Heidelberg University Faculty of Law

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Heidelberg University
Faculty of Law
Typepublic
Established1386; 638 years ago (1386)
DeanEkkehard Reimer
Students2.952 (2018)
Location
Heidelberg, BW
,
Germany
Campusurban
Websitehttp://www.jura.uni-heidelberg.de/
Law Library
(2004)

The Heidelberg University Faculty of Law (also known as Heidelberg Law School), located in Heidelberg, Germany, is one of the original four constituent faculties of Heidelberg University. Founded in 1386 by Rupert I, Elector Palatine, it is the oldest law school in Germany.[1]

Academics

A lecture at law (2004)

Besides the

Max Planck Institute for International Law
. [3]

Law students have to cover a wide range of compulsory subjects.

public international law; Healthcare law.[5]

Thomas Lobinger and the exam preparation course "HeidelPräp!" won the Ars legendi-Award 2014 for excellence in higher education didactics, donated by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and German Rectors' Conference.[6]

Heidelberg is home of Germany's oldest student law review "StudZR".

The main research interests of the faculty center around the harmonisation of

history of law.[1]

Reputation and admission

University rankings
By subject – Global & National
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CHE Ranking 2020 – National
Law[8]
Overall study situation ● 2.8 –
Research orientation – –
Study organisation – –
Support in studies – –
Support in the study entry phase ● 9/12 pts.
Coursed offered – –
Teacher support ● 2.9 –
Exam preparation ● 7/10 pts. –
Laboratory internships – –
Teaching of scientific competence – –
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International orientation – –
Contact with work environment – –
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Doctorates per professor –
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Third party funds per professor –
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For centuries Heidelberg has been one of the preeminent law schools in Germany, today regularly placing at or near the top of various German law school rankings.[9][10][11]

In the 2022 QS World University Rankings by subjects Heidelberg Law ranks 62 globally, down from rank 24 in 2014. It is ranked third in Germany after the University of Bonn and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[7] In the 2020 CHE University Ranking, Heidelberg University is in the top group with regard to support in the study entry phase and doctorates per professor.[8]

The school accepts less than one in ten applicants for the first professional degree program,[12] and consistently has the highest number of applicants per place of all German law schools.[1] Admission decisions for the first professional degree course are based on the Abitur GPA; the Abitur grades in German, mathematics, and in the first foreign language; as well as on other individual merits. Admission to graduate degrees is based on the results of the previous law degree and if applying for doctoral studies, the candidate's demonstrated capacity to pursue independently original research.[13]

Statistics

The school comprises 2.764

full professors,[15] excluding assistant professors, graduate research and teaching assistants, adjunct faculty, and visiting scholars
. In 2012, the school raised 790,000 EUR in third-party funds.[16] In Germany, regularly thirty percent of the candidates fail the First Legal Examination, and only 10 percent achieve a distinction.[17] At Heidelberg Law School, the failure rate is only 20 percent and more than 20 percent graduate with distinction in the statewide final exam.[18]

International cooperations

The school has student exchange agreements and research cooperations with some 40 partner universities, and it has established a professorial exchange program with the

Andrássy University of Budapest.[1]

Noted people

Main article:
List of University of Heidelberg people

Among the school's noted alumni in government are three

Sir Muhammad Iqbal and classical composer Robert Schumann.[19]

Gustav Radbruch

Among the Heidelberg law scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries were

Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Georg Jellinek, Otto von Gierke, Gerhard Anschütz and Gustav Radbruch.[1]
The law school's present professors include former Justice of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Ferdinand Kirchhof,[24] Johannes Masing,[25] Rudolf Mellinghoff,[26] and Lerke Osterloh[27]
have served as lecturers and researchers in the school prior to their appointment to the court.

In fiction and popular culture

In

Academy Award-winning 2008 film version The Reader, starring Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes.[28][29]

Heidelberg university is featured in Naoki Urasawa's 1994–2001 manga series, Monster, and its subsequent 2004–2005 anime adaptation, wherein it is featured as the university Nina Fortner (Anna Liebert) is attending to get her degree in law. By the end of the series, despite the turmoil she's faced and her professor's initial displeasure at her consistent tardiness, she graduates with her degree.

