German-Russian Lawyers Association
The German-Russian Lawyers' Association (DRJV) is a bilateral legal association founded in 1988 with headquarters in Hamburg. It has around 400 members from Germany, Russia and other countries.
Emergence
The association was founded in the late summer of 1988 under the name Association for German-Soviet Business Law eV . founded. The establishment in the phase of perestroika corresponded to an increased interest in economic relations with the Soviet Union and their legal regulation. The key people for the establishment were Jan-Peter Waehler (1934–2002), Eastern European advisor at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, and Peter Erlinghagen (1932–1994) from the Institute for Economic Law at the University of Hamburg as first president. After Erlinghagen's death, Waehler became president of the association.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the association changed its name to Association for German-Russian Business Law eV, although the amended statute stipulated that legal developments in other successor states of the USSR should also be monitored. In the 1990s, one of the focal points of the work of the association was in the area of commercial law, and in particular company law. The association organized numerous conferences and seminars on the restructuring of the legal system in Russia with German and Russian academics and practitioners. It also published a newsletter about current developments in Russian law and current discussions of legal policy issues, which is published at least twice a year, under the title Communications of the Association for German-Russian Business Law - Law and Practice of German-Russian Economic Relations . A total of 60 issues of this newsletter have appeared.
Jan-Peter Waehler died in 2002 and Hans Janus succeeded him in the presidency. During this time, the regionalization of the association began with working groups in larger German cities and an Internet presence was created.
A big change took place in 2011. Another bilateral association with only a very small number of members and few activities called Deutsch-Russische Juristenvereinigung eV in Berlin and the Hamburg Association for German-Russian Business Law eV decided to merge to form an association. To this end, most of the members of the Berlin Association joined the Hamburg Association. This changed its name to German-Russian Lawyers' Association and the association of the same name in Berlin was dissolved.
Rainer Wedde, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences , Wiesbaden, has been President of the DRJV since 2017 .
Goals and Activities
Statutory goals
As with the other bilateral lawyers' associations, the DRJV also focuses on deepening knowledge of foreign law and creating a network of scientists and practitioners with a professional focus in this area. Events of a regional and national nature therefore take place in Germany and Russia. University collaborations are accompanied and supported. Working groups and internet-based specialist groups are offered for lawyers with comparable specialist areas.
Events
The most important event of the DRJV is the annual conference, which has been held regularly since 2014. The venues were Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich and in 2019 again Berlin. In addition, specialist events on individual key topics are offered at various locations in Germany. Meetings take place at regional level. There are also regional round tables in Austria and Switzerland. In Russia, the DRJV's activities are concentrated in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
Publications
Since 2016, the DRJV has been publishing the German-Russian legal journal DRRZ, which is published twice a year by the Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag , instead of the previous newsletters . This journal contains specialist articles in German, Russian or English as well as the most important changes in Russian law in tabular form with explanations.
The same publishing house also publishes the DRJV series of publications, in which two volumes have appeared so far, most recently the book Im Dienst des German-Russian Legal Dialogue edited by Rainer Birke and Rainer Wedde . 30 years of the German-Russian Lawyers Association.
The DRJV provides information on German law in Russian in three extensive free internet publications.
Recommendations for the translation of Russian technical terms are developed in an interdisciplinary working group with translators and interpreters and also published.
German-Russian Jurists Prize
The DRJV awards the German-Russian Jurists Prize once a year. A German and a Russian comparative legal thesis in two categories are awarded with prize money of EUR 1,000 each: student and academic theses. The jurists' prize is financed by sponsors and awarded jointly by various institutions. Organization and responsibility lie with the DRJV.
Board and club life
The board of directors of the DRJV has 11 members, the chairman is Rainer Wedde, the two deputies are Tanja Galander and Axel Boës. There are regional circles with their own events in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Rhine-Main, Rhine-Ruhr, Saxony and Stuttgart as well as in Graz and Zurich. The DRJV cooperates u. a. with the technical colleges and universities in Berlin, Hamburg, Passau, Potsdam, Wiesbaden, Wismar. A cooperation with the Law Faculty of Moscow State University (Lomonosov University) is in preparation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulletin - German-Russian Lawyers Association. Accessed on March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Janus, Hans: The turning point and turning point - 30 years of the German-Russian Lawyers Association . In: Birke, Rainer / Wedde, Rainer (ed.): In the service of the German-Russian legal dialogue: 30 years of the German-Russian Lawyers Association . Series of publications by the German-Russian Lawyers Association, Vol. 2. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3868-4 , pp. 10-20 .
- ^ Statutes - German-Russian Lawyers Association. Accessed on March 5, 2019 .
- ^ BWV Digibib archive. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Birke, Rainer ,, Wedde, Rainer ,: In the service of the German-Russian legal dialogue: 30 years of the German-Russian Lawyers' Association . Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-4040-3 .
- ↑ Publications - German-Russian Lawyers' Association. Accessed on March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Telke, Jürgen: The German-Russian lawyers price . In: Birke, Rainer / Wedde, Rainer (Ed.): In the service of the German-Russian legal dialogue. 30 years of the German-Russian Lawyers Association . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3868-4 , pp. 21-25 .