Education
The team members of the Centre for Law, Families and Diversity are responsible for various courses offered in several university programmes.
Our courses not only provide students with an introduction to the basic concepts of law but also an in-depth study of law and diversity, the law of persons and family law, family property law, discrimination law, and human rights law.
The team members also provide continuing education for law graduates through Gandaius Academy.
The following courses are taught by our team members:
- Basic Concepts of Law offers Bachelor of Law students an introduction to the basic concepts of Belgian (private) law and clarifies legal vocabulary.
- General Introduction to Law aims to familiarise social science students with several key legal concepts, the various legal institutions, legal reasoning, and the basic principles of several major branches of law.
- Family Law introduces Bachelor of Law students to the basic rules of Belgian personal, family, and family property law.
- Advanced Family Law further deepens the knowledge of Master of Law students, resulting in a more specialized and scientific approach to personal, family, and family property law.
- Law and Diversity, offered in the Master of Law and Gender and Diversity programmes, covers both the in-depth study of theoretical frameworks on the relationship between law and diversity, and the examination of issues of diversity across various branches of law.
- Anti-Discrimination Law offers Master of Law students an in-depth study of Flemish, Belgian, and European anti-discrimination law. Both theoretical perspectives and concrete case studies are discussed.
- Legal clinic Discrimination Law provides hands-on experience in applying equality and non-discrimination law to real-life cases.
- The European Convention on Human Rights: Theory and Practice deepens the knowledge of international human rights law, and the European Convention on Human Rights in particular, for Master of Law students.
- Street Law is a module in the Master of Law programme in which university students give workshops to secondary school students on a current legal topic. The topics address issues that students encounter in their daily lives.