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Kar

Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Nemzetközi és Európai Tanulmányok Tanszék

Kód

IRB101

Cím

Introduction to law

Tervezett félév

Őszi

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The course provides an introduction to some fundamental topics of law and legal scholarship. It starts by discussing such perennial conceptual questions as the concept of law, the relation of law and morality, and basic elements of legal thinking. Students then get familiarized with the mainstream systemic approach to law and learn the traditional divisions and some basic institutions of a legal order, and the increasingly important – and contested – field of human rights.  After the Autumn break and the mid-term exam, the course will continue with the complex topics of European law, the role of courts, and the particularities of the legal process, especially interpretation. Although it is a lecture course, students are encouraged to engage in classroom discussions.

Tantárgy tartalma

Course Schedule and Readings September 9 What is Law?  (Hage, Chapter 1) September 16 Law and Morality (Hage, Chapter 1) September 23 Sources of Law (Hage, Chapter 2) September 30 Basic Concepts of Law (Hage, Chapter 3) October 7 Branches of Law (Wacks, Chapter 2) October 14 Constitutional Law I. (Hage, Chapter 8) October 21 Constitutional Law II. (Hage, Chapter 8) October 28 Autumn break (no class) November 4. Mid-term written exam November 11 Courts (Wacks, Chapter 4) November 18 The Legal Process (Hage, Chapter 13) November 25 Human Rights (Hage, Chapter 12) December 2 The Law of Europe (Hage, Chapter 10) December 9 End-term written exam

Számonkérés és értékelés

If your mid-term and end-term written exams are satisfactory, you may decide whether you accept the offered grade or wish to take a written exam (covering the entire semester material) during the exam period.

Irodalomjegyzék

• Jaap Hage and Bram Akkermans eds. (2014) Introduction to Law, Springer • Raymond Wacks (2008) Law: A Very Short Introduction, OUP Press.

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