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Research Activities at the Faculty |
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Reports of the Institutes and Departments |
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Research Activities at the Faculty |
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Research activity at the Faculty of Law concentrates on the areas of specialisation of the individual departments and institutes. A brief overview is given below (in alphabetical order): |
Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Becker-Eberhard
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In 1998, Prof. Ekkehard Becker-Eberhard worked together with Prof. Berger on further developing the Institute of Solicitors' Law of the University of Leipzig. Moreover, he devoted himself to family procedural law, and a related article appeared at the end of the year in Festschrift for Schütze ("§606a ZPO - An Offence with Marginal Domestic Reference"). The works were included in the manual on temporary legal protection edited by Prof. Berger, in which Prof. Becker-Eberhard was responsible for the sections on costs, liability for compensation and temporary injunctions in family cases. In 1999, research fellow Dr Bettina Heiderhoff primarily continued work on her Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) thesis with the working title "European Legislation for Consumer Protection and German Private Law - the Right of the Consumer to Information". In addition, she also contributed a number of articles to legal periodicals, including: "Counter Claim and Foreign Pendency of Dispute", IPRax 1999, p. 392 (judgement commentary on OGH IPRax 1999, p. 385), "Distribution of the Burden of Proof in Product Liability Claims", JA 1999, p. 617 (judgement commentary on BGH NJW 1999, p. 1028), "Breach of Legal Validity on Illegal Title", JA 1999, p. 267 (judgement commentary on BGH ZIP 1998, p. 1731). In summer, research assistant Holm Anders completed his dissertation entitled "Neglect of Duty in the System of the Law of Default in Performance as a Model de lege ferenda" and submitted it to the Faculty of Law. Moreover, he wrote three essays on "The EU Sales Law Directive as a Starting-point for the Reform of the General Law of Default in Performance of the German Civil Code", "Default without a Reminder" and "Delayed Performance as a Reason for Liability - the Current Situation and Prospects", which will shortly be published. |
Prof. Dr. Christian Berger |
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During the period under review, Prof. Christian Berger published an updated annotation on family law in Prof. Jauernig's commentary on the German Civil Code (BGB; 9th edition, 1999). He also published an annotation on the general law of evidence, the international hearing of evidence, the Hague Convention on Taking Evidence Abroad, expert evidence and direct evidence by witnesses in the commentary on the German Civil Procedure (ZPO) by Stein/Jonas (21st edition, 1999). In addition, his research concentrated on issues of legislation in civil law. This area of law, which previously has mainly been left to solicitors and notaries, requires a thorough scholarly review. Co-operation with the Faculty of Law's Institute of Solicitors' Law proved most valuable in this respect. |
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Boemke |
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In 1999, Prof. Burkhard Boemke published his monographs "Obligation-imposing Contract and Employment" as well as "Future Forms of Work", which emerged from the joint opening lecture with Prof. Sylvia Föhr from the University of Leipzig's Faculty of Economics and Business Management. He also completed and published an extensive article on defective contracts of employment for AR-Blattei. In addition to numerous comments on judgements, together with postgraduate probationer Steffen Tietze he wrote an essay on bankruptcy law and social planning in the journey "Der Betrieb". One research topic in 1999 was teleworking, and "The Teleworking Contract" was published in early 2000 (written with lawyer Stefanie Kaufmann) in the series of standard contracts "Heidelberger Musterverträge". He also published an essay in Betriebsberater, which is to be followed by a second article written with research fellow Per Ankersen. Furthermore, Prof. Boemke worked on a large series of essays for the periodical Juristische Schulung on labour law in the analysis of case studies, which is shortly to be published. He also continued working on a casebook on the same topic, soon to be published by Springer. Work also continued on a commentary on legislation on the hiring-out of employees. |
Prof. Dr. Gero Dolezalek |
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In 1999 Prof. Gero Dolezalek conducted research into manuscripts of the Ars Notaria written by a 13th-century jurist, Rolandus Passagerius. In this work, he closely co-operated with Dr Bertram from the German Historical Institute in Rome. His other research concentrated on the study of medieval legal manuscripts. On 17-19 December 1999, Prof. Dolezalek and his assistant Dr Frank Theisen, M.A., organized an international symposium devoted to the presentation and discussion of medieval legal manuscripts stored in the main library of the University of Leipzig. Dr Frank Theisen, M.A. participated in a research project conducted by a panel of researchers under Prof. Conte (University of Rome III). The project dealt with the Summa of Rolandus of Lucca. In September, with the help of a grant from DG-Bank AG, Dr Theisen continued his research into the system of Roman and canon law systems of the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1999 the compilation of a database containing the legal regulations of the Protestant Church in Saxony was completed. The database has been made accessible on the internet and is updated regularly. Moreover, 1999 saw the beginning of a similar project designed to create a database of all the legal regulations laid down by the Protestant Church of the Silesian Upper Lausitz. By mid-2000, an internet catalogue of antiquarian legal books held at the library of the University of Leipzig is to be established. This will greatly facilitate research in the field of legal history in Leipzig. |
