Veranstaltungen

Dozentin:

Lillian Jewell von Seggern

An introduction to the fundamental principles of the constitutional law of the UK in contrast with the German codified constitution. Initial factors that will be considered are the makeup of the UK parliament (House of Lords and House of Commons), the reforms thereof and the impact that this has had on the UK constitutional landscape. The process of devolution of power from Westminster to regional governments and assemblies will be considered and the benefits will be debated. Finally, the impact of EU and International Human Rights laws on the UK constitutional system will be considered.

 

Assessment will be on the basis of a short essay written in English on a relevant topic of choice at the end of the course.

Language Requirement: English min. B2

Dozentin:

Dr. Laura Schmitt

This course provides a general introduction to the law of torts. It covers laws that determine the conditions under which someone might be held legally responsible for having caused harm to another person or another person’s property under civil law. We will study American tort law with a special emphasis on intentional torts (e.g. trespass, assault and battery) and negligence. Further, we will discuss the rationale behind judgments in civil cases. Treating the need for victim compensation as a societal problem, the course will deal with alternatives to the tort system such as no-fault. Throughout the course, there will be an effort to identify the basic purposes, which a tort system achieves or should achieve. Topics include intentional and unintentional injury; fault and no-fault theories of liability; causation; compensatory and punitive damages; affirmative defenses and other limitations of liability; vicarious and strict liability.

 

Course design: This course is a lecture. Nonetheless, student participation in the debates and preparation of parts of the cases is essential. Required reading will be provided.

Suggested level of laguage proficiency: English B2

Dozent:

Jatine Patel

Kursinhalte wöchentlich in STiNE

Language Requirement: English B2

 

 

10-02-723 Rechtliche Bewältigung von Umweltkonflikten in Lateinamerika

Dozentin:

Diana Carolina Sanabria Ramirez

Die Wirtschaft in Lateinamerika basiert zu einem großen Teil auf extraktiver Industrie (Gold, Erdöl, Kohle, Coltan, usw.). Das hat einiges an Wirtschaftswachstum erzeugt, aber auch viele ökologische und territoriale Konflikte geschaffen, insbesondere mit der ländlichen und indigenen Bevölkerung. Daneben leiden die meisten lateinamerikanischen Länder an den Konsequenzen des Klimawandels und schlechter Infrastruktur, deren Ausbau wiederum neue Herausforderungen für die Umwelt schafft. Die Rechtsordnung versucht, die Interessen lokaler und indigener Bevölkerung und der Natur zu stärken. Doch da die Durchsetzung des Rechts gerade in ländlichen Regionen oft nicht sehr gut funktioniert und große wirtschaftliche und politische Interessen hinter der extraktiven Industrie stehen, gelingt das nicht immer.

Diese Vorlesung beschäftigt sich mit den dargestellten Problemen aus juristischer Sicht. Kenntnisse der Fachsprache sind nicht vorausgesetzt. Die erforderlichen Fachbegriffe werden in der Vorlesung beigebracht.

Sprachanforderung: Spanisch B1/B2

Dozentin:

Diana Carolina Sanabria Ramirez

Die Wirtschaft in Lateinamerika basiert zu einem großen Teil auf extraktiver Industrie (Gold, Erdöl, Kohle, Coltan, usw.). Das hat einiges an Wirtschaftswachstum erzeugt, aber auch viele ökologische und territoriale Konflikte geschaffen, insbesondere mit der ländlichen und indigenen Bevölkerung. Daneben leiden die meisten lateinamerikanischen Länder an den Konsequenzen des Klimawandels und schlechter Infrastruktur, deren Ausbau wiederum neue Herausforderungen für die Umwelt schafft. Die Rechtsordnung versucht, die Interessen lokaler und indigener Bevölkerung und der Natur zu stärken. Doch da die Durchsetzung des Rechts gerade in ländlichen Regionen oft nicht sehr gut funktioniert und große wirtschaftliche und politische Interessen hinter der extraktiven Industrie stehen, gelingt das nicht immer.

Diese Vorlesung beschäftigt sich mit den dargestellten Problemen aus juristischer Sicht. Kenntnisse der Fachsprache sind nicht vorausgesetzt. Die erforderlichen Fachbegriffe werden in der Vorlesung beigebracht.

