Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg

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Heidelberg University
Faculty of Law
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founding 1386
Sponsorship state
place Heidelberg
state Baden-Württemberg
country Germany
management Dean Ekkehart Reimer
Students 2,845 ( WS 2018/19 )
Website www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de

The law faculty of the University of Heidelberg is one of the four founding faculties of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . It was founded in 1386 by Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate , making it the oldest law faculty in Germany. Lectures at the faculty began on December 22, 1386 with the opening lecture by Johann van de Noet . The law faculty reached 64th place worldwide in the QS World University Rankings 2019. In the ranking of Wirtschaftswoche 2019, the faculty is ranked second.

Scientific training

General

By the winter semester 2017/2018, the law studies with the final goal of the state examination could be started every semester at Heidelberg University. As of 2018, it is only possible to start studying in the winter semester.

Teaching takes place in lectures , working groups , moot courts , seminars and colloquia . The course follows the classic structure of a legal education. During the basic and advanced studies, three certificates ("small" and "large" certificates) must be completed in each of the three main subjects (civil law, public law and criminal law). To do this, it is necessary to write a term paper and pass an exam.

In addition, there is a wide range of events on the so-called minor subjects (including German legal history, Roman legal history, constitutional history, legal philosophy, legal sociology, comparative law, methodology).

In the summer semester 2019, the law faculty was the faculty responsible for organizing the " academic lunch break " in the university church (Peterskirche) . The aim of this series of events is to present current scientific questions and discussions to a non-specialist audience in short presentations. The daily lectures during the weekdays of the lecture period were entitled "UNDERSTANDING LAW, CREATING LAW - Challenges of legal thinking" and can be seen on YouTube without the subsequent discussion.

Focus area

After the intermediate examination , students can choose one of twelve priority areas: Legal History and historical Comparative Law , Criminal Law , German and European Administrative Law , Labor Law and Social Security Law , Tax Law , Corporate Law , Business Law and European Law , Civil Procedure Law , International Private and Procedural Law , International Law , Medical and Health Law or European and international capital market and financial services law .

Exam preparation (university revision course)

The faculty offers its own exam preparation program, "HeidelPräp!" on. This is intended to be a free alternative to the commercial revision courses that many students attend . A one-year lecturer course for professors, exam tutorials for case exercises, weekly mock exams and a mock exam with written and oral exams that take place every semester are offered.

Thomas Lobinger and the exam preparation program "HeidelPräp!" received the Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Law, donated by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the University Rectors' Conference in 2014 .

Degrees

In addition to the undergraduate law degree with the final goal of the first legal examination and various doctoral programs, the law faculty offers a general Master of Laws program (LL.M.) for lawyers graduated abroad , a master’s degree in corporate restructuring and a master’s degree in international law , which was launched on Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile . The faculty also runs the Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law . Since the summer semester 2017, the law faculty has been awarding the title of Magister or Magistra to successful law graduates upon request and retrospectively .

StudZR and student initiatives

In 2004, students and professors founded the Heidelberg Student Journal for Law (“StudZR”) at the faculty . This is a legal journal with a focus on training and case literature. To this day, the StudZR is mainly created by students of the faculty and is the oldest student law review in Germany.

In addition, there are a variety of other student initiatives at the law faculty: u. a. ELSA Heidelberg, ProBono Heidelberg, Phi delta Phi Heidelberg.

Old auditorium of Heidelberg University: Allegory of the law faculty

Institutes

  • Institute for Historical Law
  • Institute for Civil Law, Labor Law and Insolvency Law
  • Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law
  • Institute for German and European Company and Business Law
  • Institute for German, European and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law
  • Institute for Criminology
  • Institute for constitutional law, constitutional theory and legal philosophy
  • Institute for German and European Administrative Law
  • Institute for Finance and Tax Law
  • Joint Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Health Law and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB)
  • Cooperation partner: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  • Scientifically linked to the German legal dictionary of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Professors

Professorships

Civil Law Criminal law Public law
Christian Baldus Gerhard Dannecker Peter Axer
Stefan J. Geibel Dieter Dölling Martin Borowski
Christian Hattenhauer Volker Haas Bernd Grzeszick
Christoph A. Kern Jan C. Schuhr Wolfgang Kahl
Thomas Lobinger   Hanno Kube
Andreas Piekenbrock   Ute Mager
Thomas Pfeiffer   Ekkehart Reimer
Markus Stoffels   Anja Seibert-Fohr
Dirk A. Verse    
Marc-Philippe Weller    
Former professors (selection)
Paul Kirchhof
Honorary professors (selection)
Legal lecture in lecture hall 13 of Heidelberg University (2004)

statistics

2,803 students study at the law faculty , 2,317 of them aiming to take the first legal examination. There are also 241 doctoral students and 101 master's students . Around ten percent of the students come from abroad. In 2016, 434 graduates completed the course; 50 doctorates and a habilitation followed. In 2016, the faculty received 658,000 euros from third-party funds . While in Germany around 30% of candidates usually fail the state examination (state compulsory subject examination) and only around ten percent receive a grade , the failure rate in Heidelberg is a maximum of 25%, the rate of grade exams is around 25%.

