MICS Education

Our teaching staff is actively involved in a number of Bachelor and Master programs at UM including the BA and MA in Dutch law and international programs like the Master’s Programme Forensics, Criminology and Law, the Master’s Forensic Psychology as well as in the Bachelor programs at the European law school and the Maastricht University College.

Students at UM Faculty of Law comprise a variety of nationalities. This diversity is lso reflected in our teaching staff coming from various national and academic backgrounds. Teaching at MICS integrates legal and criminological education with a strong practitioner’s focus. Our teaching philosophy is based on the requirements and needs of modern criminal justice professionals: these requirements combine solid theoretical knowledge of criminal law and its impact on society as well as practical and social skills. All our courses are conceptualized to integrate academic and professional competencies while keeping an international perspective.

While bachelor courses in criminal law are embedded in a case based project management concept our Masters courses are taught by dedicated academics and criminal law practitioners including judges, lawyers and forensic experts.  Students are from very early on offered the opportunity to contribute to the work of MICS for example by interning in research projects, tutoring in criminal law courses or analyzing cold murder cases in our cold case project.      

MICS welcomes PhD researchers from different academic and national backgrounds. We put great value on innovative research projects on a wide range of topics and offer a thriving and inspiring scientific community.  Maastricht University is proud of its international environment and although we encourage to learn Dutch, English remains the working language. PhD candidates at MICS are employees and full members of our institute for a usual period of 3-5 years. While earning a salary and not having to pay tuition fees this highly competitive PhD program allows candidates to focus on research while taking over a limited amount of teaching obligations. A successfully completed PhD is considered a first stepping stone for a career in academia inside and outside of the Netherlands but former candidates have also transitioned in to a variety of professions such as EU institutions or more classical legal professions. 

If you are passionate about criminal law, criminology or a related field and interested in conducting research in an international environment we invite you to apply for a PhD-Position at MICS. Beside your qualifications, we particularly value the quality of your research proposal and how it fits into MICS research profile.