Autumn semester

Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

In this course, we will discuss the history of law in Europe and compare different European legal traditions, for example the relationship between the civil law and common law traditions and the relationship between common laws and local laws. We will also make comparisons, with historical explanations, between European law and some legal cultures outside Europe. An overview of the history of law in Europe will be provided, and we will also go deeper into some more specific topics such as principles of private law, or institutions such as courts.

The topic will be introduced through lectures and seminars. A couple of special features will be highlighted through lectures and projects. Within the projects, the students will study texts and work in groups with various theoretical problems and questions. In this way students from different countries and legal traditions will be able to contribute to the deepened understanding of European legal history.

During the second part of the course, the students will write an essay, based on a theoretical problem, concerning a comparative and historical topic.

Programme Administrator: Ida Ragnarsson ida [dot] ragnarsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Professor Martin Sunnqvist

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of Criminal Law and 7,5 ECTS of  Public International Law.

Course description

This course provides a solid introduction to crimes under international law and their prosecution at international tribunals. The teaching is built upon a combination of traditional lectures, seminars led by the instructor and students, negotiation exercises, tutorials on and presentation a research question of the student's own choosing as well as evaluation in panels composed of fellow students. The acquisition of knowledge and skill is dependent on an active participation in compulsory sessions and group work, in addition to attendance at lectures and independent research.

The course is based on one main textbook and part of the skill training of the course is the search for additional material relevant for one's research. The grade of the course is based on performance in class, short written exams, a written paper and an oral exam. This course is particulary suited to students who intend to pursue a career in international criminal law as well as students who aim at academic research.

Programme Administrator: Hans Liepack hans [dot] liepack [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Senior lecturer Christoffer Wong

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

This course covers EU law and policies surrounding AI, Big data and digitalization in society and data-driven business models. Innovation and the use of emerging digital technologies, such as AI, robotics, machine learning, text data mining and big data analytics are becoming major considerations for companies, consumers and regulators alike in the fast-growing technological driven economies of Europe. Due to the nature of such type of innovation, a considerable number of legal, moral, and ethical issues have emerged. These include for example, cyber-security, data protection, IP and technology ownership, competition law issues and accountability of firms for the use of AI and big data.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate professor Ana Nordberg

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of international law.

Course description

This course centres on the international law on the use of force by states (the jus ad bellum so-called) and the system for promoting collective security set up under the Charter of the United Nations. The topic-area prompts a broad perspective on international law. While the focus of any introductory course on international law will inevitably be on norms created for the purpose of facilitating the co-existence and mutual relations of states, the purpose of this course is to highlight the operation of those same norms in the context of current ideas about international law as a means also for the realization of common and collective interests.

The course emphasizes the importance in modern international law of other international persons than states, such as for example as international organizations, institutions, and peoples. Below is a list of issues that will be specifically addressed:

• The jus ad bellum strictly speaking, that is, the principle on the use of force by states and the right of self-defence
• The responsibility of states for private and other agents
• The right of self-determination
• The international organization as international person and especially its international responsibility
• Peace-keeping and peace enforcement
• International sanctions
• Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
• The United Nations and the peaceful settlement of disputes

Programme Administrator: Hans Liepack, hans [dot] liepack [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (hans[dot]liepack[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Professor Ulf Linderfalk

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level, including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of EU law. 

Course description

UNCTAD estimated in 2013 that 80% of global trade takes place in organizationally and geographically fragmented structures of production called global value chains. In a nutshell, value chains are collective entities of seemingly independent actors, connected through contracts or equity ownership, and governed by a lead firm. The central role of global value chains for prevailing modes of capitalism places them high on the EU’s list of regulatory objects for reasons ranging from guaranteeing the functioning of the single market to global sustainability and geosecurity. The extent to which the EU can or should regulate global production taking place in value chains is one of the burning questions of our time, as witnessed through debates over novel regulatory instruments such as the Sustainable Reporting Directive, the Sustainable Due Diligence Directive, and the environmental and social taxonomies.

