Instructors: Christian Willibrord Friess
Event type: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as: Introduction to Comp
Hours per week: 2
Credits: 2,0
Language of instruction: English
Min. | Max. participants: 5 | 20
Registration group: englische FS-Veranstaltungen
Comments/contents: Introduction to Comparative Law: Abstract: This course addresses the students who are interested in legal systems other than their domestic system. Questions such as: “How is a contract validly formed in France?”; Why is the role of precedent so crucial in Common Law?”; “Is religion still of legal relevance in the 21rst century?” will be answered. This course familiarizes the participant with comparative law and pursues four goals. 1) It provides an overview of the existing legal systems (macro-comparison). 2) The crucial characteristics of each system are identified, analyzed, and discussed. 3) The interactions between the systems, their way to interface with one another are examined through legal institutes (micro-comparison). 4) Ultimately the participant gains a deeper understanding of the domestic legal system.
