The University of Potsdam - A portrait
Structure
More than German Law
The Law Faculty
Fotos: K. Fritze
The Law Faculty's curriculum offers the basic and required courses necessary to become a fully qualified lawyer. This training includes civil law, criminal law, and public law. At Potsdam, the areas of concentration in research and teaching comprise the fundamentals of law, civil judicature, business law, international law, public administration as well as business, tax, and environmental criminal law. All these areas offer ample opportunity for specialized study. Additional events for training and continuing education for practicioners in the municipal realm are offered by the Institute for Local Government Studies and in international relations by the Human Rights Centre.
An institution at Potsdam's Law Faculty that is unique in Germany is the German-French law program, which is operated in cooperation with the partner university Paris Ouest-Nanterre/La Défense. At the University of Potsdam students can participate not just in an exchange program, but they also have the opportunity in their first two years in the standard German law program to complete an additional, self-contained program of study in French law. This French part of the program is taught by French visiting scholars from the partner university and is conducted in French.
"At Potsdam's Law Faculty, there exists
a kind of French faculté de droit en miniature.
This cannot be found at any other German university."
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Bauer,
Dean of the Law Faculty
