Legal Systems and Methods

Catalog description

This course aims at providing those PROLAW students with first degrees in other than law with a framework for understanding the central features, branches, functions and notions of law and the evolution of legal systems and their influence on systems of governance. After a general introduction on legal methods and the sources of law in the main legal traditions, the course will examine the interaction between norms, policies and societal values in different branches of the law. Students will learn key law-related skills such as legal reasoning, analysis, planning and problem solving and how law influences advising, negotiating and mediation.