European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)

6.Jahrgangs beginning of the master's program in mediation at the European University Viadrina

In April 2012, starting at the Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), the sixth year of a postgraduate master's program in mediation, which is offered in cooperation with the Institute for the Legal Profession at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Mediation is one in the U.S. for decades, proven process that is increasingly used in Germany to non-judicial handling of family, economic, social and political conflicts and decision-making situations.

The master's program includes a complete practical mediation training as well as the systematic theoretical reflection on the matter. In addition to specific mediation skills and abilities and generally applicable methods of conflict resolution, decision making and process design will be taught. From the end of the second semester also specialize in two electives from the priority areas of family, economy, judiciary, public planning and international conflict management. ...

In recent years there has been a growing academic and practical interest in human rights and the separate but related issue of genocide, with an increasing concern with how genocide might be prevented or halted. The Master of Arts in Human Rights and Genocide Studies is concerned directly with these major issues of our time.

This modular 18 month postgraduate programme is taught at the following European institutions:

■Kingston University, UK■University of Siena, Italy■Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany■Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland■Uppsala University, Sweden (internship/dissertation only)

It is a unique inter-disciplinary postgraduate degree programme and the first of its kind in Europe, involving a number of European institutions and offering a curriculum which is international in design, scope and content. At its heart lie a set of key questions, such as:...

Besides the cultural and art history and conservation of themselves, we focus on the management and project strategies. The focus for us, especially the interface between conservation, tourism, education and the creative industries in the focus of attention.

Our continuing training master's degree Preservation is not just for bachelors and masters in the fields of restoration, open to art history, archeology and architecture, but also graduates from other disciplines are welcome. We expect, above all, try teamwork, independence and curiosity, new ways.

We offer a flexible study program with a European orientation and an international team of prominent representatives from the field (listed building, foundations, media organizations) in the teaching. ...

This Summer Course will deal in detail specifically and exclusively with the European System for the protection of human rights. Although there are numerous summer courses and other special study programs within Europe on human rights protection, this course concentrates on an integrated treatment of the various European systems and of specifically European issues of human rights protection, that is, with important matters relevant to over forty European countries with diverse political, economic and social systems.

The subject matter, therefore, includes human rights protection under the regimes of the Council of Europe (the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter), the European Community, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki Accords), as well as that on the universal level of public international law to the extent it is relevant. The treatment of the substantive regimes and their specific rights catalogues will be set against the background of a consideration of the philosophical, historical, political, economic and sociological aspects of human rights, and include practical institutional matters such as complaint procedures as well as developments such as in the area of ‘New Rights’....

Absolventen eines im Ausland mit Erfolg abgeschlossenen Rechtsstudiums, das der ersten juristischen Prüfung in Deutschland gleichwertig ist, können an der Juristischen Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina aufgrund einer akademischen Abschlussprüfung den Grad eines Magister legum (LL.M.) erwerben.

Dieses Aufbaustudium besteht aus einem zweisemestrigen Studium und umfasst insgesamt 24 Semesterwochenstunden, die sich gleichmäßig auf beide Semester verteilen sollen. Als Leistungsnachweise müssen eine mit mindestens "ausreichend" bewertete Klausur aus einem der Kernfächer des Rechts (Öffentliches Recht, Zivilrecht oder Strafrecht) und ein Seminarzeugnis erbracht werden. Das Studium schließt mit einer mündlichen Prüfung und einer Magisterarbeit (Bearbeitungszeit: 3 Monate) in deutscher Sprache ab. Damit wird dokumentiert, dass der Absolvent Grundkenntnisse im deutschen Recht erworben hat. Auch die Absolventen der deutsch-polnischen Juristenausbildung, die in diesem Studiengang den Grad eines polnischen Magisters erworben haben, können das Magister-legum-Studium anschließen, da sie mit dem polnischen Magistergrad über den ausländischen Hochschulabschluss als Zulassungsvoraussetzung verfügen....

Study requirements

The Masters program is a so-called On-baustudiengang and requires the previous acquisition of the degree of Bachelor of Deutsch and Polish Law or equivalent professional university degree, the basic knowledge of German and Polish law identifies. On the equivalence of comparable degrees, the Audit Committee decides the course. The study of the Master of Deutsch and Polish law provides for just as the bachelor's degree courses and exams in German and Polish, so apply that with regard to the language skills of the comments on the Bachelor accordingly, however, requires the Polish part of the master's program in-depth knowledge of Polish language. Unless such proof within the framework of the Bachelor-degree (eg DSH exam for foreign applicants) or an equivalent university degree, have been provided, it requires no new evidence. ...

This postgraduate program - Master of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law provides advanced study of the international protection of fundamental human rights. The curriculum integrates general human rights protection in times of peace and war with the special protection of basic rights in situations of armed conflict (under international humanitarian law). Such an approach is especially important as the boundary between war and peace becomes increasingly blurred.

Aims of the Masters Program

The Master’s program prepares graduates for taking up career opportunities in policy making, international, public and governmental service, public and private legal practice, work for non-governmental organisations, and academic teaching and research....