In Michel Favart's film «Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde», Karl Kempf, one of the main characters, studies law at Heidelberg university, while his brother Edouard begins his studies at the

École Polytechnique
in France.

Hans Julius Grebenar is a law graduate of Heidelberg university in Jeffrey Archer's short story "A good eye" of the collection And Thereby Hangs a Tale, as well as the East Prussian Junker (Prussia) Count Rudolf von Adelhaus in Harold Spender's 1916 Novel "The Dividing Sword".[30]

See also

Further reading

  • Schroeder, Klaus-Peter (2010). "Eine Universität für Juristen und von Juristen" : die Heidelberger Juristische Fakultät im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (in German).
    ISBN 978-3-16-150326-9
    .
  • Meusburger, Peter (2012). Wissenschaftsatlas of Heidelberg University : spatio-temporal relations of academic knowledge production. Bibliotheca Palatina. pp. 158–161.
    ISBN 978-3-9811463-4-9
    .
  • Baldus, Christian; Kronke, Herbert; Mager, Ute (2013). Heidelberger Thesen zu Recht und Gerechtigkeit (in German). Mohr Siebeck.
    ISBN 978-3-16-152056-3
    .
  • Heidelberg University Bibliography (Juristische Fakultät): As the main index of publications Heidelberg University Bibliography (HeiBIB) lists the academic publications by members of Heidelberg University,[31]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Introduction to the Faculty of Law". University of Heidelberg Homepage. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  2. ^ "Courses of Study at the Heidelberg School of Law". University of Heidelberg Homepage. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  3. ^ "Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution in International Law". Max Planck Society website. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  4. ^ Korioth, Stefan. "Legal Education in Germany today" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Liste der Schwerpunktbereichetml". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ^ Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. "Ars legendi-Award 2014". Archived from the original on 2013-12-17.
  7. ^ a b "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Law". QS World University Rankings. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  8. ^ a b "Studying Law in Germany". CHE University Ranking. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  9. ^ "WirtschaftsWoche: Universität Heidelberg in Jura auf Platz 1 (German)". uni-protokolle.de. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  10. ^ a b "Jura im Wandel (German)". Handelsblatt Karriere 2008. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  11. ^ "WiWo Jura-Ranking 2013 (German)". Wirtschaftswoche. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  12. ^ "Universität Heidelberg – Pressemitteilungen 3". University of Heidelberg Homepage. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
  13. ^ "Information for applicants". University of Heidelberg Homepage. Archived from the original on 2009-08-31. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  14. ^ Heidelberg University. "2013 - 2014 Student statistics" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-05-31.
  15. ^ "List of Heidelberg professors of law". University of Heidelberg Homepage. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
  16. ^ Heidelberg University. "Annual Report 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  17. ^ Korioth, Stefan. Legal Education in Germany today (PDF). p. 96.
  18. ^ Baden Württemberg Ministry of Justice. "2013 Results of the First Legal Examination" (PDF).
  19. List of University of Heidelberg people
  20. ^ "Professor Kirchhof website". University of Heidelberg website. Archived from the original on 2010-05-04. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  21. ^ "Professor Wolfrum website". Max Planck Society website. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  22. ^ "Professor Kronke website". University of Heidelberg website. Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  23. ^ "Professor v. Bogdandy website". Max Planck Society website. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  24. ^ "Justice Kirchhof website". Bundesverfassungsgericht website. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  25. ^ "Justice Masing website". Bundesverfassungsgericht website. Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  26. ^ "Justice Mellinghoff website". Bundesverfassungsgericht website. Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  27. ^ "Justice Osterloh website". Bundesverfassungsgericht website. Archived from the original on 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
  28. ISBN 978-0-679-44279-0
    .
  29. ^ "The Reader 2008". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  30. ^ Thomas Weber: Our Friend "The Enemy". Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I. Stanford University Press 2008, page 104.
  31. ^ "HeiBIB".

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