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Panel 1 – law
2.5.2. Private International Law and Comparative Law
In the division into teaching teams, private international law and
comparative law form the unit of international law together with public
international law. However, the researchers of private international law
seem to have closer contacts with substantive private law than with public
international law. In effect, two of the three researchers mostly teach in
the field of private (substantive) law. Comparative law is taught by only
one teacher.
Therefore, one may ask why the teaching teams have been constituted
on a basis which does not reflect the reality of teaching and the needs
of research cooperation. A more natural solution would be a joint
teaching team of private law and private international law. This could
stimulate further research cooperation between these already today close
disciplines.
According to the self-evaluation of the Faculty, “working in research
groups in-house is a relatively new phenomenon”. No such research
groups involving private international law are mentioned. However,
establishing such groups would be important for the future of this branch
of law, with a staff of only three persons.
2.6. Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
The staff in Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law is small, consisting of
one associate professor and one assistant professor, one researcher working
on external funding, two doctoral students and two other doctoral
students with a “double citizenship”, that is, affiliated also to another
discipline. The research unit has been considerably affected by the
retirement of two internationally renowned professors and the subsequent
decease of one of them.
2.7. Legal History
During the period under evaluation, the staff of legal history has included
one tenured professor, emeritus though since June 2007, one associate
professor and one extra associate professor, whose tenure ended after the
spring semester 2004, and four doctoral candidates. At the time of the
writing of this report, one post of associate professor is about to be filled
again, but the discipline has no full professorship. The other associate
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