Programme

In this track, you will:

• Broaden and deepen your legal knowledge in self-selected fields during a semester abroad.
• Prepare for a master’s degree in any field of law, by deepening knowledge of specific areas of law, including International and European law.
• Complete your Bachelor’s degree by writing and presenting a Bachelor’s thesis.

In this track, you will:

• Broaden and deepen your legal knowledge in self-selected fields during a semester abroad.
• Prepare for a master’s degree in any field of law, by deepening knowledge of specific areas of law, including technology law.
• Complete your Bachelor’s degree by writing and presenting a Bachelor’s thesis.

In year 3 there will hardly be any working groups offered alongside the lectures. Lectures are more interactive and preparation is necessary to be able to follow the content offered and the discussions in class.

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. In some cases, the examinations will be offered as an open book exam, to mimic the solving of cases in professional practice (so-called authentic assessment).

There will hardly be any knowledge-based questions.

The Research Colloquium is the bachelor-concluding course unit in which you will write and present your Bachelor’s thesis. The aims of this course are:

• to improve your writing and communication skills
• deepen your research skills, and
• add to your academic formation.

During this course, you will need to show that you are able to independently (but under supervision of a supervisor):

• formulate an academically relevant research question,
• set up a research plan,
• collect, analyse and evaluate relevant information and data, and
• formulate conclusions based on the research conducted.

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:

• Lectures will teach you how to listen to a broad and sometimes detailed story, from which you can extract the key issues and relevant information. This skill is very important 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 and the Research Colloquium requires you to conduct and present your research independently. The Research Colloquium also gives extra training in reading the work of peers and ask critical questions about that work.

Take the final step in your bachelor’s journey. 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.