Prof. Dr. Franz Häuser |
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Prof. Franz Häuser is in charge of the Department of Civil Law, Bank and Stock Exchange Law, Labour Law, which was funded by a foundation until September 1999. In 1999 wrote the chapters (partly in conjunction with W. Hadding) on giro procedures, credit transfer, cheques and direct debits for the Münchner Kommentar shortly to be published on the German Commercial Code. His annotation of the regulations concerning wholesale trade (Sections 383ff. of the Commercial Code), also for the Münchener Kommentar on the Commercial Code, is almost complete. Prof. Häuser has also thoroughly revised annotations on Sections 762, 764 and 780-92 of the Civil Code for Soergel's commentary. In a Festschrift published in honour of H. Schimanski and edited by Horn, Lwowski
and Nobbe, Prof. Häuser contributed an article on "Approval of
Cashing Cheques". He also wrote a statement on in the stock market reports on the
"Implementation of the Directive on Cross-border Credit
Transfers (97/5/EC) in German Law" (WM 1999, 1037 ff.). Moreover, he wrote
commentaries on legal rulings in the collection Wirtschaftsrecht und
Bankrecht. |
Prof. Dr. Bernd-Rüdiger Kern |
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Prof. Bernd-Rüdiger Kern and his assistants augment the research process of the Faculty of Law by investigating legal history and medical law. Their main topics of historical research are the so-called legal Germanistik in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the systematic presentation of German civil law before 1900, which is nowadays unique in Germany, work on several peculiarities (e.g. occurring in family law, inheritance and in Saxon civil law) and finally the history and jurisdiction of the former Imperial Court in Leipzig, which played a leading role in the process of unification of German civil law in the end of the 19th century. In 1999, further effort was spent on the history of legal science - thus preparing in several seminars for the anniversary of the University of Leipzig in 2009. In medical law, science critically accompanies jurisdiction on the "informed consent doctrine" in its special relationship to maltreatment. Expressions of this work include the contributions to the Manual of Medical Law by Laufs/Uhlenbruck, newly edited in 1999. The preparations of the new edition of the Law on Medical Explanation by Laufs/Kern was completed. Special attention is focused on European attempts to harmonise medical law. The most important scientific events in 1999 were the symposium "Eduard v. Simson - First President of the Imperial Court" and the report by Prof. Emanuele Conte, Università degli Studi Roma III on "Reception of Germanic Laws in Italy". |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rauscher |
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In 1999 Prof. Thomas Rauscher continued collecting German decisions on the European Judgements Convention (Brussels Convention), which are planned to be published on the website of the Institute for Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law. A completely revised contribution to J. v. Staudinger's commentary on the German Civil Code (BGB) dealing with Sections 1589-1600 i - covering the law of parentage which was significantly reformed by the "Law on the Reform of Child Law", which came into force on 1 July 1998 - was completed in 1999 and published in March 2000. Since mid-1999, Prof. Rauscher has written another contribution to the same commentary covering Sections 1684-1686 (on the child's right to have personal contact with both parents) and Sections 1711ss on assistance for single parents in matters concerning parentage and child support. This manuscript was completed in early 2000 and will be published in summer 2000. In spring 1999, textbooks for students on private international law and the international law of civil procedure including the Brussels Convention were published. A casebook on these subjects is in preparation. Being the regional member of the managing committee of German-American Lawyers Association, Prof. Rauscher had the pleasure to welcome several colleagues from US law schools who gave speeches on current questions concerning US and international legal matters. Research into the consequences of the implementation of the Federal Republic of Germany's civil law following German reunification continued to be another topic of research (see Prof. Rauscher's 1997 contribution on Articles 230-235 of the Introductory Law to the German Civil Code); a noteworthy result in this field in 1999 was the publication of the doctoral theses written by Herbert Geisler, Attorney at the Federal Civil Supreme Court (BGH). |
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Welter |
