professional degree program, and consistently has the highest number of applicants per place of all German law schools. Admission decisions for the first professional degree course are based on the Abitur GPA; the Abitur grades in German, mathematics, and in the first foreign language; as well as on other individual merits. Admission to graduate degrees is based on the results of the previous law degree and if applying for doctoral studies, the candidate's demonstrated capacity to pursue independently original research. Institutes Institute for History of Law Institute for Foreign and International Private and Economic Law Institute for German and European Corporate and Economic Law Institute for German and European Technology and Environmental Law Institute for Criminology Institute for German and European Public and Administrative Law Institute for Financial and Tax Law Institute for Medical Law Associate: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Professors Professors in Ordinary Emeriti (Selection) Prof. Dr. iur. Winfried Brugger, LL.M (U.C. Berkeley) † Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Karl Doehring † Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Werner F. Ebke, LL.M. (U.C. Berkeley) Prof. Dr. iur. Ludwig Häsemeyer Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Thomas Hillenkamp Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Peter Hommelhoff, former president of Heidelberg University, KPMG Prof. Dr. iur. Gerrick v. Hoyningen-Huene Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Othmar Jauernig † Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. mult. Erik Jayme Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Paul Kirchhof Prof. Dr. iur. Wilfried Küper Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h. c. Herbert Kronke, Chairman in the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague Prof. Dr. iur. Karl Lackner † Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Adolf Laufs †, former president of Heidelberg University Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. med. Heinz Leferenz † Prof. Dr. iur. Olaf Miehe † Prof. Dr. iur. Friedrich Müller Prof. Dr. iur. Reinhard Mußgnug Prof. Dr. iur. Fritz Nicklisch Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann Prof. Dr. iur. Hans Schneider † Prof. Dr. iur. Helmut Steinberger † Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. mult. Peter Ulmer, former president of Heidelberg University Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum, former president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Honorary professors (Selection) Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Duve Prof. Dr. iur. Hans-Jürgen Hellwig, Hengeler Mueller Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, LL.M. (Yale), President of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) Prof. Dr. iur. Burkhard Hess, Max Planck Society Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law