Federal Association of Law Schools
| Federal Association of Legal Faculties V. (BRF) |
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| purpose | Representation of interests in university politics |
| Chair: | Christoph Geib |
| Establishment date: | May 11, 2012 |
| Number of members: | 42 student councils (as of June 2019) |
| Seat : | Hamburg |
| Website: | bundesfachschaft.de |
The Bundesverband Rechtswissenschaftlicher Fachschaften eV (BRF) is an umbrella organization of jurisprudential faculties at universities and technical colleges in Germany . It emerged in 2012 from the Federal Student Council for Law (short: BuFaTa Jura), which until the founding of the association was a non-legally competent association of student council groups with a changing group of participants and from now on represents the general assembly of the association.
The BRF represents the university-political interests of its members vis-à-vis regional and supra-regional institutions such as the University Rectors' Conference and the German Law Faculty Conference . It represents around 110,000 law students in Germany.
history
The first federal student council meeting based on the example of other subjects took place in 1980 as a rather loose exchange of information between some students who were active in the department. Before that, there had already been a legal department within the German Student Union and, from 1949 to 1969, a legal department within the Association of German Student Unions (VDS).
Under the impression of the Bologna Process and its possible effects on the training of lawyers, students met again in 2009 for the federal student council in Leipzig. At the next meeting in 2011, the students decided, in addition to founding the association, that future meetings should take place on an annual basis. After a preparation phase of around one year, the BRF was founded on May 11, 2012 at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and entered in the register of associations of the Hamburg District Court on July 31, 2012 under VR 21545. The aim was to give the previously loose association a binding and legally unambiguous structure in order to be able to appear externally as an existing body and to initiate the continuous development of the association and its external work. The first federal student council meeting of recent counts took place in Hamburg in 2012 and was devoted to the topic of quality offensive focus exams and the first legal examination . Since the foundation of the association, the Federal Student Council has been the supreme body of the BRF and is held at different university locations. In recent years Leipzig, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Bayreuth, Kiel, Passau, Mannheim, Münster, Hanover and Bielefeld have been responsible for the implementation.
tasks and goals
The association sees itself as democratic, non-partisan and independent. The aim of the association is to represent the interests of law students in discussion and reform processes relating to university education at the federal level. The association also focuses on networking among the student councils. The federal student council meetings held so far have shown that the decentralized organization of legal training causes significant differences in quality in teaching from a student perspective. There are 16 different state legal training regulations, which in turn give the universities considerable leeway as to how the training can be structured in terms of organization and content. The association should u. a. Present the advantages of individual state and university regulations, define them as a uniform standard and incorporate the results into the (university) political decision-making process. The long-term goal is the standardization, comparability and quality assurance of legal training. To achieve these goals, the BRF is in contact with the state justice examination offices and justice ministries.
The association also cooperates with the German Jurists' Faculty Conference, the University Rectors' Conference and the German Jurists' Conference, where the BRF has been represented in recent years. In addition, the BRF has been represented at JURAcon Frankfurt and Munich as an exhibitor and cooperation partner since May 2012.
Membership structure
Members are not individual natural persons, but the legal faculties of the universities. Since the legal personality of the student councils differs from state to state due to state law provisions, all types of student councils (member bodies under public law, legal associations, non-legal associations or so-called BGB societies ) can occur according to the statutes .
Since the Bologna Process has increasingly created new courses of study with a legal focus at universities of applied sciences, the BRF has expressly spoken out in favor of the inclusion of FH student councils.
The association currently has 42 member student councils and student councils from all over Germany.
financing
The BRF does not charge its members any mandatory membership fee and is financed exclusively from third-party funds in the form of grants. The association has been recognized as non-profit by the Hamburg-Nord tax office .
Bodies
Board
The board consists of seven people, including the chairman and a deputy as well as other members.
The finance and cash audit committee, which monitors the economic actions of the management board, and the committee for coordination and special tasks also exist.
Federal Student Union Conference
The association's general assembly is called the Federal Student Council (BuFaTa). The BuFaTa is organized by a student council that invites all German student councils to their university.
Apart from the forerunner in the 1980s, the following federal student council meetings have recently taken place:
| place | year | Host | motto |
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| Leipzig | 2009 | Student council law of the University of Leipzig | The possible impact of the Bologna process on legal training |
| Heidelberg | 2011 | Student council initiative law of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Alternatives to Bologna - Future of Legal Education |
| Hamburg | 2012 | Student council law of the University of Hamburg and student representative of the Bucerius Law School | Quality offensive focus exams and first legal examination |
| Wiesbaden | 2013 | Student representation at the EBS University of Economics and Law | The modern law degree |
| Bayreuth | 2014 | Student council of the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth | - |
| Kiel | 2015 | Student representative for law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | - |
| Passau | 2016 | Law faculty at the University of Passau | The social side of studying |
| Mannheim | 2017 | Law faculty of the University of Mannheim | The riddle of the missing students |
| Muenster | 2018 | Law faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster | Setting the course in law studies |
| Hanover | 2019 | Law faculty of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover | Jura - limitless |
| Bielefeld | 2020 | Law faculty at Bielefeld University | Law degree 4.0 - In the change of increasing effectiveness through digitization |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Number of students at German universities in the 20 most popular subjects in the 2015/2016 winter semester. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
- ↑ http://bundesfachschaft.de/?attachment_id=371
- ↑ http://www.handelsregisterbekanntmachungen.de/skripte/hrb.php?rb_id=177876&land_abk=hh
- ↑ http://www.hrk-nexus.de/uploads/media/Juraprogramm_8_11_endg_01.pdf
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 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.
- ^ Members - Federal Association of Legal Student Representatives. Accessed December 2, 2019 (German).
