Profile of a 'special' Faculty
The Faculty of Canon Law in Leuven has an international renowned staff and students come from all over the world. Both in research as in education, a special emphasis is laid on social relevance and commitment with a particular attention to the methodology of Law. There is a special care for distant learning students in an open and ambiant atmosphere.
International renowned staff
Permanent staff of the faculty is not extended. It gives the opportunity to the Faculty to attrack international experts and fieldworkers. Instructors and students from abroad come together in concentrated lesson weeks’ from all over the world to share their knowledge and expertise in an interactive and stimulating atmosphere.
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Distant learning students
Since several years the Faculty of Canon Law has experience in distant learning. All our programmes are available to study for people who live abroad or have a full-time job. Twice or three time a year students come together for a so-called ‘concentrated lesson weeks’. For the rest students can study at home although the importance of interactive lesson is part of the Leuven tradition. Working student can apply for the right to spread their exams.
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Social commitment
Canon Law has to be relevant for society. It studies the position of religion (and in particular christian religion) into contemporary society. Furthermore canon law is at special service to the ecclesiastical community. For that it is concerned about everyday religious life and expression.
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Methodology of law
A charastic of the ‘Leuven school’ of Canon Law is the attention which is paid to the ‘law’ in the study of canon law. Canon Law is in the first place the study of rules which control the life of a ecclesiastical community and its position in civil law. Special to canon law as ‘law’ is that its foundations are situated in the life of the Church and its theology.
Open and ambiant atmosphere
The faculty of Canon Law comprises only forty students. As a result, contacts among students and between staff and students are very intense and enduring. Ties are maintained even when former students become bishop in China or India or vicar general in Los Angeles or Seattle. Besides this they certainly will remember that evenings in Leuven can be very long and pleasant.
