Course Catalogue 2012 - Bucerius Law School

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COURSE COURSE CATALOGUE
CATALOGUE
1. ACADEMIC CALENDAR
2. COURSE LIST
3. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
4. FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
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ACADEMIC ACADEMIC ACADEMIC CALENDAR
CALENDAR
August August 1 1 – 15 Online course pre-registration
September September September 5 – 7 Orientation Program (mandatory)
September September September 10 Session I: Law and German language classes begin
October October 3 3
German Reunification Day (national holiday)
October October 5 5
Bucerius Academic Ceremony
October October 19 19
Session I ends
October October 22 22 – 26 26 26
Exam Week Session I
October October 229
2 – November 2 Study break
October October 28 28 – November 11
1
Study trip to Berlin and Potsdam (optional)
November November 5 5
Session II begins
December December 14 Session II ends
December December December 117
11
7 7 – 21 Exam Week Session II
December December December 21 21
Farewell Ceremony
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COURSE COURSE LIST
LIST
SESSION SESSION I: I: September September 10 10 – October 19 19, 19
, 20 2012 20 2012
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Course Course Name Name
Lecturer Lecturer
Home Home Institution Credits
Comparative Law Prof. Dr. Hein Kötz
Corporate Law
Global Trends in
Intellectual Property and
Digital Media Law **
International Conflict
of Laws
Introduction
to Comparative
Intellectual Property Law
Introduction
to White Collar Crime
The Private Law
of International Trade
Prof. Dr. Karsten
Schmidt
Dr. Carsten Jungmann
Dr. Eva Micheler
Prof. Dr. Dana
Beldiman
Prof. Dr. Peter Hay
Prof. Dr. Dana
Beldiman
Beatrice Krebs
Dr. Thomas Krebs
Max Planck Institute for Foreign &
Int’l Private Law (Hamburg,
Germany) & Founding President
of Bucerius Law School
Bucerius Law School
Duvinage Laywers (Munich,
Germany) & Bucerius Law School
London School of Economics and
Political Science (UK)
Carroll, Burdick & McDonough
LLP (San Francisco, USA)
& Bucerius Law School
Emory University School of Law
(USA)
Carroll, Burdick & McDonough
LLP
(San Francisco, USA)
Oxford University, St. Hilda’s
College (UK)
Oxford University,
Brasenose College (UK)
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
Partici-
Partici
pants
pants
3
50
50
tba
50
50
50
50

SESSION ESSION ESSION II: II: November November 5 5 – December 14, 14, 2012
Course Course Course Name Name
Lecturer Lecturer
Home Institution Credits
Business Mediation &
Conflict Resolution
Comparative Products
Liability
Prof. Dr. Lars
Kirchhoff
Felix Wendenburg
Prof. Vernon Palmer
Corporate Governance Dr. Carsten Jungmann
International Banking
Transactions
International and
Comparative Antitrust
Law
International
Commercial Arbitration
Introduction to the Law
of the EU
BOTH BOTH SESSIONS
SESSIONS
Dr. Christof Maria
Fritzen
Dr. André Fiebig
Dr. Stefan Kröll
Prof. Dr. Jörn Axel
Kämmerer
Paulina Starski
European University Viadrina,
(Frankfurt/O., Germay)
& TGKS Law Firm (Berlin,
Germany)
Tulane University Law School
(USA)
Duvinage Laywers (Munich,
Germany) & Bucerius Law School
Retired Managing Director of
Deutsche Bank AG (Germany)
Baker & McKenzie (Chicago, USA)
& Northwestern University Law
School (USA)
Lawyer / Arbitrator
(Cologne, Germany)
Bucerius Law School
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
Course Course Name Name
Lecturer Lecturer
Home Institution Institution Credits Credits
Credits
German Law Survey
Course*
Contract Drafting
for Non-Native English
Speakers
International
Commercial
Transactions**
Bucerius Professors Bucerius Law School
James Faulkner Bucerius Law School
Prof. Dr. Karsten Thorn Bucerius Law School
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
Partici-
Partici
pants
pants
22
50
36
50
50
45
50
Partici Partici-
Partici
pants
pants
4
all
36
n/a

Negotiation Michael Friedman
Practical Aspect of
Mergers & Acquisitions
The Business and
Economics of Law
Firms: Cross-Border
Edition
Pl Please Pl
ease note:
Max Planck Institute for Comp.&
Int’l Private Law (Hamburg,
Germany)
Dr. Nils Krause DLA Piper (Hamburg, Germany)
Bruce Elvin
Markus Hartung
Duke Law School, USA
Bucerius Center for Legal
Profession, Germany
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
2 ABA
/ 4 ECTS
1 ABA
/ 2 ECTS
* The German Law Survey Course is mandatory for all international exchange students.
** Course will be offered jointly for exchange students and German LL.B. students.
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COURSE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
DESCRIPTIONS
COURSES COURSES SESSION SESSION I I ( (SEPT ( SEPT SEPT. SEPT . 10 - OCT. OCT. 19 19, 19
, 201 2012) 201
COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE LAW
LAW
BY BY PROF. PROF. DR. DR. HEIN HEIN KÖTZ KÖTZ
KÖTZ
This course starts with a general introduction to the methods and purposes of comparative
law. It then focuses on the nature of law and legal institutions in civil law and common law
countries. The emphasis will not be on substantive law, but on a comparative discussion of the
machinery of justice in civil and common law, their legal professions, judiciaries, methods of
legal education and the main differences in the adjudication of civil cases.
