DEPARTMENTAL ELECTIVE COURSES

LAW5003 The Law of the International Responsibility

This course focuses on the concept of international responsibility under international law. ‘Responsibility’ is the main notion that adds the International Law to the branches of law but international law on the allocation of international responsibility between the international actors still remains unsettled. This course will provide all kinds of information for the students for helping them with their legal critism and evaluation regarding the responsibility in legal relations that arise within the field of international law. In this context, the course topics will include relevant international law resources, international law actors, the necessary conditions for the emergence of responsibility, the methods of reducing damages and other related international law concepts.

LAW5004 European Convention on Human Rights: Institutions, Procedures and Rights

The course aims at examining the European Convention Human Rights, a system having a unique role for the protection of human rights in Europe. The first part aims at analyzing the system’s institutions and procedures particularly with an attempt to address problems faced by the European Court of Human Rights (the Court). In this respect, the arguments on the idea that the system has been “the victim of its own success” will be addressed. The second part of the course, nevertheless, focuses on main principles of the system and selected Convention rights. In this respect examination of the case-law of the Court is indispensable for the purposes of this course.

LAW5005 The Law of International Organizations

This course focuses on the concept and the role of international organizations under international law. The concept of the course is planned to teach the notion of international organizations, the types of the organizations, their areas of activity, and their legal personality. It is also included in the course to know the structure, organs, principles and fields of activity of the European Union as a typical example of the supranational organizations and the most important international organization, the United Nations and to be able to foresee the future of international law and international relations.

LAW 5006 The Law of Armed Conflicts

This course covers the question of which rules are going to be applied to different conflicts with different characteristics (international armed conflicts and internal conflicts). Also, the use of force during their international relations by the public international law subjects’ will be examined. In addition to these, the problems about the implementation of the rules of the international humanitarian law will be examined.

LAW5007 Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law

The topics to be discussed in Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law will include interplay between  different constitutional traditions as well as between constitutions and other societal factors, such as politics and culture. Furthermore, other pressing questions related to constitutional law, such as the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy, the role of constitutional courts, protection of fundamental rights will be held in a comparative perspective. Students will learn about historical and societal dynamics of various constitutions, including US, Germany, Turkey, UK, India, Russia.

LAW5008 Comparative Trial Systems

We will compare the two major trial systems of the world. We discuss the role of the  lawyers in each system, the role of the Judges in both systems, and in the role of the jury in the one of the  two major systems that uses juries. We also discuss the skills of oral argument and questioning witnesses in both systems.

LAW5010 International Perspectives on Urban Law and Policy

This course will consider current urban law issues especially planning and land development regulation from an international and comparative perspective. Coverage will include global urbanization, impacts of aging populations worldwide, and the need for pandemic and disaster preparedness. Special attention will be given to the need for sustainability in response to the challenges confronting natural and historic resources by tourism, climate change, and natural resource scarcity.

LAW 5011 International Environmental Law

This course introduces the key concepts of international environmental law based on international treaties, and of domestic laws and practices in a comparative perspective. We will begin with identifying the core problems of environmental law, and then examine the legal regimes that have developed to address these problems. We will also address theoretical issues of environmental law, including a comprehensive examination of antropocentric perspectives to environmental matters, sustainable development and South-North divide, and the need for a international environmental governance.

LAW5050 International Economic Law

This course will explore the rules and customs governing trade between countries. Besides, treaty-based international law governing trade will be among the focus points. Students will gain knowledge about the World Trade Organisation, World Bank and IMF and the agreements concluded between these organizations and states. The course will reflect both institutional and critical approaches, thereby participants will discuss the role of international economic organizations through their political and social impacts.

LAW 5012 International Law of the Sea

This course is designed to introduce various areas within the International Law of the Sea, and it aims at dealing with this field in a comprehensive framework. Students will have a very good understanding of the current regime of the law of the seas as well as the basic concepts such as baselines and internal waters, territorial waters and the regime of innocent passage; the contiguous zone; transit passage through straits used for international navigation; islands, archipelagoes and the regime of archipelagic sealanes passage; the Exclusive Economic Zone; the Continental Shelf. The course will focus on current cases and implementation of UNCLOS as well.