For legal professionals, law students and anyone who would like to acquire a basic knowledge of German legal terminology and the German legal system.
The course includes intensive study of special terminology and common language usage in legal texts.
Topics: Overview of the German legal system. Civil law: labour law, commercial and company law, civil proceedings and methodology. Penal law: core areas of criminal law and criminal proceedings. Public law: state structures, constitutional principles, fundamental rights, European law, administrative law and proceedings, social law and methodology; in addition, units on professional practices of lawyers and judges.