Brunswick European Law School (BELS)

(as of: summer term 2020)

Address:

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences - University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
Brunswick European Law School (BELS) - Faculty of Law
Salzdahlumer Strasse 46/48
38302 Wolfenbüttel
Tel: +49(0)5331/939-33005
Fax: +49(0)5331/939-33002
E-mail: dekanat-r@ostfalia.de

Social Media:

• Twitter:       https://twitter.com/BELSOstfalia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BELSOstfalia/

Foundation:       

• Summer term 2000: Department of Law
• Winter term 2007/08: Brunswick European Law School (BELS)

Staff:

19   professors
1     administrative professorship
2     ongoing appointment procedures
1     lecturer for special tasks
15   research assistants
1     learning coach
1     assistant to the dean
10   administrative staff
approx. 40 lecturers

Students:

• approx. 1,300 students

Institutes:

• Institute for European and International Business Law (Institut für Europäisches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht - EIW)
• Institute for Intellectual Property, Law and Economics in the Information Society (Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Recht und Wirtschaft in der Informationsgesellschaft - GWI)
• Institute of Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology (Institut für Recht, Personalmanagement und Personalpsychologie - RPP)
• Institute of Law, Finance and Taxation (Institut für Recht, Finanzen und Steuern - RFS)
• Entrepreneurship Hub

Faculty-related institutions:

• European Documentation Centre (EDZ)

Main topics:

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), digitalisation, globalisation, human resources management, work of the future, entrepreneurship, business.

Partnerships:

• United Nations Global Compact
• Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) of the United Nations
• German Association for the United Nations e.V. (DGVN)
• AIESEC

Cooperation partners:

• Universities in Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, England, India, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad/Tobago, United States of America.

International Semester:

• Each summer term with English-language lectures and excursions.

Study programmes:

Bachelor (only in German)

• Wirtschaftsrecht (Business Law, LL.B.)
• Recht, Personalmanagement und Personalpsychologie (Law, Personnel Management and Personnel Psychology, LL.B.)
• Recht, Finanzmanagement und Steuern (Law, Finance and Tax, LL.B.)

Consecutive Master's courses

• Finance, Tax and Company Law, LL.M.
• International Law and Business, LL.M.
• Law, Human Resources Management and Personnel Psychology, M.A.

Master

• Sustainability and Risk Management, M.Sc.