CORPORATE CORPORATE LAW LAW: LAW : GERMANY’S APPROACH AND A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
BY BY DR. DR. CARSTEN CARSTEN JUNGMANN
JUNGMANN, JUNGMANN , DR.EVA MICHELER & PROF. PROF. DR. DR. DRES. H.C. KARSTEN SCHMIDT
The lecture on corporate law consists of two parts. The first is on German corporate and
partnership law and its European implications; the second pursues a comparative approach
and introduces corporate law of Romanic countries from a Latin American point of view.
Students will be introduced to the legal and practical concepts of corporations and
partnerships. At the end of the course, they will be able to distinguish between the available
business forms and to judge their specific advantages depending on the needs of a particular
business as well as on risks for shareholders and creditors dealing with the company.
The main focus of the course will be on marketable share corporations and on close
corporations (which have a huge economic importance in Germany). The course will analyze
the concept of limited liability and contrast it to liability rules in partnerships. With regard to
marketable share corporations, a special emphasis will be placed on the central problems of
corporate governance and corporate finance.
GLOBAL GLOBAL TRENDS TRENDS IN IN INT INTELLECTUAL INT INT ELLECTUAL PROPERTY AAND
A
D DIGITAL MEDIA LAW
LAW
BY BY PROF. PROF. DR. DR. DANA DANA BELDIMAN
BELDIMAN
Please Please note note that that that this this this course course course will be offered jointly for exchange xchange students students and and and German German German LL.B. LL.B.
LL.B.
students. tudents.
The course will examine some of the most important emerging developments on the fields of
intellectual property and online law. Law and policy concerns will be discussed at national and
international level. Specific topics covered might include patent law and global access to
medicines; liability of online intermediaries for copyright and trademark infringement; the
functionality limits of trademarks; use of international conventions to obtain IP rights
internationally, licensing of IP rights.
Prerequisites: “Introduction to Comparative Intellectual Property” (D. Beldiman) or a course on
patent, trademark, copyright or equivalent at your home law school.
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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT CONFLICT CONFLICT OF OF LAWS
LAWS
BY BY PROF. PROF. DR. DR. PETER PETER HAY
HAY
Private international law (“conflict of laws” or “conflicts,” in American and, increasingly, in
English and Canadian usage) deals with the special problems that arise when the facts of a
case are “connected” to different countries. Examples include a contract made in one, but to
be performed in another country; a tort committed abroad; a decedent’s estate with assets in
different countries; or a foreign divorce, perhaps with support and custody problems involving
more than one country.
The course has two principal parts. On the procedural (litigation) side it deals with prerequisites
for the exercise of jurisdiction over foreign defendants, questions of service and of obtaining
evidence abroad, and with the recognition and enforcement in one country of judgments
rendered in another as well as defenses thereto. The second part deals with the question:
which law applies? This includes the effect of a choice-of-law agreement by the parties,
statutory or case law default rules for the determination of the applicable law, the effect of
overriding mandatory local rules (e.g., for consumer protection) and how to determine the
content of applicable foreign law.
The primary focus is on the conflicts law of the European Union (EU law and national member
state law) with comparative consideration of US, Canadian and Chinese law.
THE THE PRIVATE PRIVATE LAW LAW OF OF INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRADE
TRADE
BY BY BY DR. DR. THOMAS THOMAS KREB KREBS KREB
This course takes as its subject matter a sale of goods by a seller in one country to a buyer in
another, and examines the contractual relations between the various parties that may be
involved in the making and performance of such a sale.
Accordingly, it is concerned first with the relations between buyer and seller, emphasizing the
special features of the sale which are due to its international character. This part of the course
will study the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in some detail.
Secondly, it is concerned with the carriage of goods from the seller to the buyer, once again
emphasizing the special rules which govern international carriage. So as to keep the course
within reasonable bounds, it deals only with carriage by sea and does not cover the special
rules governing international carriage by air, road and rail. In practice, most sea carriage
contracts will be governed by English law; this part of the course is likewise based on English
law, although will also look at the Hague Rules, the Hamburg Rules and the new Rotterdam
Rules.
Thirdly, the course deals with an aspect of banking law. Payment in international sales is often
made not directly by buyer to seller, but through the mechanism of a banker’s commercial
credit; the law relating to such credits forms the third part of the course. In particular, we are
going to study the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600) in some
detail.
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What the course is not concerned with is the public law of international trade (sometimes
referred to as international economic law) – as such, the course will not cover the GATT/WTO,
subsidies, anti-dumping or the IMF.
The course will be delivered using a combination of lectures and seminars.
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO TO TO COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
BY PROF. DR. DR. DANA BELDIMAN
The course introduces students to the main forms of intellectual property protection laws –
patent, copyright, trademark, industrial design, geographical indications, their economic
justifications, requirements for protection and scope of protection. The topics will be
approached from a comparative perspective, highlighting, as relevant, aspects of IP laws from
the EU and the US, as well as from some emerging countries.
