Course Details Language of Instruction Turkish Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program Law Mode of Delivery Face to Face Type of Course Unit Compulsory Objectives of the Course The main function of the judiciary is focused on the conviction of the actors. In this process, legal terms/concepts, values, principles, validity of arguments, accuracy of consequences, and justice/ injustices appear as important focal points. By including the thoughts of the legal philosophy schools on these issues, the basic legal terms and concepts such as “justice”, “morality”, “validity”, “benefit”, “function”, “interest”, “purpose”, “interpretation”, “reasoned decision” and more will be discussed; also it will be examined what is the relation between law and various ideas expressed by conceptions, to what extent the law is an independent system of values, what the law means normatively, what are the philosophical approaches and analyses to the general problems of social ideal seeking/ value expression; and how the law can contribute to the solution processes of the targeted problems. Legal Philosophy education, broadens the base of the legal education and provides the future practitioner with an awareness of social, economic, and political contexts in which the law is applied. The basic aim of the legal sociology course is to make the students acquire the ability to examine the law sociologically. To be able to see the gap between the normative aspect and the reality/practice aspect of law, and to understand and examine its reasons is the desired basic skill to make students acquire. Thus the students can realize that law is not just a norm/rule, rather its factual aspect can be more important than its normative aspect. Course Content The opinions of selected schools of legal philosophy and thinkers on the problem of objective criteria specific to the nature, validity, purpose and evaluation of law are included; the practical value of the legal philosophy is expressed; the solution approaches to the problems such as the proof of the claims which allow for law, and the accuracy of the legal propositions are displayed. On the other hand, it will be included the expressions focused on making the law student does not forget that law is an art of kindness and fairness; and making the law student gain the ability to criticize law in force in a democratic environment while being equipped with legal philosophy and general knowledge, and to objectively explain its just and unjust sides to the public. Legal sociology in its most simple definition is to examine the factual aspect of law which can be expressed also as the interaction between the rules of law and socio-economic conditions. The subject of the legal sociology is, on the one hand, to point at the formation process of legal norms and the purpose to create value; on the other hand, to show, explain and analyse how and to what extend the values formed by the rules are affected by the socio-economic conditions while rules are being applied. More clearly, legal sociology attempts to explain how the rules/instiutions of law are affected by the other social rules and instutions and to show the void caused by this affection. Legal Sociology focuses mainly on the reality of law, rather than studying the normative trait of law which is also known as legal dogmatism. The socio-economic factors that implies on the formation, application and repeal of the rules/norms and principles are concluded in the legal sociology. In this matter, legal sociology is based on the main sociological terms, uses the sociological theories and research techniques. Course Methods and Techniques Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Prof.Dr. Mustafa Tören Yücel Assistants Research Assist. Hazal Gül Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources - pp. presentations - - Bir vize ve bir final sınavı Course Category Mathematics and Basic Sciences %0 Engineering %0 Engineering Design %0 Social Sciences %0 Education %0 Science %0 Health %0 Field %100

 





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