Specialist lawyer for international business law
The specialist lawyer for international business law was appointed by the 5th constitutional assembly of the Federal Bar Association on 6/7. December 2013 decided as the 21st specialist lawyer .
Lawyers can acquire this additional qualification if they have completed a corresponding specialist lawyer course of at least 120 hours and passed three exams to prove their theoretical knowledge. The specialist lawyer course must convey the following theoretical knowledge in accordance with Section 14 n of the Fachanwaltsordnung (FAO):
- 1. Conflict of laws law (IPR) of contractual and extrajudicial obligations
- 2. International civil procedure and arbitration law
- 3. Internationally standardized commercial law
- 4. Internationally standardized company law
- 5. European state aid and competition law
- 6. Main features of the regulation for combating corruption, fraud and money laundering in international legal transactions
- 7. Basics in international tax law
- 8. Principles of comparative law
The practical knowledge must be according to § 5 I lit. u Fachanwaltsordnung (Fachanwaltsordnung) can be proven through 50 processed cases, of which at least 5 must be legally carried out before German or foreign courts or authorities.
Web links
- Jan Curschmann: The "Specialist Lawyer for International Business Law": A Needs Analysis of International Legal Relations, Bulletin of the Working Group for International Legal Relations in the German Lawyers Association 2/2011, 71
- Timo Conraths: Specialist Lawyer International Business Law: The Gap Filler Legal Tribune Online, February 12, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Resolutions of the statutes assembly 5th meeting of the 5th statutes assembly at the Federal Bar Association on 6/7. December 2013 in Berlin
- ↑ Specialist Lawyers Regulations in the version dated November 1, 2015
