Teaching at the Chair of Business Law, in particular Innovation and Technology Law

The specialisation outlined above is also reflected in the courses offered by the professorship, in particular for the modules

- Intellectual Property Law (from summer semester 2024, Bachelor, previously "Innovation Law"[Master])
- Sustainability in Private and Commercial Law (summer semester, Bachelor),
- Law of Digitalisation and the Data Economy (winter semester, Master; formerly "Technology Law"[Master]) and
- Legal Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (from summer semester 2024, Master).

The professorship is also responsible for basic courses for the Bachelor's degree programmes

- on private commercial law (Grundzüge des Wirtschaftsprivatrechts, WiSe),
- on labour law (Grundzüge des Arbeitsrechts I und II, WiSe and SoSe)
- as well as an interdisciplinary module "Compliance im Unternehmensbereich" (Master, SoSe)

The Chair of German and European Corporate Law in the Department of Business Law offers further legal courses, particularly focussing on corporate law (commercial, corporate, banking and capital market law, as well as European law). A detailed description of the courses offered by the Department of Business Law can be found in the module catalogue available on the website of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics.

Teaching programme

Bachelor assessment phase

Module number	Module name	Semester	ECTS	Person responsible
M.184.1601	Fundamentals of Private Commercial Law	winter semester	5	Prof. Dr Stefan Müller

Bachelor profiling phase

Module number	Module name	Semester	ETCS	Person responsible
M.184.2606	Fundamentals of Labour Law I	winter semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
M.184.2607	Fundamentals of labour law II	summer semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
M.184.2610	Fundamentals of intellectual property law	summer semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
M.184.2620	Sustainability in private and commercial law	summer semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
L.079.09704	(only for faculty EIM) Legal Foundations for Computer Engineering	winter semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller

Master phase

Module number	Module name	Semester	ETCS	Person responsible
M.184.4613	Compliance in the corporate sector	summer semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
M.184.4614	Law of the data economy and digitalisation	winter semester	5	Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller
M.184.4616	Legal regulation of artificial intelligence	summer semester	5	Prof. Dr Stefan Müller

Final theses

The online application phase for theses for the summer semester 2025 via the central allocation procedure runs from 20 January (09:00) to 31 January 2025 (23:59).

The topics include the fields of general private law, labour law, foundation and IT law, technology law, innovation law, compliance in the corporate sector and "demography and law".

Please note the following information:

Since the winter semester 2016/2017, the Department of Law has been participating in the faculty-wide distribution of topics for final theses. Further information can be found here.

Supervision by the Chair of Business Law (Prof. Dr. Stefan Müller) also requires attendance and participation in a preparatory course and colloquium, which is offered to accompany the preparation and processing of a thesis, as well as compliance with the conditions for the processing of Bachelor's and Master's theses compiled by the Chair of Business Law in a guideline.

Prof Dr S. Müller and the academic staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

For the upcoming summer semester 2025, you will find selected topics for Bachelor's and/or Master's theses under the following link.

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Formal information on the final theses

Guidelines from the Examinations Office on the electronic submission of theses:

"Students must

submit their thesis in PDF/A format
on time (it is the receipt of the e-mail in the Examinations Office that counts, not the time of dispatch!)
from the address of your university account
in one (= 1) e-mail(all recipients in the "To" field)
to the examiners (not other persons of the chair, i.e. supervisors or secretariats) via their university e-mail addresses
and the responsible clerk of the examination secretariat

to be sent.

Electronic submission replaces the submission of printed versions (examiners can also request these for themselves, but cannot demand them). Those who wish to continue submitting printed versions can do so without also sending an electronic version to the Examination Secretariat. (either - or!)

The (correct) receipt of the thesis is generally not documented by the Examinations Office by e-mail, but in PAUL (under "My examinations" below the thesis). Of course, this is not done around the clock (as is not the case with printed versions), but as quickly as possible during normal office hours.

All this information can be viewed by students and lecturers at https://www.uni-paderborn.de/zv/3-2/sonstiges/abschlussarbeiten/elektronische-abgabe/informationen-elektronische-abgabe."

Students in lecture hall G at Paderborn University.

Leistungsanrechnung

Studierende eines wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiengangs an der Universität Paderborn haben grundsätzlich die Möglichkeit, sich andernorts erworbene Prüfungsleistungen beispielsweise einer anderen Hochschule oder im Ausland für im Paderborner Studiengang angebotene Module anerkennen zu lassen.

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Final theses

Formal information on the final theses

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Leistungsanrechnung