International cooperation

The law faculty maintains research collaborations and student exchange programs with around forty partner universities. Together with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow , she runs the “School of German Law” in Cracow and is involved in the German-speaking Andrássy University in Budapest . The faculty has had a partnership with the law faculty of the University of Montpellier since the mid-1960s . In addition to student and lecturer mobility programs, joint seminars are held. An exchange program between Heidelberg University and Cambridge University has existed since 1976 . Annual and summer scholarships are granted. The study of the specialization "European and international capital market and financial services law" includes two semesters at the University of Luxembourg . As part of a cooperation agreement with Pepperdine University, it is possible to study one semester in Heidelberg and one semester in Pepperdine in order to acquire the "LL.M. in Dispute Resolution" there. On the basis of a cooperation agreement with the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , students can acquire the double degree Legum Magister (LL.M.) in German and European law (Heidelberg) and the Master of Law (Friborg, Switzerland). The "HeiParisMax" project is a Franco-German academic partnership that aims to promote a cross-border exchange of ideas between young scientists and thus to take into account the importance of the Franco-German friendship. On the German side, in addition to the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law , on the French side the Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris . The Institute for Foreign and International Private and Business Law is significantly involved in the Graduate College "International Max Planck Research School on Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law".

Personalities (selection)

A number of well-known personalities who have studied, researched or taught at Heidelberg University are associated with the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University. A detailed list of these people can be found under List of Famous People at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier
Gustav Radbruch

building

Photo of the entrance facade of the legal seminar in Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 6-10
Legal seminar at Heidelberg University

The faculty's institutes and libraries are housed in several buildings in Heidelberg's old town . Most of the chairs and the largest library have been in the Legal Department, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 6-10 , since 1956 . The building group consisting of three connected buildings was built in 1842/43 (No. 6), 1847 (No. 8) and around 1870 (No. 10), the latter property by the Swiss architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli , a son of the also in Heidelberg teaching law scholar Johann Caspar Bluntschli . From 1860–1945 the building housed the renowned "Hotel Victoria". Conversions were carried out in 1910 by Franz Sales Kuhn and in 1929 by Hermann Alker (porch in Bauhaus style ).

Library of the Law Department of Heidelberg University ( reference library ) (2004)

The Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law is located in the "Altjuridicum" (Augustinergasse 9, on Universitätsplatz ). The building, erected between 1716 and 1919, was owned by the gynecologist Franz Naegele from 1829 , who had the property expanded and redesigned in the style of romantic classicism. Until 1878 Otto Bassermann ran the " Friedrich Bassermann publishing house " here. From 1914 the building housed the Institute of Law.

The Institute for Historical Jurisprudence and the Institute for German and European Company and Business Law are located in the building at Friedrich-Ebert-Platz 2, the former municipal savings bank, built by Friedrich Haller in the sober neo-baroque style between 1926 and 1928 .

Since 2015 the “Villa Manesse ” (Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 4) has been known as “Villa HeidelPräp! - House of Exam Preparation ”. 50 permanent jobs were created for exam candidates, for whom a mentoring program is also running as a pilot project. The property was built in 1859/60 and expanded by Henkenhaf and Ebert in 1910 . The villa changed hands several times, including the historian and lawyer Gustav Toepke . From 1968 it was used by the Schiller International University , from 2010 to 2013 by the language school Collegium Palatinum.

The lectures take place in the New University (1930). A large part of the legal literature is in the university library .

Student Initiatives

Students of the law faculty have founded several student initiatives:

The Faculty in Literature and Popular Culture

In Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel Der Vorleser play some of the main scenes at the University of Heidelberg, where the main character Michael Berg studies law. Also Naoki Urasawas manga series (1994-2001) Monster plays partly at the university, where Nina Fortner (Anna Liebert) deposits the legal examination. In Michel Favart's film Die Elsässer (original "Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde", 1996), Karl Kempf, one of the leading actors, studies law at the University of Heidelberg, while his brother Edouard begins his studies at the French École polytechnique . In Jura, Lilian Andreesen also writes in the Austrian hit film Now the world revolves around you . Fictitious graduates of the law faculty are Hans Julius Grebenar in Jeffrey Archer's short story "A good eye" from the collection "And Thereby Hangs a Tale" (2010), as well as the Prussian Junker Rudolf von Adelhaus in Harold Spender's 1916 short story "The Dividing Sword".

