Course offer
Prerequisites
Below, you will find the course catalogue designed for incoming exchange students at the Faculty of Law.
The first section consists of courses for the autumn semester (1E SEM), the second section includes courses for the spring semester (2E SEM).
Please review the prerequisites for each course. Some courses, such as modules, include additional prerequisites.
This measure is in place to safeguard students from selecting courses that would be too challenging without the necessary foundational knowledge.
2024-2025
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Dirk Vanheule
Debating Development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Divin-Luc Bikubanya
- Alder Contreras Hernández
- Leni Franken
- Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto
- Baudoin Koussognon
- François Levrau
- Denis Augustin Samnick
- Diana Tiholaz
- Juan Sebastian Velez Triana
Advanced Course on International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
Law of the European Union
Private International Law
- Marta Pertegas
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
Transport Law
- Wouter Verheyen
Droit Comparé
- Michael Traest
Legal Aspects of Working in Logistics
- Wouter Verheyen
Transnational Legal Scholarship Seminar 1
- Dirk Vanheule
Transnational Law Course - Environmental Law
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Module Commercial Transactions: Rights & Governance
Advanced Course on European Economic Regulation
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Dylan Geraets
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Mergers and Acquisitions
- Robby Houben
- Carl Clottens
Module Diversity and Law
Advanced Course Genders, Sexualities and the Law
- Elise Goossens
Advanced Course The Inclusive, Sustainable City and Law
- Koen De Feyter
- Stéphanie De Somer
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Issues of International Employment
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
Advanced Course on the EU's Economic Integration and the Internal Market
- Esther van Zimmeren
Advanced Course on International Tax Law
- Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes
Advanced Course on Competition Law
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
- Wouter Vandenhole
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
Business Contracts and Technology
Law and Economics
- Hendrik Kerkmeester
International and European Health Law
- Kristof Van Assche
Law and Technology
- Patrick Van Eecke
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
International Corporate Governance
- Tom Vos
Sports Enterprise Law
- Robby Houben
Transnational Legal Scholarship Seminar 2
- Dirk Vanheule
Transnational Law Course - Law and Armed Conflict
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Module Commercial Transactions & Disputes
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Dilyara Nigmatullina
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Cedric Jenart
Comparative Federalism
- Patricia Popelier
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Law and the Ecological Crises
- Tomaso Ferrando
Law and the Global Economic Governance of Development
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
2023-2024
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Dirk Vanheule
Debating Development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Divin-Luc Bikubanya
- Alder Contreras Hernández
- Leni Franken
- Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto
- François Levrau
- Denis Augustin Samnick
- Hanne Van Cappellen
- Juan Sebastian Velez Triana
Advanced Course on International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
International Family Law
- Thalia Kruger
- Frederik Swennen
Law of the European Union
Private International Law
- Marta Pertegas
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
Transport Law
- Wouter Verheyen
Droit Comparé
- Michael Traest
Transnational Legal Scholarship Seminar 1
- Dirk Vanheule
Transnational Law Course - Environmental Law
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Module Commercial Transactions: Rights & Governance
Advanced Course on European Economic Regulation
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Dylan Geraets
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Mergers and Acquisitions
- Robby Houben
- Carl Clottens
Module Diversity and Law
Advanced Course Genders, Sexualities and the Law
- Elise Goossens
Advanced Course The Inclusive, Sustainable City and Law
- Koen De Feyter
- Stéphanie De Somer
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Issues of International Employment
- Bartłomiej Bednarowicz
- Ane Fernandez de Aranguiz
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
Advanced Course on the EU's Economic Integration and the Internal Market
- Esther van Zimmeren
Advanced Course on International Tax Law
- Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes
Advanced Course on Competition Law
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Cedric Jenart
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
Business Contracts and Technology
Global Justice
- Tomaso Ferrando
- Leni Franken
- François Levrau
Law and Economics
- Hendrik Kerkmeester
International and European Health Law
- Kristof Van Assche
Law and Technology
- Patrick Van Eecke
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
International Corporate Governance
- Tom Vos
Sports Enterprise Law
- Robby Houben
Transnational Legal Scholarship Seminar 2
- Dirk Vanheule
Transnational Law Course - Law and Armed Conflict
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Module Commercial Transactions & Disputes
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Dilyara Nigmatullina
