International Financial Law and Regulation
syuksel@gsu.edu.tr
omyilmaz@gsu.edu.tr
Content
Objective
The aim of the course is to ensure that students acquire basic knowledge of financial law and have a holistic picture of the relationships between the actors of financial law. Within the framework of this purpose, it is also aimed to understand the economic dynamics affecting finance law and the importance of regulation in terms of finance law at an introductory level.
Course Content
Within the scope of the course, a comprehensive lecture is given on the basic concepts of international finance law such as the historical evolution of the concept of finance, the international nature of finance law, the actors of finance law, the concept of risk, risk management, financial contracts, derivative instruments, the concept of regulation and its importance.
1. Finance and financing methods
2. Banks and other financial institutions
3. Banks and other financial institutions
4. Capital markets
5. Concept of risk and risk management
6. The concept of regulation and its importance
7. Financial Contracts
8. Simple Position - Funded Position Difference
9. Derivative Transactions
10. Derivative Transactions
11. The Role of Insurance
12. The Role of Guarantee
13. Clearing House
Course Learning Outcomes
After this course, students will learn the place and basic concepts of financial law, which is one of the important intersection points of economics and law, in the modern world, and will understand the importance of regulation for this branch of law.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Lectures, Articles
References
Joanna Benjamin, Financial Law, Oxford Press
Julia Black, Forms and Paradoxes of Principles Based Regulation, LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 13/2008
Assessment System
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 2 | 100 |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
| Make-up | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 |
Relation of Proficiency
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Recognizing fundamental legal concepts, defining, interpreting and using them. | X | ||||
| 2 | Recognizing fundamental disciplines of law and their content, including legislation, case-law and the doctrine in the relevant discipline. | X | ||||
| 3 | Recognizing positive norms in the legislation and being able to define and explain the principals of methodology. | X | ||||
| 4 | Being able to determine, identify and restate legal problems. | X | ||||
| 5 | Being able to use legal interpretation principals in an efficient manner in order to analyse and resolve a legal problem and in order to develop a strategy. | X | ||||
| 6 | Being able to conduct academic researches on legal problems and to propose solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | Assuming responsibility individually or collectively for resolving complicated legal problems. | X | ||||
| 8 | Being able to criticise positive norms of the law system. | X | ||||
| 9 | Being able to explain technical legal knowledge in Turkish, French and English verbally or in writing, being able to report personal opinion concerning a legal problem verbally or in writing in a persuasive manner. | X | ||||
| 10 | Being able to follow up the local and international legal literature, to update technical legal knowledge permanently, to use information technology in an efficient manner in order to achieve these goals. | X | ||||
| 11 | Being able to conduct comparative academic researches between different law systems. | X | ||||
| 12 | Respecting human rights and universal principals and notions of law. | X | ||||
| 13 | Respecting the ethical standarts, good faith, fairness and equity principals. | X | ||||
| 14 | Being sensitive to social problems, democracy, laicism and rule of law principal. | X | ||||
ECTS
| Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Hours | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Working Hours out of Class | 9 | 2 | 18 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Make-up | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Workload | 46 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 1.84 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 2 | ||