https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/law/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:22:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/law/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/theater-as-a-means-of-coming-to-terms-with-the-hanau-attacks/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:22:33 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87499 Six years have passed since February 19, 2020 – the day a 43-year-old mentally disturbed perpetrator from Hanau shot and killed nine of the city’s residents and seriously injured six […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/from-law-in-the-books-to-law-in-action/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85492 Florian Kavermann on this summer’s trip to the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court Some 40 Goethe University law students had the opportunity in June 2025 to […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/we-need-a-forward-looking-review/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:01:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=85162 Andrea Kießling, Professor of Public Law, Social and Health Law, as well as Migration Law at Goethe University Frankfurt, reflects on the COVID-19 era from a legal perspective. UniReport: It’s […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/a-verdict-in-their-own-case/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:31:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84695 Goethe University Team Wins 1st Place in the Written Round of the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Court 2025. This year’s International Intellectual Property Moot Court was held in Oxford […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/on-becoming-elsa-being-elsa-and-remaining-elsa/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:58:44 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84269 The Frankfurt group of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) offers law students a network for exchange, further education, and internships. Presidency, executive team, and board of directors – visiting […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/how-about-an-internship-in-france/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:24:49 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82770 Noel B. Berhane, a law student at Goethe University Frankfurt, travels Hesse as a junior ambassador for the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO). The title “junior ambassador” has an official ring […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/gesellschaft/survey-who-has-experienced-discrimination-and-racism-by-the-police/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:56:25 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82724 We read or hear about it time and time again: Some people are stopped by the police more often than others and complain about disrespectful or insulting behavior. Many of […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-life-and-legacy-of-a-polymath/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:50:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82343 Julia Esser presents a commemorative volume honoring Spiros Simitis. A recently published new volume in the series “Frankfurter Studien zum Datenschutz” [Frankfurt Studies on Data Protection] commemorates exceptional Frankfurt law […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-city-of-frankfurt-honors-outstanding-personalities-with-immigrant-heritage/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:24:40 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=82005 “To truly arrive means to actively participate as part of the community”Each year, the City of Frankfurt honors outstanding personalities with immigrant heritage. This year, six of them have ties […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/analyses-and-assessments-of-the-u-s-presidential-election-results/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:28:13 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81966 The American people have voted, and Donald Trump secured a clear majority of their votes. The Republicans will also have a majority in both the House of Representatives and the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/westend-campus-hosts-44th-legal-history-conference-on-the-language-of-the-sources/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:14:53 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81670 Some 270 people had registered for the biennial conference of German-speaking legal historians, which feels a bit like a class reunion and was held in Frankfurt am Main for the […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/paralympic-athletes-from-goethe-university-frankfurt-among-the-winners/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:22:51 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81297 Table tennis player Juliane Wolf returns from Paris with silver and bronze medals, wheelchair basketball player Nico Dreimüller with bronze. On the podium twice She still cannot quite believe it […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/when-budding-lawyers-argue/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:23:59 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80564 Law students Sirin Yilmaz and Charlotte Schraut were successful in the ELSA Negotiation Competition. Expressed in sporting terms, the two have had a good run: They came in first in […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/tobias-singelnstein-criminologist/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:22:51 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80536 As a student, Tobias Singelnstein decided to switch from his original choice of subjects (history, politics and economics) and study law instead. “I wanted to find a new subject, so […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/auschwitz-prosecutor-gerhard-wiese-awarded-honorary-doctorate-at-goethe-university-frankfurt/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:37:21 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80268 As a young prosecutor in the Auschwitz trial, held in Frankfurt, he courageously campaigned for the legal investigation of unimaginable crimes, which even today, at age 95, he does not […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/experiences-of-racism-and-discrimination-in-police-contact/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:02:42 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80187 Goethe University’s “Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in Police Contact” (RaDiPol) project will commence its research activities in July. RaDiPol examines the experiences and perceptions of racist and other forms […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/i-looked-forward-to-returning-to-research-and-teaching/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:53:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80356 Gabriele Britz, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, has been teaching public law at Goethe University Frankfurt since this summer semester. UniReport: Ms. Britz, you were just 33 years […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/police-accountability-reflecting-on-the-practices-and-challenges-of-independent-police-complaints-bodies/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:20:32 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79995 What powers and objectives do independent police complaints bodies have –compared to other institutions of police control? How familiar is the public with such complaints bodies? What differences and similarities […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/german-research-foundation-funds-goethe-university-research-units-investigating-mutations-in-blood-cells-as-well-as-sustainable-financial-markets/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:23:50 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=76702 Two Goethe University research units emerged successfully out of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) latest funding round: The new „HERZBLUT“ 5643 research unit in medicine dealing with mutations […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/meet-the-scientists-researching-at-goethe-university-the-legal-scholar-and-criminologist-tobias-singelnstein/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:14:39 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=74418 We wanted to know: Why did our scientists want to become scientists in the first place? What are they working on, and what do they still want to discover? You […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-constitution-has-to-be-interpreted/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:09:34 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73635 Lawyer Samira Akbarian’s thesis on the highly topical subject of “civil disobedience” won her the 2023 Werner Pünder Prize. UniReport: Dr. Akbarian, your thesis bears the title “Civil disobedience as […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/the-parallel-universe-of-our-data/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:24:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84626 Advertising, fraud or the optimization of business models: consumer data are a precious commodity that is just as much of interest to lenders and insurers as to retailers or criminals. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/two-huge-subjects-one-library/ Wed, 03 May 2023 14:11:22 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=70852 Time and space for the two vast subjects of Law and Economics – that is what the Law and Economics Library, known as the BRuW (the abbreviation of its German […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/animals-also-mourn-and-show-compassion/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:15:00 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=67889 Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the similarity of emotions in humans and other animals, the inspiration for her new book Justice for Animals and Donald Trump Lisa Czellnik: The importance of […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/reflections-on-architecture-and-capitalism/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:36:18 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=66588 What is the connection between modern architecture and capitalism? This question is explored in an essay by architectural historian Carsten Ruhl, which focuses on the sociologist, philosopher and journalist Siegfried […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/working-yet-poor-goethe-university-participates-in-project-funded-by-over-e-3-2-million/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:05:56 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=40557 The European research project “Working, Yet Poor“ (WorkYP) was recently awarded 3.2 million euros for three years by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project will investigate the social and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/baker-mckenzie-award-2018-for-two-outstanding-dissertations-on-commerical-law-at-goethe-university/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:07:33 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=37734 On the occasion of the doctoral awards ceremony of the Faculty of Law at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Baker McKenzie presented the prize for two outstanding dissertations in the field of […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/can-courts-solve-everything/ Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:40:38 +0000 http://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=18368 New Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at the Faculty of Law examines EU solidarity conflicts A new Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group has started work at the Faculty […]]]>