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Law, Department

Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft

Freie Universität Berlin

Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Van't-Hoff-Straße 8
D-14195 Berlin
Telephone: +49 30 838-52527
https://www.fu-berlin.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

2,610

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

40

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/14 points

Results of study

Exam results

36.3%

Research

Doctorates per professor

0.6

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Assistance with exam preparation
Share of external repetitions visited

70.0%

Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Practical orientation in teaching
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Self-study places
Return rate of the questionnaires

177

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Integrated Bachelor of Laws, free university revision course & exam preparation course (44 exams); Extensive range of courses that teach key skills while integrating practice; Two FU Law Clinics; international competitions (European Law moot court competition; Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court; Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court; Model European Union/Model United Nations); extensive range of English-speaking courses in International Law; Regular guest lectures by Anglo-American professors.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Over 70 partner universities worldwide; Opportunity to complete the entire specialisation stage, including a university specialisation examination, at over 50 partner universities abroad (DAAD award winning); DFG College Advanced Studies: "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?"; Master's degree programme taught in English in International and European Business, Competition and Regulatory Law (MBL) with students from sometimes more than 14 countries per year; Themis: Additional business law and international law certificate programme for students.

Special features regarding the equipment

All lecture theatres and seminar rooms are equipped with modern media technology; WiFi and education roaming are available across the whole campus. The library, which has 800,000 volumes and 680 periodicals, as well as all the important online research options for Law, offers 520 workstations with all the technical standards (PC workstations, connections). Separate parent-child study room for children of different ages with fully equipped workstations.

Special features regarding research activities

Characteristic fields in research are internationalisation and Europeanisation of the legal system, fundamental questions as well as the transfer of rights in the promotion and use of discourse with practice, as demonstrated by renowned legal commentaries; "FU Empirical Legal Studies Centre" ("FUELS"); Continuation of the legal-historical joint research of the former Excellence Cluster TOPOI, research group "The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline"

Support for founders

Profund Innovation: Central service centre for knowledge and technology transfer at the Free University Berlin. Staff assist students, academics and alumni in exploiting research findings and bringing innovations to life.

Other special features

In addition to the specialised library (including parent-child rooms), the faculty has its own three large lecture halls and numerous seminar rooms, a cafeteria and a student café (Cafe Tatort) from an initiative of the departmental student body. The buildings are framed by a green park landscape in the immediate vicinity (all three minutes’ walk) to the Henry Ford tree (Audi Max), the central university library and the Veggie-Mensa cafeteria. The campus can be reached via the very close underground station "Freie Universität" with the U3, which goes from Dahlem via the city centre to Friedrichshain without changing trains.

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Last Update 2023: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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