LLM International and European Law — Business Law

Business Law is one of the four specialisations of Radboud University's LLM in International and European Law — the only English-taught master's the Faculty of Law runs. It is the commercial track: EU internal-market and competition law, corporate and financial regulation, and the legal framework multinationals operate within, taught over one year and 60 EC with an 18 EC thesis. A word of warning on names: Radboud also runs programmes titled 'Business and Law' as a dual master and a research master, and both of those are taught in Dutch. The English-taught option is this Business Law specialisation.

The cohort is small — around twenty-nine students — with ten to twelve contact hours a week, which means seminar-style teaching rather than lectures. The specialisation is aimed at students heading into corporate legal practice, in-house counsel roles, financial regulation and compliance, and the EU institutions that write the rules those functions apply. Radboud names the European Commission and the European Bank among the destinations its graduates enter.

Nijmegen sits about ninety minutes from Brussels and two hours from The Hague, and the Netherlands is the corporate-structuring hub of the EU: a large share of European holding companies, and much of the continent's cross-border M&A documentation, runs through Dutch law. Studying EU business law from inside that jurisdiction is a substantively different experience from studying it elsewhere.

Tuition for non-EEA students is €18,873 for 2026-27. That is high for continental Europe and needs precise budgeting, but the Netherlands then offers the orientation year — twelve months of full labour-market access after graduation — which is a materially better post-study position than most EU states. The natural applicant is a Sri Lankan LLB graduate from Colombo, the Open University, Sri Lanka Law College or a recognised UK-affiliated programme who intends to work in corporate legal, compliance or regulatory roles rather than in litigation.