Courses for 2012/2013

CourseInstructorCredits
'The Individual vs. the State' Annual Conference
The conference offers the opportunity to participate at an international conference on the relation of individual rights and grounds of restriction. Counts as S.J.D. workshop. The conference offers the opportunity to ...
1
Academic Legal Writing and Research
This course is designed for students who are already familiar with the basics of academic writing but aim to improve their authoring skills. Issues covered include: writing styles, managing readers’ expectations, organizing and structuring ...
0
Accountability for War Crimes
Individuals are increasingly subject to prosecution for violations of international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict), both in national courts and, now more prominently, in international tribunals. The case of General Pinochet of ...
2
Accountability for War Crimes
Individuals are increasingly subject to prosecution for violations of international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict), both in national courts and, now more prominently, in international tribunals. The case of General Pinochet of ...
2
Accounting for International Business Lawyers
This course is an introduction to financial accounting as it is practiced and used throughout the world. This course is an introduction to financial accounting as it is practiced and used throughout the world. It examines ...
1
Anglo-American Legal Concepts
The structure, methodology, and some institutions of the Anglo-American legal system differ considerably from the "civil law" of Europe, South America, and parts of Asia. Since the IBL program introduces many substantive law ...
1
Archives, Evidence and Human Rights
The Open Society Archives (www.osaarchivum.org), one of the most significant Cold War and human rights archives in the world, offers a two-credit interdisciplinary course to the students of the Human Rights Program of the Legal Studies ...
2
Archives, Evidence and Human Rights
The Open Society Archives (www.osaarchivum.org), one of the most significant Cold War and human rights archives in the world, offers a two-credit interdisciplinary course to the students of the Human Rights Program of the Legal Studies ...
2
Beyond Jurisdictions: Global Communications, Fundamental Rights and the Law
This course explores contemporary challenges for fundamental rights and law online taking a comparative perspective. The aim of this course is to enhance the understanding of jurisdictional cleavages in the Internet with regards to the reach ...
1
Children's Rights
The course will address the question if there is genuine need to have special human rights instruments for specific groups including children? Further the universal/local dilemma will be discussed with regard to children's rights. ...
1
Civil Rights and Liberties in the UK
This course examines the protection of human rights in the UK under the Human Rights Action 1998 (HRA) since its entry into force on 2 October 2000. The course analyses the core provisions of the HRA and the obligations (upon the judiciary ...
1
Clinical Course with Polish Helsinki Foundation
In an ongoing strategic case a select few CEU Legal Studies students will work with Dr Adam Bodnar under the supervision of Professor Károly Bard and Professor Michael Hamilton. Students participating in the clinical course are expected to ...
3
Clinical Course with the Mental Disability Advocacy Center
In an ongoing case a select few CEU Legal Studies students will work with a representative from MDAC under the supervision of Professor Károly Bard. Students participating in the clinical course are expected to provide comparative legal ...		3
Comparative Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy law is often unduly neglected irrespective of its crucial role in times of economic growth as well as crisis. Its importance was, for example, noted by UNCITRAL solely in the second half of the 1990s (1997 Model Law on ...
1
Comparative Corporate Governance
Inspired by the seminal work of Berle and Means (1932), the corporate governance has time and again been subject of extensive scrutiny and controversy, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. These debates focused on the managerial corporations ...
1
Comparative Equality
The course will examine theoretical and practical issues concerning constitutional equality. Subjects covered will include formal vs. substantive equality, discrimination based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and wealth, ...
1
Comparative Federalism
This course will examine federalism from a comparative perspective. This course will examine federalism from a comparative perspective. It will explore the extent to which federalism, as a system of distributing ...
1
Comparative Freedom of Religion
The first part of the course will be taught by Professor Durham, and will introduce students to the international norms that provide for the protection of freedom of religion or belief. The second part of the course will focus on comparative ...
2
Comparative Law of Sales
This course compares and contrasts the the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) from the United States, the common law, and various aspects of the civil law in the treatment ...
1
Comparative Secured Transactions
The course is a comparative survey of leading secured transactions laws (known also as: credit-securing law or personal property security law), one of the sine qua non branches of law of developed market economies. Additionally, this branch ...
2
Comparative Social Protection
The special character of the course – bringing human rights and business law ideas and students into one class – is based on the collateral interrelationship between social protection and social security on the one hand and the healthy ...
1
Competition Law of the EU
This course aims at giving students an insight in the fundamental principles and techniques of European competition law, with a focus on antitrust (restrictive agreements and dominant positions) and merger control. It will discuss some ...
1
Computer Based Legal Research
Structure of the course: The course comprises of 1 one-hour in-class instruction and the completion of emailed, take-home assignments. The aim of the course is to teach the students how to find legal sources with the Internet within a ...		0
Constitution Building in Africa
History has seen several waves of constitution-building in the 20th Century with an unparalleled bloom starting in the 1990ies after the fall of the Berlin wall. And while experts recently announced the end of this bloom in new constitutions ...
1
Constitution Building in Africa
History has seen several waves of constitution-building in the 20th Century with an unparalleled bloom starting in the 1990ies after the fall of the Berlin wall. And while experts recently announced the end of this bloom in new constitutions ...
1
Constitutional Adjudication
The course will deal with the distinction between the scope of rights, their limits and the limits on the limits. We will discuss questions concerning scope of rights, definite or prima facia characters of the rights and the distinction ...
1
Constitutional Adjudication
The course will deal with the distinction between the scope of rights, their limits and the limits on the limits. We will discuss questions concerning scope of rights, definite or prima facia characters of the rights and the distinction ...
1
Constitutional Rights in a Comparative Perspective
Addressing the special interests of students in the Human Rights Program, the course offers comparative insights into systems of rights protection in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa. Mechanisms ...
2
Constitutional Theory
Constitutional theory is a part of general legal theory. It is the study of those concepts that are common to several of - and in some cases to all - the different constitutional systems. They are necessary to those who write constitutions, ...
  • Michel Troper
1
Constitutions and Constitution-making in Europe
This course compares basic notions and institutions of select European constitutional systems. Constitution-making in France, Germany and post-communist democracies is discussed in terms of its broader context; the meaning of historical ...
1