Legal law

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In summary, legal law is a relatively new area of ​​law that deals with all legal problems of professional training, admission to the legal profession, its organization, its professional and ethical law and the regulations governing professional practice and the collection of fees for the legal profession. It is country-specific, and in many countries it is also developed and codified in relation to the federal state, and it also takes into account European and international law content.

history

In most countries, legal training is or was related to the profession of judge . The State as a court master had mainly because an interest. Course content related to activities in business or (state) administration found its way into training at universities or as examination subjects in exams only gradually . Most of the time, they were limited to practical training after graduation or were completely limited to learning through practical experience at work. This was particularly true of the lawyer career perspective .

The German Lawyers Association (DAV) even suggested separate practical training for lawyers. After attorney work had found its way into the examination canon of the second state examination to a limited extent in the 1980s and practical training had also become more important, the rector of the University of Cologne , labor and social lawyer Peter Hanau , held initial discussions in 1987 with representatives of the DAV on the establishment of the first German institute for legal law. For the summer semester of the following year, on April 13th, the sponsoring association for the new institute was founded. At the same time, the faculty decided to found the institute as an independent institute connected to the university, the first research facility of its kind in Germany the procedural lawyer Hanns Prütting (executive), the criminal lawyer Günter Kohlmann and the constitutional lawyer Karl Heinrich Friauf were commissioned. The ceremonial opening of the initially still virtual institute took place in the presence of the Federal Minister of Justice , Hans A. Engelhard , on January 13, 1989.

At the beginning of the summer semester, on April 1, 1989, it was possible to move into premises in the immediate vicinity of the local and regional court and the public prosecutor's office. The discussion of legal law began at the first conference with the topic of the development of the legal profession on the threshold of the European single market and a lecture by the then President of the German Bar Association, Erhard Senninger , and the first seminar on legal law, held by Professor Prütting, was offered . The first lecture took place in the following winter semester. It took two years until the newly created professorship for civil law , labor law and commercial law as well as lawyer law could be filled with Martin Henssler , previously University of Heidelberg , at the beginning of the 1991/92 winter semester . This subsequently also took over the management. The institute has also been supported by the Hans Soldan Foundation from the start , which has since helped set up a total of twelve institutes for legal law at German universities across Germany.

Institutes in Germany

There are twelve institutes in Germany - mostly as affiliated institutes of the university, as in Cologne. Ten of them are run by the German Bar Association. The next founding after Cologne took place in 1995 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2009, another legal institute was opened with the advanced distance learning course in Legal Law and Legal Practice and the LL.M. at the Fernuniversität Hagen . The University of Leipzig and the University of the Saarland followed . At some universities, lawyers are offered by similar institutes. B. at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster from the Institute for Business Law.

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  1. ^ Draft law on lawyer training (undated). ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 361 kB) accessed in September 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anwaltverein.de
  2. according to the history of the Soldan Foundation ( memento of the original from July 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed in September 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soldan.de
  3. 10 Institute for Lawyers' Law ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 17 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anwaltverein.de