Sprachanforderung: Spanisch B1/B2

Dozentin:

Ülkü Sezgi Sözen

Die Ziele der Vorlesung sind, die Teilnehmer/innen mit der türkischen Rechtssprache vertraut zu machen, die Kenntnisse den Teilnehmer/innen über das internationale Privatrecht der Türkei aufzubauen, und sich auf einem professionellen Niveau über rechtliche Fragen in der türkischen Sprache austauschen zu können. Um diese Ziele zu erreichen, werden die wichtigsten Aspekte des internationalen Privatrechts in der Türkei, wie etwa, Ausländer-, Staatsangehörigkeits- und Migrationsrecht, behandelt.

Sprachanforderung: Türkisch B2/C1

 

Dozentin:

Katrin von Gierke

This course introduces a fairly broad spectrum of substantive and procedural issues of Anglo-American law. The three blocks of instruction cover criminal, contract and tort law.

These blocks each end with a formal "negotiation," whereby students are assigned to teams and must prepare "portfolios," ie documentation to negotiate a problem on behalf of their "clients."

Students are assessed on their active oral participation in these negotiations and one oral presentation of 10 minutes. Very active student participation and preparation is required.

Language Level B2 or better.

Dozentin:

Annalisa Morticelli

Fundamental Elements of International Protection in European Union

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental legal elements underpinning European legislation on the international protection. The matter is very relevant in the European Union current context.

A brief introduction on the typologies of migrant categories and on the European legislation on international protection will be addressed with a  particular focus on the persons that among the asylum seekers are vulnerable subjects, as for example persons with severe health conditions, persons who are victims of trafficking and unaccompanied minors.

In particular, the course will be dedicated to the analysis of the European and international Conventions valid within European Union such as the Declaration of Fundamental Rights of Man, the Geneva Convention (1951), the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the regulations enacted by the European institutions related the international protection. The European jurisprudence will also be analyzed above all to understand what violations of current legislation have been incurred by Member States so far.

Language Level English B1/B2

Dozent:

Dr. Ugur Kara

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of Turkish legal culture within the field of public law by focusing on the Ottoman-Turkish constitutional development from the beginning of 19th century to the present. This will be done within the Ottoman era by examining the first constitutional steps such as Sened-i Ittifak (Deed of Alliance; 1808), the edicts of Tanzimat (1839) and Islahat (1856) and the Constitution of 1876. The constitutional amendment in 1909 which introduced a parliamentary system will be dealt with as a last stage of this period. For the Republic era, the constitutions of 1921, 1924, 1961 and 1982 with their important amendments will be analysed. Thus, students will gain a broad knowledge with regard to the rise and development of the principles of rule of law, secularism, social state, and parliamentary democracy in Turkey.

The recent legal development affecting these principles will form the last part of the course.

Language Level English B2

Dozentin:

Kelly A Dhru

Should genome editing in humans embryos be legally permissible? What, if anything, is wrong with the enhancements of humans, and especially, the cognitive enhancement of the human brain? Should the law allow human organs be “grown” through the creation of human-animal chimeras? Do animals have a right not to be experimented upon? While on the one hand the emerging biotechnologies aim to promote the health and well-being of the society, they also raise serious legal, ethical, and regulatory challenges on the other hand. These legal and ethical questions are no longer restricted to the realm of the “hypothetical”. With the unsurpassed growth in the emerging biotechnologies, these are some crucial questions that the current legal systems have to battle.

Language Level English B1/B2

Dozent:

Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe

Das Seminar wendet sich insbesondere an Studierende des Schwerpunktbereichs VI, „Law and Economics“, steht aber auch anderen Studierenden offen. Zielsetzung des Seminars ist es, die Auswirkungen der zunehmenden Technologisierung und Digitalisierung unseres Wirtschaftslebens aus rechtsökonomischer Sicht zu erörtern.

Unterrichtssprache Englisch

Anmeldung nur über den Lehrstuhl

Dozent:

Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur

Sustainable Development in the Dynamics of Public International Law. The seminar’s intention is to dive deeper into the well-known but at the same time ambiguous concept of sustainable development. We are going to look at the notion of sustainable development through a Public International Law lens in order to discuss possible legal and political implications on the basis of a variety of legal fields and settings.