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Cedric Jenart
Comparative Federalism
- Patricia Popelier
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Law and the Ecological Crises
- Tomaso Ferrando
Law and the Global Economic Governance of Development
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
2022-2023
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Dirk Vanheule
Debating development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Ivan Ashaba
- Alder Contreras Hernández
- Leni Franken
- Stephanie Garcidueñas Nieto
- François Levrau
- Denis Augustin Samnick
- Hanne Van Cappellen
- Juan Sebastian Velez Triana
Advanced course on International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
International Family Law
- Thalia Kruger
- Frederik Swennen
Law of the European Union
Private International Law
- Marta Pertegas
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
Transport Law
- Wouter Verheyen
Droit Comparé
- Michael Traest
Transnational Law Course - Law and Sustainability
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Transnational Law Course - Law and Governance
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Module Commercial Transactions: Rights & Governance
Advanced Course on European Economic Regulation
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Dylan Geraets
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Mergers and Acquisitions
- Robby Houben
- Carl Clottens
Module Diversity and Law
Advanced Course Genders, Sexualities and the Law
- Elise Goossens
Advanced Course The Inclusive, Sustainable City and Law
- Koen De Feyter
- Stéphanie De Somer
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Issues of International Employment
- Herwig Verschueren
- Bartłomiej Bednarowicz
- Ane Fernandez de Aranguiz
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
Advanced Course on the EU's Economic Integration and the Internal Market
- Esther van Zimmeren
Advanced Course on International Tax Law
- Anne Van de Vijver
- Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes
Advanced Course on Competition Law
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Cedric Jenart
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
Business Contracts and Technology
Global justice
- Tomaso Ferrando
- Leni Franken
- François Levrau
Law and Economics
- Hendrik Kerkmeester
International and European Health Law
- Steven Lierman
- Kristof Van Assche
Law and Technology
- Patrick Van Eecke
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
International Corporate Governance
- Tom Vos
Sports Enterprise Law
- Robby Houben
Summer School: Animal Law
- Frederik Swennen
- Eva Bernet Kempers
Module Commercial Transactions & Disputes
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
- Dilyara Nigmatullina
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen
- Inge Van de Plas
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
- Maaike Geuens
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Cedric Jenart
Comparative Federalism
- Patricia Popelier
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Local Perspectives on Law and Development
- Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Law and the Global Economic Governance of Development
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
2021-2022
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Dirk Vanheule
Debating development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Ivan Ashaba
- Leni Franken
- Mark Marvin Kadigo
- François Levrau
- Réginas Ndayiragije
- Denis Augustin Samnick
- Hanne Van Cappellen
- Juan Sebastian Velez Triana
Advanced course on International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
International Family Law
- Thalia Kruger
- Frederik Swennen
Law and Economics
- Hendrik Kerkmeester
Law of the European Union
Private International Law
- Marta Pertegas
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
Transport Law
- Wouter Verheyen
Droit Comparé
- Michael Traest
Module Commercial Transactions: Rights & Governance
Advanced Course on European Competition Law in Context
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Ines Willemyns
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
- Devanshi Saxena
International Mergers and Acquisitions
- Robby Houben
- Carl Clottens
Module Diversity and Law
Advanced Course Genders, Sexualities and the Law
- Frederik Swennen
- Pieter Cannoot
Advanced Course The Inclusive, Sustainable City and Law
- Koen De Feyter
- Stéphanie De Somer
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Issues of International Employment
- Herwig Verschueren
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
Advanced Course on the EU's Economic Integration and the Internal market
- Esther van Zimmeren
Advanced Course on International Tax Law
- Anne Van de Vijver
- Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Cedric Jenart
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
Global justice
- Tomaso Ferrando
- Leni Franken
- François Levrau
International and European Health Law
- Steven Lierman
Law and Technology
- Patrick Van Eecke
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
Transnational Law Course on Law and Governance
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Transnational Law Course on Persons, Goods and Contracts
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Transnational Law Course on Constitutionalism and Human Rights
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
Transnational Law Course on Animal Rights
- Frederik Swennen
- Johan Van de Voorde
- Eva Bernet Kempers
Business Contracts and Technology
Themacollege: Short-termism or long-termism in the Belgian corporate landscape?
