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UBS Leadership Excellence Program 2012

On October 19th, 23 managing directors from the Legal & Compliance division of UBS completed the first week of a newly-implemented Executive Leadership Program, a two-week program designed and delivered by Bucerius Executive Education. Throughout the week, the participants had a chance to grow together as a group and build a stronger working relationship at Read More

Professor König to be the new President of Bucerius Law School

On April 17, 2012, the Board of Trustees of Bucerius Law School elected Dr. Doris König, M.C.L., as the new president of Bucerius Law School. As of October 1, 2012, Professor König has taken over for Dr. Dres. h. c. Karsten Schmidt, who held the presidency for the past eight years. Professor König previously held Read More

An Announcement from Zeit Stiftung

The Transatlantic Academy’s policy theme for the 2012-2013 academic year will be “The Future of the Western Liberal Order.” The liberal world order, currently shaped predominantly by the West, is increasingly subject to external and internal pressure that could redefine the future international landscape. The ongoing fiscal crisis in Europe and the U.S. has weakened Read More

Center for Studium Generale and Personal Development

Bucerius founder Gerd Bucerius believed that a good lawyer possessed not only excellent legal knowledge and oratory skills, but also a well-rounded personality. This belief shaped the curriculum at Bucerius to include its Studium Generale program, which promotes personal development through non-legal disciplines, including philosophy, culture and politics. With the newly-founded Siemens AG-funded Center for Read More

Preparations Underway at Bucerius Law School for the 2012 International Exchange Program

Bucerius Law School’s 10th Annual Exchange Program just came to an end, yet preparations are already underway for the 2012 class of international students. Each fall, the university welcomes some 100 students from its partner universities around the globe. During the semester, students expand their knowledge of international and comparative business law in an English-taught Read More

Transatlantic Policy Workshop: Bucerius “Settling Into Motion” Fellows in Washington, D.C. and New York City

The Transatlantic Policy Workshop was held from October 16th to 21st, 2011 in Washington DC and New York City. The participants, 24 international Ph.D. fellows supported by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius within the “Settling Into Motion” migration studies program, were invited to engage in a policy-oriented analysis of international migration, immigration and integration. Read More

Helmut Schmidt Prize in German-American Economic History Awarded to Charles S. Maier

The German Historical Institute in Washington is pleased to announce that it will award the 2011 Helmut Schmidt Prize in German-American Economic History to Professor Charles S. Maier of Harvard University. Professor Maier’s large and wide-ranging oeuvre comprises several books that have become classics, including Recasting Bourgeois Europe (1975), The Marshall Plan and Germany (1991), Read More

Bucerius Law School Partners with DLA Piper

International law firm promotes research development in IP, IT & Media Law Bucerius Law School and American Friends of Bucerius (AFB) are pleased to announce their new partnership with DLA Piper, the world’s largest law firm with 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries.

Bucerius Summer Program 2011 concluded

The fourth annual Bucerius Summer Program in International Business Law concluded on August 12th. More than three dozen students and graduates from 19 countries participated in the program taught by leading professors and practitioners in the legal field, including Dr. Franco Ferrari (New York University) and Dr. Stefan Vogenauer (Director of the Oxford Institute of Read More

10th Annual International Exchange Program

Bucerius Law School is pleased to celebrate its 10th annual Bucerius Exchange Program in International and Comparative Law. The incoming international class is the program’s largest yet, consisting of a diverse selection of 110 students from 53 partner universities in 24 countries. As in the past, courses will be taught in English by leading guest Read More