Law Faculty of Saarland University

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The main building of the law faculty (2008).

The Law Faculty of Saarland University was constituted on October 7, 1948 and existed from 1950 as a department within the joint law and economics faculty. In October 2016, the law was spun off from it as part of a university restructuring and has since formed the " Faculty R" with more than 2,600 students. The European Institute Saarbrücken and the Center Juridique Franco-Allemand are among the faculties .

Well-known graduates are the Federal Constitutional Judge Peter Müller and the Federal Ministers Peter Altmaier and Heiko Maas , who passed their first state examination between 1983 and 1993 after studying at the only law faculty in Saarland.

history

On February 15, 1948, the “Institut d'Etudes Supérieures de l'Université de Nancy en Territoire Sarrois” affiliated to the University of Nancy began teaching in Homburg , and in the summer of 1948 the institute was transformed into the “Faculté de Droit ) " Of the Saarland University, which has since been founded . On October 7, 1948, the faculty that had moved to Saarbrücken was constituted by the election of Félix Senn, Professor of Legal Philosophy and Roman Law from Nancy, as dean. In the same autumn an economics institute was founded within the faculty . In the summer of 1950 the "Law and Economics Faculty" was established, divided into a legal and an economics section (1957–1971 department, 1971–2016 department).

The early years of legal teaching at Saarland University were largely shaped by French law ; the course was geared towards the acquisition of the license en droit , while a large part of the professorship consisted of law teachers from the University of Nancy and the courses were mainly held in French. In contrast, in Saarland, which was independent at the time (apart from minor changes by the occupying power and state legislature), German law from the time before National Socialism applied and the prerequisite for qualifying for judicial office was the successful completion of the first and second state examination. This discrepancy was countered by providing practitioners from the Saarland with teaching assignments since 1950 and by appointing regular German professors and visiting professors . In November 1951 the Europa-Institut was founded as the “crown and symbol of the university”. The orientation of the law studies towards the first state examination (trainee examination) also meant the decreasing importance of French law, so that the establishment of the " Center d'Études Juridiques Françaises " (CEJF) was decided on November 1, 1955. Since then, French legal studies at Saarland University have been organized by this institution.

After the referendum on the Saar Statute in October 1955, the Saarland was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany at the beginning of 1957. Associated with this was a reorganization of the situation at the Saarland University and an adaptation of the legal studies to German law . The following years were characterized by the endeavor to integrate teaching and research into the collective of the Federal German law faculties while retaining the facilities and institutes. The organization of the annual conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers and the Criminal Law Teachers Conference in 1963 also contributed to the increasing reputation of the Saarbrücken department . The new building of the faculty, which was completed in 1964 , also contributed to this period. In order to implement the recommendations of the Science Council , there was a rapid expansion and legal reorganization of the department and the entire university in the 1960s and 1970s, which resulted in an increase in the number of chairs (eight German chairs in 1955, 16 full professorships in 1962) an increase to temporarily 23 chairs at the end of the 1980s, a total of 21 professorial positions) and an increase in the number of students from around 500 (1963) to almost 2,400 (1987). In 1997, the deletion of the legal department was discussed in a strategy paper by the Saarland Ministry of Education , but this “nonsensical demand” was averted.

In January 2014 the Science Council published its "Recommendations for the further development of the Saarland higher education system". On behalf of the Saarland state government, the sharply falling university budget was also taken into account, so that the committee made recommendations for savings such as expanding the focus of the university and reducing the range of courses. "With regard to legal training as part of the state examination course, it is recommended either to set up a cooperative offer with a university in the Greater Region or to abandon it entirely in Saarland." The Science Council only considered legal informatics and European law to be worth preserving in principle . The recommendations met with strong criticism and were described as "dubious", "faulty" and "unusable" and rejected as such by the faculty in a statement. In June 2014, a steering committee finally decided that the state examination course in law should be retained in Saarland. On October 1, 2016, the "Faculty of Law and Economics (Faculty 1)" - at that time the university's largest science department with a total of around 5,500 students - was split up after 66 years and an independent "Faculty of Law (Faculty R)" was founded .

Education

Saarbrücken model

Due to an amendment to the Saarland Legal Training Act (JAG) in July 1998, the so-called “Saarbrücken model of legal training” was introduced at the University of Saarland for the 1998/99 winter semester. During the six-semester undergraduate and postgraduate studies - the course can only begin in the winter semester - between six and nine performance assessment exams take place within two weeks of the end of the semester . In order to continue studying, a minimum number of points (50 out of 72) must be achieved in this way during the academic year; if this number is not reached, the student has to repeat the entire academic year. According to the curriculum, taking the “big certificates” in criminal, civil and public law as a prerequisite for participation in the state compulsory subject examination is planned between the fourth and sixth semester.

