Programme

In this track, you will:

• Deepen your knowledge of specific areas of law, including international and European law.
• Explore new areas of law and the factors influencing legal development and law-making.
• Learn the theory and skills needed to design, set up, and conduct legal research.
• Strengthen professional skills and gain clarity on your career prospects and next academic steps.

In this track, you will:

• Broaden your knowledge in technology law.
• Deepen your understanding of specific areas of law, including European law.
• Expand your knowledge to new legal areas and the factors shaping law and law-making, including deepening understanding of the subject matter to be regulated (technology).
• Learn the theory and skills to design, set up, and conduct legal research.
• Strengthen professional skills and gain clarity on your career prospects and next academic steps

Also in year 2, we will offer education mainly through lectures. Lectures in year 2 are still largely one-way, though with a little more interaction. Most courses have a working group, but not all. The working groups offered apply the theoretical framework from the lectures to cases. This not only to give you a better understanding of the theoretical framework, but also engages you more with the materials and teaches you to look at the world from a lawyer’s perspective. If you want to take the most out of the lectures and working groups, we strongly recommend that you read the literature for that that week before the lectures.

In the exams you will mainly be presented with case-based legal questions, so that you can demonstrate that you understand the law and also know how to apply it in specific cases. You will encounter few, if any, knowledge-based questions in the exams.

In your second year, a research seminar will be part of your curriculum. A seminar is an educational form in which academic and legal skills are being dealt with. It has a research-like set-up. You will be conducting research, do assignments, hold presentations, and write papers. It is a training in academic thinking, which, after a thorough analysis has been made, leads to a (creative) solution of a legal question. This solution should be presented clearly and hold all possible arguments. Some assignments might involve groupwork.

The aim of the use of the teaching methods ‘lecture’ and ‘working group’ is to equip you with the skills and mindset you will need in your professional career:

• During the lectures, you will learn how to listen to a comprehensive and sometimes detailed story, from which you can extract the key issues and relevant information. This skill is of great importance when you deal with clients in the future or have to respond to the legal team of your client’s opponent during negotiations.
• In working groups (and the exams), you will be applying course material to cases. In any legal job you will need to apply the law to specific cases, which requires you to identify the facts relevant to that particular case.

The idea is that, as a student, you should be able to work more and more independently the closer you get to the professional world; for this reason, working groups are no longer offered for every course.

Some courses will involve group work. This will prepare you for a future career when you will have to work in a team.

Dive into your 2^nd year with confidence. Questions? Contact your study adviser or explore Ocasys for more details.

If you want to know exactly what the learning outcomes of the LLB are and how the different courses contribute to these, you can have a look at the programme files for each track from last academic year.