Legal Systems of European Countries 2105-M-D1SPPEU
Legal system ISSUES definition.
Types and kinds, public law and private law, completeness law and the loopholes in the law, institutions of legal protection, the hierarchy of sources of law.
2. EVOLUTION OF LEGAL SYSTEMS.
Roman law, Greek law, the law of the Middle Ages, compounds the law of the state regime, Rebirth and the law systems in Europe Impact of Enlightenment legal systems. The legal systems of capitalism. The law of capitalist socialist.
3. Codification SOURCES OF LAW.
Codifications in absolute monarchies, the Code Napoleon, codifications of civil law, codes of criminal law, codes of civil procedure, codes of criminal procedure.
4. MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS.
Types of law, sources of law, the hierarchy of sources of law.
5. INSTITUTIONS LEGAL PROTECTION.
The concept of law enforcement bodies, classification of law enforcement bodies, judicial and non-judicial institutions of legal protection.
6. The legal system in Russia and Ukraine.
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
7. The legal system of Great Britain and Ireland and Malta
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
8. The legal system of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
9. The legal system of Austria and Germany
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
10. The legal system of Greece and Italy
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
11. The legal system of Spain and Portugal
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
12. The legal system Finland and Sweden
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
13. The legal system of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
14. The legal system of Bulgaria and Romania
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
15. The legal system of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
The specificity, sources of law institutions.
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Assessment criteria
Discussion and presentation, written assingment
Bibliography
Lech Morawski, Wstęp do prawoznawstwa, Toruń 2009
Andrzej Dziadzio, Historia powszechna prawa, PWN, 2008.
Systemy polityczne państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej, K. A. Wojtaszczyk, M. Poboży (red.), Liber, 2013
Paweł Sarnecki. Ustrój Unii Europejskiej i ustroje państw członkowskich, Wolters Kluwer, 2007
Europejski Atlas Sądowniczy
www.coe.int
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
Strony internetowe ministerstw sprawiedliwości wybranych państw.
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