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Bachelorscriptie: International Business Law

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2018-2019

Admission requirements

You can only enrol for the bachelor thesis after having completed the propedeuse (1st year) and when you have obtained a minimum of 60 ec for the courses of the 2nd and 3rd year. One has to be sufficiently advanced in the bachelor courses and studies to be able to succeed at this third year course due to the high level subjects and required standards.

Additionally, with certain thesis subjects specific courses can be listed as special admission requirements (art. 4.2.1.a bachelor OER).

Description

In the bachelor thesis you will report on independently carried out research regarding a legal subject. In the thesis you have to show your ability to report in an analytical and critical manner and reflect on existing analyses and questions within certain fields of law that remained unanswered. This should be done based on the research of law, literature, case law etc. Furthermore, you must demonstrate that you can write a thesis independently to a great extent. The thesis should satisfy the criteria relating to language and form which are set in your field.

The objective of the bachelor thesis is the application and further acquiring of skills such as formulating a research question, doing research, structuring, reasoning and academic writing. Compared to the master thesis, it is of less importance which specific subject has been chosen for the bachelor thesis.

Course objectives

  • See ‘course description’

Achievement levels
Upon completion of the course, you are able to:

  • perform legal research;

  • write good legal argumentation;

  • form an opinion and/or choose a well-motivated position and express a point of view empowered by arguments.

Timetable

The timetable for the bachelor thesis 2018/2019 will be published on the blackboard page BACHELOR III THESIS IBL 1819

Mode of instruction

Lectures

  • Number of (2 hour) lectures: 1

  • Names of lecturers: t.b.a.

  • Required preparation by students: none

Assessment method

Examination form(s)

  • Written work

Submission procedures

  • See Blackboard

Areas to be tested within the exam

  • For the assessment criteria/marking of the thesis please visit the Blackboard page.

Blackboard

More information on this course is offered in Blackboard.

Reading list

Obligatory course materials

  • The ‘Leidraad voor juridische auteurs’.

Recommended course material

  • To be announced

Registration

The registration for the ba-3 thesis consists of two steps:

  • A general registration

  • A registration on subject

  • The general registration will start in November 2018. First you have to enrol through the general registration procedure. The general registration will be open for enrolment in November 2018.

  • After the completion of this general registration, students can choose a subject. The subjects will be open for enrolment in February 2019. The choice of subjects will be limited and the enrolment in a subject is going to be on a first-come first-service basis.

  • More information on the registration procedures will be published on Blackboard in October 2018. The guidelines bachelor thesis will also be available on Blackboard.

Contact information

Institution/division

  • OIC

Remarks

  • In exceptional cases and under certain conditions the bachelor thesis can be written in another semester. Extensive stays abroad are an example –according to article 3.1 of the ‘Onderwijs- en Examenregeling Bachelor Rechtsgeleerdheid’. More information can be found in the booklet on staying abroad.