A further focus of the course will be the interaction of national norms in the international
intellectual property arena, including elements of TRIPS, the Berne and Paris Conventions, the
Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Madrid System, as relevant to securing IP rights
internationally and to current developments in international intellectual property.
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO TO WHITE WHITE WHITE COLLAR COLLAR CRIME
CRIME
BY BY BEATRICE BEATRICE KREBS KREBS
KREBS
This course explores some economic and political crimes lumped together under the collective
term “white collar crime.” Because most white collar crime is prosecuted in the US, the
primary focus will be on US federal law; however, reference will be made to other common law
and civil law jurisdictions when dealing with those doctrines that allow criminal liability to be
imposed on corporations for the criminal activity of individuals. We will be examining
distinctions between “crime in the suites” and “crime in the streets” and the arguments for
and against white collar offences and white collar law enforcement. The course aims to offer
an introductory overview only; offences addressed will be limited to mail and wire fraud,
securities fraud and insider trading, extortion and bribery.
COURSES COURSES SESSION SESSION SESSION II II ( (NOV. ( NOV. 5 - DEC. DEC. DEC. 14 14, 14 , 2012 2012) 2012
BUSINESS BUSINESS MEDIATION MEDIATION MEDIATION & & & CONFLICT CONFLICT RESOLUTION
BY BY BY PROF PROF. PROF PROF.
. DR. DR. LARS LARS KIRCHHOFF KIRCHHOFF & FELIX WENDENBURG, LL.B.
This course aims to teach both the practical skills and the theoretical background of
professional conflict management and resolution, with a focus on the interest-based method
of mediation. Several areas of business mediation are introduced, including workplace
mediation as well as the interplay between mediation and arbitration. The main subject during
the first class is conflict and communication analysis, followed by the techniques and methods
of mediation. Students learn to deal with conflicts systematically and constructively by means
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of several role plays and simulations, which are individually analyzed. Class preparation
includes reading articles and book excerpts. Students are graded on the basis of an essay.
COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE PRODUCTS PRODUCTS LIA LIABILITY LIA LIABILITY
BILITY: BILITY PRODUCTS PRODUCTS LIABILITY LIABILITY IIN
I N THE THE UNITED STATES WITH
EUROPEAN EUROPEAN COMPARISONS
COMPARISONS
BY BY PROF. PROF. VERNON VERNON PALMER
PALMER
Part I of this course deals with the major issues of products liability law in the US. The course
covers the boundaries of the subject matter (what are and are not “products”), the rise of strict
liability and unique features of this law in the US, such as the use of punitive damages and
class actions. Theoretical and practical questions relating to liability for defective design and
failure to warn will also be discussed.
Part II of the course is devoted to the European Directive on products liability and three case
studies that will permit the students to compare and contrast the experience in many
European countries with that in the US.
CORPORATE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE
BY BY DR. DR. DR. CARSTEN CARSTEN CARSTEN JUNGMANN
JUNGMANN
Corporate governance primarily concerns the (executive) directors’ fiduciary duties as well as
the tasks and rights of those who have control of the management (non-executive directors,
members of the supervisory board, shareholders). The course focuses on corporate
governance in stock corporations and deals in detail with the German Corporate Governance
Code. As the course takes a comparative approach, recent trends on the European level, as
well as in the US and in the UK, are taken into account.
For this course, students are strongly recommended to have completed the “Corporate Law”
course (or an equivalent course in their home country). As case studies form an integral part of
this course, all students should be willing to take part in group work / group presentations.
Prerequisites: “Company Law” (Schmidt, Jungmann, Micheler) or equivalent course at your
home law school.
INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BANKIN BANKING BANKIN G TRANSACTIONS
BY BY DR. DR. CHRISTOF CHRISTOF MARI MARIA MARI MARI A FRITZEN
This course, conducted by a former lawyer and banker, is an introductory survey on basic
international banking products and transactions, such as deposits, forwards, futures, swaps,
options, project financing and securitizations. Discussions will focus on (1) the purpose of
these transactions and their economic / financial workings and risk profiles and (2) their legal
requirements, documentation and advisory needs, and will give an introduction into the
regulatory aspects driving many of these transactions. The materials for this short course
include landmark cases, scholarly writings, samples of real-life documentation, instructions for
a negotiation session and other readings. No in-depth financial and / or banking knowledge is
required.
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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL AND AND COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE ANTITRUS ANTITRUST ANTITRUS ANTITRUST
T LAW
BY BY DR. DR. DR. ANDRÉ ANDRÉ ANDRÉ FIEBIG
FIEBIG
The number of countries that have adopted competition laws has increased dramatically in the
past 20 years and not just in developed countries with mature market economies, but also in
many developing countries. Commensurate with the explosion of the number of competition
law regimes has been the globalization of business activity. The significance of national
borders as a barrier to business activity has decreased. As the application of competition law
is based on the effects of the business transaction and not on the location of the perpetrators,
these two factors - globalization and the increase in the number of competition law regimes -
have led to conflict, compliance costs and the need for solutions, including a more in-depth
understanding of foreign competition laws. An understanding of multiple competition law
regimes is not just an academic curiosity, but a business necessity. This survey course is
designed to explore themes raised in the literature and in practice related to comparative and
international antitrust and competition law. The course will explore the implications this has
not only in developed countries, but also in developing countries that have adopted
competition laws.
INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COMM COMMERCIAL COMM COMMERCIAL
ERCIAL ARBITRATION
ARBITRATION
ARBITRATION
BY BY DR. DR. STEFAN STEFAN STEFAN KRÖLL
KRÖLL
The course covers arbitration as a dispute resolution process for international trade and
business disputes. It analyzes the different forms, contractual and legal bases, and advantages
of arbitration. Issues discussed include the arbitration agreement, the jurisdiction of the arbitral
tribunal, the role of the courts during and after arbitration proceedings and the recognition and
enforcement of arbitral awards. The course gives special attention to the international
framework of arbitration, in particular the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial
Arbitration, which forms the basis of the national arbitration laws in more than 50 states, as
well as the New York Convention (UN Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign
Arbitral Awards), which has been ratified by more than 140 states and regulates the
recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards worldwide. Thus the
course focuses on commercial arbitration as an international phenomenon and not on
arbitration under any particular national system.
Recommended literature:
(1) Course Reader
(2) Lew / Mistelis / Kröll, Comparative International Commercial Arbitration, Kluwer Law
International, 2003. (Available in the Bucerius library – the book may also be purchased with a
considerable student discount in class.)
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO TO THE LAW OF THE EU EU
BY PROF. DR. JÖRN AXEL KÄMMERER KÄMMERER & & PAULINA STARSKI
The course aims at providing an insight into the structures, legal basis and law-making of the
European Union. The first part deals with the “institutional law” of the European Union: its
history and development; the main characteristics of EU law; its relation to national law;
competences and tasks of EU institutions; judicial protection. The substantive law of the EU is
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dealt with in the second part of the course. It encompasses the EU “freedoms” (free
movement of goods; free movement of workers; right of establishment and freedom to provide
services; free movement of capital and payments) as well as an introduction to EU competition
law (prohibition of cartels, abuse of dominant positions and State aids). In both parts, some
reference is given to case law as provided for by the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of
the European Communities (ECJ).
COURSES COURSES SPANNING SPANNING BOTH BOTH BOTH SESSIONS SESSIONS (SEPT. (SEPT. 10 10 - DEC. DEC. 14 14, 14 , 2012 2012) 2012
CONTRACT CONTRACT DRAFTING DRAFTING DRAFTING FOR FOR NON NON-NATIVE
NON NATIVE ENGLISH ENGLISH SPEAKERS
SPEAKERS
BY BY JAMES JAMES JAMES FAULKNER FAULKNER
FAULKNER
The course opens with a presentation on how law, language and business factors interact
when drafting and then looks at the structure of a contract (the main types of clauses and their
purpose, essential drafting language, methods of interpreting contracts). Students analyze
case studies to explore the basic concepts of drafting in a practical business situation. The
course also takes a closer look at the concepts of ‘obligation’ (personal and impersonal),
‘prohibition’, ‘discretionary rights’, ‘condition’, and ‘policy’ - again relating language to business
situations and requirements. On the legal side we look at selected Anglo-American legal
concepts as a background to drafting international contracts in English, including legal
remedies for breach, consideration and the 'deed'; liquidated damages / penalty,
representations and warranties, exclusion of liability, as well as consequential damages. The
course also analyzes a sales agreement and a distribution agreement from the drafting point of
view. The workshop is practical, with assignments based on business situations and advice on
the finer points of drafting using expressions for 'time,' 'money,' 'best efforts,' as well as issues
of layout, punctuation, and the use of expressions like 'such,' 'by/until,' etc.
GERMAN GERMAN LAW LAW SURVEY SURVEY COURSE
COURSE
BY BY BUCERIUS BUCERIUS PROFESSORS
PROFESSORS
Please Please note note that that this this course course is is mandatory mandatory for for all all exchange exchange students.
students.
The course commences with an introduction of the basic features of the German Legal System
and covers all major aspects of German law over the course of the semester. This year's topics
include: German Constitutional Law - historical background, basic principles, fundamental
rights and constitutional complaint; German Administrative Law - general principles,
administrative act and other types of administrative action; administrative and judicial review;
as well as criminal law, contract law, tort law, company law and corporate taxation.
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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL COMMER COMMERCIAL COMMER CIAL TRANSACTIONS
TRANSACTIONS
BY BY PROF. PROF. DR. DR. KARSTEN KARSTEN KARSTEN THORN THORN
Please Please note note that that this this course course course will be offered jointly jointly for exchange xchange students students and German LL.B.
students. tudents.
This course introduces international commercial law. As this field of law is considerably
influenced by trade practice, attention is not only paid to international conventions, but also to
model laws and standard forms. The interplay between the "lex mercatoria" and international
commercial arbitration as an autonomous system to solve commercial disputes is shown.
Where it seems appropriate, case studies illustrate the problems raised and their solutions.
