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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

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

Janna Japing studied law at Bucerius from 2005 to 2009. She is currently in her second year of being a Referendar. The so-called “Referendariat” is a two-year-program every German lawyer goes through post-law school, working in different areas of law to get a full-rounded legal education before being admitted to practice. What one aspect of Read More

Global migration is a key part of our economic future and one that is often overlooked. Three experts offer very different takes on migration, spanning Europe, the USA, and lastly the Gulf States, where migrants make up the majority of the population and citizens are in the minority. Please click here for the interview. Together Read More

Maia Comeau participated in the 2005 Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance. She currently is the Director of Congressional Affairs for the German Marshall Fund of the United States. What one aspect of the Bucerius experience is the most important for you? The summer school offered me the opportunity and privilege to take two weeks Read More

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

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

Cristina Dragomir, a visiting lecturer at Pratt Institute, participated in the “Settling into Motion” Ph.D scholarship program for 2010-2011. At the institute, she studies the experiences of immigrant women in the U.S. military. What one aspect of the Bucerius experience is the most important for you? It was great presenting my work to my peers Read More

The inaugural Asian Forum on Global Governance will take place from October 16th through October 25th, 2011 in New Delhi, India. The topic is “Traditional & Non-Traditional Security Threats in Asia”. The forum will take a close look at Asian security and the challenges facing the global community. The Dean and Moderator of the Forum Read More

Michael Göring, Nina Smidt, Joel H. Rosenthal and Julia Taylor Kennedy discuss the exciting partnership between the Carnegie Council and ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, which will examine the thorny challenges attached to global migration. Please click here to watch the video. The evolving global migration landscape calls for an interdisciplinary exploration of responses to globalization, immigration, and Read More