Study location	Netherlands, Maastricht
Type	Summer Courses, Intensive - Full time
Nominal duration	1 week (2 ECTS)
Study language	English
Course code	MSS2032

Tuition fee	€299 one-time

Entry qualification	Enrolled as an Undergraduate student or Undergraduate diploma Students should have had an introduction to law. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original.

Language requirements	English The language of the course is English, so we expect a fluent level and the ability to follow and participate in class.

More information	maastrichtsummerschool.nl

Overview

Course Description
The course focuses on understanding SDG 16, and the role of access to justice to enhance SDGs. The course explains the concept, the connection to other SDGs, and the advances made in the national agendas. Later, the course provides a socio-legal approach to explain how access to justice was incorporated into international and national law, especially to secure access to justice for all. Then the course focuses on the current empirical evidence on how different groups experience their right to access to justice. At this stage, the course also includes a session on the type of methods that have been used to understand the relation between access to justice and vulnerable groups. The course will be composed of five, two-hour on-campus interactive lectures.

Goals
By the end of the course, the students are expected to:
• Understand the role of access to justice within the SDGs;
• Understand and judge how access to justice for vulnerable groups has been incorporated in international law;
• Understand and judge how access to justice for vulnerable groups has been incorporated in domestic law;
• Distinguish the different methodologies that have been used to understand the relation between access to justice and vulnerable groups.

Teaching Methods
Interactive Class

Assessment Methods
Participation

Course Coordinator
Mindel van de Laar & Julieta Marotta via UNU-Merit