Public Law

Law is one of the oldest social sciences and aims to maintain social order, where people can live in peace and harmony. To achieve this goal, law deals with an array of issues from differing situations. A lawyer needs to look beyond the technical aspect of a problem to see the deeper connections, relating the problem to the people involved, and with society. In the words of Celsus, the Roman scholar, ‘Law is the art of good and fair’. To be good and fair a lawyer needs to examine legal problems from different viewpoints.The basic philosophy of the Faculty is to create a forum where students can gain basic professional knowledge, as well as a scientific legal approach. Graduates are expected to follow and proactively participate in the development of the international legal community.

Program overview

The Faculty of Law aims to provide students with the opportunity of combining their theoretical knowledge with an awareness of legal practice. This is to help facilitate their adjustment to the legal profession on graduation. For this reason, class sizes are kept relatively small in the Law Faculty to allow close personal support for each student. Students are also able to apply their theoretical knowledge during tutorial classes. One of the most important features of this program is the ‘moot court room’, where students have the opportunity to examine legal problems by playing the roles of judge, prosecutor and attorney. Procedings are filmed on camera to facilitate learning, as students watch and evaluate their performances after the event. The Faculty of Law offers a wide range of courses, incorporating various disciplines, which relate to contemporary law. The curriculum is structured to provide students with a foundation in the classical areas, and then diversifies to incorporate contemporary fields. Students learn about such subjects as Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Civil Law, Commercial Law and Criminal Law. After mastering these fields, this knowledge is then synthesized into an international or business perspective. This allows students to move into more specialized fields including Competition Law, Intellectual and International Business Law, Transport Law and Maritime Law.

Outcomes

• Ability to identify and formulate legal questions
• Ability to solve legal questions by applying the knowledge learned
• Appreciation of the importance of ethical and professional responsibility
• Ability to write and communicate using legal terminology
• Ability to understand and comment on legal matters
• Ability to understand and search for linformation, using tools of case studies, case books, and legal regulations
• Ability to cope with the increasingly competitive and complex nature of the global legal environment

Career Opportunities

Faculty students graduate with the title of ‘Jurist’ after finishing the required training period and passing the compulsory exams. Graduates have the possibility of employment in a range of positions, including work as an independent lawyer in private or public institutions, or as a judge in judicial or administrative courts, or as a public prosecutor, a notary public, a diplomat, a public auditor, an audit commissioner, a bank inspector in various public and private institutions, or as a manager or legal consultant.