Faculty of Law
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The Faculty of Law at Maastricht University is a top-quality provider of challenging and rewarding Dutch and European legal education at bachelor’s, master’s and PhD-level. A true pioneer in small-scale teaching and teaching of skills aimed at a broad range of future legal professionals.\ \ The clear focus in research on European and international aspects of the law, Law and tech, and the empirical setting in which the law operates, provides an exceptionally stimulating environment for both students and staff. The Faculty greatly values its open, diverse and inclusive community that makes it a pleasant and rewarding place to work and study.
Contact details
Visiting address\ Bouillonstraat 1-3 , 6211 LH Maastricht\ \ Postal address\ Maastricht University, Faculty of Law\ P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht\ \ Contact us
The UM Faculty of Law offers a wide range of bachelor's and master's programmes. Would you like to know more about our programmes? Download the brochure for more information on the courses, career perspectives and admission requirements of our programmes.
News
Donna Yates Appointed UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime
Donna Yates (Associate Professor in the Criminal Law and Criminology department) has been appointed UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime.
Appointment of Frank Nellen as Professor of Value Added Taxes and Supply Chain Levies
The Executive Board has appointed Dr Frank Nellen as Professor of Value Added Taxes and Supply Chain Levies as of 1 March 2026. He succeeds Ad van Doesum, who was appointed Justice in the Tax Chamber of the Dutch Supreme Court as of 1 January 2026.
Law schools Zuyd and Maastricht University strengthen cooperation
Unique in the Netherlands: some credits from higher professional education in law count directly towards the pre-master's degree.
Contribute to a Voice for Children in Conflict Areas
- Researchers
Dr Marieke Hopman and Guleid Jama are launching a new research project on the role of children in peacebuilding in conflict areas.
Reducing the Digital Divide: Empowering Students to Train, Evaluate, and Use AI Text Models
The Maastricht Law and Tech Lab, together with the Brightlands Institute for Smart Society (BISS), obtained a € 100.000 a Comenius Senior Teaching Fellow grant.
Faculty in Focus
Our faculty is always buzzing with ideas, discussions, and events! Across the past period, our students, researchers, and staff have been involved in an impressive range of activities, from helping solve cold cases to organising events on children’s rights, and from exploring legal questions in popular culture to rethinking how we teach law.
This series brings together some of the most remarkable and inspiring stories. Whether in the classroom or outside the faculty's walls — one thing is clear: our community continues to explore, innovate, and make an impact.
Read our Faculty in Focus series
Education
We aim at educating excellent jurists who are well prepared to take up the various roles they will fulfil in their future professional career. Maastricht is a special place to study law. The international classroom, focus on small-scale teaching, staff-student contact and skills are widely praised.
Research
Our research profile specialises in the role of law in a Europeanising and globalising society. It is implemented in one common faculty research programme and offers space for talented researchers. There is always a close link between teaching and research.
About Law
The faculty is based in a remarkable building in the centre of Maastricht. It has 3,500 students and 360 staff members.\ \ Take the inside tour
Quick links
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Agenda / events
Experience Day - European Law School (on campus)
25 Mar
Conference "A Research Agenda for Migration Law and Governance"
26 Mar
27 Mar
Inaugural lecture Dr. E. (Lilian) Tsourdi
27 Mar
30 Mar
31 Mar
2 Apr
Blogs
Statelessness in Iran: Understanding the Challenges of Nationality and Gender Discrimination
- Law
Nationality forms the cornerstone of legal identity, determining access to fundamental civil, political, and social rights. It affects who can participate in society, receive education, work legally, and access healthcare. Individuals without nationality face statelessness, a condition that limits not only legal protections but also social belonging. Despite its importance, the complexities of nationality and statelessness in Iran have received limited scholarly attention. This dissertation addresses that gap by analysing Iranian nationality law, family law, and administrative practices, assessing how these frameworks interact to produce legal recognition—or exclusion.
Beyond Red Flags: Improving Financial Anomaly Detection under the Wwft
- Law
The Netherlands struggles in its fight against illicit financial activity. Despite its extensive regulatory framework, detection of anomalous financial patterns is no simple task due to the many uncertainties involved. Furthermore, as financial data volumes grow and fraudulent patterns remain partly unknown, traditional monitoring approaches are increasingly unreliable. In this blog, I expand on the major issues, highlighting some weak points and suggesting improvements through my research.
Cross-border Financial Police Investigations
- Law
Tracing and confiscating criminal assets is an essential part of the fight against organised crime, because it provides better insight into the financial logistics of criminal operations and "hits criminals where it really hurts: in their wallets." However, the challenges posed by cross-border cooperation in the field of financial investigations complicate the fight against serious forms of crime. Research into cross-border police cooperation and the challenges associated with it is however relatively scarce. Moreover, this type of research often focuses on classic forms of police and judicial cooperation and tends to ignore financial aspects of crime. To fill this gap, the study "Cross-border Financial Police Investigations" has been started.
Known Unknowns: A Macro-Meso-Micro Socioeconomic Approach to Uncover the Dark Number of Victims of Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation
- Law
These last few weeks, Minister Paul of Social Affairs and Employment of the outgoing cabinet has been in the news for unilaterally deciding no longer to gradually phase out the Dutch regulation that allows temporary employment agencies to deduct a quarter of the minimum wage from migrant workers salaries in exchange for housing. That regulation would decrease by 5 percent starting January 1st, reaching 0 percent by New Year's Day 2030. Paul's predecessor, Van Hijum, intended to introduce this legislation to combat human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation involving temporary employment agencies by making migrant workers less dependent onthem. Human traffickers often make migrant workers and other vulnerable populations multiply dependent on them by requiring them not only to work for them but also be housed by them. Once a worker loses their job, they no longer have a place to stay overnight.
The Decennial Jubilee of Ius Commune in the Making
- Law
On 27 November 2025, the tenth edition of the workshop series on Ius Commune in the Making took place within the 29th Ius Commune Conference organised by the University of Amsterdam. This blog entry reproduces a public address by one of the members of the organising committee of that workshop series.
Interactive Campus Tour
Watch the interactive video and take a tour of our faculty. Our student Niklas will tell you all about the faculty's facilities, study areas, historical buildings and teaching spaces and more. Choose your own path and find out whether studying at Maastricht University is right for you.