Business Law - Bachelor of Laws
Business decisions often require consideration of the legal framework. Business lawyers develop legal concepts as a basis for solving business problems.
Business decisions often require consideration of the legal framework. Business lawyers develop legal concepts as a basis for solving business problems.
The Bachelor's degree course in Business Law offers a university alternative to the conventional state examination course in law and combines a broad basic legal education with an in-depth, practice-oriented study of business law.
The course begins with the basics. From the 5th semester onwards, students specialize in one of the three profile areas (tax, employment and personnel, companies and banking).
Bachelor's graduates find employment in the legal and business advisory professions, for example in tax consultancy and auditing. After a few years of practical experience, they can take the tax consultant or auditing exam and become self-employed. They may also consider working in the insurance and credit industry or in corporate human resources and public administration.
Basic area
| Civil Law | Public Law | Business Administration and Economics | Other subjects | |||||||||
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| Sem. | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP |
1 (winter semester) | GMZ 1: BGB - AT / Schuldrecht AT I | 5 | 8 | GMÖ 1: Fundamentals of Constitutional Law Exam: written exam | 4 | 9 | GMW 1: Commercial Accounting Exam: written exam | 3 | 7 | |||
GMZ 1: Tutorial BGB - AT / Law of Obligations AT I (AP) | 2 | 3 | GMÖ 1: Tutorial Fundamentals of Constitutional Law (AP) | 2 | 3 | |||||||
2 (summer semester) | GMZ 2: Schuldrecht AT II/ BT Examination: written exam and term paper | 6 | 11 | GMÖ 2: European Law Examination: written exam | 2 | 5 | GMW 2: Cost and Performance Accounting Coursework | 2 | 2 | Basics of Legal English Exam: Written exam | 2 | 5 |
GMZ 2: Tutorial Law of Obligation AT II/ BT (AP) | 2 | 3 | GMÖ 2: Tutorial European Law (AP) | 1 | 2 | GMW 2: Annual financial statements Academic achievement | 2 | 2 | ||||
3 (winter semester) | GMZ 3: Labor law with a focus on individual labor law Exam: written exam | 3 | 6 | GMÖ 3: General administrative law Exam: written exam | 4 | 7 | GMW 3: Fundamentals of Finance Exam: written exam | 2 | 4 | |||
GMZ 3: Introduction to the law of digitization Coursework | 2 | 3 | GMÖ 3: Public Commercial Law Coursework | 2 | 2 | |||||||
GMZ 4: Chattels Law Exam: Written exam | 2 | 5 | GMÖ 4: Introduction to tax law Exam: written exam | 2 | 4 | |||||||
GMZ 5: Practice of the in-house lawyer Study achievement | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
4 (summer semester) | GMZ 3: Commercial Law Company Law Exam: Combined exam |
2 2 |
4 3 | GMW 4: Fundamentals of Organization Coursework | 2 | 1 | Four-week internship | 5 | ||||
GMZ 4: Real Estate Law Exam: Written exam | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
GMZ 5: Negotiation and Conflict Management Exam: Simulation game/short presentation | 2 | 5 | GMW 5: Law and Economics Exam: Written exam | 2 | 4 | |||||||
Profile areas
| Taxes | Labor and personnel | Companies and banks | Digital | |||||||||
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| Sem. | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP | Course | SWS | CP |
5 (winter semester) | PM 1: Income Tax Law | 2 | 6 | PM 1: Collective labor law (collective bargaining law) | 2 | 6 | PM 1: Corporate law | 2 | 5 | PM 1: Contracts for digital services | 2 | 5 |
| PM1: Value added tax law | 2 | 6 | PM 1: Labor law case studies | 3 | 6 | PM1: Capital market law | 2 | 4 | PM 1: Modern contract types | 1 | 3 | |
| PM 2: Tax procedure | 2 | 6 | PM 1: Collective labor law (works constitution law) | 2 | 6 | PM 2: Drafting contracts in corporate law | 2 | 4 | PM 2: AI & Law | 1 | 3 | |
| PM 3: Propaedeutic Seminar (AP) | 2 | 6 | PM 2: Personnel management | 2 | 6 | PM 3: Corporate Finance | 2 | 5 | PM 2: Legal Tech | 1 | 3 | |
