KHK736 - SOVIET LAW
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOVIET LAW | KHK736 | 2nd 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) | Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Özdemir | |||||
| Course objective | Soviet Law course aims to discuss and explain that the structural conditions of the Soviet legal arrangement as an alternative of bourgeois right demands and its influences on the West Block after the USSR revolution in the context of law-ideology relations. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | USSR Revolution and Cultural Heritage Legal Arrangement After The USSR Revolution International Law After The USSR Revolution Soviet Labor Law Arrangements Soviet Jurists: Pashukanis and Stucka Soviet Constitutional Development Debates The Cold War and The Impact of Soviet Law on The West Block | |||||
| References | Akbaş, K. (2011). ?Sovyet Anayasal Gelişmeler Tarihi: Burjuva Hak Düzenine Sosyalist Bir Yanıt mı??, in. Kuramsal ve Tarihsel Boyutlarıyla Hak Mücadeleleri II, (ed. Bürkev, Y., Özuğurlu, M., Özdek, Y., Elgür, E.V.), İstanbul: Nota Bene, (s. 133-154) Althusser, L. (2015). İdeoloji ve Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları. Tümertekin, A. (Çev). İstanbul: İthaki Yayınları Berman, J./Quigley, J. (1969). Basic Law on the Structure of The Soviet State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press Butler, W.E./ Maggs P.B./ Quigley, J.B. (1988) Law After Revolution. New York: Oceana Publications Inc. Collins, H. (2016). Marksizm ve Hukuk, (çev. Onur Karahanoğulları). Ankara: Dipnot Yay. Cowling, M., (2012). Marksizm ve Kriminoloji Teorisi, (çev. Dafne Yeşilsu), İstanbul: Nota Bene Livshitz, R./Nikitinsky, V. (1977). An Outline of Soviet Labour Law, Progress Publishers Quigley, J. (2007). Soviet Legal Innovation and The Law of The Western. New York: Cambridge University Press | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Soviet Revolution and Its Conditions |
| Week 2 | Soviet Revolution?s Ideological Impacts to the Legal System |
| Week 3 | Constitutional Arrangements of Post-Revolution Era |
| Week 4 | USSR and International Law |
| Week 5 | USSR Influence on the United Nations: Discussion of Bipolar World |
| Week 6 | Labor Law Arrangements in USSR |
| Week 7 | Family Law Arrangements in USSR |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 | Theories of Marxist Criminology and USSR |
| Week 10 | Criminal Law Arrangements in USSR |
| Week 11 | Legal Debates in USSR: Stucka and Academy of Law |
| Week 12 | Pashukanis and Commodity Exchange Theory of Law |
| Week 13 | Influences of USSR Law on the West Block |
| Week 14 | Collective Rights Demands and Welfare State Arrangements |
| Week 15 | Rebuild of Capitalist Law in the Post-USSR Period |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
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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* | ||||
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| 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