Course Level

intermediate - advanced / 3rd - 4th year

Module Language

English

Module Classification

This is a Themis course. It is also open to non-Themis students.

Module Type and Contact Hours

Lecture & seminar (3 contact hours per week)
both courses are mandatory!

ECTS-credits

7,5 (if exam in the seminar has been passed and both parts of the course have been attended regularly)

Teaching Mode

face-to-face teaching

Frequency

This module will probably be available once a year, rather in the winter than in the summer term. It is available in the winter term 2026/27.

Time Schedule and Course Venue

You will find both parts of this course in our electronic course catalogue

Module Content and Reading Requirements

please see course outline

Restricted Enrollment

yes (that means that the number of participants is limited and that you might not get a place in this course)

Course Registration

via Campus Management

registration period: 1 October 2026, 9 a.m. -  9 October 2026, 12 p.m. (noon)

Please register for the seminar under "Study Program for Exchange Students - Module 10".

Please sign up for the lecture under the module "Fakultatives Lehrangebot im SB 3"

Please sign up for both parts of the module, the seminar and the lecture!

In order to know if you have obtained a place in this course, please check out your course plan on Campus Management (tab "Stundenplan") from 10 October 2026.

As long as there are still seats available after the registration period has expired, they will be allocated according to the principle "first come, first served" if you sign up by 30 October 2026.

De-Registration from this Module

via Campus Management

Please make sure that you drop two courses, the lecture and the seminar.

regular drop period: 1 October 2026, 9 a.m. -  30 October 2026, 12 a.m. (midnight)

After the regular drop period you can only drop this course with a valid cause until 14 days prior to the exam. Please contact the International Office at the Law Department if you have to use this option.

Type of Exam and Exam Period

Exchange students are required to deliver a 10-minute presentation in English during class, followed by a discussion of about 10 minutes. Topics of presentations relate to the preceding class. Presenters will be assigned by an algorithm based on preferences to topics and teams of 1–3 students. (Teams and topics can be exchanged only by mutual agreement, in which case both parties to a swap must inform Tina Jenichen, sekrengert@zedat.fu-berlin.de, to have her update the plan.)

To encourage active participation in class, grades from the exam or presentations will be lifted by 0.3 for the best contributors to classroom discussion and even by 0.7 in outstanding cases.

Registration for the Exam

Students will automatically be registered for the exam when they sign up for this course.

De-Registration from the Exam

Students who drop this course via Campus Management are automatically de-registered from the exam. Students who do not drop this course via Campus Management and do not take the exam, are going to finish this course with a non-passing grade (0 points).

Grade Release

via Campus Management