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Since moving to the University of Leipzig in 1998, Prof. Reinhard Welter has been in charge of the Department of Civil Law, German and International Commercial Law. The Department's research focuses on economic relevant aspects of civil law and the development of civil law, competition law, and public commercial law (especially bank supervision law) resulting from increasing internationalisation and the influence of European law. In the three-volume banking manual published by Beck in 1997, Prof. Welter wrote the four main chapters on the law of international banking; at present work is underway on the second edition, which is due to be published in the year 2000. In the manual on capital investment (the second edition of which was published by Beck in 1997), Prof. Welter acted as co-author in charge of the law on futures trading, especially with respect to legal aspects in connection with foreign transactions. In 1999 an extensive supplement was published, dealing with the various changes to legislation and jurisdiction for a legal readership. Parallel to this, work is continuing on preparing the third edition of the capital investment manual. Another area of research was the law on secured transactions. In this connection, work on the bank guarantee from a German and a foreign viewpoint has been prepared for the Münchener Kommentar on the German Commercial Code, to be published by Beck. Together with F. Häuser, Prof. Welter worked on an annotation of Sections 675 and 676 for Soergel's commentary on the German Civil Code 675, 676, which has since been published. The annotation includes areas such as the lawyer's contract, construction supervision and development, and above all banking transactions regarded as agency. For this commmentary, the law of bearer debenture, the savings book and annuity for life already discussed in the previous edition is being dealt with for the forthcoming 12th edition. In a project lasting a number of years, Prof. Welter is currently working on an annotation of consumer credit legislation, which is due to be published by Springer. At the ERA (European Law academy), Prof. Welter delivered a paper at an international symposium on the law of cross-border banking transactions. This paper was published in the proceedings. He also gave a talk on "Legal Aspects of Financing Business Start-ups" during a symposium on "Research Findings on Business Start-ups" held at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. Research work in the area of German and European commercial law is ultimately reflected in teaching, which in 1999 (as in the previous years) dealt with the current state of development in lectures and seminars at St. Gallen College and the University of Warsaw. Work on the legal system transformation and legal questions of accession was continued in a Festschrift article on "Mortgages in the Settlement of Property Law", which was published in 2000. |
Criminal LawProf. Dr. Michael Kahlo |
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The first of his two specific research areas was in the field of the history of ideas and concerned the changes in how subject-object relations are to be understood - i.e. the departure from the interpretation of objectivity as "the natural world" to one which implies "the surrounding world". The principle interest of this reconstruction has been applied to the development of epistemology since Hobbes' "Elements of Philosophy" (De Corpore, De Homine, De Cive). This was carried out with particular reference to the modern understanding of the concept of nature and to the emergence and establishment of the concept of environment (e.g. in the works of the biologist J. v. Uexküll as well as in M. Scheler's work "Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos"). The second area of research involved an examination of modern theories of property, particularly those developed since Locke. Here he analysed the extent to which these theories might lend credibility to the above-mentioned changes, and examined whether they would allow for the concept of a legal and moral responsibility for the environment. In addition, he continued his research on the relationship between the criminal act, culpability and the sentence imposed, placing particular emphasis on the problem of "constitution and life imprisonment". |
Prof. Dr. Heribert Schumann |
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See Institute of Legal Protection for Youth and Criminal Law of the Media |
Prof. Dr. Manfred Seebode |
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The publications of Prof. Manfred Seebode in 1999 concerned the following subjects: 1. The German system of penal sanctions, especially the law of (pre-trial)
detention and its actual implementation, prison overcrowding,
imprisonment in case of non-payment of a fine, community service. Assistant lecturer Joachim Nibbeling finished his research into law and current facts of the privatisation of correctional institutions in the USA in 1999; he analysed possible transferability to Germany. The dissertation will be published in spring 2000. |
Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart |
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As in 1999, Prof. Christoph Degenhart's research focused on the freedom of communication as enshrined in the German constitution (the Basic Law) and media law. His 646-page annotation completed in 1998 of Article 5, paras. 1 and 2 of the Basic Law for the Bonner Kommentar was published in the first half of 1999. As this work concerns the continuous updating of loose-leaf annotation, additional preliminary work had to be performed. During initial discussions with the publisher, the idea of publishing a monograph on the topic was explored. Prof. Degenhart spoke at various conferences on key issues of future media regulations, and related publications are currently being prepared. As an expert on the Media Council of the Saxon Private Broadcasting and New Media Authority, Prof. Degenhart drafted various statements on aspects of Saxon private broadcasting legislation. In the area of state organisation law, another area of research of Prof. Degenhart, the 15th edition of the textbook Staatsrecht I - Staatsorganisationsrecht was prepared. The annexation of the legislation competences (Articles 70-75 of the Basic Law) and the administration of justice via the