Principles of Law

Course content

This is an introductory course in which basic concepts of Turkish Law and the preliminary issues in Turkish Legal system are studied in order to provide an introduction to the legal concepts and institutions and to build a sound basis for the other courses dealing with legal studies. Some of the topics covered in this course are characteristics of law as compared to other rules of social conduct, functions of law, basic legal concepts and legal institutions, sources of Turkish Law, the court system in Turkey, capacity to act and to have rights and obligations and representation.