Project Details
Projekt
GRK 261: European Private Law and Business Law
Subject Area
Jurisprudence
Term
from 1996 to 2004
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 271395
The aim of this research training group is to contribute to the creation of a legal literature that is no longer restricted to the national boundaries of single legal systems, but opens up a transnational European perspective on law. This kind of literature should help to serve as a basis for a European legal education and a European legal discourse. The accompanying study program is meant to develop the graduates´ ability to do academic legal work in a European context and to teach them an intellectual approach which integrates the different national and supranational legal systems existing in Europe. The participating professors, visiting scholars, and practitioners from Germany and abroad give courses, lectures, and colloquia on topics relevant to the projects of the young researchers. The graduates regularly have the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the professors and the other scholarship holders. The focus on certain core fields of private law and business law allows a very productive exchange of opinions and experience. By means of accompanying language classes, the young researchers learn to read legal texts in at least one more foreign language.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Spokesperson
Professorin Dr. Christine Windbichler
