Business Law - Family Business and Entrepreneurship at SRH Hochschule Heidelberg

Family business and entrepreneurship

After the well-founded basic training in business law, choose your in-depth course of study from a number of attractive, practical offers in the second semester. We will be happy to assist you with the selection so that you can use your individual strengths in a targeted manner.

Family businesses play an outstanding role in the German corporate landscape. Over 90% of all companies are family-owned. * The family plays an important role in entrepreneurial success, as August Oetker aptly put it: "The risks are exactly where their opportunities lie: in the family."

In this field of study, students acquire the skills to analyze and strengthen the family's creative power in matters of leadership, participation and cooperation, particularly with regard to legal aspects, and to develop pragmatic solutions for possible risks such as family conflicts and succession planning.

Goals of the course

Business practice wants "modern" lawyers. In business, it is necessary for lawyers to have in-depth knowledge of economic contexts in addition to their legal skills. This is neglected in traditional law studies, so that more and more companies are discovering the business lawyer for themselves. Legal and economic advisory skills are required in companies and law firms.

The business law course, Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), serves as the first vocational qualification for the academic vocational training of lawyers for business and business-related professions. Graduates of the degree program should have a secure basic legal knowledge of content and methodology, in-depth knowledge in the legal specialist areas required for a corresponding professional activity and the necessary knowledge in economics and other relevant areas. In particular, they should be given the ability to pursue economic and entrepreneurial goals on the basis of sound university education using the means of law and taking legal framework conditions into account.

Contents of the course

In the business law course, students are trained in an interdisciplinary manner in accordance with the current requirements of business. The combination of methods and content in law and economics enables students to solve complex problems.

The course focuses in particular on teaching practical and action-oriented skills. Communication skills are specifically trained to give graduates an optimal entry into professional life. The practical relevance is guaranteed by professors of the degree program who have "one leg in practice". They have up-to-date practical knowledge that they combine with the theoretical content of the course. Lecturers from management and management functions as well as experienced "practitioners" complete the team of lecturers.

Legal and business knowledge, legal methodology and scientific work, presentation and visualization techniques, negotiation techniques and foreign languages ​​are imparted.

Career, prospects

Best career opportunities with a degree in family businesses and entrepreneurship!

In practice, commercial lawyers take on activities that are geared towards the practical processing and solution of economic issues. Business lawyers also work as interface managers in legal specialist and management functions.

A bachelor's degree in business law with a focus on family businesses and entrepreneurship qualifies you for the following areas of application:

• Small and medium-sized companies
• Start-ups
• family business
• Consultancies
• Project consulting for institutions

There is also the option of earning a master's degree in business and corporate law with different areas of specialization after completing a Bachelor of Laws at SRH Heidelberg University.