- Tom Vos
Module Commercial Transactions & Disputes
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Marta Pertegas
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
- Thomas Yaw Voets
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Cedric Jenart
Comparative Federalism
- Patricia Popelier
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Local Perspectives on Law and Development
- Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Law and the Global Economic Governance of Development
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
2020-2021
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Dirk Vanheule
- Frédéric Vanneste
Debating development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Ivan Ashaba
- Leni Franken
- Mark Marvin Kadigo
- François Levrau
- Réginas Ndayiragije
- Denis Augustin Samnick
- Hanne Van Cappellen
- Juan Sebastian Velez Triana
Advanced course on International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
International Family Law
- Thalia Kruger
- Frederik Swennen
Law and Economics
- Hendrik Kerkmeester
Law of the European Union
- Federica Baldan
- Jan Blockx
- Maja Sahadzic
Private International Law
- Marta Pertegas
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
Transport Law
- Wouter Verheyen
- Michael Traest
Module Commercial Transactions: Rights & Governance
Advanced Course on European Competition Law in Context
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Carlo Cantore
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
- Devanshi Saxena
International Mergers and Acquisitions
- Robby Houben
Module Diversity and Law
Advanced Course Genders, Sexualities and the Law
- Pieter Cannoot
- Frederik Swennen
Advanced Course The Inclusive, Sustainable City and Law
- Koen De Feyter
- Stéphanie De Somer
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Issues of International Employment
- Herwig Verschueren
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
- Federica Baldan
- Jan Blockx
- Maja Sahadzic
Advanced Course on the EU's Economic Integration and the Internal market
- Esther van Zimmeren
Advanced Course on International Tax Law
- Anne Van de Vijver
- Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
Global justice
- Tomaso Ferrando
- Leni Franken
- François Levrau
International and European Health Law
- Steven Lierman
Law and Technology
- Patrick Van Eecke
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
Transnational Law Course on Law and Governance
- - NNB
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
- Dirk Vanheule
- - NNB
- Dirk Vanheule
Module Commercial Transactions & Disputes
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Marta Pertegas
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Patricia Popelier
Comparative Federalism
- Erika Arban
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
- Koen De Feyter
- - NNB
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Local Perspectives on Law and Development
- Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
Law and the Global Economic Governance of Development
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
2019-2020
First semester (Autumn: September – January)
Law of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
- Johan Meeusen
- Esther van Zimmeren
Constitutional Principles and Human Rights
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Dirk Vanheule
- Frédéric Vanneste
Private International Law
- Johan Meeusen
Public International Law and International Enforcement
- Koen De Feyter
- Qerim Qerimi
International Criminal Law
- Steven Dewulf
- Chris Van Den Wyngaert
Comparative Tax Law
- Anne Van de Vijver
Semester Paper 1
- Dirk Vanheule
Debating Development
- Gert Van Hecken
- Janus Verrelst
- Ivan Ashaba
- Leni Franken
- François Levrau
- Réginas Ndayiragije
- Sarah Vancluysen
- Cassandra Vet
Module Private Autonomy
Module courses can be chosen if the student has previously acquired the specified prerequisite knowledge at his/her home university, or the University of Antwerp course mentioned under the prerequisites. As an exception, only the course Law of the European Union may be followed simultaneously with a course where it is marked a prerequisite.
Advanced Course on International Family Law
- Thalia Kruger
- Frederik Swennen
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Marta Pertegas
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International and European Health Law
- Steven Lierman
Module Law and International Business
Module courses can be chosen if the student has previously acquired the specified prerequisite knowledge at his/her home university, or the University of Antwerp course mentioned under the prerequisites. As an exception, only the course Law of the European Union may be followed simultaneously with a course where it is marked a prerequisite.
Advanced Course on European Competition Law in Context
- Anne-Marie Van den Bossche
- Nathan Cambien
- Jan Blockx
Advanced Course on International Trade and Investment Law
- Carlo Cantore
European, International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
Legal Issues of International Employment
- Herwig Verschueren
- Bartłomiej Bednarowicz
- Ane Fernandez de Aranguiz
- Miriam Quené
Second semester (Spring: February – June)
Law of the European Union
- Federica Baldan
- Esther van Zimmeren
External Relations of the European Union
- Henri De Waele
European and Comparative Discrimination Law
European Cyberlaw
- Patrick Van Eecke
International and European Immigration and Asylum Law
- Dirk Vanheule
Semester Paper 2
- Dirk Vanheule
Legal Pluralism
- Alberto Neidhardt
Module Sustainable Development and Global Justice
Given the interdependence between the subjects, all courses of this module must be taken as a whole when opting for this module.
Advanced Course on International Law and Sustainable Development
- Koen De Feyter
- Christine Frison
Advanced Course on Human Rights and Global Justice
- Wouter Vandenhole
Law in Developing Countries
- Liliana Lizarazo Rodriguez
External Actors in Aid, Trade and Investment
- Wouter Vandenhole
- Gamze Erdem Türkelli
Module European Constitutionalism and Fundamental Rights
Module courses can be chosen if the student has previously acquired the specified prerequisite knowledge at his/her home university, or the University of Antwerp course mentioned under the prerequisites. As an exception, only the course Law of the European Union may be followed simultaneously with a course where it is marked a prerequisite.
Advanced Course on Constitutional Law of the European Union
- Johan Meeusen
Advanced Course on Institutional Dynamics in Multilevel Constitutionalism
- Patricia Popelier
- Maja Sahadzic
Comparative Federalism
- Erika Arban
European Fundamental Rights Law
- Catherine Van De Heyning
Module Private and Business Law
Module courses can be chosen if the student has previously acquired the specified prerequisite knowledge at his/her home university, or the University of Antwerp course mentioned under the prerequisites. As an exception, only the course Law of the European Union may be followed simultaneously with a course where it is marked a prerequisite.
Advanced Course on Dispute Settlement
- Marta Pertegas
- Stefan Rutten
- Beatrix Vanlerberghe
Advanced Course on International Commercial Transactions
- Thalia Kruger
- Wouter Verheyen
Harmonised Private Law
- Esther van Zimmeren
International Insolvency Law
- Melissa Vanmeenen