Germany: Teacher violated 12-year-old pupil’s rights by naming her in book
Tobias Raab
In its judgement of 15 September 2015 the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof - BGH) has decided that a pupil’s personality rights were violated when a teacher published a book in which she describes the pupil’s classroom behaviour (Case VI ZR 175/14).
In the present case, a teacher published a book, in which she wrote about events that she had experienced at school. In one chapter, the teacher also wrote about a specific pupil. The pupil wanted to skip the 2nd grade. So she joined the teacher’s 3rd grade class to try to see if she was ready…
