Law of GermanyModule 3
Courts, judges and the legal professions: the five branches of courts, ordinary and specialised courts, judicial independence, legal training, lawyers, notaries and prosecutors
German courts are organised not in two orders, as in France, but in **five branches of jurisdiction**, each with its own courts and its own federal supreme court. Most courts are **Land courts**, run and staffed by the Länder, with a federal court at the top of each branch. The Federal Constitutional Court stands apart from all five. The legal professions are united by a distinctive feature: almost all of them, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, notaries and senior civil servants, share the **same two-stage training** and the same qualification. This module gives the map of the courts first, then the judges and the legal professions.
This course explains the law of Germany, not US law. Rules that look the same elsewhere may be different.
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