NEGOTIATION
NEGOTIATION
BY BY MICHAEL MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
FRIEDMAN
Over the duration of 6 class sessions, the negotiation course will introduce students to the field
of negotiation as modernly conceptualized, striking a balance between its understanding as an
academic field which may be understood abstractly and a "soft interpersonal skill" demanding
practice and refinement. Using a variety of negotiating simulations and bargaining games, the
course will consider negotiation terminology, concepts, tactics and strategy. In particular, the
module will focus on approaches to single issue (distributive) and multiple issue (integrative)
negotiations. A debriefing which takes place after the conclusion of each simulation allows
participants to consider the dynamic of their individual negotiation and critically reflect on their
individual strengths and weaknesses.
Attendance at all class sessions is mandatory. Grades will be assigned on the basis of final
essay as well as one or two short written tasks. A course reader will be provided.
PRACTICAL PRACTICAL ASPECTS ASPECTS OF OF MERGERS MERGERS AND AND ACQUISITIONS
ACQUISITIONS
BY BY DR. DR. NILS NILS KRAUSE
KRAUSE
This course provides a broad overview of corporate mergers and acquisitions and an
understanding of the conceptual framework. It covers all relevant steps in the M&A process
from acquisition finance to post-closing and integration measures. Other specific subjects
covered are preliminary agreements (e.g. letter of intent, head of terms), due diligence
process, negotiating share purchase agreements and hostile takeovers, including defense
measures and distressed M&A transactions. Students are exposed to the most important
elements of a typical M&A transaction, including relevant contractual provisions.
The course takes an interactive, practical approach to the topic and centers on hypothetical
M&A scenarios. These scenarios are used to illustrate the legal and practical context in which
mergers and takeovers take place. Throughout the course, students are asked to address
these topics from the perspective of the various players in an M&A process (e.g. by negotiating
a letter of intent, conducting a due diligence or negotiating a share purchase agreement).
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THE THE BUSINESS BUSINESS AND AND ECONOMICS ECONOMICS OF OF OF LAW FIRMS FIRMS: FIRMS
: CROSS CROSS-BORDER CROSS BORDER EDITION EDITION
EDITION
BY BRUCE BRUCE EELVIN
E LVIN & & MARKUS HARTUNG
This course provides students with an enhanced and vital understanding of law firms as
business entities in a competitive and global market. Based on feedback from employers,
interviews with hundreds of lawyers and published accounts from law firm leaders, it is clear
that technical legal ability will be necessary but not sufficient to excel in the practice of law or
any business endeavor in coming decades. The topics will be explored through the review and
analysis of literature, statutes and case studies, and will include a basic financial analysis of the
operations of law firms. Assignments will be case studies and will simulate the client advisory
process, allowing students to gain experience providing legal advice and business
recommendations.
Associate Dean and senior lecturing fellow Bruce Elvin will lead and organize a seminar at
Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina; Markus Hartung, director of the Bucerius Center
on the Legal Profession, will lead and organize a seminar at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg,
Germany. The seminars at Bucerius and at Duke will be held at the same time, allowing for all
or most class meetings to be connected via live video for interaction and teaching among all
instructors and students. Each seminar may also invite prominent law firm and business
leaders to serve as guest lecturers.
Assignments will involve groups comprised of students from both Bucerius and Duke.
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FACULTY FACULTY FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES
Dana Dana Beldiman Beldiman is a partner at the law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP in San Francisco
and an honorary professor at Bucerius Law School. She specializes in international intellectual
property law and international transactions. She is an adjunct professor at U.C. Hastings in San
Francisco, and a regular visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg and the Riga
Graduate School of Law. She serves as Honorary Consul General of Romania in San Francisco
and is a member of the board of the American Friends of Bucerius Law School.
Dana Beldiman holds a M.A. degree from the University of Bucharest, a J.D. from U.C. Hastings
in San Francisco, an LL.M. in intellectual property from Santa Clara University School of Law
and a doctorate in law magna cum laude from the University of Bremen.
Bruce Bruce Elvin Elvin is the associate dean and director of Duke's Career & Professional Development
Center. After graduating from Stanford University and Duke Law School, he earned a Magister
(Masters) in German law in Munich and later returned to the US to earn an LL.M. in taxation
from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Tax Law Review.
He has practiced law in New York for Baker & McKenzie and later for White & Case, took on
business roles at two technology firms and was a consultant and executive recruiter for large
law firms and corporate legal departments with Heidrick & Struggles. He currently teaches at
Duke Law School and co-leads the "Fundamentals of Leadership & Professionalism Workshop
Series." He has lectured on the business law practice at NALP conferences, Yale Law School,
and elsewhere, and created and taught a course certified by the state of New York for CLE
credit on "The Business of Law and Developing Relationships" for law firm associates.
Bruce Elvin has numerous publications and regularly speaks on his topics of research. He is
currently the treasurer of the National Association for Legal Professionals (NALP) and sits on its
Board and Executive Committee.
James James Faulkner Faulkner has taught legal English for over 15 years at a number of German universities
and law firms. He joined Bucerius Law School in 2000 as the Director of the Foreign Language
Program. He teaches courses on Anglo-American legal culture, contract and commercial law,
legal negotiation, legal translation and contract drafting.
