Courses of the Legal Tech Centre

Dates in the summer semester 2025:
(the dates each cover the identical course content, so only one date needs to be taken)

• (Corresponding dates will be published soon),  in presence
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The event explains how to set up the university's Wi-Fi and VPN client on various end devices. It will also show you how to get Microsoft Office 365 free of charge via the university's campus licence. The course is therefore particularly suitable for first-semester students.

Dates in the summer semester 2025:
(the dates each cover the identical course content; therefore only one date needs to be attended)

• 24 February 2025, 13:30 - 15:00 s.t. (in presence)

Registration via WueStudy (The WueStudy event will soon be available as a link!)

This course teaches PC skills in researching court decisions, literature and legal materials using legal databases.
The ever-increasing range of resources available offers new possibilities for lawyers:
The heavily laden walk through the library is often superfluous; the use of databases or the Internet saves the user time and energy. This is particularly interesting for students with regard to term papers and seminar papers.

The aim of the course is to enable students to use the possibilities of computer-aided research for their own work.
The course not only deals with the technical possibilities of the most important databases, but also gives advice on how to find relevant literature before using a database.

Legal knowledge is not required, so participation in the course is recommended from the first semester onwards.
It is recommended to install the Cisco VPN client before the course.

Course content including:
Beck-Online
Juris
research technique
Exercises
The course content is illustrated through exercises.

Dates in summer semester 2025:
(The dates cover the same content. Registration is therefore only necessary for one date).

• 25 February 2025, 13:00 - 16:00 s.t. (in presence)

Registration via WueStudy (The WueStudy event will soon be available as a link!)

The course deals with electronic word processing with the Microsoft Word programme with regard to the preparation of legal term papers and seminar papers.

In addition to the basics of using Word, the course will focus on centralised document formatting using style sheets. The course is intended for law students from the first semester onwards and is aimed at beginners and advanced students alike.

Course content:

* Basics of using Microsoft Word
* Introduction to character and paragraph formatting
* Working with style sheets
* Creating and editing footnotes
* Automatic outlining
* Setting up page numbers for cover sheets, indexes and expert opinions
* Creating and inserting an automatically generated table of contents

Dates in the summer semester 2025:
(the dates each deal with the identical course content; therefore only one date needs to be taken)

• 24 March 2025, 13:00 - 15:00 s.t. (in presence)

Registration via WueStudy (The WueStudy event will soon be deposited as a link!)

Further information will be sent to your Stud-Mail in advance.

Note for Mac users:
Citavi only runs on Windows. You can use it on a Mac if you use a virtualisation solution, e.g. Parallels or VMware Fusion. Further information can be found on the University Library website.

Citavi is a reference management programme available to all members of the University. Citavi supports the entire work process from literature research to the management of extensive literature references and their export to the organisation of reading. Citavi is very helpful for writing papers.

The course is designed as an introductory course. In the course you will learn about the most important functions and possible uses of Citavi.

Legal knowledge is not required, so participation in the course is recommended from the first semester onwards.

Course contents include:

Creating citations
Citavi picker
Use in Word
Exercises