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Law/Business Law
By Stephan Zimprich
What does the course cover?
A law course involves lectures, tutorials and seminars which teach the basics of core legal areas (civil law, criminal law, public law). The aim of the teaching continues to be to give students "the qualification to be a magistrate", even if less than five per cent of graduates now go into state service these days. The course primarily consists of content that will prepare students for working as lawyers. Course content such as reasoning, speaking and basic business studies have become a compulsory part of the course only recently. So some students study subsidiary subjects that match their job aspirations, such as business studies. Law students learn how to apply the law primarily through practical case studies which they resolve through term papers or exams. Lawyers are primarily analysts. They break down the factual content of issues such as theft, car accidents, disputes over rent and building applications into ever smaller, logical parts and subsume them under the appropriate laws. It becomes difficult when individual theories are in conflict - there is then a dominant opinion and a minority opinion. The student has to deliver an expert paper that decides for one of the sides, and explain their choice as best they can. The different angles of a problem need to be identified, analysed and assessed.
What is the structure of the course?
The career path to becoming a lawyer is divided into two phases. First comes the (at least) eight-semester course at a university concluding in the first state exam. Then comes the two-year "induction for article clerks". Since the 2002 reform of law training, the educational curriculum is structured in a very similar way at all the universities throughout the federal states. All students must get a basic and advance credit, each consisting of a research paper and a written exam, in each of the three core areas. Then there is a university exam in an optional special subject (for example, international law, environmental law or employment and insurance law), which feeds into the exam grade. Two placements, plus a foreign language qualification specific to the subject, are also required. This will usually be English or French, but Italian and Spanish are also offered.
Legal issues play an important role in business decision-making. The Business Law course, offered by a number of universities of applied sciences, reflects this. Students cover the most important fields of business studies and economics, and the legal fields which most concern companies. These include, for example, employment law and commercial and company law. Later on they spend time working in companies‘ legal departments, but mainly in a commercial role. Their legal knowledge helps them to identify in advance many potential legal conflicts which can result from business decisions. Graduates from universities of applied sciences cannot work as a lawyer or magistrate.
New developments in this subject
Legal training was reformed in 2002. The main innovation is a so-called special subject area, for which students need to provide a piece of work during their course which is assessed by the university and is worth 30 per cent of their final exam grade. Another novelty is the requirement to study a foreign language related to the subject, which is intended to promote the international character of the course.
Currently 15 of the 42 law faculties are also offering their own BA, MA or Diplom courses. Masters programmes exist mainly as postgraduate courses in individual areas of law (business law, environmental law, criminology). Students who do the Bachelor or Diplom cannot, even if they add on a Masters afterwards, go into one of the regulated legal careers such as magistrate, lawyer or public prosecutor.
Aptitude, Obstacles and Errors
Studying law is very demanding in terms of the workload. Students should not have a book phobia. Someone who considers themselves a disciplined, well-organised and persevering person is in good hands amongst legal experts. There is very little compulsory attendance on law courses. Particularly at the larger faculties, students get by with little contact to teaching staff, and they depend on their own motivation when it comes to exam preparation. It does no harm to enjoy logical thinking and working with very abstract jargon. In intellectual terms, courses do not make above-average demands ? you do not have to be a genius to do well in the exams. The main difficulty lies in the sheer quantity of material that can be tested in the exam ? 12 to 18 months of intensive cramming are common prior to the first exam. |
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