From “law in the books” to “law in action”
4. September 2025
Florian Kavermann on this summer’s trip to the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court Some 40 Goethe
Florian Kavermann on this summer’s trip to the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Constitutional Court Some 40 Goethe
Andrea Kießling, Professor of Public Law, Social and Health Law, as well as Migration Law at Goethe University Frankfurt, reflects
Goethe University Team Wins 1st Place in the Written Round of the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Court 2025. This
The Frankfurt group of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) offers law students a network for exchange, further education, and
Noel B. Berhane, a law student at Goethe University Frankfurt, travels Hesse as a junior ambassador for the Franco-German Youth
We read or hear about it time and time again: Some people are stopped by the police more often than
Julia Esser presents a commemorative volume honoring Spiros Simitis. A recently published new volume in the series “Frankfurter Studien zum
“To truly arrive means to actively participate as part of the community”Each year, the City of Frankfurt honors outstanding personalities
The American people have voted, and Donald Trump secured a clear majority of their votes. The Republicans will also have
Some 270 people had registered for the biennial conference of German-speaking legal historians, which feels a bit like a class
Table tennis player Juliane Wolf returns from Paris with silver and bronze medals, wheelchair basketball player Nico Dreimüller with bronze.
Law students Sirin Yilmaz and Charlotte Schraut were successful in the ELSA Negotiation Competition. Expressed in sporting terms, the two
As a student, Tobias Singelnstein decided to switch from his original choice of subjects (history, politics and economics) and study
As a young prosecutor in the Auschwitz trial, held in Frankfurt, he courageously campaigned for the legal investigation of unimaginable
Goethe University’s “Experiences of Racism and Discrimination in Police Contact” (RaDiPol) project will commence its research activities in July. RaDiPol
Gabriele Britz, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, has been teaching public law at Goethe University Frankfurt since this
What powers and objectives do independent police complaints bodies have –compared to other institutions of police control? How familiar is
Two Goethe University research units emerged successfully out of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) latest funding round: The
We wanted to know: Why did our scientists want to become scientists in the first place? What are they working
Lawyer Samira Akbarian’s thesis on the highly topical subject of “civil disobedience” won her the 2023 Werner Pünder Prize. UniReport:
Advertising, fraud or the optimization of business models: consumer data are a precious commodity that is just as much of
Time and space for the two vast subjects of Law and Economics – that is what the Law and Economics
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the similarity of emotions in humans and other animals, the inspiration for her new book Justice
What is the connection between modern architecture and capitalism? This question is explored in an essay by architectural historian Carsten
The European research project “Working, Yet Poor“ (WorkYP) was recently awarded 3.2 million euros for three years by the EU’s
On the occasion of the doctoral awards ceremony of the Faculty of Law at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Baker McKenzie presented
New Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at the Faculty of Law examines EU solidarity conflicts A new Emmy Noether
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