Information for incoming Erasmus students at the Faculty of Law

For more information on Erasmus/ exchange policy and courses available to exchange students at Ghent University Law School, please consult
the Law School's Exchange Students' Information Sheet.
, including the course list.

The official language of study in our Faculty is Dutch.

Incoming Erasmus students have the choice to either study courses taught in Dutch or may follow courses from the postgraduate programmes taught in English. There are also a number of courses especially organised for Erasmus/ exchange students.

Please read the below-mentioned notes carefully prior to preparing and submitting your application.

I. IMPORTANT NOTES:

  1. Only a limited number of incoming students can be allowed to participate in each of the English taught courses from the Master programmes in European Law, Law and Economics and European Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems. 
    For this reason, incoming Erasmus/exchange students interested in following courses from these programmes are required to send in their applications, and course choices (Learning Agreement) well in time. 
  2. Incoming Erasmus students following courses from within the Master programmes European Law, Law and Economics and European Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems should have a good command of both oral and written English. Without it, the faculty reserves the right not to admit a student to (a number of) courses of choice.
  3. For a number of courses from within the Master programme in European Law, students should have followed with success the basic course in their national legal system. Some courses will require  prior knowledge.
    Taking into account the diversity in legal education, this means that visiting students must, when following a five year program (leading to admission to legal practice), be in their last two years, and when national law prescribes a four or three year program, in their last year of studies. Furthermore, visiting students may only follow comparative courses if they have followed the corresponding domestic course in their own university. We hope that our partners will understand these restrictions. Our own students are allowed to follow courses from the LL.M. program as an elective course only if they are in their fourth and fifth years.
  4. Deadlines: Students studying in Ghent Law School for the full year or during the fall or spring semesters should send in their applications and course choices (Application Form + Learning Agreement) by August 1 at the latest.
    For the spring semester we will accept course choices until December 1 but encourage early applications.  
    Any applications received after these dates may be rejected and cannot be guaranteed of places in the requested courses. Applications and course choices are processed on a first come first served basis. 
    All Erasmus/exchange students must check the availability of places in the courses of their choice with the faculty's International Relations Office as soon as possible following their arrival!

II. APPLICATIONS:

Incoming Erasmus/exchange students can consult further information and download Application Form and Learning Agreement  from the following website: https://www.ugent.be/en/teaching/internationalisation/docs/forms.htm

We allow visiting students to follow courses in one of our sister faculties, in case the incoming student's home university allows this. Incoming students should verify that they have the permission of their home university (faculty) to follow courses taught in other than the law faculty.