Academic Integrity for PhD's at the Faculty of Law

Course

URL study guide

https://vu.nl/en/education/phd-courses/academic-integrity

Course Content

In the course Academic Integrity ethical questions with respect to (empirical and/or normative) legal research will be discussed. The first part deals with practical ethical issues concerning, for instance, data collection, data storage and co-authorship. The second part addresses more fundamental questions about the relation between facts and norms in legal research. How can normative recommendations for improving the law be derived from empirical research? How to construe and justify a normative framework for evaluating the law? Finally, PhD students presents ethical dilemmas in their own research. After the course, they write a paper on this topic which will be assessed by the lecturers.

Lecturers:
Anne Ruth Mackor, Professor of Professional Ethics, Groningen University;
Bart van Klink, Professor of Legal Methodology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;
Vincent Geeraets, Assistant Professor of Legal Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Teaching Methods

One-day course with assignment

Method of Assessment

Writing a paper about academic integrity issues in your own PhD-research.
Academic year21/04/2121/04/21
Course level2.00 EC