To tackle this central issue of the organization of production, the course focuses on the interplay of private governance mechanisms, public law and private law doctrine in creating a rapidly developing legal framework in which all forms of economic production operate. New forms of production, such as global value chains, digital platforms, and the circular economy, utilize novel technologies and ideologies of governance to extend the governance effects of lead firms along these value chains, far beyond corporate and contractual boundaries. Thus we begin by exploring the constitutive role of private law in forming and governing global production entities such as global value chains and their further development via the platform and circular economies. The course introduces the rise to global dominance of these new forms of production and how they can be governed and regulated.

The course further elaborates on how contracts can be used to control not only the internal efficiency of fragmented production entities but also the social, environmental, cultural and economic sustainability “externalities” associated with production: private law mechanisms open up creative ‘safe-spaces’ for both efficiency and sustainability related governance initiatives. The course provides students with knowledge on supply chain management and governance from a legal perspective and the manifold regulatory approaches that the EU is utilizing to extend its transnational reach along value chains for reasons of sustainability and geosecurity. It also provides students with an understanding of the shifting parameters of governance through contract and enables students to make informed decisions on the legal consequences of different modes and techniques of organizing outsourced production and regulatory approaches to steering such production.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate senior lecturer Jaakko Salminen

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level. Open only to full year exchange students.

Course description

The European Law Moot Court is a traditional moot - i.e. simulated court competition, in which teams of students prepare written pleadings with respect to a problem of European law and present their arguments in oral proceedings before the Court of Justice ("the Court of Justice"). The Competition consists of three stages, one written and two oral.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Professor Xavier Groussot

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

The aim of the course is to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the English Professional Legal Skills required in everyday legal practice, ranging from a basic understanding of the differences between common law and civil law systems to various specialized oral and written skills, related to both oral communication (e.g. giving an oral presentation, carrying out negotiations and master the art of court mooting) and written communication (e.g. the drafting of contract clauses, the production and use of skeleton arguments and memoranda for mooting). The students will gain insights into how they can acquire, practice and perfect professional legal skills in the English language, as well as an understanding of the practical everyday usage of such skills in various areas of legal practice.

A complementary objective of the course is to strengthen the students’ confidence in using these English legal skills in different contexts, and their ability to reflect critically on the importance of logical reasoning, time management and team work. Through exercises that improve the students’ writing, presentation and analytical skills, the objective is to provide the students with tools that are useful in both academic and professional settings.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Senior lecturer Daria Davitti and Doctoral student Evan Collins

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Master´s level
Only open for full year students

Entry requirements: Bachelor in Law (180 ECTS) 3 years.

These are courses consisting of the first year of the Master's programme in European Business Law.

Master’s Programme Coordinator: Anders Tröjer, anders [dot] trojer [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (anders[dot]trojer[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Programme administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se

Master´s level
Only open for full year students

Entry requirements: Bachelor in Law (180 ECTS) 3 years.

These are courses consisting of the first year of the Master's Programme in International Human Rights Law.

Master’s Programme Coordinator: Anders Tröjer, anders [dot] trojer [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (anders[dot]trojer[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Programme administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se

Bachelor level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

The course is divided into three main areas of activity: ordinary lectures, group work and individual assignments. The lectures cover most areas of the Swedish legal system, such as constitutional law, private law, administrative law, criminal law and procedural law.  The students are divided into groups dealing with specific items of Swedish law. The main object is to present the special features of Swedish law, such as the protection of civil rights and some of the fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of the press and the right to access public documents.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Senior lecturer Sacharias Votinius

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Bachelor level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

The course offers a broad introduction to the general concepts, sources and fundamental principles in International Human Rights Law. The course consists of 4 components: (1) The fundamental concepts of human rights, (2) the international and regional bodies of human rights, (3) the substantive rights and obligations of human rights, and (4) the future of human rights.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Associate professor Julian Nowag

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Bachelor level

All exchange students are eligible to apply for this course.

