COMPARATIVE LAW (LW5020)

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This course covers the world’s wide-range of legal systems; offers comparative evaluation of the merits of differing legal solutions to social problems; and explores many of the current attempts to unify common and civil law at the international level. Special attention is given to the prominent features of civil law and common law systems, such as the rule of precedent (common law) versus the reliance on good faith (civil law), or the investigatory civil procedure (civil law) and the adversarial civil procedure (common law). Selected civil law judgments and common law judgments will be compared.

Code: 
LW5020
Name: 
COMPARATIVE LAW
Discipline: 
LW (Law)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing OR College Level=New Student - Grad
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to build a rigorous and coherent argumentation using a combination of oral presentation and writing skills
  2. Ability to examine a national legal system in a comparative manner and in light of international rules.
  3. Development of a critical analysis of global challenges from a comparative law perspective.
  4. Understanding the different domestic legal practices and their interrelation with international law; the criminal procedures in the civil and common law systems; the role of the Supreme courts.

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2024 LW5020 COMPARATIVE LAW

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