LAW4153E - Comparative European legal systems 406

Offered

Prato Trimester 2 2009 (Day)

Synopsis

Topics include: common law - civil law: elementary comparisons; classification of legal systems; historical origins of the civil law; legal education and legal profession; constitutions; judicial organisation; sources of law; judicial methodology; criminal procedure; civil procedure.

Objectives

Students who successfully complete this unit should

1. be sensitised to the existence of another major approach to law;
2. be familiar with the major characteristics of the continental European legal system;
3. acquire an understanding of comparative method; and
4. be able to evaluate and analyse their own legal systems from a new perspective.

Assessment

Choice from open-book examination, oral examination, research paper(s)

Prerequisites

LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104

Co-requisites

LAW2100 Contract OR LAW2101 Contract A and LAW2102 Contract B; LAW2200 Torts OR LAW2201 Torts A and LAW2202 Torts B