German for Law and Administration B2/C1

This 4-week course is designed for international lawyers, legal trainees, administrative staff, and students of law who want to master professional German for legal and bureaucratic settings. You will learn how to express legal content with precision, reproduce judgments and statutes correctly, and communicate clearly in administrative contexts.

The focus lies on the linguistic tools of the law: from contracts, legal capacity, and rescission to administrative procedures and official documents. You will practice drafting legal opinions, reports, and formal correspondence in a clear and structured way, while strengthening your oral communication skills for negotiations, hearings, and professional meetings.

Through practical examples and hands-on exercises, you will develop a strong command of German legal language. You will learn to present complex matters with clarity, avoid overly complicated sentence structures, and maintain a precise, professional style. This will give you the linguistic confidence required for studies, legal clerkship, and everyday practice in legal or administrative professions.

Legal speech and writing

The connection between language and law: How legal texts are created

Understand legal and official information, clarify connections, and present them in a clear and comprehensible manner

Use effective methods for using loan words and jargon as well as for explaining complicated facts clearly in administrative language

Choosing sophisticated German versus making communication between administrators and citizens more efficient and cooperative

Binding language rules for binding regulations: military commands, police orders, and for definitions in legislative texts used for creating norms

Legal background knowledge about the BGB’s principles and the court system in Austria

Closing contracts, proxies, and contesting

An in-depth overview of spelling and grammar, using sentence patterns to your advantage, and perfecting sentence structure

Understand and practice using German legal and administrative language in practical tasks