Introduction to Law 2105-EPE-L-D1INLA
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
• Civil law
• Common law
• Law of the Far East
• Islam law
• African law
• Scandinavian law and other
3. Introduction to 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
4-5 Introduction to Polish Civil Law. Property law
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 and Property law
• Ex delicto liability
• Substance and scope of ownership rights
• Acquisition and loss of ownership
• Limited property rights
6. 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
7. Family law
• Marriage
• Parent-child relationship
• Adoption
• Support duty
8. Succession law
• Testamentary succession
• Statutory succession
• Legal status of heirs
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)
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Term 2024Z:
1. Traditional visions of law 2. Comparison of different legal systems/traditions 3. Introduction to constitutional law 4-5 Introduction to Polish Civil Law. Property law Tort Liability and Property law 6. Intellectual Property law 7. Family law 8. Succession law 9. Introduction to Criminal Law 10. Introduction to Labour Law |
Type of course
Course coordinators
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Mode
General: Classroom Self-reading | Term 2024Z: Self-reading Classroom |
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
After passing the course, graduate:
- is able to identify the basic assumptions of the legal and non-legal system (morality) creating the essence of law within the tradition of European legal culture. is able to understand the specificity of social, economic and cultural rules in the context of their codification and the creation of positive law – a law written and adopted in a specific legislative order (K_W07)
Skills:
After passing the course, graduate:
- Is able to observe and interpret social phenomena occurring in connection with participation in the legal system and its openness to non-statutory standards. The student is able to independently grasp the tendency and connections between the main entities influencing the creation of law and its practice, both in the dimension of the position of Polish law as well as the key legal systems of ius civile and common law (K_U01)
- Can propose an explanation of a given social, political and economic phenomenon in the context of its legal qualification (K_U05)
- Is able to analyze the causes and objectives of creating legal institutions, in particular their political, economic and resulting from conditions resulting from international politics (K_U06)
Social skills:
After passing the course, graduate:
- understands the essence of the processes that make up the legal system and the system of extra-legal (non-statutory) values. Understands the essence of opening the written (positive) law system to the system of moral norms and is able to assign conditions on this level to the standards of the human protection system as an emanation of basic values and the impact of these values on the creation of law, jurisprudence and the political agenda of law-making (K_K01)
- is able to assess the quality of legal protection bodies in the legal system, is able to assess their conditions in national law, international legal protection systems and understand the conditions of legal protection bodies in the political, economic context and in the context of the history of law-making as a legal, hierarchical system, dependent on normative and moral principles (K_U06)
Assessment criteria
Written Exam/Test
Colloquium
Bibliography
a) Students will be provided with excerpts from particular legal acts.
b) J. Jabłońska-Bonca, Introduction to law, Warszawa 2008
c) S. Frankowski (ed.), Introduction to Polish law, Zakamycze 2005.
d) W. Dajczak, A. Szwarc, P. Wiliński, Handbook of Polish law, Warszawa 2011.
e) P. Harris, Introduction to law, Cambridge 2005.
f) WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/intproperty/489/wipo_pub_489.pdf
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Term 2024Z:
a) Students will be provided with excerpts from particular legal acts. |
Additional information
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