courts (Articles 101-104 GG) in the Basic Law appeared in the second addition of the commentary on the Basic Law published in 1999 by Beck; here, too, preliminary work has already been started for the next editions. In an extensive study, Prof. Degenhart addressed questions of referendums and petitions for referenda, especially the constitutional amendment towards the plebiscite enacted under constitutional law in North Rhine-Westphalia. The study was published with external funding in late 1999. A constitutional study of Section 7, para. 4 of the Code of Social Law was conducted in connection with the current topic of feigned independence, and was also published on the internet. A statement on aspects of a Saxon Excavation Law was drawn up for a hearing before the Environmental and Regional Development Committee of the Saxon Parliament. As a member of the Saxon Constitutional Court, Prof. Degenhart also reported on a number of procedures concerning the territorial reorganisation of local government in Saxony. In the field of construction law, work on the annotation of the Saxon Building Regulations edited by Prof. Degenhart was continued. The annotation of Sections 1-3, Section 12 (with research fellow Gilbert Tegeler) and Section 63 (together with research fellow Jan-Christof Krüger) was completed, such that publication by C.H. Beck could take place at the end of the first quarter of the year 2000. Preparation continued for the commemorative volume "A Century of Saxon Building Regulations", which is being co-edited by Prof. Degenhart. An article on the independence of expert inspection for this volume was completed. An article on aspects of lignite planning was also written for the Festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Werner Hoppe. In spring, research fellow Dr Edin Sarcevic successfully completed his Habilitation on the "The Principal of the Federal State". This was the first Habilitation to be written since the Faculty of Law at the University of Leipzig was re-established in 1993. A revised edition of the work will be published in the series JUS Publicum. Prof. Degenhart supervised the dissertation by research fellow Jan-Christof Krüger on new procedures in building regulations law, which was awarded the grade "summa cum laude". He also supervised a number of dissertations on media law. |
Prof. Dr. Christoph Enders |
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Apart from building up the professorship for public law, especially environmental law, Prof. Christoph Enders has been working on the preparation of an application for the DFG (German Science Foundation) in order to establish an interdisciplinary graduate programme on "Basic Institutional Conditions of Environmental Responsibility in Industrial and Post-industrial Society". Environmental responsibility in this context means that in his relationship with the environment, man has to take the consequences of his doings as a result of his freedom of will. The responsibility implied herein results in normative requirements concerning the relations to the environment. The protection of the environment is increasingly characterised by the idea of sustainable development. Moreover, the transition of industrial society to a post-industrial society demands precautionary planning and supplementary rehabilitation. The main scientific aim of the graduate programme is to determine how the individual responsibility mentioned above can be transformed into an institutional framework and - vice versa - how institutionalisation can influence the basic individual responsibility. Besides being responsible for the co-ordination of the various research activities, Prof. Enders has also developed a research assignment within the graduate programme "From Averting Dangers in Environmental Law to a Controlled and Guided Usage of the Environment". On 29 and 30 October 1999, the annual meeting of the research group "History, Methodology and Dogmatics of Public Law" took place in Leipzig, chaired by Prof. Enders. In co-operation with his assistant Sophia Pommer, Prof. Enders has also published the essay "Does Section 36, Para. 2, Sentence 3 of the Building Code Conflict with the Constitution?" in Sächsische Verwaltungsblätter 1999, p. 173ff., dealing with the relation of federal and land law in Germany. |
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Geiger |
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In 1999, research activities at the chair of Prof. Rudolf Geiger and the Institute for Public International Law, European Law and Foreign Public Law focused on international and European law and its implications and effects on national law. The research activities also included the field of human rights law. The Institute organised a conference on "International Treaties and Domestic Law against the Background of the Increasing Complexity of International Relations", which was attended by numerous prominent academics and practitioners. The papers and the discussion of the conference were published as Volume 2 of the Institute's new periodical (Nomos publ.) edited by Prof. Geiger. Prof. Geiger worked on the third edition of his EU commentary and his book on "The German Basic Law and Public International Law", both of which will appear in 2000. Dr Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt, a research fellow at the Institute, published his doctoral thesis on "Environmental Human Rights - Environmental Interpretation of Human Rights within the ECHR and its Effects on German Fundamental Laws Protecting the Environment". The thesis was awarded a research prize by the Esche-Schümann-Commichau Foundation in Hamburg. Dr Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt started his Habilitation on questions of "German Military Co-operation and Integration". A number of LL.M. students on the Institute's Masters programme "European Integration Law" successfully completed their studies, and several doctoral candidates supervised by Prof. Geiger attained their doctoral degrees. The Institute invited some guest lecturers from the Foreign Office and the former European Commission of Human Rights to speak about humanitarian intervention and European protection of human rights. |
