KHK731 - LAW and POLITICS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAW and POLITICS | KHK731 | 3rd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Preparing and/or Presenting Reports | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Sefik Taylan Akman | |||||
| Course objective | In this course, the relationships of law and politics will be examined in modern state. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | In this course; - The legal theory of classical liberalism - Marxist legal theory - The relationship of law with the political sphere in authoritative and totalitarian regimes - The relationship of American political system and legal order - The relationship of West European democracies political system and legal order Law, economy, political sphere, power relations and ideology will be examined. | |||||
| References | Books, reviews and films | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 19th century legal positivism in Anglo-Saxon law |
| Week 2 | 19th century legal positivism in Continental European Law |
| Week 3 | American legal formalism |
| Week 4 | Orthodox Marxism and Law |
| Week 5 | Soviet legal theory and legal positivism |
| Week 6 | Midterm exams |
| Week 7 | Law and politics of Carl Schmitt |
| Week 8 | Nazism and Law - Fuhrer?s spirit |
| Week 9 | State of law (Rechtsstaat) |
| Week 10 | USA - Law and capitalist economic and political system |
| Week 11 | 1968 and afresh interpretation of law |
| Week 12 | 1968 and afresh interpretation of law |
| Week 13 | Critical Legal Studies - Law is politics |
| Week 14 | Postmodernism and law |
| Week 15 | Neoliberalism and the future of law |
| Week 16 | Final exams |
Assesment methods
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WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 0 | ||
| Laboratory | 0 | ||
| Application | 0 | ||
| Specific practical training | 0 | ||
| Field activities | 0 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 0 | ||
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | ||
| Project | 0 | ||
| Homework assignment | 0 | ||
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | ||
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 0 | ||
| Total Workload | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Has the ability to access to sources of information, use, compare, interpret, infer and apply scientific data. | X | ||||
| 2. Has the ability to analyse the subject in the Public Law field profoundly, study and discuss a special subject in a multi-diamentional way. | X | ||||
| 3. Has the ability to write articles, research papers, presentations, books etc. about the subject of Public Law. | X | ||||
| 4. Has the ability to solve current legal problems in the framework of modern legal approaches. | X | ||||
| 5. Has a level of understanding and knowledge of the profession in order to reflect all of the features required by the profession in the best possible way at national and international levels. | X | ||||
| 6. Has the ability to understand and process national and international dimensions of law by following the case law and legal practices. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest