Introduction to Law
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Content
Objective
Students should get a perfect picture of law so they do not get lost in the huge amount of legal materials.
Course Content
Week 1. Law and Society
Week 2. Law and Other Social Rules
Week 3. The Problems about Definitions of Law
Week 4. Qualities of Legal Rules
Week 5. Legal Sanctions, Its Historical Development and Kinds
Week 6. Legal Systems, Romanic Law, Common Law, Islamic Law, Socialist Law
Week 7. Freedom as a criterion of legitimacy in a legal systems
Week 8. Concept and Theories of Rights
Week 9. Codification and Its Kinds
Week 10. Analysis of a legal Norm
Week 11. Normative Character of Law
Week 12. Sources of Law and Their Hierarchical Structure
Week 13. Public and Private law
Week 14. The Legal Protection of Rights
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Students understand the role of law in any society
2. Because of the introduction, student can perfectly understand and control over all courses they have.
3. Students have as a skill juridical reasoning and argumentation
Teaching and Learning Methods
seminars
exams
References
Jeffrie G. Murphy, Jules L. Coleman, Philosophy of Law, Westview Press
Michael Freeman, Dennis Llyod Llyod of Hemstead, Llyod’s Introduction to Jurisprudence, 7Rev Ed edition, Sweet & Maxwell,
Weekly Contents
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|---|
| 1 | Law and Society |
| 2 | Law and Other Social Rules |
| 3 | The Problems about Definitions of Law |
| 4 | Qualities of Legal Rules |
| 5 | Legal Sanctions, Its Historical Development and Kinds |
| 6 | Legal Systems, Romanic Law, Common Law, Islamic Law, Socialist Law |
| 7 | Freedom as a criterion of legitimacy in a legal systems |
| 8 | Concept and Theories of Rights |
| 9 | Codification and Its Kinds |
| 10 | Analysis of a legal Norm |
| 11 | Normative Character of Law |
| 12 | Sources of Law and Their Hierarchical Structure |
| 13 | Public and Private law |
| 14 | The Legal Protection of Rights |
Assessment System
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 1 | 40 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 60 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Other | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 73 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 2.92 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 3 | ||