André André Fiebig Fiebig Fiebig received his masters and doctorate degrees in law from the University of
Tübingen and a law degree from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He currently is a partner at
Baker & McKenzie, practicing in the area of corporate and antitrust law with a particular
emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures, international antitrust and
competition law, and commercial law. He assists clients doing business internationally and
foreign clients doing business in the United States. He also provides advice in obtaining merger
clearance for transactions both in the US and abroad, and provides corporate counseling on
antitrust issues. Additionally, André Fiebig has served as an adjunct professor at Northwestern
University School of Law since 1997 and is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for
Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University School of Law. He previously practiced
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European law in Brussels and has authored numerous articles on international business and
antitrust.
Michael Michael Friedman Friedman received an A.B. in economics (magna cum laude) from the University of
Southern California and subsequently studied law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the
University of California at Berkeley. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 and became a member
of the California State Bar in 1994. Michael Friedman practiced law as a senior attorney and
litigator in the San Francisco Bay area with the Contra Costa County Office of the Public
Defender. In addition to having presented at professional development and legal education
programs, his teaching background includes employment as an instructor for the Boalt Hall
Academic Support Program and the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity (CLEO).
He has lived in Hamburg since 2004 and works as a research associate / language editor at the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. He has also served as an
oral assessor for both the Cambridge International Legal English exam and Bucerius Law
School’s “Fachspezifische Fremdsprachen Prüfung” (subject-specific language test) for English.
Chri Christof Chri Christof
stof Maria Fritzen was a managing director of Deutsche Bank AG, where he worked in
various positions in investment banking, risk management and as head of the office of the
management board and the supervisory board. He worked for six years in the New York and
Brussels offices of the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He received his legal
education at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg in Germany and at Columbia Law
School in New York, specializing in international business law.
Since 2002, Christof Maria Fritzen has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia
School of Law, Charlottesville, teaching courses in international banking law and comparative
constitutional law. Until December 31, 2011, he served as a member of the supervisory board
of REpower Systems AG, Hamburg. Furthermore, the Sovereign Order of Malta has appointed
Christof Maria Fritzen as its ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Markus Markus Hartung Hartung is a lawyer and mediator, as well as director of the Bucerius Center on the
Legal Profession (CLP). In 1999, he was elected as managing partner of Oppenhoff & Rädler,
the first full-time managing partner in Germany. During his tenure, he oversaw the merger with
Linklaters and served as the managing partner of Linklaters in Germany from 2001-2007 and as
member of the Global Executive Committee of Linklaters. He is a member of the German Bar
Association (DAV) and is on the Committee of International Law Firms of the German Federal
Bar (BRAK).
As a lawyer Markus Hartung focuses on conflict management, regulatory issues and
professional indemnity issues. In addition, he advises law firms in strategy and management
questions and coaches partners in management functions. At the CLP, he is responsible for
the conception of educational and continuing education programs for legal professionals. His
expertise in the framework of the CLP lies in market development and trends, management
and strategic leadership as well as corporate governance of societies. He regularly holds public
lectures on these topics.
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Peter Peter Hay Hay is the L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law at Emory University, Atlanta. Before accepting
the appointment at Emory in 1991, he was Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law and dean at
the University of Illinois. Since 1975 he has been an honorary professor at the University of
Freiburg. In 1989, Peter Hay received the research prize of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation in Germany. He is a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative
Law and a life member of the American Law Institute. From 1994 to 2000 he held, concurrently
with his Emory appointment, the chair for Civil Law, Foreign and International Private Law, and
Comparative Law at the University of Dresden, where he also served as dean of the law faculty
from 1997 to 2000.
He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. In 2011, the University Pécs
(Hungary) conferred an honorary doctorate on him. Peter Hay's research has focused on the
fields of conflict of laws, European Community law and comparative law, especially in the
contexts of contract and international sales law.
Carsten Carsten Jungmann Jungmann is a program director at Bucerius Law School, coordinating the Diploma in
Business Law Program at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, and a lawyer at the law
firm Duvinage in Munich. His primary fields of research are insolvency law, corporate law
(including corporate governance), banking law and corporate finance. He studied law at the
University of Bonn and at the University of Edinburgh. At the University of Bonn, he graduated
as a Doctor of Laws. As a trainee solicitor, he worked inter alia with the international law firm
Hogan Lovells and with HSH Nordbank; he also clerked for High Court Chief Judge Dr. Buechel.
After passing the bar exam at the High Court of Hamburg, he went to the US and obtained an
LL.M. from Yale Law School. In addition, Carsten Jungmann holds an M.Sc. in Finance, which
he earned at the University of Leicester. He spent a year as an academic visitor at the London
School of Economics and was a lecturer in law at the University of Surrey, the University of
Fribourg and at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich.
He has published numerous articles on corporate, banking and insolvency law in leading law
journals. In 2011, he was awarded the Bucerius Alumni Prize for Outstanding Teaching.