Students have the possibility to give a short presentation in English on the topic of their choice.

Teaching language will be English. The seminar addresses all students of all faculties with an interest in Public International Law. Students from the first semester onwards, Erasmus students and those students feeling uncomfortable with speaking English are explicitly invited since neither previous knowledge of the subject nor excellent English skills are required.

The seminar is a continuation of last semester’s seminar “Classics of Public International Law Revisited” that was created to establish a continuous seminar within the scope of Public International Law. All impulses and/or suggestions - especially concerning the proposed topics - are welcome.

Unterrichtssprache Englisch

Anmeldung nur über den Lehrstuhl

Dozent: Sohail Aftab

Sprachniveau: B2

This course has been designed to give a comparative outlook of the major topics of international law as well as Islamic law. Objective of the introductory course titled, "Introduction to the Concept of Islamic International Law (Siyar)" is to provide the students another perspective of how conventional international law could have been influenced by religious principles. This course would generate the interest and intellectual capability whereby students would be able to undertake critical comparative studies of the concepts of international law and Islamic international law.

Dozent: Kathrin von Gierke

Sprachniveau: B2

This course introduces a fairly broad spectrum of substantive and procedural issues of Anglo-American law. The three blocks of instruction cover criminal, contract and tort law. These blocks each end with a formal "negotiation," whereby students are assigned to teams and must prepare "portfolios," ie documentation to negotiate a problem on behalf of their "clients." Students are assessed on their active oral participation in these negotiations. This method requires very active student participation and preparation.

Dozent: Dr. Ugur Kara

Sprachniveau: B1/ B2

The aim of this course is to provide an overview of Turkish legal culture within the field of public law by focusing on the Ottoman-Turkish constitutional development from the beginning of 19th century to the present. This will be done within the Ottoman era by examining the first constitutional steps such as Sened-i Ittifak (Deed of Alliance; 1808), the edicts of Tanzimat (1839) and Islahat (1856) and the Constitution of 1876. The constitutional amendment in 1909 which introduced a parliamentary system will be dealt with as a last stage of this period. For the Republic era, the constitutions of 1921, 1924, 1961 and 1982 with their important amendments will be analysed. Thus, students will gain a broad knowledge with regard to the rise and development of the principles of rule of law, secularism, social state, and parliamentary democracy in Turkey.

The recent legal development affecting these principles will form the last part of the course.

Dozent: Claudia Pretto

Sprachniveau: B1

This lecture is an invitation to analyze and reflect upon the principles and values of the Fundamental Human Rights obligations of Nation States in a Rule of Law System. Through the lenses of an ancient (and yet contemporary) paradigm "Antigone versus Creonte", "Rights versus Law", we intent to guide the students into a "sensory" understanding of this paradigm, both through content as well as through a specific set of processes based exercises, in order to possibly unfold a deeper awareness of the controversial relation between Rights and Law.

The juridical approach will include History of Law, general theory of Human Rights, international and European human rights system with a deeper analysis on national cases on the horizon of common constitutional tradition. The content will partially be vehicle through a set of processes based exercises inspired by a Social Sculpture methodology, that aims at connecting with an inner understanding of the subject matter, and finally foster a deeper understanding of its individual and social implications.

Dozent: Laura Pacifici

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

This lecture is addressed to the students of the Faculty of Law, with the perspective of various professional horizons. In their future, they could take many different life paths becoming members of diplomatic missions, experts in International relations, human rights lawyers and more. Thanks to its frontal and interactive approach, this course will provide the tools to build a framework for structuring their personal vision of problems and solutions.

Students will learn a very specific language, while understanding how the theme of immigration can be related to many other problems thanks to a series of concatenated reflections on various subjects.

This course is designed as an introduction to the basic concepts, issues and problems that pertain to migration, especially forced migration, from the perspective of both migrants and policy-makers, with a special focus on human rights, women empowerment and health.

Students will be taught to critically analyse the migration profiles of countries beyond the forced/voluntary dichotomy and gain critical familiarity with the diversity of stakeholders in mobility management to better assess what avenues of humanitarian, development and political cooperation should be enhanced to protect populations in times of crisis.

Key underlying questions will be considered: Why "managing" migration? How to assess vulnerability as well as safety?

