COURSE DESCRIPTIONS


SEMESTER I

European Studies
This course offers an analytical review of the idea of unification of Europe as a part of an extensive historical framework from ancient philosophical thinking to the actual integration processes related to the foundation of EU. Students focus on the theoretical aspects by reviewing the most recent theoretical trends.

Introduction to Law
This course provides a general and comprehensive foundation for the study of law. It offers opportunities to gain knowledge about the most general notions and the basic social regularities important to the legal disciplines as a whole. Through synthesis of other disciplines, especially political science and sociology, this course enables students to apply knowledge from these disciplines, and at the same time deepens the knowledge that students acquire in these disciplines.

History of European Law
This course offers a general review of the history of the European law, its development, its schools, its periods, its historical-legal sources as well as the history of state legal institutions through different historical periods.


SEMESTER II

Constitutional Law
As a scientific discipline, this course introduces students to the nature of constitutional norms, the object of their regulation, and the values that are the object of their protection. The course emphasises the following issues: the sources, appearance, and notion of the constitution; the organization of state powers; rights and freedoms of citizens and human beings; the principle of division of powers; the election system; local government, etc.


Roman Law
This course introduces students to historical legal discipline and reviews the history of the Roman state and its legal sources, namely the area that covers jus publicum and jus privatum (roman statutory and family law, property, contract, and inheritance law, as well as the roman civil procedure).

Sociology of Law
This course is a specific subject area that connects the legal and sociological sciences by reviewing the contemporary processes in society from a sociological point of view as well as from the point of view of the rule of law.


SEMESTER III

Public International Law
This subject is studied from its aspect as a dynamic process and not only as a set of norms that regulate the relations between states and other entities. The introductory part of the course examines the following: the international community, the international order and international law; while the second part deals with: subjects, basic principles, and the process of international law creation and implementation.

Administrative Law
Students study the principles of organization, work, and scope of administrative organs and learn the basic activities that constitute the administrative function, acts of the administrative organs, as well as the relationship between administration and citizens.

Civil and Contract Law
The first part of this course covers the: sources, interpretation, and classification of property law norms, property law relations, subjects, legal facts, enforcement of rights, and representation. The second part covers the movement of goods and services, contractual relations, and contracts.

Commercial Law
Students are introduced to the legal principles of business subjects, their business relations, and the regulation of the movement of goods-finances as well as the subjects and legal contracts related to trade and securities.


SEMESTER IV

Introduction to the Law of the European Union
This course provides students with basic knowledge of the laws of the European Union. Subject matter deals with the reviewing of European integrations and their conceptual structure from their genesis until today. In addition, it provides knowledge about EU institutions and reviews the legal nature of EU law, its sources, and their interpretation.

Criminal (Penal) Law
This discipline covers the positive penal law as well as the basic penal principles, institutions, and prohibitions. Its content is divided into three parts: penal law and penal statute; crime and the criminal responsibility of the perpetrator; and the legal consequences and penalties of crime.

Labor Law and the Law of Social Insurance
Students learn the legal regulations of labor, i.e. the establishment of employment, rights, termination, protection of rights, and the responsibilities of workers. Students also study the question of unemployment and the system of supervision. The second part of the course deals with social insurance (health, pension, and disability insurance) by reviewing the social element which is a humanistic one based on the principle of commutative justice.

Property Law
This course focuses on the part of civil law relating to private ownership. The course examines the principles and sources of laws on possession, the right to own property, and the protections for owners of private property.


SEMESTER V

Family Law
In this course, students gain knowledge and understanding of marital law that regulates the relations between spouses and relations established by divorce. Family law study also incorporates parental law which regulates the relations between parents and children. Special focus is given to adoption, as well as to the conditions needed for it, and the rights and the duties of the adopted child and the adoptive parents.

Inheritance Law
Students examine the relations the main conditions for the establishment of legal inheritance relations (mortis causa) and universal and singular succession. In addition, students learn inheritance systems, such as the linear parental system and the gradual parental system, and the notions of lawful inheritance, line of inheritors, indispensable parts, and indispensable inheritors. Special emphasis is given to inheritance by will and its forms, content, deposition, cancellation, and termination of wills.

Administrative Procedural Law
Students learn the general administrative procedure, its initiation, the adoption of decisions, the appeal procedure, the procedure of extraordinary methods of review, and administrative-judicial control.

Political Systems
To gain a better understanding of legal systems, students learn about political systems as a scientific discipline, incorporating such issues as: the notion of politics and political governance, legality, legitimacy, the concept of rule of law, institutional perceptions of the state and political power, systemic theories of political systems, values, and models of democracy. In addition, this course studies liberalism, the liberal state, and liberal democracy.

Criminal Procedural Law
This course introduces students to the legal dispositions that regulate the initiation of criminal procedural actions as well as the form of the procedural relations involved in the initiation of procedural actions. The first part of the course highlights procedural norms and institutes, procedural principles, proving the act and the burden of proof, and evidentiary means as well as measures to assure the presence of persons and things. The second part of the course looks at the process of the criminal procedure itself.

Comparative Law 1
Students study the legal systems of many countries to learn and understand their similarities and differences. Special attention is given to law in the EU and in the USA.


SEMESTER VI

Private International Law
This course helps students develop a deep understanding of the state legal that regulates private legal relations with other (foreign) elements and predicts the ways of their regulation. Furthermore, students learn the national and international sources for the regulation of these relations, as well as the hierarchy of sources from the perspective of their application relating to the subject, object, rights, or the duties in respect to sovereignty of foreign states. This course also provides substantive knowledge about the chapters that form this branch of law, namely the chapters on the civil rights of foreign citizens that enable them to establish private-legal relations within a host country; the civil rights of domestic citizens to establish civil-legal relations with a foreign element; and conflicts of jurisdictions and laws.

Fiscal Law
Students gain knowledge of financial-legal relations as well as the norms that regulate the financial activities of the state and of state institutions involved in finance. The course studies public finances, revenues and expenditures, fiscal revenues, taxes, duties, customs, excise tax, budget, and public loans.

Civil Procedure Law
This course introduces students to the system of legal norms that regulate the structure of civil procedure: contentious procedure, extrajudicial procedure, and executive procedure, as well as the position of the subjects of the procedure. Students also study the norms that concern the organization of courts.

International Human Rights Law
Students learn the laws concerning international standards on human rights as specified in international conventions. The course covers the areas of international customs and the decisions of relevant international organizations, courts, and arbitrations on the subject of human rights. The structure of the course incorporates the characteristics of human rights, their cultural and universal establishment, and their division according to generations.

Comparative Law 2
Students build on their knowledge from Comparative Law 1 to achieve greater insights into the reasons for similarities and differences in legal systems around the world.