Introduction to Law 2102-ANG-L-D2ILAW

1. Traditional visions of law
• Law and society
• Law and morality
• Law and state
• Legal methods
• Main branches of law
• Obedience to law
• Norm and provisions
• Rules and principles
• Rights and duties
• System of law
• Rules of collision
• Completeness of the system of law – methods of elimination of lacuna in the law
• Sources of law
• Structure of a normative act
• Interpretation of law
2. Comparison of different legal systems/traditions (I)
• Civil law
• Common law
• Law of the Far East
• Islam law
• African law
• Scandinavian law and other

3. Introduction to Polish constitutional law
• Principles of the political system
• Individual rights and freedom
• Principles of state of law
• Principles of democratic state
• Legislative power
• Executive power
• Judicial power
4. Introduction to Polish Civil Law. Property law (I)

General Part, Law of Contracts, Obligations
• Notion and scope of regulation of civil law
• Principles of civil law,
• Subjects of civil law
• Legal personality of natural and legal persons
o Legal capacity and capacity to undertake legal actions
• Protection of personal interests
• Legal events
o Declarations of intents and its forms
o Contract formation, interpretation
o Imperfect legal actions
o statutory time limits
• Notion of an obligation
• Baseless enrichment
• Debt and debtor’s liability
• Consumer’s protection

Tort Liability
• Ex delicto liability
5. Introduction to Polish Civil Law. Property law (II)

Property Law
• Substance and scope of ownership rights
• Acquisition and loss of ownership
• Limited property rights

6. Succession law
 Testamentary succession
 Statutory succession
 Legal status of heirs
7. Family law
• Marriage
• Parent-child relationship
• Adoption
• Support duty

8. Intellectual Property law
• Objects of intellectual property and their legal protection
• The most important sources of country, European and international regulations aimed at protection of
intellectual property
• Copyright
o objects
o a starting point of copyright protection
o content of a copyright and its protection
o time limits of copyrights protection
• Industrial property rights –
o objects
o a starting point of an industrial property right protection
o content of an industrial property right and its protection
o time limits of an industrial property right protection
• Acquisition and loss of ownership
• Limited property rights

9. Introduction to Criminal Law
• Liability and crime
• Principles of penal law
• Notion of crime and it’s types
• Grounds of exclusion criminal responsibility
• Penalties
• Principles applied to punishing

• Kinds of punishments
• Penal measures

10. Introduction to Labour Law
• Principles of labour law
• Employment relationship – inception, content, termination of employment
• Contract of employment
• Time of work
• leave (e.g. maternity)