Focus areas

Since 2003 the state compulsory subject examination has been supplemented nationwide by the university focus area; both parts together (in a ratio of 70:30) form the “first legal examination”. In Saarbrücken, students can choose from nine focus areas: contract and business law , tax law , labor and social law , international law , European law and human rights protection, information and media law, criminal justice , commercial and criminal tax law , French law , private insurance law as well as IT law and Legal informatics .

University rankings

In the 2017/18 university ranking of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), the faculty is in the top group in eight categories (including library equipment), nine times in the middle and is in the bottom group in two categories (including third-party funding ). In a "subjective ranking" of the law faculties compiled by the online magazine Legal Tribune Online (LTO), based on rankings from Wirtschaftswoche and the Center for University Development up to 2015, Saarland University ranks 31st among a total of 40 universities assessed.

International cooperation

The law faculty of Saarland University cooperates with partner universities in 29 European countries, as well as in Sydney (Australia), Wuhan (China), Keiō (Japan), Québec (Canada) and Johannesburg (South Africa). In addition, there is a trilateral study program with the Universities of Lille II and Warwick as well as the possibility to acquire a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Exeter, funded by the Erasmus program .

statistics

In 1951 the law faculty had a total of 234 students , in 1963 476 students were enrolled. This number rose from 1,037 (1970) and 1,696 (1980) to 2,388 students (1987). The student statistics show a total of 2,547 students (2000: 2,195; 2005: 1,779) for the department for 1996; after the introduction of the course “ Business Law for Business Practice ” (in cooperation with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern ) the number rose to 2,901 in 2013 . Since then, the number has been falling, in the winter semester 2017/18 2,619 students are enrolled at the law faculty, 1,550 of them with the goal of first legal examination. The proportion of women is 52 percent, around 12 percent of the students come from abroad. Offered Faculty Cross and therefore not included in the statistics is the degree program Economics and Law .

Between 2006 - this year, for the first time, students of the faculty took the state compulsory subject examination according to the new system at the state examination office for lawyers - and in 2017 a total of 1,995 examinations were taken by 1,614 legal candidates (the discrepancy is explained by repetition and attempts at improvement). The proportion of women was 59.4 percent, the pass rate was 74.6 percent, while a total of 16.9 percent of the exams were assessed as distinctive exams . Around a quarter of all exams were taken as free attempts, 79 candidates failed during this time for the second time and thus finally failed the compulsory subject examination . The average study duration of the successful graduates in 2016 was 11.1 (state compulsory subject examination) and 12.8 semesters (first legal examination) and thus formed the highest value of all German federal states.

Events, facilities and institutes

The Europe Institute (2011).

Various scientific institutions and institutes exist under the umbrella of the law faculty, and the department also hosts various events such as the annual German EDP Court Day . The annual conference of German-speaking criminal law teachers was held at the faculty in June 1963, while the constitutional law teachers ' conference in 1963 and 2017 and the German legal historians' conference took place there in 1960 and 2016.

Europa Institute

After the rector of the University of Joseph-François Angelloz declared himself a “European university” in November 1950, the interdisciplinary “European Institute” was founded on November 6, 1951, initially free of faculties. After the integration of the Saarland into the Federal Republic of Germany, there was a one-year break in teaching, which was continued between 1957 and 1965 as the “European Research Institute” (EFI). Due to the decline in student numbers, teaching was initially discontinued in 1971 and the institute was incorporated into the law department on March 1, 1972. The Europa-Institut, Law Section, offers in particular the Master’s degree in European and International Law, which has existed since 1986 (formerly: Magister des European Law ). The joint directors of the institute are Marc Bungenberg and Thomas Giegerich . Since 1998 the institution has published the quarterly journal for European law studies (ZEuS) on problems of European integration , European law and international law .

Center Juridique Franco-Allemand

With the increasing focus on German law in the years after the establishment of the faculty, the importance of French law at Saarland University decreased, so that the university board of directors announced the establishment of the "Center d'Études Juridiques Françaises" (CEJF) in March 1955, which began teaching in November 1955. In 1995 the facility was renamed Center Juridique Franco-Allemand (CJFA). The task of the center is to train German and French-speaking students who wish to acquire knowledge of the law of both countries during their three-year course; The conclusion is the acquisition of the license en droit .

