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20.08.2025

In September 2024, the German section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy held a conference on “Methods of Law” at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Bayreuth. The conference proceedings (edited by Professor Carsten B?cker) have now been published and include Professor M?llers' essay “The Legal Methods of the Federal Court of Justice in Civil Matters, Potential for Optimization. Courts often apply a more practical form of legal doctrine. Decisions that make extensive use of the full canon of available legal arguments are rare. Legal reasoning must meet formal and substantive requirements to allow for a review for plausibility and manifest error. Essential in this regard are methodological transparency and a cumulative application of legal methods. Four areas of methodological deficiency can be identified in the reasoning of the legal decisions in civil matters of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH): overruling of case law that is not adequately disclosed, the reliance on supposed ‘stop-rules’ in the development of the law, legal innovations that are insufficiently substantiated, and an often overly brief presentation of the facts.

20.8.2025

The 3rd EU-China Young Jurists' Forum, initiated and sponsored by the European-Chinese Center for Legal Research and Innovation, opened on July 25, 2025, at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Cologne and continued on July 29 with another session at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Radboud 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 Nijmegen (Netherlands). This year's forum focused on “New Fields and Developments in European-Chinese Legal Research” and was jointly organized by the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Cologne and Radboud 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】.

19.8.2025

On July 22, 2025, the Forum on Legal Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence took place at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg. The event was jointly organized by the European-Chinese Center for Legal Research and Innovation (RICE) at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg, the China 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Central South 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, the German Research Center at Beihang 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】, the editorial board of the journal Legal Theory (CUPL), Shanghai 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Finance and Economics (SUFE), the Research Center for Criminal Law Science at Renmin 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of China, the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 at Macau 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Science and Technology, the law firm TIAN YUAN Law Firm, and the Sino-German Association for Cultural and Technological Exchange.