Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
INTRODUCTION TO LAW	ZAUL1106	2. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	5.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors
Assistants
Goals	The aim of the course is to provide students a basic law themes.
Course Content	The course examines the role and function of the basic legal system by considering different theories
Learning Outcomes	1) Those who take this course; define what the law 2) List the nature of law 3) Explain the concept of legal norms

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Introduction and overview
2. Week	Definition and features of law
3. Week	Normativity of law concept
4. Week	Sources of law: preliminary information, approaches and positivity of law
5. Week	Formal and sociological positivity differentiation in law; the sources resultant from legal transactions
6. Week	Midterm Exams
7. Week	The sources resultant from legal events and facts: usage and custom, precedent and general principles of law
8. Week	The sources resultant from legal events and facts: usage and custom, precedent and general principles of law
9. Week	Concept of right, Theories explaining the nature of the right
10. Week	Types of rights: The differentiation between absolute and relative rights; Subjects of the rights-real person
11. Week	Legal personality as a subject of the rights
12. Week	Emergence, alteration and termination of rights: The concepts of Legal Event and Juristicial Act
13. Week	The concept of Legal Transaction: Preliminary information; the socio-economic function of legal transaction, The Elements of Legal Transaction
14. Week	The invalidity of legal transaction, Implementing norms in terms of conception and time

Recommended Sources

Adnan Güriz, Hukuk Başlangıcı, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi, 2001.

Aydın Aybay, Rona Aybay, Hukuka Giriş, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Ün. Yay., 2005.

Kemal Gözler, Hukuka Giriş, Bursa: Ekin, 2003.

Selâhattin Keyman, Hukuka Giriş, Ankara: Yetkin yayınevi, 3. Baskı, 2005.

*DK = Course's Contrubution.

	0	1	2	3	4	5
Level of contribution	None	Very Low	Low	Fair	High	Very High

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	7	2	14
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	2	28
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	20	20
Final Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	30	30
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30