Our teaching and research focus on the social function and relevance of law: from contracts in the platform economy to the new way of working, from colonial injustice to medical liability, from family reunification to civil participation, from sex offenses to ransomware.
Established in 1880 as one of the three constituent faculties, the Faculty of Law has been at the forefront of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s mission of societal development and spirit of public service. Amongst our alumni are a number of prime-ministers and senior judges, most prominently Peter Kooijmans, minister of State and Justice in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to who our research institute is named after: Kooijmans Institute for Law and Governance.