International Research

International research ranges from international subjects such as European law, European and private and public international law to comparative law and research on foreign legal systems.

Examples

• Cambridge Handbook Freedom of Expression
• Common Core of European Private Law
• Constitutional Law in Germany: A Handbook in Transnational Perspective
• European Association of Private International Law
• Hans Kelsen Research Centre in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Foundation ‘Hans Kelsen Institute’ in Vienna
• INDIGO – Information in the EU‘s Digitalised Governance
• Model European Rules of Civil Procedure
• Publication of the ‘German-Chinese Criminal Law Journal’, which is published in Chinese
• Research into the cultural framework of criminal law systems
• Research Network on EU Administrative Law – ReNEUAL
• The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence – Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data

The international orientation of the Faculty of Law is reflected in a broad network of collaborations that extend beyond individual research projects, from the regional EUCOR network with Basel and Strasbourg, to ERASMUS mobility programmes for researchers in France, Greece, Ireland, Spain and Hungary, to non-European faculty partnerships and other academic programmes.

The focus of the faculty partnerships with non-European faculties is on South America and East Asia, as the synergy effects are greatest here as a result of the similarity of the legal systems. In addition, the Faculty of Law and its members co-operate with universities in Africa (Ghana) and North America (United States of America). The Faculty maintains faculty partnerships with outstanding law faculties in the following countries:

• Argentina (Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires)
• Brazil (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade de São Paulo)
• Chile (Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile)
• China (Tsinghua University, Peking, Fudan University, Shanghai)
• Japan (Keio University, Tokio, Osaka Metropolitan University)
• South Korea (Seoul National University)

Together with other law faculties, she is a member of the Chinese-German Institute of Law at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.

More cooperations

• Anglo-American Visiting Professors Programme: Lecturers from Harvard Law School, University of Michigan Law School and other Anglo-American faculties
• French Law School with the Faculty of Law, Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Strasbourg
• German-French doctoral programme on comparative law in public law (CDFA)
• German-French dialogue group for public law
• Guest lecture series German Law and legal culture: Washington and Lee University Law School
• Japanese Research Association for German Constitutional Law (FdV)
• Supreme Judicial Council in Brazil
• Working group on German and Chinese law

The international recognition of the Faculty of Law manifests itself in honorary doctorates from Argentina, Brazil, France, Greece, India, Japan, Peru and Switzerland, in the award of the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize, in memberships in the Scientific Council of the European Association of Private International Law, in the Advisory Board of the International Language and Law Association, in the Academia Europaea, Académie internationale de droit comparé and European Academy of Sciences and Arts, in the American Law Institute, the European Corporate Governance Institute and the European Law Institute, in memberships and honorary memberships in national foreign academies of science such as the British Academy and the Japanese Academy of Sciences and in the appointment of a member of the faculty as a judge at the Unified Patent Court for the member states of the European Union. German-language works by members of the Faculty of Law are translated into numerous languages from English to Japanese.