International and European Law

This special track within the European and International Law Master is dedicated to international economic law, the legal rules of conduct that govern the economic relations for states and regions.
Brexit, trade wars, China's Belt and Road Initiative, hotly debated trade and investment agreements, a proposed multilateral investment court – the rules that govern the global economy are changing at high speed. In the LLM programme International Trade and Investment Law, students learn to operate, analyse, and debate the international legal framework that sustains, ordains, and contains the global economy.

The International Trade and Investment Law Master's track focuses on the legal rules that govern economic relations between states and regional integration organisations. Students discover and learn to critically analyse the rules of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) and other trade agreements that keep markets open and have an impact on the domestic regulation of intellectual property rights, the services economy, product regulations, and food safety standards. Students also learn to operate within the legal framework for the treatment of foreign investors and the settlement of investor-state disputes and gain a critical understanding of its impact on domestic law and policy-making. The track includes discussion of alternatives for, and reform of, the current tr

The Public International Law track of the LLM programme in International and European Law provides students with a solid understanding of the general principles and structures of international law.
The programme allows for specialisation in diverse areas of international law, like human rights law, environmental law, criminal law and economic law.

The Public International Law track is taught by leading international law scholars with a high academic reputation and broad experience in the practice of international law. In addition to lectures, most courses are taught in smaller seminars or working groups allowing for a challenging exchange of ideas on the latest developments and academic insights in this dynamic area of law.

The European Competition Law and Regulation programme is designed to prepare students with the essential skills indispensable for a professional or academic career in business law.
European Competition Law and Regulation focuses on the European public regulatory framework, which is applicable when doing business in Europe. The European Union (EU) Treaties define the rights and obligations of undertakings and individuals in terms of the free movement of goods, services, capital and persons across the Union. Common policies operate to support these freedoms, including competition rules and policies governing corporate behaviour. The programme provides a broad spectrum of topics including European competition law, European company law, the liberalisation rules for the EU telecommunications and energy markets, EU banking and insurance directives, EU public procurement, EU social policy, intellectual property rights and private international transactions.

The quality of the programme is enriched by the University of Amsterdam's combined strength in both law and economics through the Amsterdam Centre for Law & Economics (ACLE), which houses over 20 scholars who do research at the interface between these fields. The programme focuses on the European public regulatory framework that encountered when doing business in the EU.