Prof. Dr. Helmut Goerlich |
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In 1999 Prof. Helmut Goerlich focused in his academic research on media law (especially broadcasting law), state and church as well as financial law, i.e. the law of allocation of public revenue to equalize local budgets. He wrote various articles and essays concerning some problems of these branches of law. Moreover, he took part in several academic conferences and seminars. From February to March he lectured to students of law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (Virginia, USA) concerning constitutional questions and German unification. He also delivered this lecture to visiting German law students in Virginia from Leipzig and Halle. In June Prof. Goerlich took part in a conference on questions of environmental law in Izmir, Turkey, and presented a paper concerning environmental protection and human rights. In October he also participated in the third part of the German-Turkish seminar in Trier together with Prof. Kühne (Trier), Prof. Öztürk (Izmir, Turkey) and Prof. Gropp (Giessen). At the conference, Prof. Goerlich presented some thoughts on the European Convention on Human Rights and future membership of Eastern states in the EU. Finally, Prof. Goerlich chaired together with Prof. Kahlo (Leipzig) the 1999 summer academy, a seminar on "John Locke's Political Philosophy and Constitutional Theory" in September. Several speeches in the context of the "Institute for Administration and Administrative Law in Eastern Germany" presided by Prof. Goerlich enabled academic discussion dealing with questions of local government and comparative law, as well as media law. Furthermore, Prof. Goerlich himself and the staff under Prof. Goerlich published in several areas, supported by Prof. Goerlich and other persons. |
Prof. Dr. Martin Oldiges |
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In 1999, the research activity of the Department of Public Law, especially State and Administrative Law under Prof. Martin Oldiges continued to focus on environmental and planning law. Furthermore, the members of the Department conducted research in the areas of state and general administrative law with reference to comparative law. Concerning environmental and planning law, the Institute of Environmental and Planning Law and the Saxon Ministry of Environmental and Regional Development hosted the fourth Leipzig Symposium on Environmental Law, which was devoted to the topic of "Immissions Protection between Integration Concept and Procedural Acceleration". At this conference, Prof. Oldiges presented a paper on reporting and licensing for modifications to plants requiring official permission. The papers presented at the symposium were published in Volume 5 of the Leipzig Documentation on Environmental Law. Furthermore, Prof. Oldiges also gave a talk on issues of water management at the workshop "Catchment Area Management and Socio-economy" hosted by the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, as well as at the conference "Basic Questions of Restoring the Water Balance by Flooding Mining Pits in the Leipzig Region", which was also co-hosted by the Institute of Environmental and Planning Law. Moreover, Prof. Oldiges delivered a paper entitled "Radioactive Contamination - Legal and Technical Aspects of Revised Regulations: Sustainability of the Level of Remediation and Safeguarding Remediated Areas in the Long Term" at a conference staged by the Saxon Ministry of Environmental and Regional Development. All the papers were included in the conference proceedings. Moreover, Prof. Oldiges completed his revision of the article on military law contained in the textbook on special administrative law edited by Würtenberger. The book was published in spring 2000. Habilitation projects in the area of environmental law were continued at the Department by the research fellows Dr Ralf Brinktrine and Dr Herwig Unnerstall. Dr Unnerstall published his dissertation "The Rights of Future Generations". Together with Prof. Frenz, he also submitted a study entitled "Sustainable Development in European Law". In the field of general administrative law, Dr Brinktrine completed a second edition of the casebook being on administrative law together with lawyer Dr Floren and research fellow Dr Kastner. In addition, Dr Brinktrine is currently working on a monograph on the constitutional and administrative law of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is to be published in mid-2000. |
Institute of Solicitors' Law |
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The Institute of Solicitors' Law was founded in August 1997, and commenced teaching and research at the end of the year. During the upheaval currently being experienced by the legal profession in Germany and Europe, and at a time in which large numbers of graduates are choosing a career as a solicitor or lawyer, the aim of the Institute is to take lawyers' viewpoints more strongly into account in law teaching at the University of Leipzig. Moreover, contact between theory and practice are promoted by the inclusion of lawyers and notaries in teaching. Dissertations concerning solicitors' law are supervised. The Institute of Solicitors' Law at the University of Leipzig co-operates closely with institutes and departments of solicitors' law at other German universities. |
Institute of Labour and Social Law |
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The Institute currently has one chair.
