Faculty of Law

On 28 February 2024, students of the field of specialisation "Labour and Social Law in the International and Supranational Context" accompanied by Prof. Dr. Angie Schneider went on an excursion to the Federal Social Court. Thanks to Dr. Björn Harich, Judge at the Federal Social Court, the students were able to observe the proceedings of the 4th Senate and participate in a talk with the Senate and a guided tour of the court building.

From 15 to 16 February 2024, the conference "Women Lawyers at the Universities – Gender Law in Research and Teaching" took place at Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen.

On 18 January 2024, the 9th Moot Court of the Federal Labour Court took place in Erfurt. 29 student teams of 15 German universities competed against each other, among them three teams of the University Bremen supervised by Professor Dr. Sebastian Kolbe and Klintis Gakovi.

Research assistants of the Faculty of Law joined the protest "Loud Against the Right" on 21 January 2024 in Bremen to take a stand for democratic coexistence. We faculty members take a clear stance against anti-constitutional right-wing extremism. For us, the rule of law, human dignity and democracy are inviolable rights and their disregard cannot be tolerated. As legal scholars we are particularly aware that the condonement of right-wing policy may easily lead to the formation of autocratic elements. Therefore we stand up: for coexistence instead of confrontation, for equal rights instead of discrimination, for tolerance instead of exclusion, for more love instead of hate.

On 29 November, the South Korean Justice Research and Training Center (JRTC) in Seoul organised a conference on two “paradigm shifts” for the legal order, i.e. artificial intelligence and climate change. In the session on “The Climate Change Crisis and Judicial Response”, Professor Gerd Winter of the Research Centre for European Environmental Law (FEU) delivered the key note speech on “Fundamental Rights to Climate Protection”.

On 23 November 2023, the annual doctoral awards ceremony of the Faculty of Law took place in the Kaminsaal of Bremen Town Hall. Following a speech of the Dean Prof. Dr. Gralf-Peter Calliess and a welcoming address of Staatsrat Bernd Tschöpe, the certificates were presented to the doctoral graduates present at the ceremony.

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Christian Joerges (Emeritus Professor Hertie School Berlin and Emeritus Professor Bremen), on 11 November 2023, the Conference "Economic Law and Political Economy" took place as a discussion of methods, disciplines, history and outlook with regard to the (supposedly) new research approach “law and political economy” (LPE) which has been known in the USA for some time.

This year's Annual Conference of the Association for Infrastructure Law (VIR) took place on 16 November 2023. Almost 100 participants gathered in the Bremen "Fly Deck" above the roofs of the city to discuss the topic "Rechtsschutz in Zeiten der Beschleunigungsgesetzgebung".

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Prof. Dr. Geneuss has been appointed as Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International and European Criminal Law, Criminal Information Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bremen. A specific focus of her research lies on the prosecution of crimes under international law on the domestic level, in particular in Germany, as well as criminal information law.

On 26 and 27 October, the Research Association for Maritime Law organised the 7th Bremen Conference on Maritime Law. Representatives from science, industry and administration discussed the topics autonomous shipping and resilience of maritime critical infrastructures with about 50 participants. As a result of the conference, regulatory demands on the legislator were defined with regard to both topics. A conference report will be published in the journal Transportrecht.

On 24 October 2023, the teams of the University of Bremen were received by Dr. Amel Sarić at the office of LOYFORT lawyers in the Bremen-Überseestadt for the Moot Court at the Federal Labour Court in January 2024.

In accordance with the principle of "one examination regulation, two degrees", the Faculty of Law is planning to introduce an integrated Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree programme as part of the law study programme with the First Law Examination (state examination) as of the winter semester 2024/25.