Bucerius Law School
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| Established: | 2000 |
| Type: | Private law school |
| President: | Karsten Schmidt |
| CEO and Provost: | Hariolf Wenzler |
| Faculty: | 16 full-time; 30 part-time; 1 adjunct; 10 visiting |
| Students: | 510 |
| Postgraduates: | 55 |
| Doctoral students: | 70 |
| Location: | Hamburg, Germany |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Address: | Jungiusstrasse 6 20355 Hamburg Germany |
| Colors: | bordeaux and white |
| Nickname: | Butze |
| Affiliations: | Joint MLB program with WHU |
| Website: | www.law-school.de |
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Bucerius Law School is a private law school located in Hamburg, Germany. Opened in 2000, it is the first and only private law school in Germany. The school has formed extensive international programs with currently 80 law schools in 21 countries, with strong ties to the United States (e.g., the Washington and Lee University, University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cornell, Duke University, New York University (NYU), University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern). In Canada, Bucerius is linked with two common law schools (Dalhousie and Osgoode Hall and one civil law school (Laval). Of its average 70 international students, 60% are American. The school offers the three-and-a-half-year Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), and a one year Master of Law and Business (M.L.B.) in cooperation with WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management. It also offers doctoral and post-doctoral studies. Students are eligible for the German First State Examination in Law after 4 years of study. The law school enrolls 100 students a year, which are selected through a written and an oral admissions test. Bucerius is ranked among the best law schools in the country by several newspapers despite its young age. Bucerius Law School is located near Hamburg's trade exhibition halls and the park "Planten un Blomen" in the center of the city. Housed in an old building that used to serve as the horticulture and botany buildings for the University of Hamburg, Bucerius featuers a full service Mensa, or cafeteria, offering a variety of hot meals daily. A striking new addition, featuring modern colors and themes from the 1970s, was added to the Eastern side of the building in 2007.
The Law School was founded by the German non-profit organization the ZEIT-Stiftung foundation (ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius) and is named after Gerd Bucerius (1906-1995), a noted judge, attorney, journalist, politician and founding publisher of Die Zeit.
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