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1. COURSE OBJECTIVES
This module provides undergraduate students in different majors with fundamental legal knowledge, constitutes the foundations for other modules on law and covers legal theories; origins, essences of states and laws, features of states and laws in slave possession, feudal, capitalist and socialist periods; basic notions in socialist legal systems (legal systems, legal regimes, legal norms, legal relations…). In addition, this module also equips undergraduate students with basic insights into the constitutional law, the civil law (civil legal relations, ownership, civil obligations and civil contracts…), and criminal law in Vietnam; legal relations among parties governed by public international law and private international law and the economic analysis of law.
2. COURSE CONTENTS
No.
Contents
Time Allocation
Contribution to CLO
Hour(s) on the class
Exercises
(3)
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials
(4)
Lecture
(1)
Practice
(2)
1-3
Topic 1: Theories on states and laws
6
3
4.5
13.5
1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
4
Topic 2: Fundamentals of constitutional law of Vietnam
2
1
1.5
4.5
1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
5-7
Topic 3: Fundamentals of civil law of Vietnam
6
3
4.5
13.5
1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
8
Mid-term Exam
2
1
1.5
4.5
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
9-11
Topic 3: Fundamentals of civil law of Vietnam
6
3
4.5
13.5
1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
12
Topic 4: Fundamentals of criminal law of Vietnam
2
1
1.5
4.5
1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
13
Topic 5: Public international Law
2
1
1.5
9.5
1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
14
Topic 6: Private international Law
2
1
1.5
9.5
1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
15
Topic 7: Law and Economics
2
1
1.5
9.5
4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Total (hours)
30
15
22.5
82.5
3. COURSE ASSESSMENT
- Score ladder: 10
- Type of assessment
Form
Content
Criteria
CLO
Proportion
Formative
Attendance
Roll-call; in-class discussions; homework correction
The number of attendances and participation in lesson.
Levels of preparedness and contribution of learners
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
10%
Mid-term exam
Open-book exam taking the form either 01-hour in-class exam or take-home assignments/essays and consisting of multiple-choice, short-answered and case-solving questions.
- Multiple-choice questions: correct answers
- Short-answer questions: correct answers; provision of correct legal bases and complete and detailed justifications
- Case-solving questions: application of the IRAC/IPAC model; analyses of legal issues; identification of relevant applicable legal rules/principles; proper application of the law to the issues; provision of correct conclusions.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
20%
Summative
Final exam
Open-book exam taking the form either 01-hour in-class exam or take-home assignments/essays and consisting of multiple-choice, short-answered and case-solving questions.
- Multiple-choice questions: correct answers
- Short-answer questions: correct answers; provision of correct legal bases and complete and detailed justifications
- Case-solving questions: application of the IRAC/IPAC model; analyses of legal issues; identification of relevant applicable legal rules/principles; proper application of the law to the issues; provision of correct conclusions.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
60%
Total:
100%