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Course title: Introduction to Law
Course code: PLUE111
Faculty: Faculty of Law
Department: Department of Fundamental Laws
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): None
- 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 AND SCHEDULE
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No. |
Contents |
Time Allocation |
Contribution to CLO |
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Hour(s) on the class |
Exercises (3) |
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials (4) |
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Lecture (1) |
Practice (2) |
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1-3 |
Topic 1: Theories on states and laws |
6 |
3 |
4.5 |
13.5 |
1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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4 |
Topic 2: Fundamentals of constitutional law of Vietnam |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
4.5 |
1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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5-7 |
Topic 3: Fundamentals of civil law of Vietnam |
6 |
3 |
4.5 |
13.5 |
1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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8 |
Mid-term Exam |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
4.5 |
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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9-11 |
Topic 3: Fundamentals of civil law of Vietnam |
6 |
3 |
4.5 |
13.5 |
1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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12 |
Topic 4: Fundamentals of criminal law of Vietnam |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
4.5 |
1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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13 |
Topic 5: Public international Law |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
9.5 |
1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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14 |
Topic 6: Private international Law |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
9.5 |
1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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15 |
Topic 7: Law and Economics |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
9.5 |
4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Total (hour) |
30 |
15 |
22.5 |
82.5 |
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- 3. COURSE ASSESSMENT
- Score ladder: 10
- Type of assessment
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Form |
Content |
Criteria |
CLO |
Proportion |
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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% |
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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% |
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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% |
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Total: |
100% |
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