Faculty board

The Dean is responsible for the governance and management of the Amsterdam Law School. In decision-making, the Dean is supported by the Board, which comprises the Director of Operations, the Director of Education of the College of Law, the Director of Education of the Graduate School of Law, the Director of Research (ARILS), and the Dean of PPLE, as well as a Student Assessor. The Secretary of the Faculty board provides administrative support to the Board.

Organisational chart

Teaching Institutes

Within the Amsterdam Law School, there are 3 educational institutes. The Amsterdam College of Law (Bachelor's education), the Amsterdam Graduate School of Law (Master's education) and the PPLE College (PPLE undergraduate education).

Each school is headed by an education director and each programme is headed by a programme director, supported by coordinators. Staff are organised into departments, the Faculty Office and the Education Service Centre (ESC).

Bachelor's programmes

The Amsterdam College of Law has 2 undergraduate programmes: Law and Tax Law. The Dutch Bachelor's programmes fall under the responsibility of the education director. In addition, each Bachelor's has its own programme director, who is responsible for the organisation, development and quality assurance of the programme. The Law programme also has an undergraduate coordinator, a director of skills education, an undergraduate thesis coordinator and a coordinator of minors education.

The faculty runs the Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) programme together with the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Economics and Business Administration.

Master's programmes

The Amsterdam Graduate School of Law offers 11 Master's programmes, each with one or more tracks. Each Master's programme has its own programme director. The programme director is responsible for all aspects of the programme, both substantive and organisational. He or she coordinates the implementation of the programme's curriculum in consultation with the education director, lecturers, department and section chairs and track coordinators. When a Master's consists of several master tracks, each track has its own track coordinator.

Academic staff

The faculty's academic staff is largely organised into departments. The department chair is responsible for the quality of the staff.

The Amsterdam Law School consists of the following departments:

• General jurisprudence (Algemene rechtsleer)
• Labour Law (Arbeidsrecht), Information Law (Informatierecht) en Law & Economics
• International & European Public Law (Internationaal & Europees publiekrecht)
• Private Law (Privaatrecht)
• Public Law (Publiekrecht: Belastingrecht, Gezondheidsrecht, Staats- en bestuursrecht and Strafrecht)
• PPLE*

*PPLE is both an academic department and a college. In addition, PPLE is a programme, which is developed and implemented in cooperation with the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEB). 

The Faculty Office

The Faculty Office supports the management of the Amsterdam Law School and provides services in the areas of education, research, finance, personnel & organisation, accommodation & facilities and marketing & communication.

The Education Service Centre

The Education Service Centre (ESC) houses the operational teaching support and is faculty-centred. The law school's ESC consists of a head and 6 teams, which support faculty and students in a variety of ways.