Legal Traditions & Globalisation

General data

Course ID:	2200-PRSIH04
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Legal Traditions & Globalisation
Name in Polish:	Blok specjalizacyjny - Legal Traditions & Globalisation
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Law and Administration
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty specjalizacyjne dla studiów prawniczych (nowy program)
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Mode:	Blended learning
Full description:	Private law, as a law provided for individual actors, goes beyond state borders. The phenomenon of globalisation in world’s economy, communication and technologies, mass mobility of peoples and increasing interdependencies, leads to internationalisation of issues, which have seemed to belong merely to national or local sphere of interest. The courses included in this group offer insights into the basic concepts of western legal tradition (Key Concepts of the European Tradition of Private Law), the spreading of law in time, i.e. historical evolution of legal traditions in Europe (European Legal Tradition), the spatial dimension of legal traditions (Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide) as well as comparative contribution to the dogmatics of the Tort law.
Bibliography:	The required literature will be given according to the descriptions of courses included in this group.
Learning outcomes:	Due result of attending this group course by a student will be the knowledge of the phenomenon of legal globalisation and its impact on the historical and spatial perspective of legal developments within the sphere of Private law, the understanding and ability to evaluate the interaction between global processes and the shape of his national legal order.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Will be provided in detail in the descriptions of each course included in this group.

This course is not currently offered.

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