GRK 261: European Private Law and Business Law (IV)

The aim of this postgraduate college is to contribute to the creation of a legal literature that is no longer restricted to the national boundaries of single legal systems, but opens up a transnational European perspective on law. This kind of literature should help to serve as a basis for a European legal education and a European legal discourse. The accompanying study program is meant to develop the graduates' ability to do academic legal work in a European context and to teach them an intellectual approach which integrates the different national and supranational legal systems existing in Europe. The participating professors, visiting scholars, and practitioners from Germany and abroad give courses, lectures, and colloquia on topics relevant to the projects of the young researchers. The graduates reguliarly have the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the professors and the other scholarship holders. The focus on certain core fields of private law and business law allows a very productive exchange of opinions and experience. By means of accompanying language classes, the young researchers learn to read texts in at least one more foreign language.