Research

The Faculty of Law has a strong and distinct international profile both in education and
in research. Our faculty is an inspiring and lively place where enthusiastic and inquisitive
researchers seek to find answers to the pressing legal issues of today in a multidisciplinary
and interdisciplinary context.

Research involves studying both institutional and substantive developments in the process
of Europeanisation and globalisation and the role of the national legal order therein.

What makes doing research at our faculty so unique?

Watch the video with our former vice-dean of research, Monica Claes to find out.
Researchers are able to flourish in the faculty’s vibrant academic community. They develop their own research projects, within the contours set by the faculty’s research programme.

About the research programme
at the Faculty of Law

Stream 1. Values

Stream 2. Institutions

Stream 3. Markets

Stream 4. Mobility

Stream 5. Digitalisation

Faculty in Focus

Our faculty is always buzzing with ideas, discussions, and events! Across the past period, our students, researchers, and staff have been involved in an impressive range of activities, from helping solve cold cases to organising events on children’s rights, and from exploring legal questions in popular culture to rethinking how we teach law.

This series brings together some of the most remarkable and inspiring stories. Whether in the classroom or outside the faculty's walls — one thing is clear: our community continues to explore, innovate, and make an impact.

Read our Faculty in Focus series

Maastricht Graduate School of Law

The Maastricht Graduate School of Law offers a stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal research. It is dedicated to train excellent PhD researchers and honours students from all over the world to extend, deepen and actively apply their knowledge, so as to become highly qualified researchers.

Visit Graduate School

Agenda

Operation Absolute Resolve and its Implications for International Law

5 Feb

Valedictory lecture Prof. Dr. Phedon Nicolaides

5 Feb

Inaugural lecture Prof. Dr. Sarah Schoenmaekers

6 Feb

Bachelor's Open Day

7 Feb

PhD defence Ciro Leal Martins da Cunha

12 Feb

News

Law schools Zuyd and Maastricht University strengthen cooperation

Unique in the Netherlands: some credits from higher professional education in law count directly towards the pre-master's degree.

Contribute to a Voice for Children in Conflict Areas

Researchers

Dr Marieke Hopman and Guleid Jama are launching a new research project on the role of children in peacebuilding in conflict areas.

kind in oorlogsgebied bij prikkeldraad hek

Reducing the Digital Divide: Empowering Students to Train, Evaluate, and Use AI Text Models

The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, together with the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), obtained a € 100.000 a Comenius Senior Teaching Fellow grant.

typewriter with paper saying 'machine learning'

Milou: “Studying is still often a privilege’’

Even outside the lecture hall, law student Milou Scholten is committed to justice. As the chair of Students for Equality, she campaigns for accessible education and equal opportunities for all students.

CoCoDa project receives funding from Swiss National Science Foundation

Konrad Kollnig and Gijs van Dijck , together with partners at the University of St. Gallen, the University of Lausanne, and the Open Data Institute, were awarded a €1.2M project by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for their research project CoCoDa.