About ILF
Where we came from
The creation of the Institute for Law and Finance at Frankfurt's Goethe University (ILF) has been an integral part of the larger commitment of The Goethe University to foster the highest quality in both teaching and research in law and finance, capitalizing on the special financial role of the City of Frankfurt.
A special attraction of the program is the integration of leading academics with prominent practitioners drawn from international financial institutions, law firms, banks and regulatory bodies, to provide the most up-to-date lessons from today's international financial practice. The ILF is also complemented by the Center for Financial Studies (CFS), founded in conjunction with the University's Department of Business and Economics.
The ILF offers a unique one-year LL.M. Finance graduate degree program. The course program, entirely in English, emphasizes law of central banking, international finance law, comparative financial regulatory law, and EU legal procedures, among others.
With the only LL.M Finance program in Continental Europe, the ILF is specially situated to draw on the presence of Frankfurt's leading international financial institutions, as well as the European Central Bank, utilizing the city's role as leading financial center for the enlarged EU of 25 countries. Class size is deliberately small to allow maximum teacher-student dialog. Internships with leading institutions also form an integral part of our program.
