The
Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi Faculty of Law has a distinctive approach to legal education. In the faculty's curriculum, a list of core legal courses are presented through which students may gain the basic knowledge about the structure and substance of law, i.e. Civil Law, Criminal Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law and Theory of State. In parallel with these traditional legal courses, a variety of elective courses are also included in the curriculum, i.e. Human Rights Law, European Union Institutions, Harmonization in European Law, Internet Law, International Organizations Law, International Environmental Law, Capital Markets Law and Competition Law.
Furthermore, a Legal Clinic course, which aims to practice the basic legal skills through real legal cases, was also constructed under the above-mentioned parameters.
The
Faculty of Law stresses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in legal education as one of its distinguishing characteristics.
In the last few decades, the nation-state and, of course, its legal system have faced the great challenge of globalization. In this context, almost every legal issue can have international or transnational consequences. In general, law designs the relations between individuals and institutions, but a lawyer should have the capability to scrutinize those relations on which the law is based. Consequently, legal education should not be limited to courses on black-letter law, but should pave the way to achieve knowledge and understanding of social structure, at both national and international levels. The
Faculty of Law at
Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi is very well aware of these facts, and prepares studets to face the challanges of modern law practise.
