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Credits
Upon the successful completion of the Summer Law School Giessen, you will be awarded credits [ECTS] by the University of Giessen. You will be awarded 6 ECTS credits for successfully passing your two selected courses (3 ECTS for each course) of the academic program (out of the 4 we offer) and 1 ECTS credits for the successful participation in the (optional) German language course.
ABA/ECTS
Our courses are ABA approved. Therefore, US participants will be awarded ABA credits.
Non-US participants will be awarded ECTS credits. The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System [ECTS] is a student-centered system based on the workload required to achieve the objectives of a course. The organization's aim is to facilitate student mobility and therefore simplifies the process of credit transfer. The system is based on the assumption that 60 credits equals the workload of a full-time student during one academic year. The student workload of a full-time study program in Europe approximately amounts to 40 weeks per year and in this case one credit stands for 24 to 30 working hours. For more information on ECTS please visit the homepage of the European Union.
Please note: ABA and ECTS credits will only be awarded upon passed examinations.
Transcript of Records - Grades
Your performance will be documented in percentage terms. Documentation for a conversion into ECTS/U.S. grades will be attached to the transcript.
Please note: ECTS is applied by most European higher education institutions. Furthermore, some of our partner universities outside of Europe agreed on accepting ECTS. We recommend consulting the person in charge of academic recognition of credits at your home institution to make sure that transferability of ECTS is possible before you enroll for Summer School Giessen. The Summer School Giessen team will gladly provide you and your home institution with further information on ECTS in order to implement academic recognition for academic achievements of the U.S.-German Summer Law School.
Lecturers
All our lecturers are specialized in different areas of law. Making contact with them and joining discussions during the summer law school is a very unique feature of our program.
Professor Anuj Desai
Professor Edward Fallone
Professor Edward Fallone joined the faculty of the Marquette University Law School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in 1992. He teaches in the areas of constitutional law, corporate law, corporate crimes and immigration law, and has published frequently on these topics. He has also offered a course in International Criminal Law at the Justus Liebig University Law School in Giessen, Germany and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Prior to joining Marquette University Law School, Professor Fallone practiced law with the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington, D.C., where he represented military defense contractors in securities fraud and white collar crime cases. He is a 1988 recipient of a J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law, and he received his B.A. degree from Boston University in Spanish Language and Literature. Professor Fallone is a former President of the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association and has been active in a variety of organizations devoted to providing legal and social services to the Hispanic community of southeastern Wisconsin. In 2013, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. |
Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn
Co-Director, Franz von Liszt Institute for International and Comparative Law; Associate Director, Centre for International Environmental and Development Research. Educated at the Universities of Mannheim, Wales (Aberyswyth, U.K.), Bonn and Heidelberg, Professor Marauhn holds a law degree (state exam, equivalent to J.D., Heidelberg), a Postgraduate Diploma in International Law and Relations (Wales), an M.Phil. in International Relations (Wales), and a Dr. iur. utr. (Heidelberg). He earned his venia legendi in public law, international and European law from the University of Frankfurt/Main. Following a short period as Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, U.K.) he was appointed Professor of Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Faculty of Law, in 2001. Also, he has been a visiting professor of constitutional theory at the University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law (Switzerland), since 2001, and he has been a visiting professor at UW Law School in 2005 and 2008. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law, in Giessen between 2006 and 2009. Professor Marauhn has been a member of numerous councils and academies, including, among others, the German National Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law (since 1995), the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (currently chair), the Scientific Advisory Board of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Main (currently chair), and the Advisory Board on United Nations Issues of the German Federal Foreign Office (since 2008). Apart from being a book series editor (Ius internationale et europaeum) and a member of editorial boards (including the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, OUP), he has published widely in international journals and has edited many books on international law issues (among others, with CUP). His main research interests focus on international legal approaches to human rights, environment and development, and international security. |
Dr. Pablo Rueda-Saiz
Pablo Rueda-Saiz is a Colombian lawyer who holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Presidency of Colombia, as well as at the Ministry of the Interior, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and as a deputy judge at the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has taught comparative constitutional law as well as other courses on law and society at the legal studies program at U.C. Berkeley. He will be a Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School during the Fall of 2018. He has published both in English and in Spanish on topics related to Colombian and comparative constitutional law, as well as in law and society. |
Dr. Adam Andrzejewski
