Law

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

Delivered at:

School of Theory of Law and Comparative Law

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Balashov, Dmitry

Soboleva, Anita K.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Studying Jurisprudence students will learn to reflect in a critical way on the functions and meaning of legal systems and legal institutions. We will discuss relation between law and politics, economy and morality. The course content will cover most common problems in the legal theory and practice to develop a wider comprehension of the nature and working of law.

Learning Objectives

• • The primary aim of the course is to form a complete understanding of approaches toward research on law within a comparative perspective and ability to resolve typical legal conflicts and to prepare legal documents.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Student knows tendencies of law development in the digital era;
• A student distinguishes the main types of legal professions and lawyers, especially in common law countries;
• A student knows the main areas of law in common law;
• to identify problems and conflicts which can be resolved through legal means
• determine the legal rights and obligations in a given situation and be able to implement (protect) them
• to minimize the adverse effects of conflicts through the use of legal means
• be able to search for up-to-date information about legal norms
• know when and how to get professional legal assistance
• know how to protect your rights with the help of the legal system, and understand when legal remedies have been exhausted

Course Contents

• Topic 1. Law as a social phenomena
• Topic 2. Ration of law to other social regulators
• Topic 3. Genesis of the modern European law
• Topic 4. Fundamentals of the contemporary domestic law on the example of the Russian Federation.
• Topic 5. Fundamentals of the legal regulations of the economy. Part I
• Topic 6. Fundamentals of the legal regulations of the economy. Part II.
• Topic 7. Fundamentals of the legal regulations of relationships in the socio-political sphere. Part I.
• Topic 8. Fundamentals of the legal regulations of relationships in the socio-political sphere. Part II.

Assessment Elements

• Seminar activity
• Colloquium
• Debates

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.3 * Colloquium + 0.3 * Debates + 0.4 * Seminar activity

Authors

• SABININ DMITRIY DENISOVICH
• Balashov Dmitrii Viktorovich