Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year. 

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Laws (LLM).

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Objectives

The LL.M. programme is a post-graduate programme. It aims at offering students who already graduated in law in countries with different legal cultures, a high profile programme focusing on European and international law.
The student:
- has in-depth knowledge of universal legal issues, in particular as they are dealt with in the law of the E.U. and international law
- is able to independently identify, analyze and solve complex legal problems
- is able to work in a creative manner with international and national legal sources and techniques
- is able to conduct individual scientific research
- is able to argue a legal argument
- is able to express himself in an adequate and universal legal language
- is able to present both written and oral information in a clear and well-structured form
- knows how to use online legal databases
- conducts legal research to help finding remedies to current social/political issues (eg. to contribute for policy makers/researchers to find the right approach for a complete solution)
- compares legal systems
- works independently (self-management during the writing process of their research work, ending in the final submission of their paper).

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint_MNM_LLM.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA-fiche_MNM_LL.M..pdf

COBRA 2015-2019
COBRA-report_MNM_LLM.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents