The Sharing Economy, enabled by smartphones and web 2.0 is a new phenomenon - and it is on the rise. Car2Go, DriveNow and StadtRad are easy and flexible ways to get around town here in Hamburg, but I also love Velib in Paris, CitiBike in London and CapitalBikeShare in Washington, DC. Tuxedos, ball gowns, Prada handbags are for rent these days, AirBnB works with sharing as well as Mitfahrzentrale does.
The next big thing might come from a Bucerius alumna: Marieke Otto started CampusRitter, a new venture sharing / renting textbooks. Students rent instead of buy textbooks with a discount of up to 50 %, returning them after the term or exam. Given the limited number of a respective textbook (and its newest edition...) in any unversity library compared to the high, but timely limited demand, CampusRitter might become the "White Knight" to solve a student's most urgent problem by even saving her money.
A proof of concept might be the fact that chegg.com in the US successfully runs this business. With "chegg" being derived from the dilemma "chicken" or "egg" which of one was first, Marieke and her colleagues decided not to wait for a solution but create a hero: The Knight of the Campus!
And if you like to share, too: share with me the stories of more and more Bucerius alumni becoming entrepreneuers and starting their own companies.
Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014
Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014
Influential Newcomers
But what makes him so influential? UC Irvine established its law school just a few years ago, in 2007. It comes with a concept pretty similar to Bucerius: playing by the rules, in this case the ABA standards of accreditation with all its ramifications, but at the same with the aspiration to be academically excellent, rigorous in admissions and focussed on practical experience. And thus being relevant.
However, we keep our fingers crossed for newcomers, both honoring and challenging legal education in its traditions.
Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014
WenzDay, relaunched

And the
content? I am sure we live in most
exciting times worth writing about: After a long decade (or nearly two) of
upswing in legal practice, many law firms now are challenged with a number of
issues arising at the same time: cost cutting by General Counsel, new
technologies, globalized competition, and generation Y asking for work-life
balance, just to name a few. New players are coming up: Cornuum, Xenion or
Axiom are probably still far from being a threat to “Big Law”, but could turn
out to become a competitor – or a part of the value chain in a sequentialized
legal consulting process. Whoever wants to get a glimpse of the discussion about “disruption in legal
practice” should go to Bucerius’ new online platform; watching the lectures
from the latest conference of the Center on the Legal Profession. My favourites: Markus Hartung
(Bucerius) and Leo Staub (St. Gallen).
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