LLB Global Law

Program 

Global Law offers a solid foundation in legal training: the program covers all topics traditionally found in legal education, such as contract law, tort law, criminal law, property law, and constitutional law.

• During the first year you will become familiar with the law through courses such as History of International Law and Methods & Techniques of Legal Research. The first year also has a strong interdisciplinary component, which helps you to develop the skills needed to collaborate with experts from other, non-legal disciplines.
• From the second year on, the program shifts its focus: from interdisciplinary courses you will move over to strong legal courses. You really delve into law. At the same time, the program will keep its unique transnational perspective.
• The third year is the time to complete your program and to get ready for graduation. You will have the opportunity to go on exchange in the first semester, but you can also stay in Tilburg and take courses offered here. Additionally, you will write your thesis during your last semester.

Typical courses are:

• Business for Lawyers
  Relate to and apply the knowledge on relevant economic theories, in particular with respect to the role of information, in understanding and analyzing the market and contractual mechanisms in conducting mergers and acquisitions.
• Law, Technology and Society
  This course provides an introduction to the role of law with regard to ICT and biotechnology, and also a panorama of the many challenges that lawmakers face in today's technology-pervaded world. 
• Perspectives on Law
  Using the categories of ‘Legal Reasoning’, ‘Legal Knowledge’ and ‘Legal Geographies’, this course examines how law and legal techniques are constructed and used by law’s professionals and its subjects.  
• Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution
  Understand the dynamics of global litigation not only in terms of the classical private international law themes like allocation of jurisdiction, but also how differences in procedure, judicial management styles and financing rules among jurisdictions shape lawyers' strategies and litigation options and choices.

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Study Global Law in Tilburg

• Become fully qualified for a great job: international companies and governmental institutions are urgently looking for lawyers who can find their way around different legal systems.
• Follow a unique program: there is no other bachelor's program in which you will study law from different legal systems.
• Already have a degree? Then you might be eligible for our fast track: get credit for courses offered in the first year, and graduate in just two years’ time.
• Tilburg Law School is a founding partner of the Law Schools Global League (LSGL), a consortium of prestigious law schools from across the globe, who share an interest in promoting legal education and research from a global perspective.

Global Law explained in a few minutes (video - 2:36 min)

What to expect when coming to Tilburg

• Why Tilburg University?
• Student life in Tilburg
• International student support
• Study in Holland

Beyond your Bachelor: Extracurricular Activities

• Join one of our student organizations. A great way to meet like-minded students and make friends.
• Challenge yourself by participating in one of the programs of excellence.
• Broaden your horizon by studying a semester abroad - an experience of a lifetime.

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Pursue a Master's degree

Most of our students continue towards a master's degree after completing their bachelor's degree. For example:

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Career prospects

With your Bachelor of Laws degree, you have a range of different career options in the legal field. In general, two prominent career paths can be distinguished.

• The first one is the path towards traditional legal professions .
• The second one is the path towards becoming a lawyer in an organization or company .

The interdisciplinary components of the program prepare you to become a key figure in an international organization, for example as the linking pin between the legal and the marketing departments, accounting or development experts in the organization. These skills are vital in other organizations as well, both governmental and non-governmental.

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Admission requirements

Dutch students can check their eligibility in the application procedure for Dutch students.

The admission requirements for this program for international students are, in short:

• You have a secondary school diploma which is equivalent to the Dutch VWO diploma. Examples of diplomas which are accepted are the IB, EB, Abitur, Swiss Maturité, etc.
• You need to prove your English language proficiency. Tilburg University accepts Academic IELTS (minimum score 6.0 overall, minimum score of 6 on individual parts), TOEFL (minimum score of 80 for the internet based test), and Cambridge English test results: C1 advanced (formerly CAE) or C2 proficiency (formerly CPE). For both C1 and C2, we accept a score of A, B or C.

Matching

On top of this, the admission process also includes a matching procedure. Through this procedure, the Global Law program management assesses whether this Global Law program is suitable for you. As this is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive program, we want to make sure this program fits your capabilities and motivation. At the end of the matching procedure, the program management will give you a positive or negative advice about enrolling in the program.

Deadline

The application deadline for the program was May 1, 2019. Therefore, applications for September 2019 are no longer being accepted. You can submit your application for the September 2020 intake as of October 1, 2019.

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Tuition fees for international students

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Monthly cost of living

Living in Tilburg is relatively inexpensive compared to other student cities in the Netherlands, such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Utrecht. An indication for your monthly cost of living (including rent, food and drink, books, and insurance), of course depending on your lifestyle:

Related Bachelor's programs

• If you are interested in the way governments cooperate in dealing with major governance challenges, you can also check Public Governance. 
• If you especially like combining insights from social sciences, law, humanities and business, check out the University College Tilburg: Liberal Arts and Sciences.
• International Business Administration may also be in line with pursuing a career in an international organization or starting your own business.