Legal Symposium

Is the attainment of Justice the foremost duty of the Law, or is it also conceivable that Law serves to pursue concrete interests and addresses conflicts on a neutral level?

This year's Legal Symposium will compare and examine parallel existing legal systems, and reflect on differing legal models and hypotheses currently discussed. This is particularly relevant today and it is necessary to judge how much conflict there is between the continental European and the Anglo-American legal systems. Even from a neutral legal standpoint, the main question now is whether a "trade war" is in the making. The state of coexistence between the continental European legal system and the Sharia legal system in Europe also calls for this discussion. Further, we must examine this question at a national level, where nation-states have respective legislations through which they handle Law and achieve Justice through mediation, diversion, severe criminal jurisdiction. A glimpse into multilateral trade agreements and their selected arbitration procedures is also timely.

Between these varying legal playing fields, how can Law best be served? Does the core challenge indeed lie in the arbitral jurisdiction between companies and nation-states, or is there more to it?

Additionally, a new initiative for digital fundamental rights will be presented, brainstormed and agreed upon in a roundtable discussion.