Internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Virtual events

Details: Published: April 3, 2020

Serbia

IRZ is currently holding talks with various project partners with the objective of offering web-based events. The first formats have already been made available online.

One of these was the course on German legal technology at the Law Faculty in Belgrade on 30 March 2020. This course has been offered in the standard format for more than 15 years and has always been well-attended. Dr. Stefan Pürner, the responsible IRZ Head of Section, was also able to welcome around twenty participants to the first online version of the event. From Bonn, he answered questions on German civil procedure law and the associated terminology. One of the main subjects covered during the discussions was the institution of the Rechtspfleger (senior judicial officer) in Germany, and Dr. Pürner was able to refer to the dual language edition of the German Act on Senior Judicial Officers published by the IRZ.

Alumnus Peter Brudar is clear proof of the fact that regular attendance of this legal terminology course pays off. As a scholarship student sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, he graduated from his Master’s course in German law at the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn on 31 March 2020 by passing his oral examination.

The Master’s course on European legal harmonisation at the Law Faculty in Belgrade is also currently running as an online seminar. The IRZ has been organising a study trip to Strasbourg and Karlsruhe as part of this course for years.

Also, over the coming week, a regular online workshop is due to start, in which German-speaking IRZ alumni from various countries in the Western Balkans will be able to discuss the subject “Corona and the law”. This workshop will also be used to prepare the content for the annual conference for IRZ alumni from the Western Balkans, which is due to take place during the second half of the year.

German legal terminology courses have been taking place in Belgrade for more than 15 years

Details: Published: March 13, 2020

Participants in the course on German legal terminology in Belgrade

Serbia

On 9 March 2020, a new course on German legal technology began for German-speaking legal experts in Serbia. Once again, this course, which has been offered by the IRZ together with the Law Faculty at the University of Belgrade for the past 15 years, was attended by more than twenty people. The participants were welcomed by Miroslav Djordjevic, who works locally for the IRZ in Serbia. He presented the IRZ in general and their extensive activities in Serbia and the region.

The course in German legal terminology is being led by Danka Stojanovic, a specialist in German studies. She is also the author of the textbook “Nemački za pravnike” (German for legal experts). In accordance with the concept behind this textbook, the course is made up predominantly of practical exercises and work with German-language legal texts from practical cases, adapted to suit the current requirements of the participants.

Most of the participants in the course are students. However, some post-graduates and practitioners are also taking advantage of the offer. As past experience has shown, successful completion of this course has a variety of positive effects in terms of language skills and technical knowledge, as well as helping with job applications and professional activity in the field of German-Serbian legal relations.