Course description

How nations act domestically and internationally is regularly influenced, and sometimes dramatically influenced, by international standards. International rules governing issues like human rights, trade, climate or the use of force in resolving disputes between countries affect the day-to-day lives of people and communities all over the world. This course is designed to provide non-lawyers with basic knowledge about the different forms that international standards can take, about how those standards are made and enforced, and above all how and why they have impacts (when they do) on what countries actually do at home and abroad.

Programme Administrator: sasj02 [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (sasj02[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Senior lecturer Markus Gunneflo and Doctoral student Ranyta Yusran

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

The aim of the course European Patent Law is to enable students to critically reflect upon the interaction between European patent law and EU economic and social policies, as well as global challenges. Such include attention to EU and national political stances, movements and trends that tend to affect legislative and judicial activity directly or indirectly.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (roma[dot]knutsson[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Associate Senior lecturer Ana Nordberg

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

This course deals with issues concerning how EU law is enforced at the national level and which remedies that are at hand if the application of Union provisions does not function according to the objectives of the EU Treaties. Moreover, certain attention is drawn upon the various types of proceedings before the ECJ and the possibility to claim for damages according to the case law of the ECJ.

This course looks at how EU law is enforced, both at the national level and in the Court of Justice of the EU. It examines how individuals and the EU institutions can challenge member states who do not comply with their EU law obligations, and what remedies are available to those individuals and institutions. It also considers how the acts of EU institutions themselves can be challenged. Throughout the course, students will engage both with detailed questions of EU procedural law and with overarching constitutional principles of EU law, such as direct effect, supremacy and national procedural autonomy. The course will also explore the way in constitutional principles from the member states' legal orders, such as fundamental rights principles, shape the way in which EU law is enforced.

This is the fundamental course at the specialisation level within the field of EU law.

Programme Administrator: Johan Jeppsson johan [dot] jeppsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Associate senior lecturer Petra Gyöngyi

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level,  including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of international law or 7,5 ECTS of public international law.

Course description

Have you ever wondered about the journey your coffee or tea makes to get to you? Have you ever thought what kind of journey it has been for so many centuries? What implications it had on the people and communities or governments in the lands far away where your coffee beans or tea leaves grow? What about the impacts on the land? 

Genetic resources are of vital importance to humankind. From the seeds that become our food, biochemical compounds in medicines, to essential oils in cosmetics, and even the rubber in the tires of cars, genetic resources are used in every aspect of our lives. 

And we knew the value of gathering biological material from distant lands for centuries. Famous scientists such as Carl von Linné and Charles Darwin knew the importance of the knowledge over species worldwide. Research on genetic resources and traditional knowledge results in innovation and advancement in science which today define our species’ resilience.

For centuries, scientists conducting research on genetic resources as well as indigenous (or traditional) knowledge associated with genetic resources had no legal obligations towards the providers of these resources or knowledge. From the early days of the United Nations, there was a visible concern over the balance between the economically and technologically weaker states with rich biodiversity in the Global South and the scientifically, technologically, and economically more advanced states in the Global North. Meanwhile, due to the over-exploitation of natural resources, the Earth has begun losing much of its biodiversity.

To address these concerns, the international community agreed on establishing the access and benefit-sharing (or ABS) system. ABS aims to fairly distribute benefits of science between the providers and users of genetic resources through subjecting access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge to permits as well as benefit-sharing agreements. 

This course will be about how the international law addresses the concerns over fairness, equity and ethicality of accessing and utilizing genetic resources. We will start by talking about the historical, social and ecological aspects behind the establishment of the international ABS system. We will learn about major international ABS instruments such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol. We will also look into how ABS works in practice and find out the needs and priorities of the providers and users through case studies and roleplaying activities. All in all, we will have a holistic approach in looking into ABS, one of the major elements of international environmental justice and of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

If you want to be a part of a critical and multi-faceted discussion on a contemporary element aiming to address one of the key global environmental challenges we face today, then this course is for you. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Programme Administrator: Linnea Lundahl, linnea [dot] lundahl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (linnea[dot]lundahl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Senior lecturer Aysegul Sirakaya

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Master´s level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level,  including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of EU law.

