Education at the Law Group

In order to successfully prepare our students for professional life and make the most of their time at WUR, our teaching incorporates:

• Substantive legal material
• Legal theory
• Legal skills training
• Application of legal information and skills to cases

In mastering these skills, every opportunity is provided to students to shape their education experience to their own needs. Much of legal practice revolves around questions of interpretation and argumentation. This makes a safe learning environment, where students with different backgrounds and views learn to engage constructively with difficult societal questions, vitally important. Our teaching creates such safe environmental to debate important questions such as the balancing of risk regarding new technologies, appropriate levels of environmental protection, and allocating regulatory burdens in ensure safe food and labour standards.

Thesis

The Law Group provides supervision for BSc and MSc theses. Much of the information you need regarding your thesis will be provided to you by the study advisors connected to your BSc and MSc programme. Do you have any questions about theses?

Internship

The primary aim of the internship is to gain practice in the working environment. After the completion of it, students are expected to develop different skills, like applying the knowledge acquired during the course of study or working independently. During this experience, students need to formulate their own specific, personal learning outcomes, in conversation with a supervisor from the Law Group. We ask students to work on their reports on the internship content and personal development and to submit them to our supervisors. Do you have any questions about internships?

Internship and thesis procedure

We follow the University criteria for the assessment of the thesis and internship work. In addition, we have developed short guidelines referring specifically to LAW theses and internships, specifying the steps and requirements that need to be respected. We advise you to have a look at our procedures on the Brightspace pages, Thesis Law Group and Internship Law Group. In order to be added to the Brightspace groups or if you have any questions, please send an email to theses.lawgroup@wur.nl or internships.lawgroup@wur.nl.