Leiden Law School has around 650 employees, academic and non-academic staff. More than 325 employees are involved in teaching. Together, they make the faculty what it is today: a faculty driven by its research and enriched by its teaching.

Faculty Management and Employee Representation

The faculty is managed by the Faculty Board, which is supervised by the Dean. The members of the Faculty Board each have a separate responsibility for either education, research, or operational management, and there is also a student member. Employee representation is in the first instance organised in the Faculty Council. The Programme Directors of the study programmes, the Education Board, the Teaching Committees and Examination Boards each have their own specific role and are together responsible for the quality of the various bachelor’s and master’s programmes that are taught at the Faculty. The Research Board focuses on the faculty's research policy and monitors the quality of our research programmes. The faculty has five institutes, each managed by an Academic Director. The Faculty Advisory Board, with members from the legal profession, the judiciary and the business sector, meet with the Faculty Board several times a year.

Institutes

To coordinate the activities in the various fields of study and to support cohesion between education and research in those academic areas, the faculty has five institutes.

• Private Law
• Public Law
• Criminal Law and Criminology
• The Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
• Tax Law and Economics

The institutes are split into departments; each institute is managed by the Academic Director.