International Law and Global Governance LLM
Winter intake start date
2025-02-01
Winter intake deadline
2024-11-25
Learn to navigate a world in which rules and systems of governance are becoming increasingly informal and transnational. Gain a versatile and focused view on international law and global governance by investigating the impact of transnational business, migration, and global security on human rights, sustainability and environmental law, and international law and relations. International Law and Global Governance is a track of the Master’s International and European Law (LLM).
Learn to tackle international issues by looking beyond static state borders and national law. Investigate the influence of new informal rules and systems of government, such as soft law, transnational regulations, and nonbinding agreements on challenges related to transnational business, migration and global security. Get a versatile and focused view on international law and global governance.
In this program, you gain expertise in three main areas of study; international law and international relations, human rights and human security, and global sustainability and environmental law. Apart from this three pillar legal order, you can tailor your specialization(s) to match your career goals.
- With the electives, you can tailor your specialization(s) to match your career goals.
- The program offers an interdisciplinary approach and a law-in-context focus. This means you will learn about relevant treaties and landmark cases, and how political institutions, economic actors, and civil society shape the ways in which laws are produced and applied at the international level.
- All teachers are highly qualified and enthusiastic academics with additional expertise emanating from their connections to international legal practice. The latest developments and insights are continuously fed into learning, so you are confronted with topics and ideas from the real world.
- Guest speakers on a number of areas offer you the opportunity to network outside Tilburg University during your studies.
This is a track of the Master's program International and European Law (LLM). You specialize by following one of its tracks. Degree upon graduation: Master in Law (LLM) in International and European Law.
Typical courses are:
- Public International Law: Continuity and Transformation
- Global Trade and Development Law
- Human Rights and Globalization
Na studia magisterskie mogą kandydować wszyscy, którzy ukończyli studia licencjackie lub inżynierskie (studia I stopnia), studia magisterskie lub studiują na ostatnim roku studiów I-stopnia. Studia, które planujesz powinny mieć zbliżony profil do tych obecnych lub ukończonych, ponieważ w procesie rekrutacji kluczowa jest ich zgodność programowa.
- Wykaz punktów ECTS – osoby, które są jeszcze w trakcie studiów, muszą załączyć wypis punktów ECTS, w którym będzie wykazane, jakie przedmioty były realizowane na studiach oraz ile punktów za nie otrzymano.
- Dyplom ukończenia studiów licencjackich lub inżynierskich – jeśli jesteś absolwentem wyższej uczelni, nie potrzebujesz wypisu, wystarczy załączyć dyplom ukończenia studiów wraz z suplementem (w języku angielskim lub oryginał z tłumaczeniem)
- Uwaga! Każdy kierunek magisterski może mieć inne wymagania i wymagać specyficznych dodatkowych dokumentów. Przed aplikacją sprawdź na stronie uczelni, jakich dokumentów potrzebujesz!
Spełnienie wymagań w zakresie języka angielskiego można udokumentować w następujący sposób:
- IELTS – 6.5
- TOEFL – 90
You have an academic Bachelor's degree in Law before the start of this Master's program, or;
You have an academic Bachelor’s degree in Political Science/International Relations before the start of this Master’s program, or:
You have an academic Bachelor’s degree in a law related field (with a minimum of 90 ECTS in law courses).
As a Master of Laws with a specialization in international law and global governance, you are well prepared for a career in national and/or international law firms, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, diplomacy, international courts or tribunals, multinational enterprises and consultancies, think-tanks, and in journalism.
Graduates started for example as:
Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Decision Maker at the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)
Senior Governance, Risk and Compliance Consultant at Deloitte
Alumni facts Tilburg Law School
Average number of months until first paid job: 4
Employer requires an academic Master’s degree: 59%
Gross monthly income one year after graduation: € 2,266,-
Source: National Alumni Survey, 2016 | n = 163