Jörn Jörn Axel Axel Kämmerer Kämmerer holds the chair of Public Law, International and European Law at Bucerius
Law School. Supported by the German National Merit Foundation, he studied law in Tübingen
and Aix-en-Provence, gaining the title of Maîtrise en droit (specializing in international law),
while also qualifying as a German lawyer. In 1992 he served as parliamentary aid in
constitutional legal matters at the State Assembly of Saxony, and was a research fellow until
1995 under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Graf Vitzthum in the Public Law Department at the University of
Tübingen, where he completed his doctorate in law in 1993 ("The Antarctic and the Territorial
and Environmental Protection Order of International Law"). After the Second Legal State Exam,
he continued from 1995 to 2000 as a research fellow at the University of Tübingen, completing
his post-doctorate in July 2000 ("Privatization. Typology, Determinants, Legal Practice,
Impacts"). His special areas of interest are public law, European law and public international
law.
Lars Lars Kirchhoff Kirchhoff is an attorney and mediator, partner at the Berlin-based firm TGKS, as well as
academic director of the postgraduate master’s program in mediation and the Institute for
Conflict Management at the European University Viadrina. He specialized in alternative dispute
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esolution at Yale Law School, the OSCE and in the mediation program of the US District Court
of Northern California. He is also a lecturer in Alternative Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law
School, the Centrale für Mediation and for the Ministries of Justice in Lower Saxony and
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Lars Kirchhoff has authored numerous publications on state sovereignty, mediation and the
interplay between international commercial arbitration and mediation.
Hein Hein Kötz Kötz was born in 1935 and educated in Hamburg. He served as a professor of law at the
University of Constance from 1971 to 1978 and as a professor of law at the University of
Hamburg and director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law from 1979
to 2000. He was the founding dean of Bucerius Law School from 2000 to 2004 and a visiting
professor in Cambridge, Oxford, Chicago, Berkeley, Uppsala and Tel Aviv. His books and
articles focus on questions of comparative law, law and economics, and German contract and
tort law.
Nils Nils Nils Krause Krause is a partner at the international law firm DLA Piper and works as a German qualified
lawyer and solicitor (England / Wales) in the Hamburg office of DLA Piper UK LLP. His principal
areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate law. Prior to
working for DLA Piper, Nils Krause was a partner at White & Case and, in addition, active in
corporate law with a UK law firm in its London office. Furthermore, he was a research student
at Harvard Law School and visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He lectures on corporate
law at nationally and internationally renowned universities.
Beatrice Beatrice Krebs Krebs studied law at the Universitiy of Münster and University of Exeter, graduating in
2004 with the First Legal State Exam. In 2007, she obtained a B.A. in Jurisprudence from the
University of Oxford, followed by an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, in 2008
(Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). She is a lecturer in law at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Her doctoral
thesis, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), focuses on homicide and
joint criminal enterprise in English and German law. Her research interests include white collar
crime and comparative and international criminal law.
Thomas Thomas Krebs Krebs read English and German law at the University of Kent at Canterbury, before
going to Oxford to study for the postgraduate degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. He stayed at
Oxford to complete a doctorate (D.Phil.) under Peter Birks, before then qualifying as a barrister.
In 1999, he was invited to join the Law Faculty of University College London, where he spent
four years as the Norton Rose Lecturer in Commercial Law. Since 2003, he has been a
university lecturer in commercial law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Brasenose
College, Oxford. He is also admissions coordinator for the Faculty of Law and tutor for
graduates at Brasenose. He continues to practice at the English Commercial Bar and is a
member of a Chancery / Commercial Set of Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn.
Stefan Stefan Kröll Kröll is a lawyer in Cologne and one of Germany’s national correspondents to UNCITRAL
for arbitration and international commercial law. He is a co-author of a leading casebook titled,
“Comparative International Commercial Arbitration” (Kluwer 2003, with Lew and Mistelis). He
has also authored or edited other books and numerous articles on international arbitration and
litigation, and international commercial law, including a Commentary on the CISG (Beck/Hart
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2011; co-editor with Mistelis/Perales di Viscasillas), Conflict of Laws in Arbitration (Sellier 2010;
co-editor with Ferrari), Arbitration in Germany – The Model Law in Practice (Kluwer 2007, coeditor
with Böckstiegel and Nacimiento) and Arbitrating Foreign Investment Disputes (Kluwer
2004, co-editor with Horn). He is a visiting reader at the School of International Arbitration at
the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary College, University of London) and
member of the ITA Academic Council (Institute of Transnational Arbitration). Stefan Kröll
regularly lectures at the University of California, Davis on arbitration as well as at other
institutions on arbitration, litigation and international contract law. He has been retained by
UNCITRAL as one of the three experts to prepare the Digest for the UNCITRAL Model Law.
He is a member of the board of editors of the International Arbitration Law Review and the
Journal for International Commercial Law (IHR). He often serves as an arbitrator in national and
international cases and is listed as one of Germany’s leading arbitration experts in “Who is
Who on Arbitration, Juve and the Global Arbitration Law Review.” For further details, see
www.rechtsanwalt-kroell.de
Eva Eva Micheler Micheler studied law at the University of Vienna and the University of Oxford. She joined
the London School of Economics Law Department in 2001. She is a reader at LSE and a
professor at the University of Economics in Vienna, where she received her “Habilitation”
(degree qualifying her to become a professor) in 2003. Before joining LSE, she was also a TMR
fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford.
