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Together with 12 other experts, Professor Dr. Erik Röder prepared a report with proposals for simplifying corporate taxation and lessen the bureaucratic burden on companies. The report has now been handed over to Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

At the XVI World Congress of Insurance Law in Melbourne, Australia, Professor Oliver Brand, holder of the chair of Private Law, Insurance Law, Business Law and Comparative Law, was elected to the Presidential Council, the highest decision-making body of the International Association for Insurance ...

Over the next twelve months, the commission is to address the revision of legislation on reproductive medicine and the future of Section 218 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) regulating abortion.

For their research project “NEW_LIVES”, researchers of Heidelberg University Hospital and the University of Mannheim will receive funding of several millions of euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Professor Dr. Dr. Eva Winkler from Heidelberg University Hospital will ...

Together with the Centre for Business Law and Practice (University of Leeds) the Department of Law has launched the Leeds/Mannheim Online Seminar Series, which will be continued this semester.

In a joint statement, the European University ENGAGE.EU takes a stand on the war in Ukraine:

The rectors and presidents of the nine state universities in Baden-Württemberg have elected the new board of the State Rectors' Conference. The new chairman will be Professor Thomas Puhl, President of the University of Mannheim, while Professor Michael Weber, President of the University of Ulm, will ...

Professor Georg Bitter of the University of Mannheim, an expert in insolvency law, wrote a legal opinion for the Wirecard AG insolvency proceedings. According to Bitter, shareholders, investors and banks must be treated equally when it comes to claims for damages.

Together with the Centre for Business Law and Practice (University of Leeds) the Department of Law is launching the Leeds/Mannheim Online Seminar Series.