ECTS - Fundamental Rights Advocacy Legal Clinic
Fundamental Rights Advocacy Legal Clinic (LAW481) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Fundamental Rights Advocacy Legal Clinic | LAW481 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Area Elective |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | In the scope of the cooperation with the lawyers and experts on strategic litigation and human rights advocacy, students will make a study about the human rights violations with the experts and/or lawyers, afterwards they will work on the application(s) which are chosen with the cooperation of instructors of the class, lawyers and from disadvantaged groups and they will prepare human rights advocacy strategies about the applications. Thus students will develop legal strategies which enable disadvantaged groups to access to justice. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Choosing every semester one or more applications to the lawyers who are experts on strategic litigation whose data is concealed, researching the related literature and court decisions, examples of other states and creating strategie, developing these strategies as concrete human rights advocacy strategies, sharing these strategies with relevant institutions and organizations, publication of these strategies in the student journal. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Fundamental human rights and importance of human rights advocacy. | |
| 2 | Strategic litigation, Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) and methodology in human rights advocacy (litigation campaigns, lobbying etc.). | |
| 3 | General review of international and national human rights mechanisms. | Review and reading of the relevant regulations. |
| 4 | Good examples of strategic litigation processes and review of some sample litigations. | Review and reading of the relevant regulations. |
| 5 | Determining the case for strategic litigation and reviewing some sample applications and decisions. | Review and reading of the relevant regulations. |
| 6 | Review of the international regulations and decisions and judgments of European Court of Human Rights about the subject of the selected litigation. | Research of the subjects distributed to the students. |
| 7 | Review of the national regulations and national human rights mechanisms about the subject of the selected litigation. | Research of the subjects distributed to the students. |
| 8 | Mapping the process and strategies of the litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 9 | Preparation of the draft strategic litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 10 | Preparation of the draft strategic litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 11 | Preparation of the draft strategic litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 12 | Preparation of the draft strategic litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 13 | Preparation of the draft strategic litigation. | Working on the draft. |
| 14 | Sharing the draft with organisations and institutions working on human rights advocacy and improving the draft with the lawyer who is also one of the instructors of the class. | Working on the draft. |
| 15 | Reviewing the draft to publish it in the student journal. | |
| 16 | General evaluation. |
Sources
| Other Sources | 1. Kaynaklar seçilen konuya bağlı olarak değişkenlik gösterecektir. |
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Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | 1 | 50 |
| Field Work | 1 | 10 |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | - | - |
| Toplam | 4 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 100 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 0 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Skills to understand, compare and paraphrase the basic concepts of law as a jurist following common principles of law. | X | ||||
| 2 | Skills to solve problems using a critical point of view when necessary , to determine and analyse the theoretical and implementation problems of law. | X | ||||
| 3 | Contribution to understanding, planning, exercising and coordinating the functionss of law, by explaining and practising. | X | ||||
| 4 | Skills to understand the strategic, tactical and practical sides of private and public law. | X | ||||
| 5 | Skills to understand the local, national, international, universal and supranational sides of private and public law. | X | ||||
| 6 | Skills to understand the modern methods and differences of law. | X | ||||
| 7 | Skills to participate in/inter disciplinary group works succesfully. | X | ||||
| 8 | Skills to adopt open minded behaviors in the way of learning and attempting. | X | ||||
| 9 | Skills to assimilate and carry the rules of ethics and profession within the framework of social responsibility | X | ||||
| 10 | Skills to use Turkish efficiently in writing and speaking, and have the communication talent that is required by a law related career. | X | ||||
| 11 | Skills to approach critically and creativly on the legal and social problems in terms of rule of law and ideal of justice. | X | ||||
| 12 | Skills to understand and practice the national and international sides of law through caselaw and judical implementations. | X | ||||
| 13 | Skills to prepare/present a written or oral academic study within the framework of acedemic ethic and rules. | X | ||||
| 14 | Skills to use vocational information technologies efficiently in solving legal problems. | X | ||||
| 15 | Skills to reinforce knowledge of foreign languages and command of legal terminolgy. | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | 14 | 1 | 14 |
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 18 | 1 | 18 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | |||
| Total Workload | 80 | ||