| LAW 309 History of Western Law |
3 Credits |
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The Common Law and Civil Law legal systems
dominate western legal thought and
practice, co-existing with minor traditions such as
Socialist, Religious, and Tribal/Traditional.
The scope of the course is limited to legal systems,
laws, and historical events which
contributed most significantly to the Western/European
legal culture in which we live today. It is
presented in roughly chronological order, and includes
selections from law codes, legal
documents, and scholarly analysis of legal
systems or issues. It ranges from ancient
Mesopotamia through classical Greece and Rome, includes
Byzantine law, the revival of Roman Law at
Bologna in the High Middle Ages and birth of a
common European law, and concludes with
the division between the Common Law and Civil Law.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2010-2011 |
History of Western Law |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 310 Comparative Legal Thought |
3 Credits |
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The purpose of this course is to facilitate fruitful
discussions among the students on a wide array of
selected legal topics, allowing them to learn by comparing
and exploring different approaches to identical or similar
similar legal phenomena. In addition to increasing
familiarity with fundamental concepts of different legal
traditions in certain specific fields of law, the totality
of the discussion topics covered will let the students take
some initial steps toward discovering the formation process
and the underlying logic of legal thought. While the course
will also aim at conveying a certain amount of abstract
legal information in fields such as constitutional law,
contract law, human rights, business organisations' law,
criminal law, intellectual property law and such, the main
purpose of the course will be to therefore collectively
discover the relationship between law and logic, tradition,
justice, power and ideology.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Comparative Legal Thought |
3 |
| Fall 2009-2010 |
Comparative Legal Thought |
3 |
| Fall 2008-2009 |
Comparative Legal Thought |
3 |
| Fall 2006-2007 |
Comparative Legal Thought |
3 |
| Fall 2005-2006 |
Comparative Legal Thought |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 311 International Law |
3 Credits |
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This course aims to provide a concise account of
the basic concepts of international law. After
focusing on the debate on the nature of international law
and its political and historical underpinnings,
it will explore the sources of international law and the
relations between international and municipal
law. States and governments,
international organisations, companies and
individuals will be examined as subjects of
international law. More specific
issues, such as treatment of aliens, jurisdiction, treaties,
state succession, the law of the Sea, air and
outer space and will examine human rights,
peaceful settlement of interstate disputes,
and the law of war will complete the agenda
of this course.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2022-2023 |
International Law |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
International Law |
3 |
| Spring 2020-2021 |
International Law |
3 |
| Spring 2019-2020 |
International Law |
3 |
| Fall 2017-2018 |
International Law |
3 |
| Summer 2012-2013 |
International Law |
3 |
| Summer 2008-2009 |
International Law |
3 |
| Summer 2007-2008 |
International Law |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 312 Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 Credits |
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This course explores the similarities and differences
between written constitutions that stem from
diverse legal and cultural backgrounds. While
the chosen constitutions may differ according
to the instructor, the emphasis is on making critical
comparisons between the different constitutional
systems, including substantive areas such as: Judicial
Review; Individual Freedoms; Separation
of Powers; Centralization of Decision Making;
Pluralism; and Protection of Democratic Principles.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2023-2024 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2021-2022 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Fall 2020-2021 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2018-2019 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2017-2018 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2014-2015 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Fall 2012-2013 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Comparative Constitutional Law |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 401 Law, Business and Society |
3 Credits |
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This course focuses on the complex interactions between
legal, social, and business forces. Multi-national
corporations influence governments;
the environment is exploited and protected;
people emigrate and demand more of their
employers; governments try to balance
business revenue and social justice. Can we say
that a law ''caused'' an effect in society,
or a business event ''caused'' a new law to be made?
Does an effect sometimes become a cause in its
own right, reinforcing an original effect? Sometimes
the unintended effects of a
business, legal, or social development are
more important than the intended effects.
We'll discuss topics including the development
of the modern banking system, very large
companies, how businesses relate to each
other and society, how government seeks
to protect people from business practices,
and issues of environmental protection, free use
of information (or not), and globalization.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Law, Business and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2011-2012 |
Law, Business and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2010-2011 |
Law, Business and Society |
3 |
| Spring 2009-2010 |
Law, Business and Society |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 403 Internartional Business Law |
3 Credits |
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This course is an introduction to the major institutions
and substantive legal topics encountered
by individuals and businesses acting transnationally and
internationally in today's world. After
a quick overview of civil law, common law, transnational
and international legal regimes, it
includes tort law, sales and contract law, transport, and
multi-national corporations and limited
companies. Some of the problems which globalization
makes more critical, such as foreign
investment, labour and employment, intellectual
property, and corporate social responsibility and
environmental issues, are raised. While ''real world' cases
and materials are used extensively as examples, the course
also seeks to bring out the underlying
assumptions and policies of these institutions and rules.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2016-2017 |
Internartional Business Law |
3 |
| Spring 2013-2014 |
Internartional Business Law |
3 |
| Spring 2012-2013 |
Internartional Business Law |
3 |
| Fall 2011-2012 |
Internartional Business Law |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: SPS 101 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| and SPS 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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| LAW 404 Human Rights in the EU |
3 Credits |
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This course focuses on the EU?s influence on human
rights within member and candidate
countries, as well as countries with which
EU has set up external relations.It deals
with the human rights policy and
human rights acquis of the EU and studies
human rights jurisdiction of the
relevant monitoring bodies. Secondly, the
course illuminates selective human rights
problems that have been the subject
of daily discussions all over
Europe. Lastly, the course focuses on
the human rights clauses placed in the external
agreements of the EU, human rights
conditionality in relation to full
membership, and the role of the EU
in promoting and protecting human
rights in developing countries.
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| Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
| Summer 2013-2014 |
Human Rights in the EU |
3 |
| Spring 2008-2009 |
Human Rights in the EU |
3 |
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| Prerequisite: __ |
| Corequisite: __ |
| ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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