Introduction to Law 2104-UPIR-D1INTL
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 |
Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
After finishing of the course Introduction to Law, student:
(Knowledge)
-Explains the scope of legal science and identifies main branches of law
-Defines basic concepts of law
-Is familiar with methodology of legal science
-identifies the main world legal systems/traditions and indicates differences between them
(Skills)
-Solves simple legal cases
-Uses legal terms
-Uses legal acts and analyzes and interprets them
(Competences)
-Is prepared to start studies of the second degree
-Understands the necessity of constant learning and refreshing legal knowledge
-Is aware of different opinions on interpretation of legal regulations
Assessment criteria
Final assessment is based on :
a) tests and case studies ( 5 classes available on the Kampus Platform)) - 50 %),
b) in-class participation, including in – class presentations (20%)
c) a final written exam (30%).
In order to get credits, the participants are required to get 51 % of total points for the entire course, pass the final exam and tests from class available on the Kampus Platform, and participate in 5 on-line classes.
Practical placement
None.
Bibliography
J. Jabłońska-Bonca, Introduction to law, Warszawa 2008
S. Frankowski (ed.), Introduction to Polish law, Zakamycze 2005.
W. Dajczak, A. Szwarc, P. Wiliński, Handbook of Polish law, Warszawa 2011.
P. Harris, Introduction to law, Cambridge 2005.
WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/intproperty/489/wipo_pub_489.pdf
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Term 2024Z:
J. Jabłońska-Bonca, Introduction to law, Warszawa 2008 |
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