Teaching
Teaching in Family Law
Overview of courses in family law and their placement in the area of concentration.
Family Law at Göttingen University
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
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
Courses in Family Law
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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
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.