Despite regulations to the law being added, amended or withdrawn we see today that the existence of gender inequality continues in most fields. One reason for this may be that the objectives of those regulations were never attained, and the effect of those regulations had differed from or did not meet the original criteria. In this course it will be looked into why things have not changed much for ‘gender equality’ today and possible problems with the objectives and execution of regulations. Also it will be looked deeply into the Turkish legal system in the light of feminist legal theory, putting forth suggestions on how a 'gender equal legal system' could be attained.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
None
Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Nazlı Hilal DEMİR
Course Assistant(s)
Res.Asst. Ali Erdoğan
Schedule
Monday, 14:0015:45, Hearing Room
Office Hour(s)
Asst.Prof. Nazlı Hilal Demir, nh.demir@iku.edu.tr
Res.Asst. Ali Erdoğan, a.erdogan@iku.edu.tr
Teaching Methods and Techniques
-Lecture, discussion, presentation
Principle Sources
Nazlı Hilal Demir, Feminist Perspektiften Düşünce Tarihinin Köşe Taşları ve İdeal Bir Hukuk Arayışı, İstanbul, XII Levha Yayınları, 2017.
Josephine Donovan, Feminist Teori, çev: Aksu Bora, Fevziye Sayılan ve Meltem Ağduk Gevrek, İstanbul, İletişim Yayıncılık, 2013.
Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları: Eşitsizlikler, Mücadeleler ve Kazanımlar, ed. Bertil Emrah Oder, Hülya Durudoğan, Fatoş Gökşen ve Deniz Yükseler, İstanbul, Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010.
Martha Chamallas, Introduction to Feminist Legal Theory, New York, Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2013
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The concept of feminism
Oral Presentation
2. Week
Feminist Thought
Oral Presentation
3. Week
Feminist Thought
Oral Presentation
4. Week
The emergence and development of feminist legal theory
Oral Presentation
5. Week
The aims and problems of feminist legal theory
Oral Presentation
6. Week
Schools of feminist jurisprudential thought
Oral Presentation
7. Week
Schools of feminist jurisprudential thought
Oral Presentation
8. Week
Schools of feminist jurisprudential thought
Oral Presentation
9. Week
Schools of feminist jurisprudential thought
Oral Presentation
10. Week
Evaluation of Turkish Law from a Feminist Perspectives
Oral Presentation
11. Week
Evaluation of Turkish Law from a Feminist Perspectives
Oral Presentation
12. Week
Evaluation of Turkish Law from a Feminist Perspectives
Oral Presentation
13. Week
Suggestions about what needs to be done in the legal field in order to remove gender inequalities - Discussion
Oral Presentation
14. Week
Suggestions about what needs to be done in the legal field in order to remove gender inequalities - Discussion
Oral Presentation
15. Week
Final Exams Week
16. Week
Final Exams Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Final Exam
1
100
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
PO-2
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-3
Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements;
PO-4
Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written;
PO-5
Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language;
PO-6
Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility;
PO-7
Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems;
PO-8
Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case;
PO-9
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-10
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-11
Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law;
PO-12
Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing;
PO-13
Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions;
PO-14
Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process;
PO-15
Have knowledge on European Union Acquis Communautaire and operation of its institutions;
PO-16
Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity;
PO-17
Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems;
PO-18
Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches;
PO-19
Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale;
PO-20
Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms;
PO-21
Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process;
PO-22
Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group;
PO-23
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-24
Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals;
PO-25
Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits;
PO-26
Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up;
PO-27
Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Have knowledge about feminism/feminist thought
LO-2
Have knowledge about the emergence and development of feminist legal theory
LO-3
Have knowledge about the aims and problems of feminist legal theory
LO-4
Have knowledge about the schools of feminist jurisprudential thought
LO-5
Be able to evaluate legal regulations from a feminist perspective
LO-6
Be able to put forward suggestions about what needs to be done in the legal field in order to remove gender inequalities
