Bucerius Law School
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| Established | 2000 |
| Type | Private law school |
| Dean | Karsten Schmidt |
| CEO and Provost | Hariolf Wenzler |
| Faculty | 16 full-time; 30 part-time; 1 adjunct; 10 visiting |
| Students | 510 |
| Postgraduates | 7 |
| Doctoral students | 70 |
| Location | Hamburg, Germany |
| Address | Jungiusstrasse 6 20355 Hamburg Germany |
| Telephone | 612-625-1000 |
| Campus | Urban |
| 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 University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cornell, Duke University, New York University (NYU), University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern). Of its average 70 international students, 60% are American. The school offers the three-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 110 students a year, which are selected through a written and an oral admissions test. Application levels kept rising, from 350 applicants in 2000 to over 500 applicants in 2006. From this it follows that there is a statistical chance of 20-35% to get a place at the Law School just by applying to the test. Bucerius is ranked among the best law schools in the country by several newspapers despite its young age. Nevertheless, several organizations rank it far behind the traditional public german universities like Heidelberg and Freiburg.
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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