Course description

The course provides the students with a profound understanding of the EU internal market as a physical, political and normative space and the ongoing processes of defining its borders and boundaries in geographical and substantive terms. The internal market is the central pillar of EU integration. Neither its physical borders or substantive boundaries, however, are clearly defined but instead fuzzy and fluid. The changing membership and shifts in the Union’s competences have a significant impact on the internal market’s definition and functioning and can be both legally and politically sensitive.

The course focuses on complex borderline situations relevant to the current functioning of the Internal market. By gaining different disciplinary insights on the concepts of borders and boundaries and their workings in the context of the internal market, students will obtain a deep understanding of the fundamental characteristics of the internal market, the challenges it faces in the contemporary society, and its interrelationship with adjacent policy areas and geographical spaces. 

The course starts with a general introduction into the concepts of borders and boundaries in EU integration, before moving on to themes such as the internal market’s substantive and competence boundaries, geographical boundaries, physical borders, invisible borders, and economic borders.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Senior lecturer Marja-Liisa Öberg

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Master´s level.
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 150 ECTS of law school studies at University level,  including courses corresponding to at least 7,5 ECTS of EU law. 

Course description

The course provides an overview of the EU financial legal framework and the relevant policy objectives at EU level. In particular, it covers: i) the relevant EU competences; ii) financial instruments; iii) institutional setup at EU level. Other topics may include regulatory approaches adopted during the EU financial crisis, the EU package in digital finance, sustainability, and financial crime.

Programme Administrator: Roma Knutsson, roma [dot] knutsson [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se
Course director: Senior lecturer Annegret Engel and Postdoc Anna Zemskova

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Bachelor level
Entry requirements: Exchange students must have passed at least 60 ECTS of law school studies at University level.

Course description

The European Union is one of the world's largest and most important economies. This course will provide students with an insight into European Business Law.

The content ranges from considering the basic structures and principles of the European Union to focusing on various specialized areas of law. The course will give the students an understanding of the laws and policies that regulate the internal market of the European Union, as well as relevant case law and useful inputs from leading practitioners in the field.

Besides providing learners with a sound knowledge base of European laws and regulations relevant to establishing and managing a company within the European Union, the course also explores business considerations within a broader perspective by including inputs from leading law practitioners in the field. More specifically, the course discusses strategic and financial considerations within Company law, as well as Labour law issues such as restructuring enterprises, working conditions and handling crises situations.

The course also examines other legal areas such as Tax law, Environmental law and Private International law, and how they tie in to doing business in Europe.

The course discusses how to compete on the internal market and protect your brand, product or invention. It includes legal disciplines such as Intellectual Property law (IP law), Competition law and specific branches within Public law, such as public procurement and state aid.

The course is useful to students both inside and outside the European Union. The course gives a good understanding of European Union law while including lectures by some of the most leading academics and practitioners in the field.

The course is designed using the flipped classroom-model, which means that the lectures are web based. All the lectures are pre-recorded and available on Blackboard to enable time in the classroom for seminars. The web based lectures are paired with mandatory quizzes.

Programme Administrator: ebl [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (ebl[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: Lecturer Henrik Norinder

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Bachelor level
All exchange students are eligible to apply for this course.

Course description

The European Union is one of the world's largest and most important economies. Those interested in doing business with the EU member states must know the rules and the practice of relevant laws. This introductory course deals with the subject from several perspectives, among others social and economic. It will provide students with the fundamental tools they need in order to be able to do business with the EU, whether they live in Europe or elsewhere. Students will gain a broad understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects of European business law, regardless if they have prior legal knowledge or not. We will focus on topics central to business law and to economis analysis, such as free movement law, competition law, environmental law, trade law and state aids law. Students will also gain a general understanding of the European Union's legal system and explore the basic constitutional foundations of the EU.

Programme Administrator: sasj01 [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (sasj01[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)
Course director: senior lecturer Annegret Engel

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