Adam Andrzejewski is Assistant Professor at the Kozminski University in Poland, where he teaches in the Law School, offering classes in Comparative Corporate Law, International Economic Law, and Intellectual Property Law. He has also offered a course in International Intellectual Property Law at the Chile Summer Program in Santiago. Dr. Andrzejewski is also a practicing attorney-at-law. Adam Andrzejewski completed his legal education at the universities of Warsaw in Poland and Cologne in Germany. He graduated with distinction in 2007 and holds a law degree (J.D. equivalent). From 2008 to 2011, he was a research associate at the Institute for Public, European and Public International Law at Justus Liebig University, Giessen. He earned his Doctor juris (S.J.D. equivalent) from the University of Giessen in 2013. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn, was on patent auctions as an alternative business structure for intellectual property assets acquisition and sales. He received a scholarship from the federal state of Hessen for his research in Giessen and at Max Planck Institute in Munich. Throughout his preparation of his doctoral thesis Dr. Andrzejewski was supported by a scholarship from the Hesse, a federal state of Germany. Following his legal education, Dr. Andrzejewski cooperated with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in Warsaw and Ernst & Young in Dublin. He also worked as an attorney-at-law in the Intellectual Property and Technology department of DLA Piper in Warsaw. His main research interests focuses on corporate governance in different jurisdictions, international trade law, European law, and intellectual property rights. In his private practice he has specialized in corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and intellectual property law. He advises national and international corporate clients. |
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julian Scheu
Julian Scheu is Junior Professor of International Investment Law, Public International Law and Public Law at the University of Cologne and General Manager of the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC). He studied law at the Universities of Cologne and Paris 1 (Panthéon- Sorbonne) with a specialization in international economic law (LL.M./Maîtrise en droit, 2009; Dr. jur., 2016) and is qualified to practice law in Germany (second legal state examination, 2017). His doctoral thesis on systemic integration of human rights in investment treaty arbitration was published in 2017 with the kind support of the VG Wort Science Foundation. Prior to joining the University of Cologne he worked as legal assistant with the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) in the field of German and international arbitration. His practical experience includes acting as arbitral secretary and assistant to arbitrators, counsel and legal experts in international commercial and investment arbitration (ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, SIAC, DIS, ad hoc). His working languages are German, English and French. |
Dr. Sorcha MacLeod
Dr Sorcha MacLeod is an expert on business, human rights and security, particularly private military and security companies, and has published widely on this topic. She is WEOG member of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. Formerly a member of the Law School at the University of Sheffield, she is currently based in Berlin where she is a Visiting Professor at Free University Berlin and at the Hertie School of Governance. From October 2019 she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She is an invited expert to the UN Inter-governmental Working Group on private military and security companies and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on private military and security companies and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association. She has advised governments, industry and civil society organisations on business, human rights and security issues. |
Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt
Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt is an expert in business and human rights, in particular pertaining to the private military and security industry. She is Senior Managing Director at Human Analytics, a risk management consultancy specializing in helping public and private organizations address human rights risks associated with operating in complex environments. Currently resident in Berlin, she is also a Senior Associate at twentyfifty, the leading German management consultancy for all matters pertaining to responsible business conduct. Until August 2019, she directed the Human Rights in Business Program housed at American University Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, where she led efforts to educate the legal and business communities on corporate responsibility issues and spearheaded a collaborative project to promote effective corporate human rights impact assessment. In various capacities, she has been involved in a variety of efforts to develop national and international standards for private security providers. Her publications examine soft law initiatives in the private security industry, and her research more broadly explores the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder corporate governance. Until 2012, Dr. DeWinter-Schmitt was an Assistant Professor at American University’s School of International Service’s Peace and Conflict Resolution Program. From 1998 to 2002, she was a staff member of Amnesty International USA, first in its National Field Program and then as Program Associate to the Just Earth! Program on Human Rights and the Environment. For the last fifteen years, she has served on Amnesty International USA’s Business and Human Rights Group as a volunteer thematic expert. She received her PhD in international relations from American University’s School of International Service, and her master’s degree in political science with minors in economics and sociology from the University of Marburg, Germany. |
Professor Kali Murray
