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The UvA Course Catalogue lists all the courses of the UvA Amsterdam Law School. You can filter the list of courses by selecting Open UvA Course and by selecting Amsterdam College of Law or Amsterdam Graduate Law School.
  • For courses at the Bachelor’s level, select Amsterdam College of Law
  • For courses at the Master’s level, select Amsterdam Graduate Law School

Exceptions

Not all courses are available for Open UvA Course students. Courses which cannot be followed are (but are not limited to):

Courses of selective programmes:

  • PPLE (all courses)
  • Master International Criminal Law (all courses)
  • Master Information Law (all courses)
  • Master Law & Finance (all courses)
  • Master International and European Law: track Public International Law (all courses)
  • Master International and European Law: track International Trade and Investment Law (all courses)
  • Bachelor courses which are part of the honours programme or ALF

Other:

  • Non-introductory courses and bound choice course of the Bachelor’s programmes
  • Project courses and ALP courses
  • Bachelor’s- and Master’s theses

Military Law Specialisation track

There is a cooperation between the UvA and the Ministry of Defence for employees who need to do the Military Law Specialisation tack. For more information, please switch to the Dutch version of the webpage using the ‘NL’ button on the top right.

Teaching Schedule

The academic year at the UvA is divided into two semesters, each of which is twenty weeks in length. First semester courses are scheduled from early September until late January. The second semester runs from February through June.

The Teaching Schedule is as follows:

  • Semester 1, block 1: September – October
  • Semester 1, block 2: November - December
  • Semester 1, block 3: January
     
  • Semester 2, block 4: February - March
  • Semester 2, block 5: April - May
  • Semester 2, block 6: June

The exact time and location of each lecture can be found at the following link: