The course of studies commercial law has the commercial law to the article.

The offer resulted from it that the economy required more than lawyer with the capability to the justiceship, those their study at the university with that to 2. State examinations terminated; when reaction to the need of the economy became new legal course of studies initiated and with the years established, in which the students are informed not only in legal subjects, but also particularly in the economic disciplines and key qualifications. The training as the diploma corporate lawyer took place thus as Gegenprogramm to the classical lawyer, was however never as competition meant, there diplomierte a corporate lawyer of the capability to the justiceship does not order. The operational area of a corporate lawyer is the economy, not the judiciary.

History of the course of studies

1993 were offered for the first time the course of studies commercial law at some professional schools. The course of studies for the reasons specified above was started. From the outset was planned to develop an interdisciplinary course of studies which should train the students comprehensively in (economics) legal and economic Fragegestellungen. In the center were located not only comprehensive training of the bases, but also a constant practice purchase and the internationalization. In the course of the years at ever more professional schools and in the meantime even at universities study programs were started in commercial law with a Bachelor or a diploma conclusion. To the winter semester 2005/06 the broad conversion of the courses of studies to the Bachelor master system followed.

Contents

Commercial law is an interdisciplinary course of studies in the ranges right and economics, which around additional qualifications like e.g. Rhetorikkenntnisse and restaurant economics one supplements. The economiceconomics university combination (WHV), a union of several professional schools, the commercial law offer, place the following requirement-mix at professional schools: at least 50% legal, 25% enterprise and economical contents as well as the addition around auxiliary qualifications such as EDP handling, foreign languages, Rhetorik, etc. Besides usually exist several recess directions in the main study, which change from professional school to professional school. Usually there are e.g. recesses within economic and legal ranges like personnel and work, tax and audit, financial service right, management, reorganization and insolvency management or international management.

Typical technical and disciplines during the study are among other things:

• Restaurant economics and civil proceeding right
• Economic constitution right
• Restaurant economics
• Competition right
• Corporate law
• Work and social right
• Tax law
• Restaurant economics/insolvency law
• Account system and Controlling
• Bases of the management economics
• Bases of the political economy
• Finance management
• Logistics and marketing
• Personnel management
• English economic and legal terminology
• additional foreign languages
• Economical informatics
• Communication and Rhetorik

In the course of the conversion in the meantime also numerous courses of studies were accredited. Thus it is guaranteed that with foreign stays the achievements are recognized or that study local changes are facilitated; with the accreditation the courses of studies participate in the ECTS system.

Conclusions

"“Traditional"” conclusion is diploma after average period of study of 8 term, which contains one practice term and the term, in which the thesis (diploma) is written. Since the winter semester 2005/06 almost exclusively courses of studies to the Bachelor OF Laws (LL.B.), to the Bachelor OF Business Law (BBL) or Bachelor OF Science (BSc), in order to stress the offered. The conversion took place in the context of the Bologna process. It is planned that starting from the WG 2007/08 all courses of studies in commercial law with the Bachelor lock. In addition konsekutive master study programs are developed at present, which presumably starting from the WG 2007/08 for order stand and with the title master OF Laws (LL.M.), for master OF Businesses Law (MBL) or master OF Sciene (MSc).

Comparison to the traditional study of the jurisprudence

As already described entrance, the course of studies commercial law is on the interests of the economy cut legal training. The economically relevant right ranges are linked with contents from the people and management economics and completed with many further auxiliary qualifications. Graduates are to be able to find thereby in the economy within all offering ranges work. Careers in the public service and in the judiciary are open to the corporate lawyers at present only reduced. For such activities further the capability is necessary for the justiceship, those in Germany with the conventional study of the jurisprudence at a university and a that 2. State examination is acquired. However is in many public administrations and also in the judiciary - to observe with restriction a change of the tradierten view. So corporate lawyers can be in the pursuit of criminal offences in the range of the white-collar crime also with public prosecutor's offices a valuable enriching. In the course of studies commercial law takes place in the legal topics a close selection on the economically relevant ranges, which leads to it that some right topics are completely omitted like e.g. historical jurisprudence, Kriminologie, criminal law or Strafprozessrecht.Allerdings must is pointed out that historical jurisprudence, philosophy of law and also Kriminologie no testrelevant fan of the 1. and 2. State examination are. To that extent this fan rarely and as choice subject are only inquired.

Conditions for permission

The permission becomes the Abitur, which needs specialized technical or a comparable training. Usually the entrance will become over a number Clausus regulated, only in North Rhine-Westphalia the study places for professional schools of the ZVS assigned (for universities one must apply directly with the university), otherwise decides the universities themselves on the assignment. Often also a Vorpraktikum or an final professional training is required.

Universities, the commercial law offer

In the meantime at approximately 20 national universities in Germany the course of studies commercial law is offered, since short also at some universities. (In parentheses the courses of studies)

• University of Augsburg (diploma course of studies on the right of and economic science)
• FHTW Berlin
• University notion, location Berne castle
• FH Bielefeld
• University Bremen
• Brandenburgi technical University of (BTU) Cottbus (master OF Business Law (MBL))
• FOM meal
• FH Frankfurt/Main
• FH gel churches
• Correspondence university Hagen (Bachelor OF Law (LLB))
• Martin Luther university resound Wittenberg (LL.M.oec., LL.M.oec.int., MBL)
• University of Hamburg (commercial law)
• Technical University of Kaiserslautern
• University of Kassel (commercial law)
• FH Cologne
• RFH Rheini professional school Cologne
• University of Lueneburg (LLB commercial law)
• FH Mainz
• William university in (Bsc Economics and Law; LLM Mergers & Acquisitions; LLM tax science; LLM insurance law; LLM material Estate Law)
• University for economics and environment Geislingen
• FH
• University of (LLB commercial law; LLM restaurant economics)
• FH Pforzheim
• FH Schmalkalden
• University of victories (diploma German and European commercial law)
• FH Wiesbaden
• TFH Wildau
• FH Wismar
• FH location
• FH Kempten

Beyond that there are still some courses of studies commercial law at private universities as well as some "“e.g. used"” courses of studies like environment law, right of information or social right at other professional schools.

Related links

• Current Ranking of the CHE
• Federal association of the corporate lawyers of professional schools registered association.
• Economiceconomics university combination
• General information to the study

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