Master of Laws

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The Master's

The Bologna spirit is alive for law students too! After studying your own national law at LL.B. level at your home university, you can now obtain your Master’s degree at one of the oldest and yet most innovative law faculties in Europe. This will allow you to graduate as a truly global lawyer in a genuinely European environment.

My profile

The student of the Master's programme:

• has basic knowledge of local, European and international law and has a general understanding of the mutual relationship between these three systems of law
• is capable of situating law in its social, historic and geographical context and is capable of subjecting law to critical, reflective research
• has mastered and sufficiently extended his/her ability to reason in the abstract and his/her ability to achieve a synthesis and analysis to be able to think in a creative and law-forming manner
• has acquired the juristic manner to reason and argue
• has knowledge of sources typical of law
• has core skills in written and oral expression in English{C}

Admission requirements

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Study programme

Leuven’s two-year programme will set you on an ideal course to work for an internationally oriented law firm, in a multinational company or in international organisations. Our faculty takes special pride in putting its students in touch with these future employers. The programme has a special focus on European and International Law, and offers the student a wide selection of specialisations in his/her particular area of interest. It consists of 120 ECTS, though you may obtain exemptions for credits you have obtained previously at our faculty (e.g. in the context of an Erasmus programme). Leuven can become your steppingstone to an interesting legal career – an opportunity not to be missed.

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Career perspectives

The Master of Law programme is a steppingstone to an interesting legal career. As experts in European and International Law, our students work in international law firms, a wide variety of public service fields at all levels of the government and in European and international institutions or interest groups. Our graduates are also recruited by non-governmental organisations and companies in the private sector.

Registration fee

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Application

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