LLM International and European Law — European Law and Global Affairs

Radboud University's Faculty of Law runs exactly one English-taught master's — the LLM in International and European Law — and offers it in four specialisations. European Law and Global Affairs is the specialisation for students who want to work on the European Union as a legal order and as an actor in world politics, rather than on private commercial practice. Everything else in Radboud's law faculty is taught in Dutch, so this LLM is the route for an international applicant.

The programme is 60 EC over one year and deliberately small: the European Law and Global Affairs cohort runs at around sixteen students, with ten to twelve contact hours a week. The structure combines four law courses with two taken at the Nijmegen School of Management, which is what gives the specialisation its 'global affairs' character — EU law sits alongside political science and international relations rather than in isolation. An 18 EC thesis closes the year.

Nijmegen is an hour and a half from Brussels and about two from The Hague, which puts the EU institutions and the international courts within reach for internships, moots and fieldwork. Tuition for non-EEA students is €18,873 for 2026-27 — high by continental European standards, and a figure Sri Lankan families should budget precisely, but still below a comparable London LLM once the twelve-month London maintenance requirement is added.

The natural applicant is a Sri Lankan LLB graduate from the University of Colombo Faculty of Law, the Open University, Sri Lanka Law College, or a recognised UK-affiliated programme, who wants EU and public international law depth before or after taking the Bar. Radboud additionally accepts politics, governance, international relations and liberal arts graduates onto this specialisation where the transcript carries at least 60 EC of law courses — which is unusual, and makes it one of the more accessible European LLMs for a non-law graduate with legal coursework.