| PM 5: Contract Drafting Tax Law | 2 | 6 | PM 3: Propaedeutic Seminar (AP) | 2 | 6 | PM 3: Propaedeutic seminar (AP) | 2 | 5 | PM 3: Propaedeutic seminar (AP) | 2 | 5 | |
| PM 4: Antitrust Law | 2 | 5 | PM 3: Computer Science for Users* (Data-driven Service Innovation) | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| PM 5: Interdisciplinary case studies | 1 | 2 | PM 4: Intellectual Property Law | 2 | 5 | |||||||
6 (summer semester) | PM 1: European and International Tax Law | 2 | 3 | PM 1: European Labor Law | 1 | 2 | PM 1: European Company Law | 1 | 2 | PM 1: Platform Law | 2 | 3 |
| PM 2: Determination of taxable profit | 2 | 3 | PM 2: Employee management | 2 | 3 | PM 1: Group and transformation law | 2 | 4 | PM 1: Algorithm liability | 1 | 2 | |
| PM 4: Corporation tax law, trade tax | 2 | 3 | PM 4: Social law | 2 | 3 | PM 3: In-depth study of corporate law | 1 | 2 | PM 2: Blockchain/Smart Contracts | 1 | 2 | |
| PM 4: Reorganization law and reorganization tax law | 1 | 1 | PM 5: Termination of employment relationships | 2 | 3 | PM 3: Company acquisition law | 2 | 4 | PM 4: European and International Media Law (AP) | 2 | 3 | |
| PM 4: Taxation of partnerships | 1 | 1 | PM 5: Interdisciplinary case studies | 1 | 2 | PM 4: Banking Law | 2 | 4 | PM 4: Copyright law | 1 | 2 | |
| PM 4: Lecture series on the law of corporate taxation | 1 | 1 | PM 5: Drafting contracts in labor law | 2 | 3 | PM 5: Specialized English in Corporate Law (esp. M&A) (AP) | 1 | 2 | PM 4: European Copyright Law (AP) | 1 | 2 | |
| PM 5: Interdisciplinary case studies | 2 | 3 | PM 5: Specialized English Employment Law (AP) | 1 | 2 | PM 4: Data protection law | 1 | 2 | ||||
| PM 5: Technical English Tax Law (AP) | 1 | 3 | PM 5: Specialist English Digitalization Law (AP) | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Bachelor thesis and oral presentation | 12 | Bachelor thesis and oral presentation | 12 | Bachelor thesis and oral presentation | 12 | Bachelor thesis and oral presentation | 12 | |||||
Abbreviations: GM = module in the basic area; PM = module in the profile area; Z = civil law; Ö = public law; W = Business Administration and Economics; AP = compulsory attendance
* For organizational reasons, the lecture "Data-driven Service Innovation" will be replaced by the course "Computer Science for Users" in WS 2023/24.
General information about university admissions may be accessed at Admission Requirements. The German Higher Education Entrance Qualification (Abitur) entitles students to commence a first degree qualification at Osnabrück University. The term “first degree qualification” refers to a period of study that culminates in a student’s first professionally-relevant university degree (Bachelor’s degree or First Legal State Examination). Information about the conditions that apply for people seeking to embark on an undergraduate degree without the higher education entrance qualification may be found at Studying without an Abitur.
Applicants in possession of international certification must demonstrate sufficient levels of German Language Proficiency.
This program is not subject to admission restrictions.
All information pertaining to the application process may be found at Application, Admission and Enrollment.
German and international applicants with German certification can enroll directly for this subject that does not have admission restrictions. You can find all information on enrollment and the enrollment deadline for the desired semester under Bachelor's degree programs (one subject) - open admission.
Please note: different application conditions and deadlines may apply for Applicants with Non-German Certification!
The examination regulations do not prescribe an obligatory period of study abroad. However, a number of Options for Studying Abroad are available to you within a range of exchange programs. The International Office will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
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This degree program has been accredited by the German Accreditation Council.