Tilburg Law School

Tilburg Law School offers highly-ranked national and international education and research in law and public administration.

European and International Public Law

Welcome to the website of the European- and International Public Law department(EIP). EIP is one of the nine departments of the Faculty of Law of Tilburg University and offers Bachelor's and Master's courses in, inter alia, European Community Law, general International Public Law and Human Rights Law. In addition, throughout the academic year, several seminars will be given by several law professors from outside Tilburg. In these seminars, contemporary topics in the area of European- and International Law will be studied in depth. To stay informed on upcoming EIP events, please check the announcements below regularly.

EIP also houses many talented - junior and senior - researchers of European- and International Law. All EIP staff members are active within the Center for Transboundary Legal Development (CTLD). For more information on CTLD research, please click here.

Announcements
  • International Law: Guest Seminars 2011-2012 600258 All information about the master course International Law: Guest seminars can be found here
  • Summercourse in South Africa 2011-2012 In the third year of the BA-IER all students have to write their BA-thesis. In the BA-IER this is linked with a practical experience that preferable takes place outside the Netherlands. The practical experience can exist of a traineeship, participation in a study trip that is organised by the department or participation in the summer/wintercourse. In the academic year 2011-2012 the Department European and International Public Law in cooperation with North-West University, South Africa will organise a summer/winter course on human security. This summer/wintercourse will deepen your knowledge and understanding of modern-day challenges to human security. The course will be hosted by the Law Faculty of North West University at the Potchefstroom campus and is scheduled to be held during the summer in South Africa from 11-21 January 2012.
  • Philip Jessup Moot Court Competition For everybody who is interested in participating in prestigious moot court competition Philip Jessup.
  • Statelessness Programme The Statelessness Programme is a new programme within the EIP department, launched in the spring of 2011 to fulfil the need for a sustainable centre of expertise, which is dedicated to research, training and outreach in the fascinating field of statelessness. During the 2011-2012 academic year, the Statelessness Programme will be offering an English language elective course for undergraduate students entitled "Nationality, Statelessness and Human Rights". And our first public event in Tilburg will be a symposium entitled ‘Voiceless, Faceless, Stateless’ which will take place on Thursday 3 November.
  • On Monday 12 December our Law School will organize a colloquium together with the University of Nottingham here on our campus. The idea is to get to know our colleagues form the School of Law of the University of Nottingham and to exchange ideas concerning both research and teaching. The colloquium will address the way in which international law is taught at our universities, the role of history in international law and, finally, the fragmentation of international law. Attached you will find the programme. Don't miss this unique opportunity to share experience and learn from our British colleagues. Please register at frw.eip.secretariaat@uvt.nl.