Faculty of Law

Maternity protection for the self-employed is the subject of two events this week, in which Professor Dr. Ursula Rust is taking part.

On 28 June, 65 graduates together with their families and friends attended the annual graduation ceremony of the Faculty. The prize for excellent achievements in the first legal examination, once again donated by the law firm Blaum Dettmers Rabstein, was awarded to Iasone Gutierrez Canas-Pazos (1st prize), Deike Schröder-Pinnecke (2nd prize) and Tim Poplat (3rd prize).

This year, for the second time, the team of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bremen reached the final rounds of the Justus-Liebig Moot Court in Giessen. The team, consisting of Anastasia Eberle, Sebastian Mario Mosqueda and Simon Luca Wedemeyer, will compete against a team from the University of Tübingen in an oral moot court hearing in the field of private law in the semifinals on 11 July 2024 at the University of Giessen.

The summer seminar of the field of specialisation "Climate – Environment – Sea“ took place from 5 - 8 July on Sylt.

On 28 June 2024, the block event of this year's seminar in the university elective field of specialization "International and European Business Law" took place. The topic was: "Mergers & Acquisitions: Cycle of a Corporate Transaction"

On Thursday and Friday, 20-21 June 2024, Prof. Dr. Gralf-Peter Calliess and Dr. Nicholas Mouttotos convened an international conference on the topic of Informed Consent to Dispute Resolution Agreements. The Conference aimed at exploring the latest developments in contract law and private international law in relation to consent to such agreements.

At the invitation of the presiding judge of the 11th Senate, Prof. Dr. Christoph Külpmann, the students attended the hearing on the action brought by two Hessian municipalities against the planning permission of the extra-high voltage line Ultranet .

Pia Lange on the importance of the European Parliament and the national governments' habit of blaming Brussels

On 28 February 2024, students of the field of specialisation "Labour and Social Law in the International and Supranational Context" accompanied by Prof. Dr. Angie Schneider went on an excursion to the Federal Social Court. Thanks to Dr. Björn Harich, Judge at the Federal Social Court, the students were able to observe the proceedings of the 4th Senate and participate in a talk with the Senate and a guided tour of the court building.

From 15 to 16 February 2024, the conference "Women Lawyers at the Universities – Gender Law in Research and Teaching" took place at Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

On 18 January 2024, the 9th Moot Court of the Federal Labour Court took place in Erfurt. 29 student teams of 15 German universities competed against each other, among them three teams of the University Bremen supervised by Professor Dr. Sebastian Kolbe and Klintis Gakovi.

Research assistants of the Faculty of Law joined the protest "Loud Against the Right" on 21 January 2024 in Bremen to take a stand for democratic coexistence. We faculty members take a clear stance against anti-constitutional right-wing extremism. For us, the rule of law, human dignity and democracy are inviolable rights and their disregard cannot be tolerated. As legal scholars we are particularly aware that the condonement of right-wing policy may easily lead to the formation of autocratic elements. Therefore we stand up: for coexistence instead of confrontation, for equal rights instead of discrimination, for tolerance instead of exclusion, for more love instead of hate.

On 29 November, the South Korean Justice Research and Training Center (JRTC) in Seoul organised a conference on two “paradigm shifts” for the legal order, i.e. artificial intelligence and climate change. In the session on “The Climate Change Crisis and Judicial Response”, Professor Gerd Winter of the Research Centre for European Environmental Law (FEU) delivered the key note speech on “Fundamental Rights to Climate Protection”.

On 23 November 2023, the annual doctoral awards ceremony of the Faculty of Law took place in the Kaminsaal of Bremen Town Hall. Following a speech of the Dean Prof. Dr. Gralf-Peter Calliess and a welcoming address of Staatsrat Bernd Tschöpe, the certificates were presented to the doctoral graduates present at the ceremony.

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Christian Joerges (Emeritus Professor Hertie School Berlin and Emeritus Professor Bremen), on 11 November 2023, the Conference "Economic Law and Political Economy" took place as a discussion of methods, disciplines, history and outlook with regard to the (supposedly) new research approach “law and political economy” (LPE) which has been known in the USA for some time.

In accordance with the principle of "one examination regulation, two degrees", the Faculty of Law is planning to introduce an integrated Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree programme as part of the law study programme with the First Law Examination (state examination) as of the winter semester 2024/25.