History of Political and Legal Studies
Course: International Law (ECL Bachelor, language of program - ukrainian)
Structural unit: Educational and scientific institute of international relations
Title
History of Political and Legal Studies
Code
ОК 21
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
To know the objective trends of society development and patterns of formation of state and legal doctrines; measures of maintaining order in society, when the effective force for stability is public authority and the state performs the main ontological function – the coordination of public interests and protection of the individual regardless of race, social and property status; to determine a fundamental humanistic (civilizational) approach to the assessment of state and legal views on the basis of studies that contain ideas of subordination of the state to interests of the people, safeguarding of natural and political human rights, protection of individuals and society from atrocities and lawlessness, subordination of the state to law; comparative political and legal doctrines of thinkers
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
It is a necessary prerequisite for further successful mastering of field-specific, special and applied legal disciplines, it forms the abstract legal thinking of the future professional. Learning by students of the provisions of scientifically sound and conceptually designed ideas and views of thinkers on the state and law, which have developed throughout the history of human civilization, based on practical experience, life position, views of philosophers, scientists and politicians; influence and significance of political and legal studies on the formation and development of the general theory of law and state, science of international law, on the process of state-building in Ukraine and its international relations
Course content
Thematic plan of the discipline:
• The subject and method of the history of political and legal studies. Comparative political and legal doctrines in the countries of the Ancient East
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in ancient Greece
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Ancient Rome
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Western Europe during the emergence and development of feudalism
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Russia during the emergence and development of feudalism and the formation of a centralized state
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Western Europe at the beginning of the decay of feudalism
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Holland and England during the early bourgeois revolutions
• Comparative political and legal teachings of the European Enlightenment (late XVIIth – early XVIIIth cent.)
• Comparative political and legal thought and state and legal doctrines in Ukraine (late XVIIth – early XVIIIth cent.)
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in the United States during the fight for independence
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Germany in the late XVIIth - early XIXth cent.
• Comparative political and legal doctrines of Ukrainian and Russian thinkers in the XVIIth - XIXth cent.
• Comparative political and legal doctrines in Western Europe (first half of the XIXth cent.)
• Political and legal doctrines in Western Europe in the second half of the XIXth cent.
• Comparative political and legal teachings of Ukrainian and Russian democrats, populists and anarchists
• Comparative communist-socialist views and teachings and state ideology of totalitarianism
• Modern comparative political views and legal doctrines in Europe and the United States
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars
Assessment methods and criteria
Evaluation is carried out according to the modular rating system. Current control: answers (up to 30 points), additions (up to 5 points), written assignment (up to 5 points), final modular test (up to 10 points). The final grade is taken in the form of credit (the total number of grades for the course which is defined as the sum of points for systematic work during the semester).
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
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