European College (CEUS)

The Europa-Kolleg ( Collegium Europaeum Universitatis Saraviensis , CEUS) was founded in December 2012 and is intended as a joint scientific institution of the faculties of empirical human sciences and economics, philosophy and law to enable closer networking of the areas and in cooperation with the European-oriented institutions in the area of the faculties coordinate Europe-related teaching and collaborative research.

Institutes

  • Institute for Labor and Social Law (Weth Chair)
  • Institute for European Law, since 1954 (chairs Martinek, Chiusi)
  • Institute for Legal Informatics , since 1988 (chairs Borges, Weth, Cossalter, Sorge)
  • Institute for White Collar Criminal Law as well as International and European Criminal Law (chairs Mansdörfer, Koriath)
  • formerly: Institute for Legal and Social Philosophy (first director Werner Maihofer , last director Alessandro Baratta )

German-European Juridicum

The term “German-European Juridicum” summarizes the libraries of the law faculty, which with a stock of around 500,000 books form the largest departmental library at Saarland University. In 1949, the “Legal Seminar Library” was established to manage the systematically structured reference libraries of the department. The inventory of the library system originally comprised around 1,000 volumes (1949) and grew to over 120,000 (1963) and 250,000 volumes (1989). The main seminar is located on the first floor of the main building of the faculty and offers workplaces for around 220 students.

Other projects in the area

The Legal Internet Project Saarbrücken (JIPS) is an information portal on legal issues that was created in 1993 on the initiative of students and focuses on data protection law , personal rights , copyright law and current developments. The Saarbrücken-based German EDV Court Day is one of the project partners. Following the retirement of Professors Maximilian Herberger and Helmut Rüßmann , who are responsible for the platform , the internet project is now led by Georg Borges and Christoph Sorge .

In 1994 the Saarbrücken professor for public law Klaus Grupp and his professor Ulrich Stelkens initiated the Saarheim cases on constitutional and administrative law . The case collection now contains over 110 issues of various degrees of difficulty and proposed solutions in the field of public law that take place in the virtual Saarland city of Saarheim.

Faculty building

The main building of the law faculty, building B4.1 (formerly 16.1), is located in the southern part of the campus and was built between 1959 and 1964 according to the plans of the architects Rolf Heinz Lamour, Albert Dietz and Bernhard Grothe. In the center of the 85.90 mx 95.40 m building is the Audimax , with 836 seats the university's largest lecture hall. The art of the building includes a lacquer wall in the dean's meeting room (created in 1962 by Wolfram Huschens ), concrete reliefs on both lecture hall walls in the inner courtyards (created in 1961 by Helmut Kreutzer) and a metal sculpture in the entrance hall (created in 1963/64 by Herbert Strässer ). The four-storey reinforced concrete building is a listed building as a single monument within the “Saarland University” ensemble.

Some of the Faculty's events also take place in Building C3.1 (formerly Building 31), a seven-storey building in the immediate vicinity of the center of the university ("Campus Center"), which among other things houses the chairs for criminal law. The Europa-Institut is located in the five-storey building B2.1 (formerly building 9.1), an extension of the natural sciences faculty created between 1955 and 1960 by the architects Hans Hirner, Rudolf Güthler and Walter Schrempf, which is now also listed and separated from the main building of the Faculty can be reached via the "Französische Platz".

Chairs

The Faculty of Law has a total of 16 professors with chairs (as of March 2018). The chair for French civil law since Claude Witz retired in 2017 and the chair for constitutional and administrative law after Jan Henrik Klement changed university in February 2018 are currently vacant .

Werner Meng (1948–2016),
former holder of the chair for public law, international law and European law and co-director of the Europa-Institut

Former professors

Former professors are named who no longer teach at Saarland University. The period in which the person concerned held a full professorship is given in brackets . Four professors from the faculty were also university presidents (1948–1973 university rector), namely Heinz Hübner (1956–1958), Gerhard Kielwein (1962–1964), Werner Maihofer (1967–1969) and Günther Hönn (1992–2000).

Honorary professors

The following persons were or are honorary professors in the law faculty (including the Europa-Institut):

people

Honorary doctorates

Between 1965 and 2009 the Faculty of Law and Economics appointed 40 honorary doctors . Persons marked with a hash # are economists who today would be assigned to the Faculty of Empirical Human Sciences and Economics (HW).

Well-known students

Personalities are named who have at least temporarily completed studies at the faculty (including the European Institute) at Saarland University.

  • Peter Altmaier

  • Klaus Bouillon

  • Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

  • Jo linen

  • Heiko Maas

  • Ottmar Schreiner

  • Constança Urbano de Sousa

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

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