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23.04.2025

For over twenty years now, exchanges with our US partner universities have been a unique opportunity for selected students at the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg. The partnership with the DAAD is essential to make the stay abroad financially easier. It is therefore very pleasing that the successful cooperation with the DAAD will continue until 2029. The substantial sum of € 419,988 in third-party funding was raised to promote exchanges with our partner universities in Washington, Chicago and Pepperdine.

15.04.2025

In the current article, Professor Möllers asked whether the auditor's opinion constitutes public capital market information within the meaning of Section 1 (2) KapMuG. As already stated by Möllers, BKR 2022, 339, this is not the case for old proceedings.
The BayObLG recently ruled the same way in its partial model decision of 28.2.2025, case no. 101 Kap 1/22: The determination objectives are inadmissible. In particular, it followed the thoughts of the contributions on information external to the company (para. 173 et seq.), on the historical intention of the legislator (para. 194 et seq.), on questions of the retroactive effect of laws (para. 207) and on the liability of the auditor (para. 220 et seq., 234).

03.04.25

(...) The subject of the book to be presented and the exhibition is the “Layenspiegel”, an extremely successful legal book in German in the early modern period, which links common European Roman law with the legal practices of Germany and in particular the present-day region of Bavarian Swabia and became a driving force in the further development of law in Germany.
The work was first published in Augsburg in 1509, then expanded in Augsburg in 1511 and 1512. It was reprinted elsewhere and had a significant influence on the development of law in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The Laienspiegel was used by officials in the administration of justice, most of whom were not academically educated, as well as by entrepreneurs and citizens in settling legal disputes.
The Laienspiegel encompassed the entire body of law - in modern categories: civil law, public law and criminal law. Its author Ulrich Tengler (around 1445 - around 1522) was able to write from his own experience as a public official. He was a court clerk in Heidenheim an der Brenz (then part of Bavaria-Landshut), town clerk in Nördlingen, castner in Heidenheim, bailiff in Graisbach and bailiff in Höchstädt.
Tengler proved to be modern in his Laienspiegel, consistently continuing developments begun at the time. The practical significance of the work, which foreshadowed later changes in the legislation of towns and territories and in Roman common law, legal and scientific, can hardly be overestimated. Added to this is the art of argumentation presented in the work; the Layenspiegel is at the same time a highly illustrative methodology with which non-scholarly officials were able to strengthen the persuasive power of their decisions. And a very special ingredient are the numerous woodcuts, which illustrate what is presented in words for easier internalization. The Augsburg University Library holds a copy of the Augsburg 1511 edition (on display in the exhibition), which conveys a particularly splendid impression thanks to its coloring.

At an interdisciplinary public conference at the Schwabenakademie Kloster Irsee in April 2024 (April 24 to 26, 2024), around two dozen scholars examined the work . The results of the conference are collected in the book to be presented. The book presentation enables those interested in the region who did not have the opportunity to attend the conference to participate in the findings and thus in an important, vital part of the region's historical self-image. The project enjoyed the support of numerous institutions.