Institute Summer Programs Support the Next Generation of International Legal Scholars

12.08.2010

With its sponsorship of two summer programs, the Institute reaffirms its commitment to junior researchers from around the globe. On 19 August 2010, students from the China-EU School of Law will participate in an introductory seminar on European private law being led by Institute staff members. In the following week, from 23-27 August, Israeli law students will meet with Hamburg’s resident legal experts for the 13th instalment of the now-traditional Hamburg-Tel Aviv Workshop.

The Institute Hosts the China-EU School of Law Summer Program
The visit to the Institute is part of an annual excursion made by a group of the most successful masters and doctoral candidates of the China-EU School of Law (CESL). The three-week trip offers the students the opportunity to augment their study of European law in a dialogue with scholars and practitioners drawn from a variety of institutions. In addition to the seminar to be conducted at the Institute, lectures are scheduled at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg and the University of Hamburg. Further stops of the CESL Summer School will include Hamburg law firms, the Hamburg Senate, the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) and Federal Foreign Office in Berlin as well as the EU Commission and European Parliament in Brussels.

Dr. Benjamin Pißler, head of the China Unit at the Institute, gladly awaits the visitors: “As an internationally oriented research institute it is of paramount importance that we incorporate junior researchers from throughout the world into our research network since they represent the course of future legal development. Consequently, we are especially pleased to be able to familiarise Chinese law students with European law at an early stage.”

The China-EU School of Law
On behalf of the European Commission and the People’s Republic of China, the CESL was established in 2008 in Peking through a university consortium led by the University of Hamburg. Among its offerings, the school includes a masters program in Chinese and European law. The Hamburg MPI serves as an associated partner to this unique institution of research and education.

13th Hamburg-Tel Aviv Workshop
As part of a cooperative effort of the Hamburg MPI, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law which dates back to 1987, the biennial program allows 10 students and 2 lecturers from Tel Aviv to visit the two Max Planck Institutes and acquire a basic understanding of German and European public and private law. The Hamburg portion of the English-language Workshop is conducted by Institute staff members and comprises 12 lectures on various private law fields and is complemented by a wide-array of social activities. The seminar is sponsored by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.

Summarising the allure of the long-standing Workshop program which he has organised and participated in for 24 years, Prof. Dr. Kurt Siehr proudly explains: “The combination of intensive academic exchange and personal interaction within the confines of one of the world’s most beautiful cities always generates great enthusiasm from our Tel Aviv guests.”
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