Teaching

Professor Uerpmann-Wittzack holds two different courses of public international law: International Relations Law and European Human Rights Protection. Both courses are accompanied by Colloquia on Public International Law. Seminars concern different topics such as the Council of Europe (winter terms 2011/12 and 2012/13), Freedom of Communication (summer term 2012) or the European protection of families (summer term 2013).

In November/December 2013 Dr. Bartłomiej Krzan teaches the Law of the United Nations (2 SWS=30 hours/4 ECTS credit points for ERASMUS Law students). You may find further information on the e-learning platform G.R.I.P.S.

Moreover, Professor Uerpmann-Wittzack regularly holds courses of German constitutional as well as administrative law and exceptionally of European law. General information on public law courses offered by the Faculty of Law can be found here.

Teaching is generally in German. Professor Uerpmann-Wittzack taught International Relations Law (Droit des Relations Internationales) in French in the summer term 2010. You may find the revised materials here.

You will find German up to date information on courses on the e-learning platform G.R.I.P.S.

International Relations Law (Recht der Internationalen Beziehungen)

4 ECTS credits, in German, 2 hpw, summer term 2013; winter term as of October 2014.

The course deals with key areas of public international law: The law of diplomatic relations, the interdiction of the use of force and self-defence, peace-keeping and peace-enforcement within the United Nations as well as international courts and tribunals.

There is the possibility to pass a written test of 1 hour in the end.

Those who are interested in public international law may also attend the course on European Human Rights Procection and the accompanying Colloquium on Public International Law.

You may find a 2010 French version of the course materials here.

European Human Rights Protection (Europäischer Menschenrechtsschutz)

4 ECTS credits, in German, 2 hpw, winter term 2013/14; summer term as of April 2015

All 47 Council of Europe States are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights has developped a rich case law on the different convention guarantees. This pan-European system for the protection of human rights will be at the core of the course. Selected rights will be studied in detail. Moreover, the course deals with the protection of fundamental rights within the European Union.

There is the possibility to pass a written test of 1 hour in the end.

The course is accompanied by a Colloquium.

Colloquium on Public International Law (Konversationsübung zum Völkerrecht)

2 ECTS credits (only in combination with a lecture of 4 ECTS), in German, 1 hpw, every term

The colloquium expands on selected issues of Public International Law. Special attention is paid to the basics of Public International Law such as sources of law, the law of treaties, customary law, states and other subjects of international law. In preparation for the seminars, techniques of scientific working are also introduced.

The colloquium can only be attended in combination with the lectures on International Relation Law or on European Human Rights Law. Those who attend the lecture may be awarded 6 ECTS if they attend the colloquium at the same time and pass an expanded written test of 75 minutes in the end.

International Information Society Law (Völkerrecht der Informationsgesellschaft; not offered any more)

4 ECTS credits, lecture, in German, 2 hpw, winter term

The course was last offered in the winter term 2012/13. Itdealt with the legal basics of the international information order. The first part showed how European and universal human rights provide protection both for informational activities and against excessive informational activities. Freedom of speech and the protection of private life were analyzed here. The second part dealt with conflicts of jurisdiction in the internet, with international conventions as a means of cooperation and with international actors such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Special attention was paid to the cooperation between private and governmental bodies.

You may find the German course materials here.

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