Law & Economics Courses

International relations are shifting as multilateral trade and cooperation are being renegotiated between countries, such as the US and the UK, and trade blocks. Meanwhile, China is launching the New ...

How can systemic drivers of global challenges be identified? What are transformations and how do they come about? How can different forms of experimentation - across multiple disciplines - and adaptiv...

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...

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...

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...

It is with great regret that the local organizing committee decided to cancel the EUROLOC Summer School 2020 at Utrecht University. Due to the corona crisis, there are too many uncertainties to guaran...

How can systemic drivers of global challenges be identified? What are transformations and how do they come about? How can different forms of experimentation - across multiple disciplines - and adaptiv...

This course deals with the effects of European Competition Law on the behavior of businesses in the European Union (EU). An effective common market within the EU requires a fair and undistorted compet...

This summer school course will focus on the recent issues and challenges the EU's legal system encounters. As the world is experiencing change with an intensity that seems unprecedented, also...

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, i...

This course is about experimentation to catalyse systemic change and confront global challenges: (1) why is experimentation essential as we search for transformative solutions for addressing global ch...

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...

In this summer school course the focus will be on the recent and controversial issues the EU's trade law and policy is confronted with. The issues such as the response of the EU to the globally gr...

Oceans are essential for maintaining life on earth. The current regime for the oceans is built on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (LOSC). This framework convention div...

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...

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...

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...

New technologies are constantly testing well-established principles of financial law. Investors and other users of financial services can take advantage of new FinTech opportunities to have better ser...

This course offers you a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The main focus of the course is to make you familiar with the backgrounds of human conflict beh...

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 at the European Union level. The summer school will address how the law can b...