Law & Economics summer courses

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the cartel prohibition in the EU. From laying out the foundational knowledge about cartels within European competition law, introduci...

Blockchain is the biggest challenge faced by antitrust law in the last 20 years. The core features of this technology create numerous issues for our legal systems to the point of endangering them. Thi...

Interested in learning about human rights? This one-week introduction course focuses on the major features of international human rights law. It begins by examining the philosophical and political bas...

The Public International Law course will look at the role of international law in responding to today's global challenges. Together, we will examine the nature and function of international law, its s...

In a referendum on the 23rd of June 2016, a small majority (52%) of British voters supported the British exit from the European Union. This was no surprise, as levels of support for EU membership have...

Some say we need ‘borders instead of human rights’. That refugees do not deserve rights. Others think that human rights are ‘not enough’, or that they only serve the neoliberal elite now. What is for ...

Is Europe in crisis? This one-week summer course on EU integration discusses the major tensions, dilemmas and challenges underpinning contemporary events in the EU. Participants will debate national s...

Oceans are essential for maintaining life on earth. Their resources are increasingly important to the world economy; 90% of international trade is seaborne. The current regime for the oceans is built ...

The financial crisis of 2008 shook up the world and was coined as the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s Great Depression. Only a year later, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis destabilized the f...

This course provides participants with applied research methods to clearly identify and effectively address local policy issues in the context of developing countries and emerging economies. Coming up...

Failing Corporate governance of financial institutions has often been mentioned as an important cause of the crisis. Consequently, having a deeper understanding how Corporate boards are formed and how...

Many executives say they use M&A as a means to consolidate or expand the market position of their firm or increase its production efficiency. Most mergers and acquisitions, however, fail to create...

Connecting students and universities from China and Europe.International relations are shifting as multilateral trade and cooperation are being renegotiated by the US and UK. Meanwhile, China is launc...

The course Introduction to Econometrics using Stata is in particular useful for students who lack a sufficient basic knowledge of statistics, regression analyses and/or Stata. During the course studen...

Students will learn how issues of sustainability are dealt with in the legal order at the international, national and EU levels. The summer school will address how the law can buttress sustainability ...

Do you want to start your bachelor Economics and Business Economics in Utrecht (or elsewhere) with more self confidence and a renewed insight in the relevant mathematical knowledge? Then the Summer Sc...

Are you interested in the role of law in international affairs, and in particular in the way States make use of the law to cooperate in the shared exploitation of the oceans? This intensive and intera...

This course deals with the highlights of Law & Economics and Europe. In the first part of this course, European Competition Law and its relationship with the economy are discussed. In the second p...

Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions (M and A) provide excellent case studies for Law and Economics. This special track deals with these two subjects. We will deal with the underlying causes of t...