Vernon Vernon Valentine Valentine Palmer is the Thomas Pickles Professor of Law and co-director of the Eason
Weinmann Center for Comparative Law at Tulane University. He is best known for his work in
the field of comparative law. He is a titular life member of the International Academy of
Comparative Law, and his scholarly works now include more than 12 books and 50 articles,
much of it emphasizing the value of comparative law as a means of understanding the
interaction between common law and civil law in world legal systems. His study of Mixed
Jurisdictions Worldwide (Cambridge University Press) is the leading work in its field and his
comparative treatises on strict liability and pure economic loss, written for the Common Core
Project, have been widely acclaimed.
Vernon Palmer has held faculty appointments at universities around the world, including La
Sorbonne in Paris and universities in Strasbourg, Lausanne, Martinique, Barcelona, Trento,
Geneva, Fribourg, Hamburg and this coming year in Tokyo.
He graduated from Tulane Law School with law review honors, and received a Masters in Law
from Yale and his D.Phil. (Doctor of Philosophy) from Oxford University (Pembroke College).
Karsten Karsten Schmidt Schmidt is president of Bucerius Law School. His doctorate in 1972 was followed by a
post-doctorate in Bonn from 1975 to 1976 on the subjects of civil law, commercial law,
business law and civil procedural law. Following a professorship in Göttingen in 1976, he held a
professorial chair at the University of Hamburg from 1977 to 1997 and was director of the
departments of commercial, maritime and economic law. From 1997 to 2004, Karsten Schmidt
was a professor at the University of Bonn and director of the Institute for Commercial and
Business Law.
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Paulina Paulina Starski Starski currently works as a research assistant for the chair of Prof. Dr. Kämmerer and
is a lawyer trainee at the Hanseatic Court of Appeals. Her research agenda mainly concerns
public international law, European law and constitutional law. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on the
phenomenon of "hybrid sovereignty" and its theoretical reception by different legal schools of
thought. In another major research work, she analyzes the binding nature of administrative
orders issued by the "Bundesländer" (German federal states) in the inter-federal sphere of the
Federal Republic of Germany, thereby discussing complex problems of federalism. She gained
experience as a lecturer in constitutional law, administrative law and European law at Bucerius
Law School and the University of Hamburg. Furthermore, she worked as a research assistant
and trainee at several law firms, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Hamburg), Graf von
Westphalen (Hamburg) and Gleiss Lutz (Prague).
Karsten Karsten Thorn Thorn was born in 1963 in Trier. He studied law at the University of Trier and
completed the First Legal State Exam in 1988. Afterwards, he completed an LL.M. degree at
Georgetown University in Washington D.C., during which time he wrote his master’s thesis on
“Multinational Banking and National Jurisdiction.” From 1989 up to his appointment at Bucerius
Law School, he worked with Prof. Dr. Bernd von Hoffmann at the University of Trier’s chair for
Civil Law, International Private Law, and Comparative Law, first as a teaching and research
assistant until 1997, and later as a research associate and lecturer of law.
From 1990 to 1993, Karsten Thorn completed his legal traineeship at the law firm Hengeler
Mueller, Weitzel, Wirtz (Frankfurt, Germany) in the elective subject group of European and
international law, with a specialization in bank and business law, as well as at the law firm
Frere Cholmeley in Paris (France), with an emphasis on international commercial arbitration.
Afterwards he completed his Second Legal State Exam in 1993. In 1996, Karsten Thorn
received a doctorate in law at the University of Trier with the topic “Bona Fide Acquisition of
Movable Property” and was appointed as an examiner in 1998 for the elective group
“International Private Law and Comparative Law” in the First Legal State Exam. From 2000 to
2003, he was a guest lecturer first at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management at the
University of Orleans (France), then at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Administration of the
University of Metz (France). In February 2004, he completed his post-doctoral thesis on the
“Coordination of Private Legal Systems through the Application of Foreign Conflicts’ Law,” as
well as with an audition lecture on “Bearing of Risk after the Cancellation of Contract” at the
University of Trier. Later that year, Karsten Thorn accepted the chair of Civil Law, Private
International and International Commercial Law and Comparative Law at Bucerius Law School.
Felix Felix Wendenburg Wendenburg is a mediator, co-director of the core practice and research field "business"
at the Institute for Conflict Management and academic vice director of the postgraduate
master's program in mediation (both at the European University Viadrina). After graduating
from Bucerius Law School in 2008, he worked as a research associate and doctoral candidate
at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Hamburg and received his
mediation training at Bucerius Law School, the Lawyers’ Chamber (Celle), Boston College Law
School, Fordham University School of Law (New York) and the mediation program of the US
District Court of Northern California. Felix Wendenburg has authored several publications on
“interprofessionality” in mediation, the legal framework of mediation and on law school
grading policies.
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For biographies of the Bucerius professors teaching the “German Law Survey” course, please
visit http://www.law-school.de/lehrstuehle_lehre.html.
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