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Progress Law

The Law sectorplan, which concluded in 2024, focused on five key areas:

  1. Empirical Legal Studies.
  2. Digital Legal Studies.
  3. Conflict-resolving institutions.
  4. The transformative effect of globalization on law.
  5. Reassessing public interests in private relations.

The midterm evaluation of the sectorplan was positive, indicating that universities achieved concrete results. This is detailed in the midterm evaluation from 2022 (Dutch).

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In 2024, the final evaluation of the Law sectorplan and the PDI-SSH took place.  The findings of the sectorplan committee will be announced in the spring of 2025.

Results of the Law sectorplan

The implementation of the law sectorplan led to impactful outcomes:

  • The Law faculty at Utrecht University published a book titled Six years of ERI sector plan law research in Utrecht, reflecting six years of intensive collaboration and interdisciplinary research. This book explores two crucial themes central to the legal sector: empirical legal research and conflict resolution.