A student should be a person who can design law, not only a practicing it. The students will have a base to understand and discuss the actual and historical juridical and political problems and will reinforce their senses of justice, will learn that law is not only composed of rules, but also whole ideological and social structure.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Nazlı Hilal DEMİR
Course Assistant(s)
Res.Asst. Ali Erdoğan
Schedule
Thursday, 13:00-15:45, Lecture Hall 4
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
-Formal Lectures
-Q&A
-Solving Problems
Principle Sources
-Öktem, Niyazi/Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi, ‘Felsefe, Sosyoloji, Hukuk ve Devlet’, Der Yayınları, 6.Basım, İstanbul 2014
-Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi, ‘Kanıtlanamayanı Kanıtlamak: Ronald Dworkin’ in Hukuk Kuramı’, Derin Yayınları, Üçüncü Basım, İstanbul 2012
-Türkbağ, Ahmet Ulvi, ‘Hukuk Sosyolojisinde Güncel Bir Radikal: Donald Black’, Derin Yayınları, İstanbul 2009
Other Sources
None
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law
Oral lecture
2. Week
Fundamental Schools of philosophy of law
Oral lecture
3. Week
İdealisme and materialisme
Oral lecture
4. Week
The relationship between law and other social norms
Oral lecture
5. Week
Natural Law and Natural Rights:
Oral lecture
6. Week
Short History of Natural law
Oral lecture
7. Week
Freedom as a criterion of legitimacy in a legal systems
Oral lecture
8. Week
Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice
Oral lecture
9. Week
Justice and Fairness, different kinds of justice
Oral lecture
10. Week
Freedom, Classification of Freedom
Oral lecture
11. Week
Sociology and Sociology of Law
Law as a Social Control
Oral lecture
12. Week
Free Research School, Historical School, LegalRealism,Sociological Jurisprudence
Oral lecture
13. Week
History from Sociology to Law
Durkheim, Weber vand Marx
Oral lecture
14. Week
Law as a Sociological reality
Positive Law, Customary Law, Spontaneous Law
; Spontaneous Law
Normative Fact
Oral lecture
15. Week
FINAL EXAM
16. Week
FINAL EXAM
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
1 Students get as a skill ‘thinking of lawyers’
LO-2
2 Legal knowledge behind norms
LO-3
3 Sense of justice via debating lots of problems about justice.
LO-4
4 . Students learn empiric research methods
LO-5
5 Students can be aware of the different perspectives about positive and ‘living law’ or law in books and law in life
LO-6
6 . They get a skill which can look at themselves and at their legal system from outside
LO-7
7 Students can completely understand ‘law’s a social phenomenon.
