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If you’re a German speaker living in New York, come to the Goethe-Institut’s Career Booster Fair! Learn about amazing scholarship, internship, and research opportunities in Germany, and enjoy their fun lineup of activities! See below for more details. 

Vera Wheeler, the executor of Arnold Heidsieck’s estate, granted an additional $19,000 to the Arnold Heidsieck Scholarship Endowment, which is part of the Bucerius Global Legacy Fund. The Heidsieck Scholarship invites applications from BA students in the humanities who are currently enrolled at a German university and have a focus on German culture, language, history, Read More

On June 13, 2016, American Friends of Bucerius partnered with the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law, the Transatlantic Climate Bridge, and the German Consulate in New York to produce a panel discussion on the usage and maintenance of renewable energy in Germany and New York. Featured Speakers Audrey Zibelman, Read More

Meinhard Weizmann has been appointed CEO of Bucerius Law School in Hamburg as of October 1st, 2016, after stepping down from his current role at Bertelsmann. He follows in the footsteps of Dr. Hariolf Wenzler, who will end his tenure on August 1st, 2016. Bucerius Law School, founded in 2000 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Read More

From The Hague to Hamburg: On June 1, 2016, Dr. Franz Wilhelm Kaiser, from Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, will take over as Artistic Director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg. Kaiser’s predecessor, Dr. Ortrud Westheider, guided the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius’ private exhibition house for almost ten years. Prof. Dr. Michael Göring, Chairman of the ZEIT Read More

Every year Bucerius Law School holds entrance examinations, which is one of the application requirements for prospective students. To ensure that every student who wishes to apply has the opportunity to do so, BLS offers the entrance exam in various cities in Germany, as well as in the United States and China. On Tuesday, May Read More

American Friends of Bucerius is proud to award scholarships to American law students studying abroad at Bucerius Law School through the Bucerius Global Legacy Fund. It is an important aspect of our mission to encourage international cooperation between the U.S and Germany, and there is no better way of doing that than through international exchange Read More

June 4, 2016 to September 11, 2016 The most contemporary and powerful aspects of the work of Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) were his depictions of hell and his incorporation of subjects that appealed to the common person. To mark the 500 years since his death, the Bucerius Kunst Forum is highlighting how his scenes of hell Read More

Every year, American Friends of Bucerius offers a visiting professorship funded by the Max Kade Foundation to a law professor to teach a seminar at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. The program puts a spin on the tradition of study abroad, by placing the educators into different cultures, instead of the students. This fall, Read More

On April 11, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Brita Wagener, hosted a reception in collaboration with American Friends of Bucerius. An intimate group of law professionals gathered to hear Professor Dr. Katharina Boele-Woelki, the president of Bucerius Law School, give a talk on “The Future of Legal Education.” Dr. Boele-Woelki discussed Read More