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Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Helmut Kohl
Affiliation:
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt a. M.
Florian Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Rajan Subberwal
Affiliation:
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, London
Russell Miller
Affiliation:
German Law Journal

Abstract

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Legal Culture
Copyright
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References

1 For readers not familiar with the German university system, it might be helpful to point out that an assistant plays a tricky and difficult role in a quasi-feudal hierarchy. He or she is honoured by the appointment, since we only take the very best; but once they are appointed, they are totally dependent on their professor. They are expected to support their professor in all academic duties and this very professor is the one who will have a decisive vote on the assistant's doctoral or “habilitation” success. A wonderful system in some cases, a terrible one in others.Google Scholar

2 Discussed in detail somewhere else in this issue.Google Scholar

3 As his neighbour on the 3rd floor of the Frankfurt Law School building for 10 years, I can personally testify to these qualities.Google Scholar