University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Each year, four NYU School of Law students are permitted to study in the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam ("ALS"). Students can choose from a wide variety of courses offered by ALS in the areas of international, comparative and European Community Law. All courses are conducted in English.
The Amsterdam Law School is attended by Dutch and other foreign students who have reached an advanced stage of law study (including post-graduate study). Intentionally designed with the future international lawyer in mind, ALS offers more than twenty courses with an international/comparative focus. All courses are taught by the members of the Faculty of Law.
The University of Amsterdam and its Faculty of Law enjoy a strong reputation for academic excellence. The university, which dates from the seventeenth century, now enrolls a total of approximately 25,000 students in many departments. There are approximately one hundred students in the Amsterdam Law Program at any given time. The Faculty of Law includes forty members at the professorial level. The law school is located in the heart of Amsterdam. Classroom and library facilities are comfortable and well-maintained.
The academic calendar of ALS consists of three trimesters: October to January; January to April; April to July. A special session to take final exams prior to the Christmas holidays is generally arranged so that students may return to the United States before the beginning of NYU's spring semester. A typical program for an NYU student attending for a single trimester would consist of at least 18 credit hours in ALS courses. This could be three or four courses, depending on the courses chosen.
Students will visit several national and international institutions in the Netherlands and, perhaps, Belgium and/or Luxembourg. Among the institutions to be visited are the International Court of Justice in The Hague and various institutions in Brussels, Belgium, such as the European Community, NATO, or the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Major Dutch law firms have expressed their willingness to take students who are taking part in the program as interns for a limited period of time after they finish their courses in the program.
For specific information about this program, click here. Additional information is also available at the University of Amsterdam's website: www.english.uva.nl.