The Ghent LLM in International Business Law allows students to gain in-depth knowledge about various practice areas and is aimed at future or already experienced lawyers and in-house counsels dealing with commercial, corporate, securities and banking legal issues, as well as international economic law.
Built around the renowned Financial Law Institute, the programme combines the expertise of its professors with that of experienced practitioners in areas like M&A, Intellectual Property and Arbitration.
All courses in this LLM focus either on EU-wide regulation or use a comparative law approach. The programme is ideally suited for students from outside the EU who need a thorough background in EU regulation and for those from within the EU who want to escape the provincial study of national law.
Director
Hans De Wulf
HANS DE WULF studied law at the University of Ghent and in Tübingen (LL.M. 1994). After a brief stint at the bar, he became a full time researcher at the Financial Law Institute, Ghent University, focusing on company law and corporate governance in particular. He currently teaches several courses on company law at the faculty of law.
Courses
General Courses (29 Credits)
- Advanced EU Internal Market Law (6 Credits)
Inge Govaere - European Banking and Capital Market Law (4 Credits)
Michel Tison - European Company Law and Corporate Governance (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf - International Commercial Arbitration (4 Credits)
Maud Piers - International Business Transactions (4 Credits)
Johan Erauw - Seminar: Foreign Chair (3 Credits)
Marc De Vos - Skills For Lawyers and LLM Lecture Series (4 Credits)
Marc De Vos / Emma Wood / Dirk Vandermeersch / Dirk De Meulemeester / Avi Schneebalg
Elective Courses (16 Credits)
Students may subscribe to 16 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 13 and not more than 16 credit units from the following list. Subject to approval by the faculty.
- International and European Environmental Law (6 Credits)
An Cliquet - Advanced EU Competition Law (6 Credits)
Jacques Bourgeois / Stanislas Adam - Advanced EU External Relations Law (6 Credits)
Inge Govaere - Advanced EU Institutional Law (6 Credits)
Erwoan Lannon - The Autonomous EU Legal Order (6 Credits)
Peter Van Elsuwege - Contemporary Issues in International Business Law: Intellectual Property Law (3 Credits)
Hans De Wulf / Eric De Gryse - European Contract Law (4 Credits)
Ignace Claeys - EU Labour Law (4 Credits)
Marc De Vos - European Media Law (4 Credits)
Dirk Voorhoof / Eva Lievens - EU Social Law and International Employment (4 Credits)
Yves Jorens - EU Trade Policy (4 Credits)
Jacques Bourgeois - International Economic Law (4 Credits)
Hans De Wulf / Diederik Bruloot - Maritime Transport Law (4 Credits)
Kristiaan Bernauw - EU 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 - Moot Court: International Commercial Arbitration (12 Credits)
Maud Piers - Moot Court: Public International Law (12 Credits)
Frank Maes
Master Dissertation (15 Credits)