Faculty of Law and Criminology

Admission Requirements

Enrolling for this study plan is possible after having obtained one of the following degrees:

Academic Bachelor's programme rechten

Enrolling for this plan is also possible having completed the Bridging Programme Master of Laws (only in Dutch).

Enrolling for this plan is also possible having completed the Preparatory Programme Master of Laws (only in Dutch).

Overview of the study plan

De opleiding Master in de Rechten - Strafrecht (120 SP) bestaat uit 7 modules:
1) Verplichte vakken en vaardigheden
2) Franstalige module
3) Verbredende kennis
4) Reflectievakken
5) Juridische studiedelen gespecialiseerd - Strafrecht
6) Keuzevakken II: Opleidingsspecifiek en verbredend
7) Masterproef


verplichte vakken en vaardigheden

Deze studiedelen maken deel uit van het modeltraject eerste master in de rechten en zijn verplicht af te werken.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 24 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Private International Law
6ECTS credits - Social Security Law
6ECTS credits - Master Thesis I: Researchplan
6ECTS credits - Corporate Law

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Franstalige module

Dit studiedeel behoort tot het modeltraject van de eerste master in de Rechten. De student dient verplicht dit studiedeel op te nemen

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 6 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Brussels: The city and the law
6ECTS credits - External course (6 credits)

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Verbredende kennis

Deze studiedelen maken deel uit van het modeltraject eerste master in de Rechten. De student dient minimum 12 studiepunten uit deze lijst te kiezen.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 12 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Special topics of corporate income tax
6ECTS credits - International Protection of Human Rights
6ECTS credits - Financial and Economic Law
6ECTS credits - Insurance Law
6ECTS credits - Sustainability: an Interdisciplinary Approach
6ECTS credits - Trade Mission

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Reflectievakken

De student dient voor 12 studiepunten (minimum twee reflectievakken) aan de VUB te volgen. De student neemt een reflectievak (6 SP) op in het modeltraject eerste master in de rechten en een reflectievak (6 SP) in het modeltraject tweede master in de rechten.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 12 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Legal Theory
6ECTS credits - EUTOPIA Learning Unit - Legal History
3ECTS credits - Forensic Psychiatry
3ECTS credits - Forensic Social Work
6ECTS credits - Legal Theory and Practice
6ECTS credits - Introduction in Gender and Diversity Studies
6ECTS credits - Designing, Proposing and Presenting Research
6ECTS credits - Security in the Constitutional State
6ECTS credits - Philosophy of Law

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Juridische studiedelen Gespecialiseerd – Strafrecht

Deze studiedelen behoren tot het modeltraject eerste en tweede Master in de Rechten en zijn verplicht af te werken. De student neemt in het modeltraject eerste master het vak Bijzonder strafrecht op. De andere vier vakken worden opgenomen in het modeltraject tweede master in de rechten.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 30 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - General Offences Criminal Law
6ECTS credits - Specific offences criminal law
6ECTS credits - Selected Topics of Criminal Procedure Law
6ECTS credits - Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
6ECTS credits - Economic and Financial Criminal Law

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Keuzevakken II: Opleidingsspecifiek en verbredend

De student dient voor 18 studiepunten te kiezen uit andere afstudeerrichtingen. De student kiest in het modeltraject eerste master één keuzevak uit een andere afstudeerrichting en in het modeltraject tweede master twee keuzevakken uit een andere afstudeerrichting.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 18 ECTS credits.

6ECTS credits - Fiscal competence
6ECTS credits - Law of Public Enterprises and Contracts
6ECTS credits - European Public law
6ECTS credits - Legal Aspects of European Unification, Capita Selecta
6ECTS credits - European Competition Law
6ECTS credits - European Law II
6ECTS credits - International Law II
6ECTS credits - Selected Problems of International Law and International Institutions
6ECTS credits - Social Protection of the Self-employed
6ECTS credits - Social Enforcement and Social Procedural Law
6ECTS credits - European Labour and Employment Law
6ECTS credits - Constitutional and European Social Security Law
6ECTS credits - Selected topics of Company Law
6ECTS credits - International and Comparative Economic Law
6ECTS credits - Ethics of the Socio-Economic Order
6ECTS credits - Intellectual Property Rights
6ECTS credits - Partition of Estate
6ECTS credits - Health Law
6ECTS credits - Alternative Dispute Resolution
6ECTS credits - Selected Topics of Obligations and Contract Law
6ECTS credits - Quantitative criminological research
6ECTS credits - Special Topics on Tax Law
6ECTS credits - International and European Tax Law
6ECTS credits - Special Topics of Personal Income Tax
6ECTS credits - Law and money
6ECTS credits - Special Issues of Collective and Individual Labour Law
6ECTS credits - Legal Aspects of the Information Society
6ECTS credits - Tax proceedings and criminal tax law
6ECTS credits - Climate and Environmental law
6ECTS credits - Migration Law
6ECTS credits - Legal Professionals in the Digital Age. (Regulatory Framework and Capita Selecta)
6ECTS credits - Youth Law and Youth Criminology
6ECTS credits - Legal, Ethical and Social Issues of Artificial Intelligence
6ECTS credits - The Augmented Human - Health, Technology and the Law
6ECTS credits - Privacy and Data Protection Law
6ECTS credits - The Use of Genomic Data - Ethical and Legal Issues
6ECTS credits - Penology and Penitentiary Law
6ECTS credits - Police studies
6ECTS credits - Theoretical Criminology and Victimology
6ECTS credits - Legal Protection of the Citizen in Public Affairs

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Masterproef

Dit studiedeel behoort tot het modeltraject Tweede Master in de Rechten en kan pas opgenomen worden indien de student zich in de afstudeerfase bevindt, maw pas als laatste studiedeel in het jaarprogramma kan worden opgenomen.

From the courses listed below, students must obtain 18 ECTS credits.

18ECTS credits - Master Thesis II: Extended Essay

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