Chair of German Law at the University of Lausanne

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Chair of German Law at the University of Lausanne
Chaire de droit allemand (CDA)
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founding 1902 (German-language lectures since 1887)
Sponsorship state
place Lausanne , Switzerland
Chair holder Christoph A. Kern
Networks Alumni CDA
Website http://www.unil.ch/cda

The Chair for German Law ( French Chaire de droit allemand , CDA ) is the only German-speaking chair at the Law and Criminal Science Faculty of the University of Lausanne ( French Université de Lausanne ) in the French-speaking part of Switzerland . The chair has existed for over a century. The main focus of the lectures and research activities of the chair lies in addition to the lectures on German private law , especially on international private and commercial law . The chair belongs to the Law and Criminal Science Faculty ( Faculté de droit et des sciences criminelles ) of the Université de Lausanne. A prerequisite for studying at the Chair of German Law is a completed intermediate examination or the acquisition of the “small certificates” at a law faculty in Germany.

The chair is located in the Internef building on the campus in Dorigny and offers its own alumni network for former students, the Alumni Association Lausanne eV

history

Palais de Rumine , seat of the chair for German law until 1970, today the main building of the KUB

Heinrich Erman from Berlin , who has been a professor in Lausanne since 1883, gave German-language lectures on Roman law for the first time in the winter semester of 1886/87 and, after the BGB was passed in Germany in 1896 , on the new German civil law for the first time. When Erman left Lausanne in 1902 after 19 years, a German-language chair for German law was established at his request at the Université de Lausanne. As the only German-speaking chair since then, the chair has been a specialty at the otherwise French-speaking Université de Lausanne. A tradition developed from its courses and lectures on German law that has lasted for 125 years now. Since then, in addition to studying Swiss law in French, the law studies begun in Germany have been continued during a language stay in Lausanne.

After the Chair of German Law was founded at the Université de Lausanne, lectures were offered for beginners and advanced learners alike. This made it possible not only to continue studying law in Lausanne, but to start right there. Due to the low number of students, German-language law classes came to a standstill for over 10 years in 1914. In 1928 the lectures were resumed by Heinrich Erman and continued by Otto Riese , who was appointed to the Université de Lausanne in 1931. The chair for German law was able to be re-established and has been under the direction of many well-known chair holders to this day.

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L'Internef , seat of the Chair for German Law (CDA) on the Dorigny campus

Today, the chair's lecture activities are aimed at advanced students who, in addition to learning the French language, want to take advantage of the university's extensive range of French-language courses in comparative law, international law and European law. The Swiss Institute for Comparative Law ( Institut Suisse de droit comparé ) is located in the immediate vicinity of the chair .

The exercise in civil law for advanced learners (every semester), the exercise in public law for advanced learners (only in the spring semester), lectures on the German civil procedure code and lectures on European business law are offered. Furthermore, seminars on current topics of international private law and comparative private law as well as European and international business law complete the range of courses offered by the chair. The lectures and performance certificates, which are recognized at most German universities, are predominantly completed by students from the Federal Republic of Germany who have applied directly to the Université de Lausanne to study abroad or one or two as part of the European Union's Erasmus program Spend semester in Lausanne. The courses for advanced students acquired at this chair can be counted as "large certificates" in Germany. At most German universities, the seminar papers can be credited as partial achievements for the legal focus area study. The respective examination office of the home university decides on the crediting of the achievements completed in Lausanne. From the 2013 winter semester, working groups in the core subjects of civil law will also be offered as an introduction to exam preparation.

The current professor is Christoph A. Kern, Marc Bungenberg from the University of Siegen is visiting professor . There is the possibility of a doctorate at the Chair of German Law under the supervision of Christoph A. Kern.

Chair holder

  • 1887–1902: Heinrich Erman (1857–1940), German lawyer and university professor with a research focus on Roman law.
  • 1902–1908: Ludwig Kuhlenbeck
  • 1909: Max Pagenstecher , German lawyer and professor at the universities of Lausanne, Halle and Hamburg
  • 1913–1915: Hans Lewald , German law scholar and professor at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Lausanne, Basel, Berlin and Freiburg
  • 1910–1918: Karl Haff
  • 1918–1928: Suspension - cessation of teaching
  • 1928–1933: Heinrich Erman, s. O.
  • 1935–1951: Otto Riese (1894–1977), President of the Senate of the BGH, first German judge at the European Court of Justice
  • 1951–1957: Bernhard Aubin (1913–2005), German and Comparative Private Law
  • 1957–1966: Karl Heinz Neumayer (1920–2009), legal scholar, university professor in Lausanne, Friborg and Würzburg
  • 1971–1975: Ulrich Immenga (* 1934), German legal scholar with a research focus on business law
  • 1977–1999: Fritz Sturm (1929–2015), research focus on international private law, comparative law, family law, inheritance law and nationality law
  • 2001–2007: Andreas Heinemann (* 1962), research focus on commercial, economic and European law
  • SoSe 2007: Christian Kersting , civil law, German and international corporate, commercial and cartel law
  • 2008–2011 (ad interim until 2012): Götz Schulze (1964–2018), civil law, European private law, international private and procedural law and comparative law
  • since February 2013: Christoph A. Kern (* 1975)

Visiting professors

  • Hartmut Maurer (* 1931), constitutional lawyer
  • Thomas Würtenberger (* 1943), research focus on public law, administrative science, state philosophy and constitutional history
  • Abbo Junker (* 1957), research focus on international labor law, comparative labor law and civil law
  • Marc Bungenberg (* 1968), research focus on public law, European law, international law and international business law

Lecturer

  • Walter Boente (The German Code of Civil Procedure)

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literature

  • Gratiae Fructus, Festschrift in honor of the University of Lausanne on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of German legal education in 1997 (contains, inter alia, relevant contributions by former holders of the Lausanne Chair for German Law, Professors Karl Heinz Neumayer , Ulrich Immenga and Fritz Sturm ) Donau-Druck, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-927529-46-X .

Web links

Testimonials

Experience reports and other information on studying at the Université de Lausanne can be found on the homepage of the Chair of German Law.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph A. Kern

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