Veranstaltungen

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.