Education of Law
Our education programme has been designed to allow students with a range of backgrounds and ambitions to leave Wageningen University & Reserch equipped with sufficient understanding of, and skills to operate in, the legal realities related to their professional fields of expertise. This will allow them to act as proficient users of the law and knowledgeable partners for legal actors and institutions.
In order to successfully prepare our students for professional life and make the most of their time at WUR, our teaching incorporates:
- Substantive legal material
- Legal theory
- Legal skills training
- Application of legal information and skills to cases
In mastering these skills, every opportunity is provided to students to shape their education experience to their own needs. Much of legal practice revolves around questions of interpretation and argumentation. This makes a safe learning environment, where students with different backgrounds and views learn to engage constructively with difficult societal questions, vitally important. Our teaching creates such safe environmental to debate important questions such as the balancing of risk regarding new technologies, appropriate levels of environmental protection, and allocating regulatory burdens in ensure safe food and labour standards.
Thesis
The Law Group provides supervision for BSc and MSc theses. Much of the information you need regarding your thesis will be provided to you by the study advisors connected to your BSc and MSc programme. Do you have any questions about theses?
Our thesis topics
Many of our researchers offer a research project for thesis students. Some examples of projects include:
Business and human rights
- Role of corporations in sustainability transformations
- How businesses comply with human rights
- Business and human rights litigation
- Feminist approaches to business and human rights
Environmental law
- Biodiversity
- Environmental law
- Agriculture & soils
- Regulating pollution
Food law
- Sustainability of the agri-food chain
- Food innovation and labelling
- Import
- Animal welfare
Internship
The primary aim of the internship is to gain practice in the working environment. After the completion of it, students are expected to develop different skills, like applying the knowledge acquired during the course of study or working independently. During this experience, students need to formulate their own specific, personal learning outcomes, in conversation with a supervisor from the Law Group. We ask students to work on their reports on the internship content and personal development and to submit them to our supervisors. Do you have any questions about internships?
Internship and thesis procedure
We follow the University criteria for the assessment of the thesis and internship work. In addition, we have developed short guidelines referring specifically to LAW theses and internships, specifying the steps and requirements that need to be respected. We advise you to have a look at our procedures on the Brightspace pages, Thesis Law Group and Internship Law Group. In order to be added to the Brightspace groups or if you have any questions, please send an email to theses.lawgroup@wur.nl or internships.lawgroup@wur.nl.
Questions about theses or internships?
If you are interested in doing your thesis at our chair group, but aren't sure about the topic yet, please contact mr.dr. SJ (Simon) Tans (Thesis and internship coordinator).
mr.dr. SJ (Simon) Tans
Thesis and internship coordinator
Courses
We offer courses in Food Law, Environmental Law and Business and Human Rights Sciences to Bachelor and Master students. These courses are part of specific programmes, including:
Our courses 2025-2026
- LAW12306 Commercial Law
- LAW12806 Introduction to Law for the Life and Social Sciences
- LAW13303 Essential Law for the Living Environment
- LAW22306 International and EU Environmental Law
- LAW31706 Food Law
- LAW31806 International Food Law
- LAW32306 Intellectual Property Rights
- LAW32506 Consumer Law
- LAW32806 Law for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
- LAW34506 Food, Nutrition and Human Rights
- LAW39206 Transnational Environmental Law and Regulation
- LAW39406 Law of Marine Environments and Resources
- LAW39306 Business, Human Rights and the Environment
- LAW39806 National Food Laws in Comparative Perspective
Courses with contribution of Law 2025-2026
- CPT39606 Becoming food: cellular agriculture beyond the lab
- ENP25306 Evaluation and Design of Marine Nature Based Solutions
- ENP39406 Transformative sustainability practices for systemic change
- ENT21306 Insects as Food and Feed
- FCH12306 Food Technology for Nutritionists
- FHM61312 Food Safety Management
- FQD10306 Business and Consumer Perspectives on Food Quality
- FQD21306 Food Packaging and Design
- PAP22306 Policy, Governance & Law
- PAP40806 Textual Data Science for Comparative Public Governance
- YSS38206 Grand Challenges for the Governance of Sustainability Transformations
- YSS38406 Designing governance for the future
Programmes:
BSc
- Management and Consumer Studies
- Environmental Science
- Minor Freedom from Hunger
- BSc Marine Sciences
MSc
- Specialisation Food Law & Regulatory Affairs
- Governance of Sustainability Transformations
- Food Quality
- Food Technology
- Plant Biotechnology
- Master Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management
Contact
Alumni
Have you finished one or more of the courses provided by the Law Group? Are you interested in the Law Group’s activities and would you like to stay in touch with us, as well as with your fellow students?
We have several channels through which we connect with our Alumni for potential internships, guest lectures, support, calls for research and project grants and other opportunities.
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