Publication series of the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association
Dr. Mark C. Hilgard: The Frankfurt lawyer Dr. Mark C. Hilgard has more than 35 years of legal experience in commercial law. After studying and legal clerkship in Freiburg i.Br. he was a partner in an international law firm in Frankfurt am Main for many years and headed the German practice group “Litigation/Arbitration”. He has acted both as an arbitrator and as a party representative in numerous, in particular international, arbitration proceedings. His extensive expertise in cross-border legal issues is also expressed in his active involvement in many internationally oriented clubs and associations and in his numerous publications. For many years he was President of the UIA's Litigation Commission and Chairman of the Corporate and Business Law Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany (AmCham), where he also chaired the Rhine-Main chapter. He is also vice president of the Rhein-Main e.V. business club and has been president of the American-German Business Club Frankfurt since 2019. Hilgard founded the law firm Hilgard-Law in Frankfurt's Westend (www. hilgard-law.de) on January 1st, 2019, which deals exclusively with commercial law issues. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he has been honorary chairman of the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association for many years, where the promotion of young legal professionals is particularly important to him.
In view of the broad discussion and in the light of the Hessian project, the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association announced a student essay competition and awarded the "Prize of the Foundation of the Hessian Lawyers' Association". The participants were called upon to critically examine and constructively pursue one or more fundamental questions triggered by the electronic tag. The contributions received were judged by a jury consisting of lawyer Thomas Scherzberg, chairman of the Hessian criminal defense association and...
Against the background of the Bologna process and based on current law studies, the work analyzes the current reform models for the introduction of a bachelor's/master's structure in German legal education. The reform proposals, which vary in detail, are systematized by means of a comparative overview and traced back to the essential conceptual questions. In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of the different reform models can be examined in more detail. Finally, considerations on the reform of the legal...
The present volume 6 of the publication series of the Hessian Lawyers' Foundation is based on a student essay competition on the topic "Deals in criminal proceedings" advertised by the foundation in 2014 - Can an accused "buy himself free" in criminal proceedings? Prof. Dr. Britta Bannenberg, Professor of Criminology, Juvenile Justice and Correctional Services at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, selected the six works presented here from the many submissions from all over Germany in the essay competition;...