This introductory course to law presents in a systematic way the basic techniques and concepts of law
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
Attendance Required
Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ender DEMİR
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Tuesday 13:00-14:45 Amfi V
Office Hour(s)
Monday 11.30-15.00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture, discussion, question and answer.
Principle Sources
-Hukuka Giriş:Turhan Esener/Ender Demir, İstanbul 2018.
Other Sources
Dava- Franz Kafka
Bülbülü Öldürmek- Harper Lee
Demirciler Çarşısı Cinayeti -Yaşar Kemal
Hayvan Çiftliği -George Orwell
Savunma Saldırıyor - Jacques Verges
1984 - George Orwell
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
The importance of the concept of law, social order rules: rules of law, rules of morality, rules of religion, rules of etiquette
Oral presentation
2. Week
The concept of personality, capacity of right, capacity to act, real persons according to capacity to act
Oral presentation
3. Week
Termination of personality, presumption of death, absence
Oral presentation
4. Week
Analysing the characteristics of legal rules, sources of legal rules: constitution, law, presidential decree, international convention, regulation, customary rules, doctrine, case law
Oral presentation
5. Week
Analysing the characteristics of legal rules, sources of legal rules: constitution, law, presidential decree, international convention, regulation, customary rules, doctrine, case law
Oral presentation
6. Week
Characteristics of legal rules, mandatory legal rules, substitute legal rules
Oral presentation
7. Week
The concept of right, the importance of good faith in the acquisition of the right
Oral presentation
8. Week
Fundamental rights and freedoms, European Convention on Human Rights, suspension and limitation of fundamental rights
Oral presentation
9. Week
Private law rights, absolute rights, relative rights, rights arising from innovation
Oral presentation
10. Week
Interpretation of legal rules, gaps in law and filling the gaps
Oral presentation
11. Week
In law, sanctions, penalties, compensation, enforcement, non-existence, invalidity, cancellability, cancellation
Oral presentation
12. Week
In law, sanctions, penalties, compensation, enforcement, non-existence, invalidity, cancellability, cancellation
Oral presentation
13. Week
Periods in law, prescription period, statute of limitations
Oral presentation
14. Week
Kinship, blood, in-law and artificial kinship
Oral presentation
15. Week
Final Exams Week
16. Week
Final Exams Week
17. Week
Final Exams 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
1.Acquire an understanding of the relationship between positive law and natural law and of the importance of the legal system
LO-2
2.Gain skills in comparing legal order versus moral order and their mutual effects
LO-3
3. Ability to analyze the characteristics of legal rules and to distinguish puclic policy legal rules from imperative legal rules, completive legal rules and interpretative legal rules
LO-4
4.Gain profiency in comparing the National Legal Systems with different older legal systems such as Roman-German Law, Comman Law, Equity Law and especially with European Law.
LO-5
5.Gain ability to correctly interpret the meaning of legal text and to reply orally as well as in written in a way that is consistent with the legal system
