Research Seminar (in English)

2020/2021

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент теории права и сравнительного правоведения

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1 семестр

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course will help PhD students to (1) analyze the interface between the role of law in the global political economy and global governance from different perspectives, including the current orthodox division between so-called public and so-called private international law; (2) recognize theoretical and practical points of friction with positive law and areas for improvement; and (3) grasp and handle the politics and principle of today's global per-reviewed and/or indexed academic publishing in international law.

Learning Objectives

• The main aim is to provide PhD students with knowledge and skills sufficient to publish their articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrates ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of scientific and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach).
• Demonstrate ability to search, analyze, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods.

Course Contents

• Comparative law.

Assessment Elements

• Essay
  Each student will be required to submit one academic essay by the end of the course. You should submit an analytical research paper in English (not just 15-20 pages of quotations) of theoretical and practical value, which you will submit, together with a table of contents of your paper and a list of references (minimum 10 books plus other academic sources). Please use footnotes and not endnotes.
• Research paper remotely
  PhD student prepares a research paper for publication.

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (1 semester)
  0.3 * Essay + 0.7 * Research paper remotely

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Kischel, U., & Hammel, A. (2019). Comparative Law (Vol. First edition). Oxford, United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2032077

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Methodologies of legal research : which kind of method for what kind of discipline?, , 2013