The Integrated Mainz-Glasgow Programme is a unique opportunity for students at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz’s Faculty of Law to deepen their knowledge and skills in a range of legal areas. The programme, which has been in place for over 25 years, is a collaboration between the University of Glasgow’s School of Law and Mainz’s Faculty of Law.
Students from Mainz have the option to participate in either a jointly-designed 60 ECTS study programme or an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Glasgow. The LL.M. study programmes on offer include Corporate and Financial Law, Intellectual Property & the Digital Economy, International Commercial Law, International Competition Law and Policy, International Law, and International Law & Security.
The goal of these cooperations in the faculties of Law is to strengthen and expand the existing partnership between the two universities on all levels. It also aims to attract Scottish students to study in Mainz and integrate them into the community. To achieve this, participants are expected to take part in extracurricular activities, such as language tandems, offered by the Law Study Abroad office both before and after their return to Mainz.
To be eligible for the programme, applicants must have successfully completed the third year of their studies (6th semester) at Mainz, have participated in at least two advanced exercises by the end of the 5th semester, have completed the legal intermediate examination, have a foundational certificate and foreign language certificate. Successful participation in the programme will be recognized as a specialization exam, as part of the first legal examination, upon request.
This optional course seeks to provide a programme of academic (and cultural) benefit for up to 10 students from the Universities of Mainz, Germany and Glasgow, Scotland who otherwise would not have any international dimension to their studies. The design of the course aims to give students a working understanding of another legal system and thereafter to allow groups of students from both institutions to work together on a joint comparative law research topic. The course will be delivered both at Mainz and at Glasgow.
Modelled on our Survey of British Culture and Literature (CS1 and CS3), this lecture will provide an overview of Scotland’s History, Culture and Literature,
starting with questions of identity and a sense of place before embarking on a journey through the ages that will open up vistas into Scotland’s rich cultural heritage and her stories of nationhood.
The aim of this lecture is to present
- A survey of the history of Scotland
- A survey of the literature of Scotland from the beginnings to the present
- A survey of the most important cultural changes during this (long) time
A Showcase of Research, Scholarship and Engagement of the Scotland Hub at the JGU
On the 11th June 2018 the Scotland Hub presents research projects in progress by its members and partners working in the fields of Scottish Literature and Scottish History. Editing Sir Walter Scott‘s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border as well as Scott‘s German Drama will be the focus of our first session.
The Scottish History session will showcase ongoing research on the function and impact of property transfer for the Scottish political culture in the fifteenth century and – by our partners at the University of Aberdeen – on an online edition of city records in Aberdeen.
Lutheran theology impacted on Scottish society in the four decades before 1560. This new influence was also a novelty in cultural terms, since previously the main contacts of Scotland had been with France. However, the ‘Lutheran moment’ in the Scottish Reformation was later overshadowed by the stronger influence of Calvinism. The Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1565), which began as a collection of verse translations and Lutheran‐inspired religious lyrics, was subjected to Calvinist censorship. Nonetheless, and despite its complicated textual history, the GGB still today counts as a landmark work in Scottish culture.
Alasdair MacDonald studied at Edinburgh University. The title of his doctoral dissertation (1978) was ‘The Middle Scots Religious Lyrics’. He has taught in Departments of English at the Universities of Leeds, Ghana, Nijmegen and Groningen. Since 2011 he is Emeritus Professor at Groningen, and since 2009 Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow. He was the first Academic Director of the Netherlands National Research School for Medieval Studies, and established co-operation agreements with groups of researchers in Europe and in the USA. He edited the Gude and Godlie Ballatis for the Scottish Text Society in 2015, has (co-)edited twenty collections of scholarly contributions, and is the author of over 150 articles on the medieval and early modern literatures of England and Scotland. Forthcoming in 2018 is his study and edition of the poems of George Lauder (17th century).
» Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 9:30 – 11:00
» Jakob-Welder-Weg 18 (Philosophicum I), Fakultätssaal FB 05