Bucerius Law School
The Bucerius Law School - College of Law in Hamburg ( pronunciation: [ butseʁius ], abbreviated as BLS ) is a private law school in Germany.
Foundation and structure
The Bucerius Law School was founded in 2000 by the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius modeled after American Law Schools and bears the name of the publisher and politician Gerd Bucerius. Organized she is of a charitable company. The university is headed by the President, the Vice President, Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director, whose work is monitored by a Supervisory Board. The mission statement of the BLS is " freedom of thought - university Renewal - social responsibility ".
The university has a total of 27 professors (15 chairs, 2 assistant professors, 4 "affiliate professor ", 4 honorary professors, 2 Emeriti ), the "Institute for Corporate and Capital Market Law " and the "Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non - Profit Organizations ". There also exist two research centers: the " Center for Transnational IP, Media and Technology Law and Policy " and the " notary Legal Center family ". Finally, there is a " Research Centre families and businesses ."
Learning and Teaching
At the Bucerius Law School different study programs: In the main, the undergraduate law school and passed the first test ( " State Exam " ) and leads to the Bachelor of Laws and the Bucerius Master of Law and Business, the Master of Laws or Master of Law and business leads.
First consideration and Bachelor of Laws
About 115 students will be accepted at the Bucerius Law School Per year. The course lasts including exam preparation and foreign trimester four years and three months and is divided into 13 trimesters. It leads to the first state examination with the additional academic degree of Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ).
In addition to legal education, the university attaches great importance to the mandatory general studies and a foreign language and economics focus. During the holidays, partly to gain work experience, in particular the supporters of the University provide internships available. To prepare for the First State Examination in the Bucerius Law School offers a " exam preparation program " as a separate revision course in which the exam relevant teaching content is repeated. In the seventh trimester all students an education abroad. Tuition fees are 4.000, - € per trimester and are due for a total of 48,000 euros in twelve trimesters.
Around ten percent of students at the Bucerius Law School are fellows of the Study Foundation of the German people. In particular, the lawyers for well above average grade point average of the first graduating class of 11.2 points in the First State Examination came across a great media coverage, with a grade point average of over 10 points could have since been held.
Master of Law and Business
The Bucerius Master of Law and Business (LLM / MLB ) is a further education master's degree program, the fall of 2014 to 2006 jointly by the Bucerius Law School and WHU - Otto Beisheim School is offered of Management. From autumn 2014, the Bucerius Law School is the sole provider. Tuition is the Bucerius Law School.
The admission requirement is a university degree in law or economics. Goal is the education of global managers in the interface area between law and economics. The students should be able to analyze the interfaces of legal and economic issues of entrepreneurial activity in the international context.
The course lasts one year and is conducted in English. Tuition fees are € 22,000.
The academic year runs from early September to the end of July and consists of three trimesters. The autumn term (September to December) consists of two course blocks. The second trimester (January to April), combines a six-week teaching block with an eight-week internship. The third quarter ( May to July) consists of six teaching weeks; in the remaining nine weeks the students create their master thesis.
Other programs
The university owns the doctoral and postdoctoral law. In the summer, two " summer schools " are organized for international law. As part of the " International Exchange Program" visit in the fall trimester about 100 students from the partner universities university.
Partner universities
The university has about 90 foreign partner universities in 30 countries, such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, the Institut d' études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris I University, the University of St. Gallen, Stanford University, New York University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Cornell University, Duke University and Georgetown University.
Extracurricular activities
The students at the Bucerius Law School publish two magazines: " Politics and Society" and the Bucerius Law Journal. There is a choir, an orchestra, a big band and a rock band, a theater group, six political university groups, a Phi Delta Phi Inn and a sports club with many sections, whose teams once a year on the high school's " Champions Trophy" against teams depart from other universities and colleges in Germany. "Entrepreneurs Initiative" Bucerius Law School invites representatives of the people and business to lectures and developed in working groups business ideas. Also, moot courts are in English, in international commercial law, labor law and offered in tax law. 2012 was also founded a law clinic, a center for legal advice. Here students discuss volunteer together with Hamburg lawyers seeking advice primarily in the areas of social law and immigration law.
Location and facilities
The university is located in the former museum and institute building the botanical Faculty of the University of Hamburg in the park planet un Blomen near the train station Dammtor.
On campus, there are also two new buildings: an auditorium with 450 seats and a building in which the library with 560 jobs, a cafeteria of the student union Hamburg and another housed a total of four auditoriums. The library contains over 100,000 volumes and 2,355 periodicals in print and electronic form and is accessible only to members of the university.
The university has several computer labs, group study rooms, a relaxation room, a café, a gym and a theater room. The campus also houses a daycare. For students who have questions about certain personal issues such as stress management or career prospects, is a consulting service available. In the " exam clinic " Students are helped individually in the review and analysis of their exam performance, to prevent solidification of ineffective learning concepts and repetitive errors. Both counseling services are free of charge.
Selection
The Bucerius Law School accepts new students on solely for the fall term each year. These then form the respective student year transition. For admission to the study of law the existence of a two-stage selection procedure is required. First, have a year to 15 May adequate English skills through a recognized, standardized English tests (TOEFL, IELTS, CPE or CAE) detected and submitted together with the high school diploma Class 13.2 (with Abitur after twelve years 12.2). If up to the required filing date, the high school diploma is not yet available, the last three certificates may be submitted before graduation alternatively. The first stage then consists of a three-hour written multiple -choice test, which checks the suitability for a law degree, and a 45 -minute essay. The written part is since the year 2011 again decentralized in several major cities in Germany and since 2012 also at least two foreign locations, in 2013 New York and Shanghai conducted. The result will be charged with the average grade of the submitted testimony that impacts one third full. The best 216 candidates of the written test will be invited for an oral competition in Hamburg, where a lecture followed by discussion, individual interviews and group discussions are completed. It will be added about 115 students.
The LLM / MLB 's program has its own selection process, each year be included about 50 students.
Financing
The budget of the university in 2014 is about 16.8 million euros. It is funded by tuition fees and contributions from third parties, whereby especially the ZEIT Foundation is emphasized, which contributes to 51% in 2014 to budget. In addition, the university made its own income through continuing education courses for lawyers and for the rental of their own premises.
The Bucerius Law School separates the selection of the study Funding: only after the selection of candidates, the funding set. Each prospective studies should be regardless of his financial background allows.
The university offers a reverse generational contract ( UGV ), which allows students to first study without charges if they commit themselves for 10 years annually to pay after entry into working life 9 % of income to the university, more than double the regular tuition fee plus base rate. The University may award up to 40 new UGVs per year. With higher demand UGV will be awarded in order of need. Federal financial aid recipients are generally entitled to receive a UGV, the federal financial aid eligibility period is irrelevant.
Finally, the Hamburger Sparkasse offers special student loans. The vote Foundation enables partial or full scholarships for needy orphans. Vodafone Foundation scholarships for students with immigrant backgrounds
Known graduates
- Emily Büning, politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
- Joel El- Qalqili, rowers
- Jonas Hamm, a German-Finnish middle distance runner