Tilburg Law School

LLM Law and Management

Information identifying the qualification

  • Name of qualification and title conferred: Master of Laws (LLM), Meester (mr.)
  • Main field(s) of study for the qualifications: Law and Management
  • Name and status of awarding institution (in original language): Tilburg University (Universiteit van Tilburg); private university, state recognized, state regulated. All programmes of Tilburg University are accredited by NVAO (Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organization).
  • Language(s) of instruction/examnination: Dutch

Information on the level of the qualification

  • Level of qualification: Graduate at academic level.
  • Access requirements: Academic bachelor or equivalent.

Information on the contents and the results gained

  • The study load of the programme is 60 ECTS, which equals one year full-time study.
  • The academic year is divided into two semesters. The autumn semester will start around the first of September and the spring semester will start around the first of February.
  • The student is obliged to write a thesis with the study load of 18 ECTS (a 6 ECTS trainee report and a 12 ECTS thesis).

Aim of the programme
In addition to the general objectives of the Master' s programme in the field of Law, the objectives for the Master' s programme in Law and Management are:

Knowledge and understanding

  • As acquired in the Bachelor' s programme in Law and Management
  • Specific elements of the chosen specialisation
  • Current issues in international and European law
  • Integrated knowledge of the legal disciplines
  • Relation with adjacent scientific fields in the field of law and management

Skills

  • As acquired in the Bachelor' s programme in Law and Management
  • Analysing interrelated legal issues that originate from various fields of law (distinguishing main and side issues)
  • Pinpointing problems
  • Dispute prevention and resolution (de-escalation)
  • Sorting out and selecting information and assessing its usability (fact finding)
  • Assessing the use/necessity of involving knowledge from different disciplines
  • Anticipating management consequences of problems and their solutions
  • Generating new knowledge (contributions to law formation)
  • Dealing with the plurality of possible solutions
  • Cooperation with professionals from other disciplines (especially economics and the social sciences)

Attitude

  • As acquired in the Bachelor' s programme in Law and Management
  • Creativity in finding legal solutions that are adequate in a broad context
  • Fitting one' s own (legal) contribution into multidisciplinary team solutions
  • Willingness to take responsibility for solutions to multidisciplinary problems

Workload
Student workload refers to the time spent in lectures, practical, independent study, preparations for examinations and the actual examination. One credit represents 28 hours of work. The basic allocation of academic credits is 60 per year of study, or 30 per semester.

The scale of the Dutch grading system is from 1 (very poor) to 10 (outstanding). The lowest passing grade is 6; 9s are seldom given, 10s are extremely rare and grades 1-3 are hardly ever used.

Access to further study
Doctor' s degree