The School of Law at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Approximately 2000 students are currently studying at the historically renowned School of Law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Twenty professors and their assistants mentor these students. The law school also enjoys the assistance of a multitude of honorary professors, docents, and adjuncts, who enrich the curriculum with their special areas of interest and guarantee a broad diversity of course offerings. Students can choose from three basic and three graduate courses of study. Especially noteworthy is the Law & Language Center, which offers courses in English, French, Spanish, and Russian law in the languages of the legal systems.

The School of Law is located in the middle of the inner city of Jena in the renovated historical Zeiss factory building. The faculty chairs, institutes, and administration are contained in this complex, where one also finds the lecture halls and seminar rooms for classes. The Thuringian state and university libraries have a branch for law, economics, and social sciences in this building and a computer pool with 100 modern workstations.

The excellent building accommodations and modern infrastructure provide the basis for both educating students and pursuing research interests. Faculty research spans the entire range of legal scholarship. Centers of academic work include several institutes which are annexed to the law school.
These institutes often provide an interface to the practically oriented legal professions. As such they also promote an open exchange with the practice of law.

This interaction with legal practice influences the faculty's self-image both in committee cooperation but first and foremost in student-faculty relations. In this respect the faculty reveals itself not only as academically but also personally competent.

In light of the advantages the School of Law enjoys, it is not surprising that it is consistently ranked in the top 5 law schools in Germany according to the Rankings of the Center for Higher Educational Development (CHE).