Leiden Law School

Sustainability in education

The university aims to expose all students to sustainability topics and issues that are relevant to their field during their time studying here. Students are educated to become academic professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to contribute to the sustainability transition.

Sustainability is a key part of legal practice and is therefore covered in many of the faculty’s courses. For example, the Urgenda case brought by the Dutch Urgenda Foundation established that the Dutch government is not doing enough to prevent climate change, which is detrimental to its citizens.

Courses & Sustainability

Bachelor

Subject	Course	Available as elective?	SDG's
Aerospace Law	Law	Yes	13
Border Criminologies: The Criminalization of Mobility	Elective	Yes	10, 16
Current Issues of European Integration	Law	Yes	7
European Union Law Foundations	Law	Yes	16, 17
Immigration, Integration and Non-Discrimination	Law	Yes	10
Introduction to Children's Rights	Law	Yes	1, 2, 3, 4
Introduction to International Human Rights Law	Law	Yes	5, 8, 10, 16
Moot Court Public International Law	Law	Yes	16
Protection of Human Rights in Europe	Law	Yes	16
Public International Law	Law	No	16
The Business of Sustainability & Law in the EU	Law	No	13

Minor

Subject	Course	Available as elective?	SDG's
Law and Governance in Africa	Law, Culture and Development	Yes	10
Law, Governance and Development	Law, Culture and Development	Yes	16
Law, Sharia and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa	Law, Culture and Development	Yes	3, 4, 5, 10
Taxing Global Wealth	(Inter)national Tax Planning and Policy	No	8

Master

Subject	Course	Available as elective?	SDG's
Children's Rights	Jeugdrecht	No	1, 2, 3, 4
Criminal Law, Politics and Society	Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving: Comparitive Criminal Justice , Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving: Criminologie en Veiligheidsbeleid	No	16
Elective: Challenges of Globalization, Migration and Cross-Border Mobility	Law & Society	No	11, 16
Elective: Current Issues in Law and Society	Law & Society	No	16
Elective: Mobilizing Rights and Social Justice	Law & Society	No	16
European Protection of Human Rights	European Law	No	16
Human Rights and European Criminal Law in Context	Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving: Comparitive Criminal Justice	No	10, 16
ILS - International and European Perspectives: Ocean Governance	European Law, Public International Law	No	14
ILS - Protection of Human Rights	Governance of Migration and Diversity (Legal)	No	16
International Law in Context: Historical, Sociological and Theoretical Perspectives	Public International Law	No	5, 10
Lawmaking, Society and Politics	Law & Society	No	11, 16
Practicum: The Law and Practice of Sustainable Development	Public International Law	No	8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17
Public International Law	Public International Law	No	16
Sustainable Finance	International Financial Law (Advanced LL.M.)	No	8, 12
The Rule of Man in the Rule of Law	Law & Society	No	5, 10

Honours

Subject	Course	SDG's
Redefining Global Governance: A Tax, Trade and Investment Perspective in the EU and Beyond	Honours College Law	8, 9, 12

Programs

Program	Type	SGD’s
(Inter)national Tax Planning and Policy	Minor	8, 10
European and International Human Rights Law (Advanced LL.M)	Master	10, 16
International Children’s Rights (Advanced LL.M.)	Master	1, 2, 3, 4
Law, Culture and Development	Minor	8, 10