Law in Germany – ONLINE
Recruitment for the Summer School 2023 is starting.
Start of training on July 3 (online).
The Summer School, which has been held annually in Ukraine since 2007, is designed for those interested in studying the legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Start of training on July 3 (online).
The Summer School, which has been held annually in Ukraine since 2007, is designed for those interested in studying the legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Summer School, which has been held annually in Ukraine since 2007, is designed for those interested in studying the legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Professors, postgraduate students and senior students of higher education institutions and law faculties of Ukrainian universities and universities from neighboring countries are invited to participate in the Summer School (competitive selection).
In 2023, the Summer School is held online from July 3 to July 21.
The working language of the Summer School is German, so participants are required to have a level of German not lower than Mittelstufe.
During the first week, participants will be offered a course to improve their legal German. The following two weeks will be devoted to the study of European and German law. The classes will be taught by professors and lecturers from the University of Heidelberg, the University of Mainz (Germany) and the Institute of German Law of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland).
Participation in the Summer School is free of charge.
The number of participants is limited.
A certificate is issued upon graduation from the Summer School, subject to successful completion of the final exam.
To participate in the competitive selection for the Summer School, the following documents are required:
- CV (for participants from Ukraine – in Ukrainian, for participants from other countries – in English).
- Application form (in German).
The application with the attached documents should be sent via the registration form.
Upon approval of the application for participation in the Summer School, participants will be sent details of connecting to online classes.
The school is funded by the DAAD
Professors
Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff
Professor Peter-Christian Müller-Graff is Senior Professor for Private Law, Economic Law and European Law at the Heidelberg University Law Faculty, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam and former Dean of the Heidelberg Law Faculty. He is Member of Academia Europaea and Honorary Chairman of the Association of the German Law Faculties. His main research interests comprise European internal market law, the legal order of the economy, European private law, the constitutional law of the European Union and other European international organisations and the international Treaties of the European Union. He has published and edited many books on these subjects, published many articles and commentaries and is editor of the ten-volume Encyclopedia on European Law (Enzyklopädie Europarecht). He has been awarded several honorary doctorates (Universities of Athens, Bergen, Budapest ELTE, Kiew Mohyla, Kraków) and orders of merit (Germany, Austria, Brasil, Merite Européen en or).
Professor Müller-Graff is counselor to public authorities, was counselor to the Convention on the Future of the European Union and represented the Federal Republic of Germany before the European Court of Justice. He has been judge at the Court of Appeals. He is President of the German Association of European Communities Studies (Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration), managing board member of the German Association of European Law (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Europarecht) and member of the Comité Directeur (as well as former General Secretary and Rapporteur Général) of the Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE). He was Chairman of the European Research Training Group of the German Research Foundation on “Transformation and Economic Integration in Europe”.
He pursued his studies at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin (FU), Tübingen and Cornell, N.Y. (USA), was scholarship holder of the German National Scholarship Foundation, passed the State Exams in Law in Baden-Württemberg, earned his doctorate (Dr.iur.) and habilitation (Dr.iur.habil.) at Tübingen University and was scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation. Prior to his appointment at Heidelberg in 1994 he was professor of law at the universities of Köln (Cologne) and Trier. Professor Müller-Graff has held several visiting professorships in other European countries (in particular in France, Belgium -Collège d´Europe-, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary), in the USA (Cornell, Georgetown) and in Asia (Nihon, Tokyo; Tongji, Shanghai).
Dr. Lena Hornkohl
Dr. Lena Hornkohl wrote her Ph.D. about European Competition Law and Civil Litigation with Prof. Müller-Graff and worked at Heidelberg University for 5 years. One of her main projects was the organisation of the Schule des Deutschen Rechts in Krakow and Kiev. She is teaching “Privatrecht I” in the summer school in Kiew since 2017. Mrs. Hornkohl is working as a lawyer in Brussels at the moment and will join the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law as a Senior Research Fellow in September 2020.
Dr. Przemysław Roguski
Dr. Przemysław Roguski is a Lecturer in Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and general manager of JU’s School of German Law. His research focuses on the law of peacetime cyber operations and different aspects of international law relating to cybersecurity, ICT and internet governance. He is a visiting lecturer at the Kyiv Mohyla-Academy and has delivered guest lectures i.a. at the universities of Beijing (CUPL), Bristol (UWE) and Kobe. Previously, Przemysław has worked in private practice and as lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is a fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist) and holds law degrees from the University of Mainz (Germany), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a PhD in international law from Jagiellonian University. His PhD thesis on “Cyber operations in international law” has received the Polish Ministry of Defense’s Marian Rejewski Prize.
Dr. Johannes Reitzel
Dr. Johannes Reitzel is counsel at King & Wood Mallesons. Besides advising on employment law aspects of transactions, he gives ongoing employment law advice to corporate clients. Further, he advises directors, officers and board members on the conclusion, termination and modification of service agreements.
Dr. Johannes Reitzel has gained extensive experience in his areas of competence while working for an international project developer and a German M&A boutique. Moreover he has managed complex termination procedures, has accompanied international and domestic transactions of great complexity and has given ongoing employment-law advice to companies for many years.
Sc.D. Olena Shablii
Sc.D. Olena Shablii since 1998 has been teaching translation studies and legal German at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (since 2012 at the Faculty of Law, Department of Foreign Languages). 2002 – 1st (candidate’s) dissertation ‘Interlingual Terminological Homonymy as a Problem of Terminological Lexicography and Translation Studies’; 2013 – 2nd (doctor’s) dissertation ‘Theoretical Bases and Methodology of German-Ukrainian Legal Translation’. She has published several books ‘Translation of Legal Texts’ (2008), German-Ukrainian Legal Translation: Methods, Problems, Prospects (2012), is co-author of ‘Weißbuch zur Reform der ukrainischen Juristischen Ausbildung: Deutsch-Ukrainische Erfahrungen’ (2015) and author of over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. She was visiting professor and researcher at the Herder-Institute of the University Leipzig, Germany (2011), Bologna University, Italy (2014), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (2015), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (2011, 2019).
Since 2015 President of the NGO German-Ukrainian Jurisprudential Dialogue, coordinator of several German-Ukrainian projects (among them conferences and workshops on Reform of Ukrainian legal education, German-Ukrainian Legal Translation School, German-Ukrainian Legal Database etc.), member of GfdS (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e.V.), member of IATI (International Academy for Translation and Interpreting).
Dr. Ivan Yatskevych
Administrator of Summer School
Dr. Ivan Yatskevych, Vice Dean, Associate Professor of the Department of Private Law
Doctor of Philosophy (Law), Executive Secretary of Editorial Board of Professional Journal “NaUKMA Research Papers. Law”. The circle of research interests comprises theoretical and practical problems of labour law and social security law, European labour law, human rights law. The issues of legal guaranties of the right to work, labour rights as human rights, the issues of occupation and employment, the rights of persons with disabilities (particularly rights to social security and employment) belong to the core of research field.
Teaching:
Labour law, European Labour Law
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