Freiburg Law Students Journal
| Frei law - Freiburg Law Students Journal | |
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| description | Law Review |
| Area of Expertise | Jurisprudence |
| language | German , English |
| First edition | May 2006 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| editor | Freilaw e. V. |
| Web link | www.freilaw.de |
| ISSN |
1865-0015 |
Frei law - Freiburg Law Students Journal is a law review from Freiburg im Breisgau . Frei law, together with the Heidelberg StudZR, is one of the oldest periodicals for law published by students in German-speaking countries. It appears in both German and English, mainly online, and is available free of charge as a PDF file on the Internet. It deals particularly with socio-political and study-related topics.
Story and goal
Freilaw was founded in December 2005 by law students from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg as a purely online journal . Since May 2006, a new edition has been published three to four times a year. In the summer of 2011, a print edition was published to mark the fifth anniversary of the magazine .
The purpose of the journal is to offer above-average, scientifically interested law students a platform for the publication of legal articles. The expenses therefore consist almost exclusively of student contributions. However, there are also isolated articles by professors, lawyers and doctoral students. Frei law aims to arouse interest in topics that go beyond what is legally mandatory.
content
Conceptually, the issues are aimed primarily at law students before the first state examination and at young law scholars, but the journal is not a classic legal training magazine . In the first three editions , Frei law dealt with issues of international and foreign law. This orientation was abandoned with issue 1/2007. Since then, the issues have been devoted to a current socio-political topic that is examined from a legal perspective. In most cases, peripheral areas are addressed that play no or only a subordinate role in the main law course (for example "medical law" or "environmental law"). In addition, Frei law devotes at least one issue per year to a foreign legal system in order to illustrate its peculiarities and peculiarities (for example “Chinese law” or “French law”).
In addition to the scientific articles, methodological contributions and case solutions, the editions deal with local and regional topics that have a legal reference. In addition, current developments at the Freiburg Faculty of Law and legally relevant processes in the Freiburg administrative district are followed up and commented on in each issue. Experience reports on internships, stays abroad and special events as well as reviews of current specialist literature round off the issues.
organization
The free law - Editor currently consists of 16 students of the Law Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. The editors design the entire publishing process, which includes the acquisition of articles, the support of the authors, the editing, the content and visual design of the issues as well as the financing of the magazine. It is supported by a scientific advisory board made up of professors from the University of Freiburg. The magazine is run by the non-profit association Freilaw e. V. , which is represented by a three-person board.
reception
At the end of 2009, a student article in the Freiburg Law Students Journal was cited for the first time in a judgment of the Berlin Administrative Court as evidence of an existing literary opinion.
In the course of reporting on the student journals that were increasingly produced after 2004, the Freiburg Law Students Journal was also mentioned in national journals.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who we are : Frei law - Freiburg Law Students Journal . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; accessed on July 4, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ About us: Frei law - Freiburg Law Students Journal . Retrieved July 4, 2015 . ; compare the list of persons on the right
- ↑ If you only study, you get a problem. In: Spiegel Online . December 31, 2009, accessed July 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Students publish their term papers. In: Young career. December 1, 2009, accessed July 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Many manuscripts are rejected. In: FAZ . December 5, 2006, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 .
