Teaching

Teaching in Family Law

Overview of courses in family law and their placement in the area of concentration.

Family Law at Göttingen University

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Family Law in concentration 3

The Focus Area 3 "Civil Law and Civil Administration of Justice" serves to deepen the knowledge in the field of civil law and civil procedure law and therefore prepares students in particular for their later professional activity in the field of - national as well as European - civil law.

The Faculty of Law in Göttingen offers the unique opportunity of a deepening in family and inheritance law and / or in legal drafting and law enforcement within the framework of this focus area.

German law forms the core of the focus area. In addition, it takes into account the increased importance of legal advice and structuring as well as extrajudicial party representation and conflict avoidance in the legal profession. German civil law and civil procedure law are also increasingly coming under the influence of European and international law. Therefore, both the European civil law and civil procedural law as well as comparative law developments abroad are included.

Within the Specialization in Family and Inheritance Law, the focus is on national substantive family (and inheritance) law as well as family court proceedings and voluntary jurisdiction. In addition, there are international references in European family law, international private and civil procedure law as well as comparative law and overlaps with medical law with a focus on civil and family law.

German Family Law

National Family Law, Private Law and Private Legal History

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ZPO & FamFG

National Procedural Law, Proceedings in Family Cases and Voluntary Jurisdiction

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European Family Law

International Family Law

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IPR & IZVR

Private International Law and Civil Procedure

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Comparative Law

Comparison of the various systems

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Medical Law

Focus on Civil Law / Family Law

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Courses in Family Law

German Family Law

National Family Law, Private Law and Private Legal History

ZPO & FamFG

National Procedural Law, Proceedings in Family Cases and Voluntary Jurisdiction

European Family Law

International Family Law

IPR & IZVR

Private International Law and Civil Procedure

Comparative Law

Comparison of the various systems

Medical Law

Focus on Civil Law / Family Law
Basic Principles of Family Law
Type: Lecture (Undergraduate)
Semester: Wintersemester

The content of the lecture is the compulsory family law material for the first examination. This includes the effects of marriage in general, the termination of marriage, marital property law, alimony law, kinship, non-marital and same-sex cohabitation, parentage and parental care.

Advanced Family and Succession Law
Type: Lecture (Concentration)
Semester: Wintersemester

The lecture deepens the knowledge required for the compulsory subject in family and succession law. In particular, the marriage, kinship and guardianship law as well as the legal and testamentary succession are dealt with in detail.

Colloquium on current developments in family law
Type: Colloquium (Concentration)
Semester: Wintersemester

Thematically, the colloquium deals with highly topical issues of family law, such as legal parenthood after fertility treatment (sperm donation, co-motherhood, surrogacy) or the legal treatment of different care models after separation and divorce. At the same time, the course serves to teach key skills for writing seminar papers and giving presentations. The preparation and joint discussion of own (short) texts and the presentation of short lectures or statements offers the opportunity to prepare for the focus study in the protected space of the small group.

Private Law History of the modern era
Type: Lecture (Concentration)
Semester: Wintersemester

The course deals with the development of private law since the reception of learned law in Germany (including the consequences for the early modern administration of justice), the scientification of law as a pan-European phenomenon, the changes brought about by the Natural Law Codifications and the Historical School of Law, as well as the history of the origin and development of the Civil Code. An emphasis is placed on the history of family and inheritance law.

Contemporary Legal History (Colloquium)
Type: Colloquium (Concentration)
Semester: Sommersemester

The colloquium will focus on continuities and caesuras on the basis of the system breaks in 1933, 1945 and 1990: How did the "Nazification" of German lawyers take place after 1933 and how was their denazification after 1945? What traces did the Nazi myth of the mother leave behind in the law of the FRG, despite the postulated equality of the sexes? How did family law develop in a German-German comparison? A focus is placed on family law topics.

Notice: Die Liste der Veranstaltungen ist nicht abschließend und nicht verbindlich! Für die Richtigkeit kann keine Gewähr übernommen werden. Es werden nicht in jedem Semester jeweils alle Veranstaltungen angeboten. Des Weiteren können andere Veranstaltungen hinzukommen. Eine aktuelle Übersicht über alle im Schwerpunkt angebotenen Veranstaltungen sind im Vorlesungsverzeichnis zu finden.
Seminars in Family Law

A (not exhaustive) overview of seminars offered in family law can be viewed in the course catalogue of the eCampus of the Georg-August University Göttingen.

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