4 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - EU Justice and Home Affairs (4 Credits) - Course will not be given in AY 2019-2020
Gert Vermeulen - 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 - Comparative Contract Law (4 Credits) - Course will not be given in AY 2020-2021
Ignace Claeys - European Labour and Employment Law (4 Credits) - Course will not be given in AY 2020-2021
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)
Jacques Bourgeois - International Commercial Arbitration (4 Credits)
Maud Piers - International Business Transactions (4 Credits)
Johan Erauw - International Economic Law (4 Credits)
Diederik Bruloot - International and European Biodiversity Law (4 Credits)
An Cliquet - Law of the Sea (4 Credits)
Frank Maes - Laws of Armed Conflict (4 Credits)
Tom Ruys - Maritime Transport Law (4 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - Selected Issues: Organised Crime (4 Credits)
Jelle Janssens - Mergers and Acquisitions (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf - Transport Insurance Law (4 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - Transport Law (4 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - European Private Law (ius commune) (4 Credits)
Maud Piers - European Law and ICT (4 Credits)
Eva Lievens - Advanced European and international asylum and migration law and policy (6 Credits)
Ellen Desmet - Legal Clinic: Human Rights (4 Credits)
Eva Brems - Moot Court: International Commercial Arbitration (12 Credits) - Course will not be given in AY 2019-2020
Maud Piers - Moot Court: European Law (12 Credits)
Inge Govaere - Moot Court: Public International Law (12 Credits)
Frank Maes - Dare to Venture (4 Credits)
Johan Verrue - Dare to Start (3 Credits)
Frank Gielen
Master Dissertation (15 Credits)