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Research

Research groups

The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)

The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) is the research center for public international law, including international criminal law of the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. Its aim is to solidify and expand the position of the Faculty as one of the leading research centres for international law in the Netherlands and to serve as a focal point for co-operation with foreign institutions and researchers in the international law field.

The Amsterdam Centre of Environmental Law and Sustainability

The Amsterdam Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability (formerly: Centrum voor Milieurecht) is a research-group of the Faculty of Law, specialised in international and European environmental law. Its research programme focus on environmental law as a means of orienting market processes towards sustainable development. From this perspective the focus is on the problem of climate change.

Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance

The Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance has been established at the Faculty of Law as part of the effort to expand and solidify European law and governance as an independent field of research at the University of Amsterdam. It aims to develop into a leading centre of excellence for applied, normative, and interdisciplinary research in its subject matter.

Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics

The Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE), is a joint initiative of the economics and law faculties of the University of Amsterdam. The objective of the ACLE is to promote high-quality research in the fields at the interface of law and economics.

Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law

The tax law research of the University of Amsterdam is conducted at the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL). The research topic of the ACTL is tax sovereignty versus globalisation.

Bonger Institute of Criminology

Bonger Institute of Criminology
The Bonger Institute of Criminology is a research centre within de Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam (UvA). The main topics of research concern drugs, prostitution and the homeless.

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) is a reseach centre that aims at promoting high-quality research in the area of European Contract Law. Its research programme understands contract law in a wide and functional sense (the law of economic transactions) and focusses on the interplay between the relevant national, European and the international law.

Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (HSI)

The Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (HSI) evolved from the cooperative relationship between the labour law and social security law department and the sociology of law department. The institute's objective is to apply legal and socio-scientific studies to contribute towards the further development of theories related to the relationship between social, economic and socio-economic trends and labour and social security law, otherwise known as social law. The HSI strives to connect legal and socio-scientific questions and methodology with one another in both practical and theoretical research.

Institute for Information Law

The Institute for Information Law (IViR) is part of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. The Institute is the largest research facility in the field of information law in Europe. Click for more information.

Leibniz Center for Law

The research and education by the Department of Computer Science & Law has been accomodated under the Leibniz Center for Law.
This center covers a wide variety of research, ranging from Computational Legal Theory (chair held by Prof. dr. Joost Breuker), to Legal Knowledge Management (chair held by Prof. dr. Tom van Engers).

The Netherlands China Law Centre 荷中法律研究中心

The Netherlands China Law Centre offers expertise about the formation and functioning of law and legal institutions in China. In particular it focuses on the role law can play in regulating economic behaviour and balancing public and private interests.

Other research platforms

Amsterdam Circle for Gender & Law

The Amsterdam Circle for Gender and Law (ACGL) is an open group for students and members of the law faculty, focusing on issues to do with gender in law from the perspective of law and society, legal theory and positive law.

Amsterdam Circle for Law and Language

The Amsterdam Circle for Law and Language (ACLL) is a platform for those who are interested in the relationship between law and language.

Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS)

The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) is an institute for multidisciplinary research and teaching at the University of Amsterdam. It brings together the University’s expertise in labour studies from the disciplines law, economics, sociology, psychology and occupational health studies.

Research Group Market Regulation

This Research Group brings together legal researchers, economists, and political & social scientists interested in an interdisciplinary approach of market regulation. This field of study includes developments in financial markets, energy markets, labour markets, and market related aspects of competition law and environmental regulation.