About Us

Objective
The mission of TILEC is:

• for participating researchers from the Tilburg Law School and the Tilburg School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University, to provide support and to stimulate joint research activities, thereby enhancing the intellectual climate for research at Tilburg University in the area;


• towards the outside, TILEC aims to belong to the top in Europe and to be recognized as a leading centre in its areas of activity also in the US.

Background
TILEC was born out of the recognition that the traditional ways of organizing academic research - along faculty lines - are no longer adequate today. Researchers in law strive to draw upon economics and yearn to work with economists, and vice versa. Furthermore, the outside world - market actors, authorities, practitioners - has come to expect researchers from law and from economics to work together, putting a premium on research that rests on both disciplines.

Given its excellent Faculties of Economics and Law, Tilburg University was in an ideal position to meet the expectations of researchers and the outside world alike. TILEC is meant to be the vehicle for doing so.

Activities
The activities of TILEC include:

• cutting-edge research in the area of market governance that is at the same time academically groundbreaking and practically relevant;
• meetings (academic seminars, workshops and conferences) to stimulate discussion, and to increase the speed of knowledge creation and dissemination;
• an active visitors program;
• contributions to first-tier (bachelors and masters) programmes in law and in economics and to the education of PhD candidates in law or economics in the areas of activity of TILEC
• links and exchanges with other high-quality centers active in the same areas.