Professor Kali Murray is a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School and a Co-Director of its Intellectual Property Program. Professor Murray's research agenda is focused on the "politics of participation" in a variety of different field including patent, property and administrative law. In patent law, Professor Murray is interested in how the doctrinal formation of patent law is impacted by different administrative, political, and social structures. Her work has therefore focused in on a range of issues including the impact of different administrative actors in patent law, the importance of the patent civil society's ability to participate in patent law, and the emergence of a heterogeneous policy environment in patent law, with a focus on the historical and political role of constitutional courts in shaping patent policy. Among her works, she has published a book, The Politics of Patent Law: Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain, as a part of the Routledge Research Series in Intellectual Property Law in 2013. Professor Murray's commitment to exploring these subjects has also extended to her submission of a series of amicus briefs addressing the role of constitutional claims under 1st and 13th Amendment to limit patents in genetic information. Her current work, Infrostructure, focuses on how public rights in information are constructed. In property law, Professor Murray is focused on two primary issues. First, Professor Murray is interested in the impact of race, ethnicity and culture in the development of property law. She is co-author (with Alfred Brophy and Alberto Lopez) of a casebook, Integrating Spaces: Cases and Materials on Race and Property Law, and has written extensively in the use of social and cultural history method to explore the impact of race, ethnicity and culture on the development of property law. Second, Professor Murray is interested in the application of progressive property principles to intellectual property theory. Professor Murray is currently serving as a Committee Member on the AALS Faculty Workshop on Pre-Tenured Faculty of Color and has served as a chair for the Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the Board of Directors for the Association for Law, Society and Property. She is also serving as an adviser on the Building the Bencht. Before coming to Marquette, Professor Murray joined the University of Mississippi School of Law, after engaging in private practice for four years with the law firm of Venable, LLP in Washington, D.C., as a patent litigator with a focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation. Professor Murray also served as a federal judicial clerk for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Professor Murray holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Johns Hopkins University, and M.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the socio-cultural formation of African-American political identity in the early national period. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law and was the Spring Symposium Editor for the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum. |
Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn
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Co-Director, Franz von Liszt Institute for International and Comparative Law; Associate Director, Centre for International Environmental and Development Research. Educated at the Universities of Mannheim, Wales (Aberyswyth, U.K.), Bonn and Heidelberg, Professor Marauhn holds a law degree (state exam, equivalent to J.D., Heidelberg), a Postgraduate Diploma in International Law and Relations (Wales), an M.Phil. in International Relations (Wales), and a Dr. iur. utr. (Heidelberg). He earned his venia legendi in public law, international and European law from the University of Frankfurt/Main.
Following a short period as Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, U.K.) he was appointed Professor of Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Faculty of Law, in 2001. Also, he has been a visiting professor of constitutional theory at the University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law (Switzerland), since 2001, and he has been a visiting professor at UW Law School in 2005 and 2008. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law, in Giessen between 2006 and 2009.
Professor Marauhn has been a member of numerous councils and academies, including, among others, the German National Advisory Committee on International Humanitarian Law (since 1995), the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (currently chair), the Scientific Advisory Board of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Main (currently chair), and the Advisory Board on United Nations Issues of the German Federal Foreign Office (since 2008). Apart from being a book series editor (Ius internationale et europaeum) and a member of editorial boards (including the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, OUP), he has published widely in international journals and has edited many books on international law issues (among others, with CUP). His main research interests focus on international legal approaches to human rights, environment and development, and international security.
- Dr. Sorcha MacLeod
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Dr Sorcha MacLeod is an expert on business, human rights and security, particularly private military and security companies, and has published widely on this topic. She is WEOG member of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. Formerly a member of the Law School at the University of Sheffield, she is currently based in Berlin where she is a Visiting Professor at Free University Berlin and at the Hertie School of Governance. From October 2019 she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen.
She is an invited expert to the UN Inter-governmental Working Group on private military and security companies and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on private military and security companies and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association. She has advised governments, industry and civil society organisations on business, human rights and security issues.
Schedule
Arrival Day: Sat, July 18 Welcome Day: Sun, July 19
Week 1 (July 20 - 26 July)
Course Hours: | |
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Mon-Thu | |
International Economics Law & Business Transactions | 09.00h – 10.30h |
Comparative Constitutional Law | 10.45h - 12.15h |
Business Ethics and Human Rights | 12.30h - 14.00h |
International Intellectual Property Law | 14.15h - 15.45h |
German language course | 14.15h – 16.15h |
Social/Academic Events: | |
