Academic Integrity for PhD’s at the Faculty of Law
Vincent Geeraets
Bart van Klink
Course Description
In the course Academic Integrity ethical questions with respect to (empirical and/or normative) legal research will be discussed. The first part deals with practical ethical issues concerning, for instance, data collection, data storage and co-authorship. The second part addresses more fundamental questions about the relation between facts and norms in legal research. How can normative recommendations for improving the law be derived from empirical research? How to construe and justify a normative framework for evaluating the law? Finally, PhD students presents ethical dilemmas in their own research. After the course, they write a paper on this topic which will be assessed by the lecturers.
Please note that only PhD’s from the Faculty of Law are eligible for this course.
Study Characteristics
- Discipline: Research
- Type of education: In class
- Academic skill: Generic
- Graduate School: RCH
- Start date: 11 March 2020 (one-day course with assignment)
- End date: 11 March 2020 (one-day course with assignment)
- Minimum number of students: 5
- Maximum number of students: 20
- Admission criteria: Targeted group: PhD candidates
- Concluding assessment: N/A
- Assessment type: Workshop and Canvas assignments
- With Certificate: N/A
- Schedule info: N/A
- Number of lessons: 1
- Total course duration in hrs.: N/A
- Sign up period: N/A
- Available to: PhD candidates working at the Faculty of Law
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Course Description & Study Characteristics
Course Description
In the course Academic Integrity ethical questions with respect to (empirical and/or normative) legal research will be discussed. The first part deals with practical ethical issues concerning, for instance, data collection, data storage and co-authorship. The second part addresses more fundamental questions about the relation between facts and norms in legal research. How can normative recommendations for improving the law be derived from empirical research? How to construe and justify a normative framework for evaluating the law? Finally, PhD students presents ethical dilemmas in their own research. After the course, they write a paper on this topic which will be assessed by the lecturers.
Please note that only PhD’s from the Faculty of Law are eligible for this course.
Study Characteristics
- Discipline: Research
- Type of education: In class
- Academic skill: Generic
- Graduate School: RCH
- Start date: 11 March 2020 (one-day course with assignment)
- End date: 11 March 2020 (one-day course with assignment)
- Minimum number of students: 5
- Maximum number of students: 20
- Admission criteria: Targeted group: PhD candidates
- Concluding assessment: N/A
- Assessment type: Workshop and Canvas assignments
- With Certificate: N/A
- Schedule info: N/A
- Number of lessons: 1
- Total course duration in hrs.: N/A
- Sign up period: N/A
- Available to: PhD candidates working at the Faculty of Law
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