What does "legality" of mobility mean? How much is the international refugee regime well equipped to cope with the changing aspects of these movements? How sensible are categories of migration? What are current crises’ impact on population movements? Why are people moving (causes of migration), and what are they looking for in displacement (drivers of migration) and upon return (reintegration)?

A conceptual introduction to the system and method of global health domain related to immigration will be provided.

This course suggests a global approach to improve the understanding of the theme of immigration and related topics, while trying to answer to some suspended questions:

How and why to link together so different topics?  Is empathy in this field an added value or not?  The role of women empowerment could be an important support to human rights and in particular the community health?

The aim of this course is also to develop a critical attitude towards international relations and, on the other hand, to give the students the basic theoretical and methodological tools to develop a personal, organized and reasoned reflection in this area.

Dozent: Annalisa Morticelli

Sprachniveau: B1

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of the fundamental legal principles underpinning European refugee legislation. The matter is very relevant in the European Union current context.

A brief introduction on the typologies of migrant categories and on the European legislation on international protection will be address, so then to focus on refugee status and its specific legislation. A look at the current complex creation of a common European asylum system will be faced.

In particular, the course will be dedicated to the analysis of the European and international Conventions valid within European Union such as the Declaration of Fundamental Rights of Man, the Geneva Convention (1951), the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the regulations enacted by the European institutions as for instance the so-called Qualification Directive and the Dublin III Regulation. The European Court of Justice's jurisprudence will also be analyzed above all to understand what violations of current legislation have been incurred by Member States so far.

Dozent: Sandie Calme

Sprachlniveau: B1

Diese Einführung in das französische Recht wendet sich an Studierende, die Interesse am Erwerb von Fachkenntnissen im Bereich des französischen Rechts und der französischsprachigen Rechtsterminologie haben. Sie ist für die Vorbereitung eines ERASMUS-Aufenthalts im französischsprachigen Raum besonders geeignet. Der Schwerpunkt wird auf die deutsch-französischen Rechtsbeziehungen gesetzt.

Dozent: Ülku Sezgi Sözen

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

Die Ziele der Vorlesung sind, die Teilnehmer/innen mit der türkischen Rechtssprache vertraut zu machen, die Kenntnisse den Teilnehmer/innen über das Migrationsrecht und die Migrationspolitik in der Türkei aufzubauen, und sich auf einem professionellen Niveau über rechtliche Fragen in der türkischen Sprache austauschen zu können. Um diese Ziele zu erreichen, werden die wichtigsten Aspekte des Migrationsrechts und der Migrationspolitik mit der Berücksichtigung der Beziehung zwischen der EU und der Türkei dargestellt.

Dozent: Abhishek Mishra

Sprachniveau: B2

This course intends to introduce to the students scheme of UN not merely as an international organization rather as a concept of use of force and international legal regime that governs it through UN Charter. International Law concerning use of force or what is also called as jus contra bellum is important in international relations as many states resort to it as a means of settlement of their international dispute. Further, this course intends to achieve is that students must be able to conceptualize the aspect of state responsibility under international law as to how a state can be made responsible for its internationally wrongful acts. Additionally, what laws are available to protect the humans once the war has broken out? The inter-relationship among these laws will be carefully examined. International Humanitarian law and International Human Rights Law will not be taught as subject rather as an introduction to their role in armed conflict. Students will be prepared to protect the interest of their State as well as of individual who has been rendered confused as to the legal protection available to him/her during armed conflict.

Dozent: Howard Price

Sprachniveau: mind. B2 Niveau

In this course the students will be given an insight into the terminology and vocabulary required for Legal English. We will be practicing vocabulary relating to many areas of English law including company law, contract law, real property law, intellectual law, law of employment and competition law. The level of English is B2/C1 in accordance with the Common European Framework. Active participation in the course is required.

Dozent: Rustam Atadjanov

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

This course is aimed at introducing the students into the main important principles and concepts of International Criminal Law (ICL) as it stands at the present time. Given the ongoing active and dynamic developments in this relatively recent but reach branch of International Law as well as the ever increasing rate of referring to its material provisions within the modern interactions among States, there exists a number of views and approaches to describing ICL by different legal theoretical schools of thought. This particular course provides the systematic description of ICL as it is understood presently in Europe. It explains the historical development of ICL, general principles, main provisions concerning its material part which consists of four core crimes under International Law: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, its procedural principles and aspects, issues related to domestic implementation and enforcement of ICL, and prosecution of crimes under International Law by domestic courts. The main aspects underpinning the work of the most significant legal mechanism of international criminal justice, the International Criminal Court, will be addressed. Students will thus be offered a general comprehensive picture of how, at the present stage, ICL fits into contemporary international legal order as an important tool in order to ensure justice and respond to impunity that often characterizes the commission of crimes under international law.

