The law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is the oldest, largest and most renowned law faculty in Lower Saxony. Since it was founded in 1737, it has been committed to the unity and freedom of research and teaching. Its top position in northern Germany has been confirmed in recent years by positive teaching (2008) and research evaluations (2002). The aim of the faculty is to establish itself as a center of excellent legal research and teaching in Germany.
The faculty has long been characterized by excellent and broad-based research and teaching in the core subjects of civil law, public law and criminal law and in the field of basic subjects (legal history, legal philosophy and theory, and comparative law). Building on this, she has established innovative research projects on overarching topics and specialist areas. With the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research focus
the faculty aims to further sharpen its profile and to network with the economic and social sciences.
In the course of the generation change, the faculty has renewed its staff and thus created the prerequisites for the expansion of the new research focuses on the basis of its successful research in the core areas. This profile is supported by numerous structural and organizational measures, including, above all, the new faculty structure. From a research point of view, the following nine institutes, a center and three external institutes connected to the faculty have been established:
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