Posts tagged with International Law

Bucerius Law School Summer Programs – Week 2

The following is an inside look at the second week of Bucerius Law School’s three immersive summer programs – the Comparative IP Law Program, the International Business Law Program, and the Sports Law Program. To read the first week’s post, click here. During the second week of programming, participants in the International IP Transactions cohort Read More

Bucerius Law School Summer Programs- Week 1

The following is a sneak-peak into the first week of Bucerius Law School’s three immersive summer programs- the Comparative IP Law Program, the International Business Law Program, and the Sports Law Program.  Last Sunday, July 10, the Bucerius campus welcomed participants from 26 nations to kick off its three summer programs in Hamburg. North Americans Read More

BLS Summer Program in International IP Transactions

We are very excited to announce that Bucerius Law School will be hosting their third Summer Program in International IP Transactions, a joint undertaking with UC Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco). The intensive English-taught course offers advanced law students and young professionals an opportunity to join peers from around the globe in developing strong Read More

Study Abroad in Hamburg!

Looking to explore new cultures while expanding your law expertise? The deadline to apply for a Summer Program in Hamburg is May 1st! If you’re an advanced law student or emerging professional and interested in joining leading practitioners to explore current topics in International Business or IP Law, have a look at the courses being Read More

The “More-For-Less” Paradox

When a theory takes on a life of its own, a reality check can help: results of a survey conducted by Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession and Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel. By Markus Hartung and Arne Gärtner pa|ra|dox (formal) a [seemingly] irresolvable contradiction in terms; nonsensical, contradictory (colloquial) very strange; utterly absurd, nonsensical The issue at Read More

China’s Disgrace

Beijing reacts with helpless anger to North Korea’s new nuclear test. How long can China stand by and watch Kim Jong-un’s nuclear megalomania? By Matthias Nass It was probably not a hydrogen bomb that North Korea tested on January 6th; the force of the subterranean explosion was too weak. Instead, Dictator Kim Jong-un is alleged Read More

The Bucerius Law School Experience

Bucerius Law School recognizes that international experience is a pre-requisite for success among today’s graduates, but that longer term studies abroad are not feasible for everyone. To remedy this problem, Bucerius offers three-week summer programming in addition to its semester exchange and one-year graduate degree. The intensive English-taught courses of study enable participants to expand Read More

Bucerius Law School Announces the Summer Programs for 2016

Interested in getting international law experience? Looking to broaden your horizons? Bucerius Law School just announced their programs for 2016, including the brand new course on Sports Law. NEW: SPORTS LAW Develop crucial skills in contract drafting and negotiation to tackle the range of legal challenges faced by sports industry professionals! This fast-paced Summer Program Read More

For Richer or Poorer? What Does the New “PPL” Metric Tell Us?

Bucerius Senior Fellow Friedrich Blase recently published “For Richer or Poorer? What Does the New “PPL” Metric Tell Us?” for Thomas Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute. The American Lawyer magazine published this week its annual statistics on the 100 largest American law firms. For the first time in a decade it included a new metric: profits Read More

Why International Experience Matters: A Semester at Bucerius Law School

Tom Hastings sees himself as a “non-traditional” law student. About to complete his second year of study at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Tom spent several years working in Hollywood with movie producers after completing his undergraduate studies at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before deciding to go to law school. Tom Read More