Dozent: Octaviano Padovese

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

This class aims to debate and to analyze the theoretical portrait over the debate which surrounds hermeneutic and exegesis and how such debate affects legal-decision making and our understanding on right of freedom and equality. To give some support on such assumption, we are going to confront the theory with the practical reasoning. For that, some decisions from European Court of Human Rights are going to be under spot. Based on the philosophical concept of Europe, and not only geographical, as Husserl and Jan Patocka once shaped, at end, we are going to deal not only with a regional or supranational, but we will seize on a more deep and intricate question on Western society, consequently what would be reason and responsibility for the West.

Dozent: Emilia Lana de Freitas Castro

Sprachniveau: B2/C1

 This course aims at providing an overview of the General Part of Brazilian Private International Law, presenting its main subject matters. The importance of the study of this discipline remains mainly on the fact that Brazilian law has been influenced by many European legal orders, including the German one. Some important topics, such as nationality (acquisition, loss and reacquisition of Brazilian nationality); the rights of aliens in Brazilian territory (entry, permanence and exit of aliens in/from the Brazilian national territory); the examination of Brazilian connecting rules; the application of foreign law; and comparative law will be analyzed, so that the student can have a clear notion of the particularities of this subject, based on the work of some Brazilian internationalists.

Dozent: Tomás Restrepo

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

The course focuses in the basic elements of International Investment Law and International Investment arbitration in order to discuss the most important awards for the Latin-American States, as well as provides the students with a basic legal-Spanish vocabulary that they can use in an international context

Dozent: Adriana Pereira

Sprachniveau: B1/B2

The course is based on the description of general and basic concepts of human rights and humanitarian law, they similarities and differences, their legal frameworks and their relation with the human right-protection systems.

Dozent: Maiara Giorgi

Sprachniveau: B1

In the past decades, there has been an increase on interdisciplinary research with regard to law. In this course we aim to analyze interdisciplinary legal research methods, discuss methodological questions, as well as study the law and its relationship with other disciplines.

Dozent: Grzegorz Gorcýnski

Sprachlniveau: B1

The series of interactive lectures (with Power Point presentation) is a short presentation of European company law in the light of comparative company law and international company law. The presentation consists of four independent lectures (circa 90 minutes each):

• Companies and law of companies in treaties of the European Union
• EU Company law - primary outline and the present status quo
• The concept of the company and EU Company law directives
• The problem of recognition of companies (in European law and private international law)

Dozent: Anita Strzebinczyk

Sprachniveau: B1

Dieses Seminar gibt den Teilnehmern und Teilnehmerinnen einen Einblick in das polnische Vertragsrecht, insbesondere auch im Lichte des internationalen deutsch-polnischen Rechtsverkehrs. Behandelt werden ausgewählte Themen aus den Rechtsgebieten des polnischen Privatrechts, die für die Vertragsgestaltung maßgebend sind (vor allem das polnische Schuldrecht, aber auch die Gebiete des allgemeinen Teils des Zivilgesetzbuches – z.B. Willenserklärung, Vertragsschluss, Vertretung, Form der Rechtsgeschäfte).

Die Teilnehmer/innen werden die wichtigsten Institutionen, Verfahren und Rechtsgrundlagen kennenlernen. Durch aktive Beteiligung sollen die Teilnehmer/innen auch ihre mündlichen und schriftlichen Fähigkeiten in der polnischen Sprache im juristischen Kontext erweitern. Die Unterrichtssprache ist Polnisch.

Die Veranstaltung wird teilweise in Form einer interaktiven Vorlesung geführt und teilweise werden den Teilnehmer/innen Fälle und Übungen vorgeschlagen, die via STiNE abrufbar sind. Die Fälle werden während der Veranstaltung rechtsvergleichend mit der deutschen Rechtsordnung erörtert.