Mission Statement

Mission Statement of the SFU Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law of the Sigmund Freud University fulfils its tasks in research and teaching in accordance with the requirements of the highest academic quality. The range of programmes on offer enables students to acquire the knowledge and practical skills required to participate in the development of law and the application of law in society, the state and the economy. A profound academic education and training point the way to mastering the challenges of legal life in the present and future: information, practicability, knowledge networking, interdisciplinarity, digitalisation, communication, internationality, diversity and tolerance are goals and strategies that determine the orientation of academic and practice-oriented legal studies as well as legal research.

The research and teaching of national, European and international law as well as comparative law are at the centre of the faculty’s specialist focus. In addition, there are interdisciplinary additions in the form of economics, political science, sociology, negotiation and management techniques, mediation and the history of legal ideas. In line with the plurality of approaches and perspectives, particular emphasis is placed on precise terminology and profound methodology. Reflection, discourse skills, the cultivation of critical thinking, cooperative teaching and learning are part of the didactic concept of the programme as well as the foundation of research in law.

The faculty guarantees permanent and comprehensive quality assurance, further education, the promotion of young talent, the transfer of legal expertise to society (‘third mission’) and the further development of its academic profile. This currently includes work on establishing a doctoral programme in law.