Prof. Jacco Bomhoff (LSE Law School, UK): Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium
Gastvortrag
- Datum: 10.02.2023
- Uhrzeit: 11:00
- Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
Im Namen von Ralf Michaels möchten wir Sie herzlich zu einem Vortrag am Freitag, den 10. Februar 2023 um 11:00 Uhr (MEZ) einladen. Prof. Jacco Bomhoff (LSE Law School) wird auf Englisch zum Thema „Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium“ sprechen.
About the topic
Prof. Jacco Bomhoff (LSE) looks at a famous institution of German legal education, the ‘Repetitor’, and analyses how it produces legal knowledge, using the example of proportionality review. Proportionality, he argues, is presented as a principle that matters, a doctrine that works, and a technique that jurists – lawyers, judges, but especially also law students – can learn to perform. Sustaining the sense that proportionality ‘works’, however, itself requires work, in particular in the form of largely invisible background constraints on what can count as suitable problems and appropriate solutions.
After Prof. Bomhoff’s presentation of the argument, he looks forward to a lively discussion – on the Repetitor, on proportionality in German law, or indeed anything else.
About the topic
Prof. Jacco Bomhoff (LSE) looks at a famous institution of German legal education, the ‘Repetitor’, and analyses how it produces legal knowledge, using the example of proportionality review. Proportionality, he argues, is presented as a principle that matters, a doctrine that works, and a technique that jurists – lawyers, judges, but especially also law students – can learn to perform. Sustaining the sense that proportionality ‘works’, however, itself requires work, in particular in the form of largely invisible background constraints on what can count as suitable problems and appropriate solutions.
After Prof. Bomhoff’s presentation of the argument, he looks forward to a lively discussion – on the Repetitor, on proportionality in German law, or indeed anything else.