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LL.M. (Magister Legum) – (LL.M.)
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
| Application Deadline: | June 15 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 1,600 - | ||
| Location: | Berlin / Germany / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English German | ||
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The Master of Law degree programme attracts foreign law graduates and practitioners desiring to increase their understanding of German legal principles and/or to hone their skills in specialised areas. In particular, through coursework of their choosing, students gain in-depth knowledge of two of three general fields in German law (civil law, criminal law and public law). Through the one-on-one advisor-directed thesis programme students learn the skills required for the analytical study of a complicated legal problem that they select. This relationship between each LLM student and a member of the Department's professorial staff culminates in the drafting of a research paper/thesis by the student. Thus, students in our LLM programme are able to tailor their programmes to fit their particular interests (European Community law, Public international law, Taxation law, International criminal law, European and German commercial and company law, International business law, German and international labour law). In the course of a four-week internship, students will learn how to utilise basic academic legal principles enabling them to fulfil concrete tasks and to evaluate whether they are applicable to the solution of practical problems.
Graduates of the LLM programme will be able:
- to understand and analyse legal problems under principles of German law
- to take selected legal problems from practice or theory, independently research and study these problems and draft a logical, analytical solution to these problems, in light of jurisprudence and doctrine.
Further, graduates will
- be creative and have acquisitive and intellectual skills to operate within the fields of legal research and scholarship
- have a broad knowledge of German law and the German legal system.
Contents
Students must pursue 60 credits ("Leistungspunkte - LP") of coursework throughout the year. Four credits (LP) for the LLM-course "Introduction to the German Law", 15 credits (LP) for the final thesis and oral examination and six credits (LP) for the course of a four-week internship (in the term break between the first and second term). 32 credits (LP) must come from a combination of two of the three general fields in German law (civil law, criminal law and public law) and three credits (LP) from a course in legal philosophy, legal sociology, legal methodology or legal history. The students have three months in which to complete their final thesis during the second term, the topic having been agreed upon with their advisor.
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Applicants must have successfully completed the programme of studies required for the conferral of the first law degree in their jurisdiction of original study (which may not be Germany). Applicants must provide evidence of a German language qualification (written and spoken) equal to at least the C1-level according to the Common European Reference Frame. All applicants must submit a written application, in German, which presents their educational and professional background, as well as the reasons for their desire to pursue the programme of study. This application should be accompanied by a recommendation from a professor who knows the applicant well.
Candidates are selected based on their academic and professional achievement, international diversity and their ability to contribute to Law Department scholarship.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Accreditation
System Accreditation
In the context of its quality management system, Freie Universität Berlin has relied on the system accreditation process since early on, deliberately choosing not to engage in across-the-board accreditation of individual programs of study. Since the Conference of Ministers of Culture adopted the resolutions of the Accreditation Council dated February 28 and 29, 2008, regarding the criteria for system accreditation, the university has been making internal preparations to put system accreditation into practice.
What Is System Accreditation?
While conventional accreditation and re-accreditation processes review study programs on a case-by-case basis to determine whether they meet minimum standards, system accreditation focuses on evaluating the quality assurance system that applies to the institution as a whole. When this internal quality assurance system is accredited, the result is that all curricula that have been approved under the system are accredited for a period of six years.
In the course of system accreditation, the structures and processes that are relevant to academic and teaching activities are reviewed to determine whether they ensure that the appropriate goals for qualification are met and that the programs offered are of high quality. The European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ESG), the requirements of the Conference of Ministers of Culture, and the criteria established by the Accreditation Council apply during this process.
A successful system accreditation serves as proof that the university´s quality assurance system in the area of academics and teaching is able to ensure that the appropriate goals for qualification are met and to assure the high standards of quality applied within its programs.
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