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Tue: | Sports Day |
Thu-Sun: | Field Trip Berlin |
Fri: | City Tour by bus, Visit to a Law Office, Visit the German Bundestag |
Sun: | Visit to Buchenwald Memorial |
Week 2 (July 27 - August 2)
Course Hours: | |
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Mon-Thu | |
International Economics Law & Business Transactions | 09.00h – 10.30h |
Comparative Constitutional Law | 10.45h - 12.15h |
Business Ethics and Human Rights | 12.30h - 14.00h |
International Intellectual Property Law | 14.15h - 15.45h |
German language course | 14.15h – 16.15h |
Social/Academic Events: | |
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Tue: | Campus Summer BBQ party |
Thu-Sun: | Field Trip Brussels |
Fri: | Visit the European Parliament and the European Commission |
Sat: | City Tour |
Sun: | Visit Schloss Drachenburg |
Week 3 (August 3 - August 9)
Course Hours: | |
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Mon-Fri | |
International Economics Law & Business Transactions | 09.00h – 10.30h |
Comparative Constitutional Law | 10.45h - 12.15h |
Business Ethics and Human Rights | 12.30h - 14.00h |
International Intellectual Property Law | 14.15h - 15.45h |
German language course | 14.15h – 16.15h |
Social/Academic Events: | |
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Tue: | Laser Tag |
Wed: | „Study in Hessen“ event |
Sat: | Rhine Valley Trip (optional) |
Week 4 (August 10 - August 15)
Course Hours: | |
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Mon-Wed | |
International Economics Law & Business Transactions | 09.00h – 10.30h |
Comparative Constitutional Law | 10.45h - 12.15h |
Business Ethics and Human Rights | 12.30h - 14.00h |
International Intellectual Property Law | 14.15h - 15.45h |
German language course | 14.15h – 16.15h |
Social/Academic Events: | |
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Tue: | T.B.A |
Thu: | Final Exam |
Fri: | Day trip EMBL (optional) |
Sat: | Departure Day |
Schedule
- Week 1 (July 20 - 26 July)
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Course Hours: Mon-Thu International Economics Law & Business Transactions 09.00h – 10.30h Comparative Constitutional Law 10.45h - 12.15h Business Ethics and Human Rights 12.30h - 14.00h International Intellectual Property Law 14.15h - 15.45h German language course 14.15h – 16.15h Social/Academic Events: Tue: Sports Day Thu-Sun: Field Trip Berlin Fri: City Tour by bus, Visit to a Law Office, Visit the German Bundestag Sun: Visit to Buchenwald Memorial
- Week 2 (July 27 - August 2)
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Course Hours: Mon-Thu International Economics Law & Business Transactions 09.00h – 10.30h Comparative Constitutional Law 10.45h - 12.15h Business Ethics and Human Rights 12.30h - 14.00h International Intellectual Property Law 14.15h - 15.45h German language course 14.15h – 16.15h Social/Academic Events: Tue: Campus Summer BBQ party Thu-Sun: Field Trip Brussels Fri: Visit the European Parliament and the European Commission Sat: City Tour Sun: Visit Schloss Drachenburg
Fees/Scholarships
International Students without a scholarship | Summer School scholarship holders (partial scholarship) | |||
Application Fee | 250 Euro * | 250 Euro | ||
Program Fee | 1650 Euro | 1000 - 1650 Euro ** | ||
Courses | inclusive: choose two out of the four courses we offer, including course material and a supplementary reading list (all documents on a USB stick) | |||
Travel within Giessen | inclusive: free public transport within Giessen | |||
Accommodation | inclusive: accommodation in shared bedrooms (Hotel), incl. breakfast and WiFi in the room | |||
Field Trip to Berlin | inclusive: - arrival and departure by bus - accomodation incl. breakfast - sightseeing tour by bus - visit the German Bundestag - visit to a Law Office - visit Buchenwald memorial |
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Field Trip to Brussels | inclusive: - arrival and departure by bus - accomodation incl. breakfast - sightseeing tour by bus - visit the European Parliament - visit Schloss Drachenburg |
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Service | inclusive: - health, accident and liability insurance - free Wi-Fi at the university campus and in your hotel room) - HelpDesk during the opening hours - Welcome Guide with all necessary information - participation in social events (see schedule) |
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Credits | 6 ECTS credits for succesfully passing the academic program + 1 ECTS credits for succesfully passing the (optional) German language course | |||
Travel Allowance | unavailable | unavailable | ||
Total Costs | 1900 Euro | 1250 - 1900 Euro | ||
German language course (optional) | 50 Euro | 50 Euro | ||
* Early bird discount will be granted until February 28th 2020 so that the total costs are 1650 Euro
** The amount of partial scholarships varies significantly due to variation in the financial grant of our sponsors.
Scholarships
Students, who want to participate in the U.S.- German Summer Law School, have the possibility to apply for financial subsidies.
How to apply for a scholarship?
If you state that you wish to apply for financial subsidies in our Application Form, you need to attach the following documents to your application:
- One letter of reference from one of your lecturers (written in the English language)
- CV
- A thorough letter of motivation including your reasons to apply for the course and stating your personal financial neediness.
- Transcripts of Records showing us your academic achievements (optional)
- A certificate of your proficiency in the English language (if you are not a native speaker)
What do we take into consideration?
- Individual students’ motivation for their participation in our Summer Law School
- Students’ academic excellence
- Students’ financial needs
- Diversity in the composition of the Summer School group
What is covered by a scholarship?
A scholarship will partially reduce the total fee. The sum is set individually since it depends on the individual application and the available funds, which vary yearly. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide scholarships, which waive the complete program fee. Scholarships will not cover travel costs.
Deadline for application is: May 31st 2020
Please note: The capacity of financial subsidies is very limited.