General Public Law I (HUK191) | GSÜ - ECTS Information Guide

Content

Objective

The lesson aims to provide an understanding of the theory of state with the development of history which is based on the views of different philosophers.

Course Content

Concepts like power, state, republic, and souveraignty. Subjects like polis, feodalism, reform and secularisation will be analysed.

References

Temel Kaynaklar:
Cemal Bâli Akal, İktidarın Üç Yüzü, Dost Kitabevi, Ankara, 2005
Devlet Kuramı (der. Cemal Bâli Akal), Dost Kitabevi, Ankara, 2005
Oktay Uygun, Devlet Teorisi, XII Levha, 2014
Cayla-Halpérin, Dictionnaire des grands oeuvres juridiques

Weekly Contents

Theory Topics
Week	Weekly Contents
1	Introduction to General Public Law/ The Historical Development of General Public Law
2	The Concept of Power - The Different Concepts of Power State As An Institutionalized Political Power
3	The Transformation of The Concepts of State and Republic The Theories That Ground The State
4	The Polis, Sophists and Socrates
5	The Transformation of The Polis: Plato, Aristotle
6	Stoics and Epicureans, The Ancient-Rome Stoa: Cicero
7	The Res Publicae That is Identified With Church and The Feudalism
8	Mid-term Exams
9	The Scholastic Era and The Secularization Aquinolu Thomaso, Dante, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Padua
10	Machiavelli and The Legitimacy
11	Reform: The Debate of Between Luther and Erasmus
12	Thomas More and Utopia
13	The Concept of Sovereignty and Jean Bodin
14	The Emergence of Modern Thought: Vitoria and Las Casas

Assessment System

Contribution to Overall Grade
Activities	Number	Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade	0	40
Contribution of final exam to overall grade	0	60
Total	0	100

In-Term Studies
Activities	Number	Contribution
Assignments	1	0
Presentation	0	0
Midterm Examinations (including preparation)	1	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
Total	2	0

Relation of Proficiency

No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	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	2	14	28
Total Workload			56
Total Workload / 25			2.24
Credits ECTS			2