6103 - Legisprudence
Course information
- Title
- Legisprudence
- Course number
- 6103.22
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Master
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), MA in Law
- Prerequisites
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with adequate component of law.
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students in the seventh semester of M.A. in Law are automatically enrolled.
- Beginning date
- Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- End date
- Thursday, December 12, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- The purpose of the course is to make legislation the centre of scientific attention by going through the theory of legislation, but also to a certain extent focusing on the technique of and standards for good legislation.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing this course, the students shall be able to: - Explain the theory of legislation and principles of legislation. - Assess when legislation is needed and assess the dangers of over-regulation. - Analyze the importance of a consciousness on part of the drafting institution on the resource problem for a legislator in a small society, and evaluate possible consequences for the model of legislation. - Advise on legislation that is adapted to different needs depending on different areas of law in which one wants to legislate. - Draft concrete legislative proposals. - Present and formulate knowledge and arguments correctly and succinctly in eloquent and correct language.
- Content
- The course revolves around these main topics: - Legislative policy and principles of legislation. - The eight ways that, according to Lon L. Fuller, one can succeed and fail to make legislation. - The structure of legislation. - On different approaches to legislation depending on type of legislation, i.a. the difference between public law and private law-legislation. - The "costs" of legislation and various kinds of legal norms in legislation. - The information problem of the legislator and the purpose of public hearing. - Society adapted legislation. - Techniques and practical guidelines in legislation.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Approx. 36-40 hours of confrontation hours. The course consists of lectures, student presentations, critical discussion and application of assigned readings.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Examination and learning are interconnected in a process of formative assessment and continuous examination. The examination consists of two obligatory home assignments counting for 25% (30 hours) each early and in the middle of the course, and a 50% (72 hours) obligatory home assignment at the end of the course. One overall grade is given. It is a precondition for passing the overall course that all three home assignments have been passed.
- Examination (internal/external)
- Internal
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The assignment question will be handed out on 9 January 2025 and the written home assignment is due for submission on 12 January 2025.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Bárður Larsen
- Teachers
- Bárður Larsen, Kristian Joensen