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Institute of Foreign and European Private and Procedural Law |
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The Institute currently has one chair.
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Institute of German and International Law of Banking and Capital Markets |
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Formally founded in 1998, the Institute began its work in 1999 (Directors: Prof. Franz Häuser, Prof. Reinhard Welter). Due to the respective fields of specialisation of the directors, the activities cover both German and international aspects of banking law and the law concerning capital markets. This includes all relevant parts of civil law, commercial law, competition law and supervisory law. In all areas, particular focus is placed on the developments at a European level. Special attention is given to the transformation process in post-reunification Germany and in the reform states in Central and Eastern Europe. The Institute provides substantial contributions to standard handbooks on banking law and investment law. As regards the Handbook of Banking Law (Beck Munich, 1997), the second edition has been prepared for publication in 2000; practically all the chapters on cross-border transactions were prepared by the Institute. With respect to the Handbook of Investment law (Beck Munich, second edition 1997), a supplement appeared in 1999 covering recent legislation and case law. In particular, however, the third edition is being prepared, requiring a thoroughly revised overview of the law of futures and options. As regards Banking law in the forthcoming Commentary on Commercial Law (Münchener Kommentar), the Institute has been able to cover practically all major fields of this subject (in particular payment systems and the law of bank guarantees). The same is true with respect to a well-known and reputed commentary on civil law (Soergel, published in 1999) where the law relating to mandates has been annotated (including financial services, solicitors' contracts, management of construction projects etc.). The Directors of the Institute have integrated existing international contacts within the framework of the Institute. This includes teaching assignments in Warsaw (German law school, German and European commercial law) and in St. Gallen, Switzerland (Master of Business Law Programme, Financial Services Section). The various seminars held under the auspices of the Institute have hosted experts coming from various backgrounds (private and public banks, attorneys, associations, courts, German and foreign universities). From its very start, the Institute's activities have attracted participants to the faculty's postgraduate courses (Magister Iuris Europae, LL.M.Eur. and M.Leg.Eur./LL.M.Eur., cf. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/jura). As these programmes are of great importance for the Faculty's international standing, the Institute will intensify its contribution within this framework. |
Institute of Legal Protection for Youth and Criminal Law of the Media |
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In 1999, the research conducted at the Institute of Youth Protection and the Criminal Law of the Media headed by Prof. Heribert Schumann, M.C.L., remained the protection of young people in connection with the media. Prof. Schumann and research assistant Anja Kalex worked on a comparative account of the law on youth protection in the media in Germany and Austria. Prof. Schumann presented three papers at conferences hosted by the Association of Youth Protection and Leipzig City Council's Youth Department, the Voluntary Self-control Group of the Film Industry, and the Voluntary Self-control Group for Television. They dealt with topics such as the legal relevance of research into media impact and the function of voluntary self-control in television. Research assistant Ilona Ulich, M.L.E., completed her dissertation on "The concept of pornography and the EU TV Directive", and also published an annotation on a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court concerning the problems of weighing up artistic freedom and protection for young people. In line with areas dealt with by Prof. Schumann's department, other dissertations were written and completed on aspects of criminal and economic law. |
Institute of Broadcasting Law |
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The Institute currently contains two chairs.
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Institute of State and Administrative Law |
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Institute of Planning and Environmental Law |
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Conferences in 1999 organised by the Institute for Planning and Environmental Law:
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Institute of International Law, European Law and Foreign Public Law |
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The Institute currently has three departments, and also contains the European Documentation Centre. Board of directors and main fields of research:
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