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• Academic Calendar 2022 - 2023
• Examination
• Teaching
• Web lecture Policy

Academic Calendar 2022 - 2023

The academic calendar of 20 22-2023 can be found here.

Please note that in the faculty of Law there are two semesters instead of 4 periods!

Semester one (Autumn):
Monday 5 September 2022 - Friday 27 January 2023

Semester two (Spring):
Monday 30 January - Friday 5 July 2023

Examination

Examination formats

Nearly all exams are held online via Cirrus.  All Cirrus exams are administered on campus in the Comenius, under the supervision of an invigilator. For more information about Cirrus, see Digital Examination on campus.

Special rooms have been allocated for students who require additional provisions. These additional provisions must be requested from the student advisor and registered in Osiris. Special provisions are possible in consultation with the student advisor.

Exam timetable

An overview of exams and exam formats can be found here. You can also find the definite exam dates and times in your personal timetable

(no rights may be derived from the exam overview; the personal timetable takes precedent). You can search and filter results in the exam timetable. The exam timetable is subject to change and will be updated accordingly.

Exam weeks Law

T1 (B1): 24 October 2022 to 28 October 2022
T2: 12 December 2022 to 27 January 2023
Semester 1 resits: 22 February 2023 to 24 February 2023
T3 (B1/semester 1 resits) 20 March 2023 to 24 March 2023
T4: 22 May 2023 to 14 July 2023

Exam (de)registration

The International Office Law will register you for the first exam opportunity. If you are registered for a course, you are automatically registered for the corresponding first examination opportunity. Please check Osiris in good time to ensure that you are actually registered. For re-sits, you must always send an e-mail to internationaloffice@jur.ru.nl 6 working days before the re-sit.

Please deregister if you decide you don't want to participate in an exam by sending an e-mail to internationaloffice@jur.ru.nl.

Fraud

Consulting a third party during an exam constitutes fraud. Fraud undermines the value of our diplomas and we take it very seriously. In the event of fraud, the penalty is exclusion from the next two exam opportunities for that course.

We believe that law students who commit fraud are unfit to practice law. We train students to fulfill honourable positions in society that involve passing judgement on others and we assume that all students want to demonstrate that they are worthy of this honour.

Materials

Some physical materials are permitted during exams. The lecturers will explicitly state in advance which digital and/or physical materials may be used during an exam. The invigilators/lecturers are authorised to inspect these materials as they see fit.

Verification of identity and registration

Participation in exams is only possible upon presentation of a valid ID. Passports, identity cards, residence permits and driving licences are considered valid identity documents. Copies of these documents will not be accepted.

If your identity document is lost, stolen or expired, you must be able to show proof of municipal registration at the student desk.  You can only participate in an exam if you report this to the Faculty of Law Student Desk at least one day before the start of the exam. If you fail to do so, you will not be able to participate in the exam.

Inspection of exams

• The time and place of the inspection will be announced no later than when the results are announced.
• The inspection meeting is for all students together. The meeting will be scheduled (almost always at Comenius or Grotius) under the supervision of a lecturer. The examination model (including the answer and evaluation form) and the student's work will be available.
• If, due to special circumstances (funeral, overlapping lectures.....), a student has had to miss the inspection meeting, the student can request an individual examination. The student can then view the examination model (including the answer and evaluation form) and the student's work, but there is no opportunity to ask the teacher a question.

Teaching

In principle, all students are expected to participate in our lectures in person during the course of the semester(s)

Web lecture Policy

For a number of courses that the Faculty of Law offers, the education is recorded as web lectures. The web lecture policy of the faculty is as follows.

Regular bachelor and master students

For regular bachelor and master students the following applies. The lecturer decides prior to the course on one of the following three options:
1) the web lectures are made available immediately* after the oral lecture;
2) the web lectures are made available one to two weeks before the examination;
3) the web lectures are not made available.

To avoid confusion, the lecturer’s choice is announced before the start of the course on Blackboard. This choice will not be deviated from during the course. For example, if a lecturer decides to provide access to the web lecture directly after an oral lecture, then it is no longer possible several weeks into the course to provide access only shortly before the examination.

Web lectures are not made available as an alternative for attendance at the oral lectures. The faculty expects students to attend all oral lectures.

Special target groups

A different web lecture policy applies for part-time students, students in dual degree programmes that involve overlap, students in the post-initial master transition programme, students with special circumstances and master students who have completed a part-time bachelor programme. These students are entitled to access to the web lectures as soon as possible (depending on the specific date and hour of the lecture and the technical possibilities, this may be up to several days after the oral lecture) after the oral lecture.

Exceptions

Only in very exceptional cases may the student advisors – empowered thereto by the faculty board – decide to allow access to web lectures also to other students. In doing so, they will consider not only the circumstances involved but also the student’s study progress. The following are not regarded as exceptional cases:

• one-time illness;
• holiday;
• internship;
• a job on the side (also law-related);
• travel time and schedule overlap when an above-average number of courses is taken against the advice of the student advisor.