INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LAW

Course Information
TitleINTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LAW / INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LAW
CodeΕΡ013
FacultyLaw
SchoolLaw
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorAnna-Maria Konsta
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID100001258

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīma Nomikīs (2024-sīmera)

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
ENIAIA KATEUTHYNSĪExchangeWinter-5

Class Information
Academic Year2020 – 2021
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours2
Class ID
600174578
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
  • Distance learning
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The course aims: a) to give students information about the general characteristics of the major legal systems and b) to familiarize them with the methodological problems and the methodological tools of comparative law. The particular learning objectives of the course are: 1) Providing knowledge that will allow students to find easily the foreign law, 2) Studying foreign legal concepts and legal institutions and comparing them among themselves and with the Greek law, 3) Approaching theoretical problems of comparative legal research, such as classification and comparability of laws, evaluation of foreign laws, legal borrowing and legal transplants, 4) Understanding the usefulness of comparative legal research in the various areas of positive law and legal science and 5) Engaging in exploratory activities that will allow them to apply the comparative legal method and to discover its usefulness through experience.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course consists of three parts: 1) The first part includes introductory lessons on the principles of the comparative method, the nature and the practical scope of comparative law and, more specifically, its role in the enactment and implementation of rules of law on national, international and European Union level. 2) The second part offers an examination of the general features of the major legal families, specifically the Roman-Germanic family on one hand and the Anglo-American on the other. It will provide a thorough introduction to American law, as well as a presentation of the basic principles of Islamic law and its relationship with the Greek legal order. 3) In the third part, we shall attempt a comparative examination of the solutions provided by American, English, German and French law to specific legal issues and, more specifically, to the problem of redressing pure economic loss.
Keywords
comparative law, comparative method
Educational Material Types
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Use of Information and Communication Technologies in teaching and evaluation of students [eLearning (Moodle)]. Also, students may contact the teaching staff via e-mail.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures70
Seminars10
Written assigments25
Exams20
Total125
Student Assessment
Description
Students who choose to attend the course have two options. They can either prepare a written essay on topics related to the course and present that essay in an oral examination or participate in the final exams which are based on the whole content of the course. The process of evaluation for the two categories of students is the following: A. STUDENTS DECIDING TO PREPARE A WRITTEN ESSAY are evaluated (1) on the base of their performance on that essay whose grade constitutes the 60% of the total grade as well as (2) on the base of their performance on the oral examination whose grade is the remaining 40% of the total grade [Students with an excellent paper (8,5 and above) are exempted from the oral exams]. B. STUDENTS DECIDING NOT TO PREPARE A WRITTEN WORK are evaluated according to their performance in the final written exams. Their final grade is their evaluation on those exams.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Deliyanni-Dimitrakou Christina, Major legal systems and the problem of the recoverability of pure economic loss, Sakkoulas, 2008.
Additional bibliography for study
1. Atiyah P.S., Summers R.S., Form and Substance in Anglo-American law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996. 2. Baker J.H., An Introduction to English legal history, Second edition by Hamilton, 1977. 3. Bell J., French Legal Cultures, Butterworths, 2001. 4. David R., Brierley J.E.C., Major Legal Systems in the World Today, 3rd edition, 1985. 5. Jolowicz J.A., Droit anglais, Dalloz, 1992. 6. Kiralfy A.R, The English Legal System, 1992. 7. Legrand, Comparer les droits resolument, puf, 2009. 8. Markesinis B., Always on the same path, essays on foreign law and comparative methodology, Hart, 2001. 9. Mattei U., Comparative Law and Economics, 1997. 10. Menski W., Comparative Law in a Global Context: the Legal Systems of Asia and Africa, Platinium, 2000. 11. Nelken D. (ed.), Comparing Legal Cultures, Dartmouth, 1997. 12. Örücü E., The Enigma of Comparative Law: Variations on a Theme for the Twenty-first Century, 2004. 13. Reimann Μ., Zimmermann R., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, Oxford University Press, 2006. 14. Riles A., Rethinking Masters of Comparative Law, Oxford-Portland, Hart, 2001. 15. Zweigert Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 2002.
Last Update
27-11-2020