Center for Transboundary Legal Development

Research on the increasing interrelatedness between legal systems, the diversity of actors which influence processes of law making, and the legal issues involved while working towards 'globalisation with a human face'.

Cooperation

The CTLD favours a network-model for the organization of scientific research. This means that cooperation in research is not restricted to members of the research group. Cooperation with researchers from other groups, faculties and universities - in The Netherlands as well as abroad - is actively encouraged.

Within the Netherlands, the CTLD has special relations with:

At the international level, there is cooperation with - amongst others - researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen, Caledonia, Cambridge, Catania, Chicago, Connecticut, Edinburgh, Essex, Firenze, Georgetown, Harvard, Leeds, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Maryland, Minnesota and St. Andrews, and with the London School of Economics. For more details, see the section on Institutional context and international co-operation of the 2005-2009 programme.