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Cases in public law

• The focus will be on vocabulary, not on grammar.

• Vocabulary about (selection):

  • constitutional law
    • constitutional complaint
    • court proceedings between governmental bodies
  • administrative law
    • right of asylum
    • construction law

  • vocabulary about (selection):

    • principle of proportionality
    • full evaluation of the circumstances
    • scope of the audit
    • administrative act: annulment, withdrawal
    • administrative act: conditions
    • immission guide values
    • parliamentary reservation
    • case of imminent danger
    • binding effect of the administrative act
    • appeal against refusals
    • suspensory effect
    • urgent procedure

Service: Teacher creates electronic flash-cards for each case .

Notice: The course sets out to provide students with the German legal language, not with legal contents. The fields of law are just being used in order to train the legal language. The teacher doesn´t give any legal advice.

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Report style (Gutachtenstil) for your law studies, your LLM, your bar exam (§ 16 EuRAG).

• simple cases from civil law and criminal law
• the focus will be on report style, not on vocabulary and grammar.
• the following contents are taught:
  • find requirements (Tatbestandsmerkmale) in statutory provisions
  • formulate hypothesis
    • with Konjunktiv II
    • by using words, that express a possibility
    • by using a conditional clause
  • formulate legal definitions
    • source
    • how long?
    • using the right verbs
    • more than one definition within one prerequisite (Wegnahme iRd § 242 StGB; Eindringen iRd 123 StGB)
  • subsumption
    • what is being compared with what?
    • order of elements
    • factual circumstances and susumption
  • result
    • consecutive connectors
    • relationship between hypothesis and result
    • abstract or concrete formulations

Notice: The course sets out to provide students with the German legal language, not with legal contents. The fields of law are just being used in order to train the legal language. The teacher doesn´t give any legal advice.

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Cases in Arbitration

• The focus will be on vocabulary, not on grammar.

• Vocabulary about (selection):

  • Declaration of enforceability of a judgment
  • Double exequatur
  • International treaties
  • Doctrine of merger
  • Brussels Convention
  • Challenge of an arbitrator
  • Impartiality
  • Breach of the duty of disclosure
  • Right to judicial protection under the Basic Law
  • Compulsory arbitration
  • Judicial review of an arbitral award

Notice: The course sets out to provide students with the German legal language, not with legal contents. The fields of law are just being used in order to train the legal language. The teacher doesn´t give any legal advice.