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.

Law (Rechtsgeleerdheid)

Tax Law (Fiscaal Recht)

Bachelor's Thesis Coordinator

The Bachelor's thesis coordinator takes care of the implementation, organisation and monitoring of the Bachelor's thesis programme. Besides this coordinator, there are also coordinators for the Bachelor 'sthesis at subject level. The Bachelor's thesis coordinator is the point of contact for these 'subject coordinators'.

Minor Education Coordinator

The coordinator of minor education ensures the organisation of and coordination between the minors of the Amsterdam Law School. In addition to this coordinator, each minor also has its own coordinator, who is the substantive contact person for that specific minor and coordinates teaching within the minor.

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.

View the overview of programme directors and track coordinators on the staff website

Other programmes

Within both undergraduate and graduate programmes, there are special programmes with their own coordinator.

Director of Skills (Amsterdam Law Firm)

In the first Bachelor's year, students attend the Amsterdam Law Firm (ALF) twice a week, in addition to receiving an introduction to the different areas of law, through, for example, the subjects Foundations of Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law and Introduction and European Law where the Director of Skills is responsible for the Amsterdam Law Firm. In small fixed working groups of 15 students, they learn academic legal skills and get to work analysing and solving legal issues. They learn to conduct research, ask critical questions and write legally. Together with their fellow students and a regular ALF lecturer, they apply their knowledge to cases, based on legal practice, and practise the different roles of a lawyer.

Amsterdam Honours College of Law

The Amsterdam Honours College of Law offers students a special, challenging honours programme with 18 EC compulsory courses and 12 EC elective courses. Students are admitted based on motivation and results achieved in the first Bachelor's year. 

Minor Amsterdam Law Firm

Students who started their studies before academic year 2023-2024 could take the minor Amsterdam Law Firm (ALF). The minor Amsterdam Law Firm is set up as a virtual law firm in which students can directly apply the knowledge gained during their studies and develop their academic and practical skills. The course starts as early as the 2nd semester of the 1st year of the Bachelor's of Law and continues through the 2nd semester of the 3rd year. 

With effect from academic year 2023-2024, the minor Amsterdam Law Firm will be phased out, as components of ALF are included in the regular curriculum. Enrolment is no longer possible.

For practical questions about the Amsterdam Law Firm, please email alf-fdr@uva.nl.

Amsterdam Law Practice

The Amsterdam Law School offers students an experiential education programme that is unique in the Netherlands. Within the Amsterdam Law Practice (ALP) subjects, Master's students apply their knowledge of law to questions from practice. ALP modules are offered in every Master's programme.

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). 

Department General Jurisprudence

Department Labour Law, Information Law and Law & Economics

Department International & European Public Law

Department Private Law

Department Public Law

PPLE

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.