Business and Law

The mission of the Research Programme Business & Law is to perform high-quality legal-scientific research concerning the relationship between Business and Law. Within the Faculty of Law research is carried out on European law, tax law and economic law (including commercial law, company law and financial law) and the patrimonial aspects of family law. Merging these research strands into one research programme with a strong focus on Business and Law has considerable added value. This includes, among others, an increased coherence between research results and higher research visibility following the fact that researchers' publications, books doctoral thesises and research projects are embedded in the programme. The same applies to conferences, workshops and congresses.

The Research Program

Within the law faculty, research is performed on European law, tax law, economic law(including commercial law, company law and financial law) and the patrimonial aspects of family law. The merging of this research into one Research Group with a strong focus on “Business and law” has many concrete advantages.
Research results that fit in the framework of the coordinating program get a (more) clear-cut profile and coherence. Subsequently, the visibility of both the program and the individual researchers profits from the inclusion of articles, books, dissertations and research projects in the Research Program. This also applies to the organization of a workshop, conference or congress.
The Research Program is placed on the cutting edge of European, fiscal and economic law and ties in with the broad notion of a business, in a functional, non-normative manner. This firstly includes market-bound companies, governmental companies and non-profit organizations that perform economic activities.
The Research Program also encompasses the legal statute of companies and family fortunes that are exploited as a business. The program does not primarily focus on the family as such. The law with a specific meaning for the business is the central point.

Requirements

• Applicants must hold a master’s degree
• TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language): minimum score of 550 for the paper-based test or 79 for the Internet-based test. Information about this test is available at the TOEFL-website. IOB does not accept the TOEFL ITP.
• IELTS (International English Language Testing System): minimum score of 6.5 and a minimum score of 6.0 on each component. Information about this test is available at the IELTS-website.
• A copy of your valid passport or identity card/a curriculum vitae
• A motivation letter
• A legalised copy of your degree certificate (please read more information on legalisation)
• Applicants that are enrolled in the final year should submit an original and signed letter from their college or university confirming that they are expected to finalise the program at the end of the current academic year
• A copy of your academic transcripts, provided with a stamp of the university

Scholarships

• An assistant mandate - salaried assistant; 
• An appointment to a research project that was requested by a promoter and subsidized assigned by internal (BOF) or external (international, national, regional, local) research resources; 
• A personal doctoral fellowship (eg FWO-aspirant and analog mandates, IWT grant for strategic basic research, temporary mandate (opvangmandaat) of the Special Research Fund - BOF specific funds that grant scholarships);