Study Programme
Below you will find the courses of the Master's programme Legal Research.
Content of your two-year programme
During your 2-year project, you take legal methodology courses alongside subjects relevant to the area of your research profile. In addition, during your first and second year, you take a course on the ‘dynamics’ of legal research, complete two research projects, complete a trajectory of seminars and Methodology Round Tables designed to prepare you for writing your thesis, discuss research issues with your peers, and write your Master’s thesis.
In order to develop your individualised research profile, you are free to choose out of the packages of courses from one of our twenty-two specialized LLM programmes. This means that if you are interested in specializing in human rights, you can take the courses of the LLM Public International Law and the track Human Rights.
You can have a loot at the different research profiles and the courses below:
Please note that it is not possible to combine courses from different LLMs (or different LLM tracks) as part of your LRM research profile. Depending on the profile you choose, you may need to fulfill different admission requirements (e.g. having completed a Dutch law bachelor in case you want to take the courses of a Dutch law LLM as part of your profile). More information is available at page on Application and admission.
You will write two research projects which build on this specialism, as well as a 30 EC thesis. You will be supervised for these projects by an experienced professor or senior lecture, and you will be able to brainstorm ideas about your study progress with a tutor who is assigned to you throughout the two-year programme.
When completing this programme, you will have gained in-depth knowledge of the field of research in your preferred legal discipline as well as developed a strong set of legal and academic skills. You will also have learned to produce texts that are relevant to legal academics and to participate in a variety of individual and collaborative projects.
Educational and examination methods
Below you can see the overview of the educational and examination methods in this programme.
Academic Calendar
Consult our Academic Calendar, where you can find more information about the Master's schedule per period, course registration periods and holidays.