Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
KHY1203		International Dimension of Right to Life	3/0/0	DE	Turkish	7

Course Goals	This course aims to examine the controversial issues related with “Right to life” by defining the its meaning according to positive law and idea of human rights
Prerequisite(s)	-
Corequisite(s)	-
Special Requisite(s)	-
Instructor(s)	Assist.Prof Hasan Atilla GÜNGÖR
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule	-
Office Hour(s)	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques	-Lectures -Discussion
Principle Sources	-M. S. Gemalmaz, İnsan Hakları Komitesi Kararlarında Yaşam Hakkı ve İşkence Yasağı, İstanbul Barosu Yayını, İstanbul, 2002.
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Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	The concept of right to life, to determine the owner of the right and problem of the beginning of the life.	Lectures-discussions
2. Week	Secular and religious approaches about the beginning of personality.	Lectures-discussions
3. Week	"Born alive" rule and peculiar regulations in USA.	Lectures-discussions
4. Week	Human rights of women, abortion and the fetus's right to life and the approaches of the human rights conventions.	Lectures-discussions
5. Week	Power of disposal in regard to one’s own life.	Lectures-discussions
6. Week	Approaches to Euthanasia and Death Fast	Lectures-discussions
7. Week	Countries that have legalized euthanasia.	Lectures-discussions
8. Week	National regulations on death fast.	Lectures-discussions
9. Week	Evaluation of cases of euthanasia and death fast according to Human Rights Conventions.	Lectures-discussions
10. Week	Classification of actions that violate the right to life according to Human Rights Conventions.	Lectures-discussions
11. Week	The link between social rights and the right to life.	Lectures-discussions
12. Week	Use of Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials.	Lectures-discussions
13. Week	Fact of missing persons.	Lectures-discussions
14. Week	General evaluation of the existing positive law regulating the right to life.	Lectures-discussions
15. Week	Presentation	Presentation
16. Week	Presentation	Presentation
17. Week	Exam	Exam

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	40
Final Exam	1	60

Program Outcomes PO-1 1. Having knowledge regarding concepts and institutions or methods in the field of Public Law and its subdisciplines and having the ability to deepen this knowledge; PO-2 2. Having the ability to establish a connection between concepts, institutions and methods of Public Law and its subdisciplines by understanding their mutual effects; PO-3 3. Using the knowledge obtained at master level in the field of Public Law and its subdisciplines to analyze subjects and issues regarding law theory and practice; PO-4 4. Having the ability to interpret the knowledge obtained at LL.M on Public Law and its subdisciplines to evaluate the knowledge of different disciplines and by doing this having the ability to create new knowledge; PO-5 5. Solving the problem in the law theory and practice by using specific legal research methods; PO-6 6. Having the ability to work on a specialization-required study on Public Law and its subdisciplines independently; PO-7 7. Forming new approaches to solve unforeseeable and complicated specialization-required issues on Public Law and its subdisciplines; PO-8 8. Having the ability to evaluate specialization required knowledge and skills obtained at LL.M with Public Law on Public Law and its subdisciplines critically; PO-9 9. Conveying the present developments in law theory and practice with specializition required knowledge on Public Law and its subdisciplines to the society both orally and in written as systematical; PO-10 10. Questioning the law concepts and institutions, situated law practice and principles critically and in case attempting them to improve and change; PO-11 11. Following the developments in law and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language professionally PO-12 12. Using the information and communication technology with computer software by having the required level of law; PO-13 13. Internalizing by taking into consideration social, scientific and moral values in the process of getting, processing and evaluating the information relating Public Law and its subdisciplines;

Learning Outcomes LO-1 To able to define the "right to life" by taking into account the changing meaning of the right over time. LO-2 To able to evaluate the matters such as euthanasia, death fast, missing people which are associated with right to life by taking into account the developments in comparative law and construe the national regulations. LO-3 To comprehend the content and scope of the “right to life” according to the human rights conventions and to able to evaluate them with critical perspective. LO-4 To able to evaluate the existing regulations in Turkish Law related to "right to life".

Course Assessment Matrix:

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