literature

  • Klaus-Peter Schroeder: "Always rescued and stayed upright": the law faculty of the Electoral Palatinate University of Heidelberg from its beginnings to 1802 2014, ISBN 978-3-942189-16-3 .
  • Klaus-Peter Schroeder: "A university for and by lawyers": the Heidelberg Law Faculty in the 19th and 20th centuries 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150326-9 .
  • Klaus-Peter Schroeder: "You hardly have any chance of being appointed to a chair": The Heidelberg Faculty of Law and its members of Jewish origin 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-154980-9 .
  • Peter Meusburger : Wissenschaftsatlas of Heidelberg University: spatio-temporal relations of academic knowledge production . Bibliotheca Palatina, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811463-4-9 , pp. 158-161.
  • Christian Baldus, Herbert Kronke, Ute Mager: Heidelberg theses on law and justice . Mohr Siebeck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-152056-3 .
  • Heidelberg University Bibliography (Faculty of Law): As the main index of publications Heidelberg University Bibliography (HeiBIB) lists the academic publications by members of Heidelberg University,
  • Juridical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Ed.): Heidelberger Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, 2010ff. ISSN  1869-3075
  • Juridical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Ed.): Miscellanea Juridica Heidelbergensia . Jedermann-Verlag Heidelberg. 2014ff.
  • Heidelberg contributions to finance and tax law.
  • Paul Kirchhof, Hanno Kube, Reinhard Mußgnug, Ekkehart Reimer: Characterized freedom in research and teaching: 50 years of the Institute for Finance and Tax Law 2016, doi : 10.11588 / hfst . 2016.4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Introduction to the Faculty of Law . In: University of Heidelberg Homepage . Archived from the original on March 9, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  2. ^ Dagmar Drüll, Eva Kritzer & Hermann Weisert: Rectors - Deans - Vice Rectors - Chancellor - Vice Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg 1386-2006 . 1st edition. Kurpfälzischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-924566-29-6 .
  3. ↑ https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/ruprecht-karls-universitat-heidelberg
  4. ↑ https://www.wiwo.de/my/erfalt/hochschule/uni-ranking-2019-deutschlands-beste-unis-fuer-jura/24279638-9.html?ticket=ST-714337-YQLi62i9gLVxRfTXPOIz-ap5
  5. ↑ Academic lunch break . Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  6. ↑ UNDERSTANDING LAW, SHAPING LAW - Challenges of legal thinking. June 19, 2019, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ List of priority areas in Heidelberg
  8. ^ Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft : Ars legendi Award 2014 . Archived from the original on December 17, 2013.
  9. ^ Courses of Study at the Heidelberg School of Law . In: University of Heidelberg Homepage . Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  10. ^ Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law . In: Max Planck Society website . Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  11. ↑ Regulations for awarding the university degree “Magistra” or “Magister” by the law faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  12. ↑ Homepage: ELSA-HEIDELBERG EV Accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Pro Bono Heidelberg - Help - Learn - Take responsibility. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Phi Delta Phi - Paul Kirchhof Inn Heidelberg eV Accessed on November 12, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Heidelberg University: 2013 - 2014 Student statistics . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  16. ^ University of Heidelberg, annual report 2016 .
  17. ^ Heidelberg University: Annual Report 2016 . Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  18. ^ Stefan Korioth: Legal Education in Germany today , p. 96.
  19. ↑ Results of the state examination in Baden-Württemberg (autumn 2014) .
  20. ^ Montpellier seminar of the law faculties of the Universities of Heidelberg and Montpellier .
  21. ↑ Cambridge exchange .
  22. ^ Pepperdine-LL.M. .
  23. ↑ Double degree Freiburg / Heidelberg .
  24. ↑ http://www.heiparismax.eu/de
  25. ^ IMPRS-SDR International Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law, Heidelberg / Luxembourg
  26. ^ Ahlemann, Christoph: Heidelberger Hotels from 1870 to today. Heidelberg 2008, p. 23.
  27. ^ Roos, Dorothea: The Karlsruhe architect Hermann Reinhard Alker. Tübingen 2011, pp. 252-260. Mertens, Melanie: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. City of Heidelberg, Volume 1, Ostfildern 2013, pp. 194f.
  28. ^ Otto Bassermann , Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV HGV.
  29. ^ Mertens, Melanie: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. City of Heidelberg, Volume 1, Ostfildern 2013, p. 158.
  30. ^ Mertens, Melanie: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. City of Heidelberg, Volume 1, Ostfildern 2013, p. 208.
  31. ↑ http://www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de/examensvornahm/villa.html
  32. ^ Mertens, Melanie: Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. City of Heidelberg, Volume 1, Ostfildern 2013, p. 193.
  33. ↑ http://histmath-heidelberg.de/heidelberg/Leopold/4.htm , Gabriele Dörflinger: Information on Heidelberg: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 4
  34. ↑ http://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-Tag-des-offenen-Denkmal-Villa-Manesse-ist-ein-Schmuckstueck-_arid,4397.html , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from September 15, 2014 : Open memorial day: Villa Manesse is a gem
  35. ↑ http://rhein-neckar-wiki.de/Neue_Universit%C3%A4t To the New University: Rhein-Neckar-Wiki
  36. ↑ Tandem program. Student Council Jura Heidelberg, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  37. ^ Thomas Weber: Our Friend "The Enemy". Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I. Stanford University Press 2008, page 104.
  38. ↑ HeiBIB .
  39. ↑ ISSN: 2366-0910 .


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