LECTURES AND SEMINAR THEMES FOR CLC 40

LESSON 1: OVERVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LAW

1. Name of this discipline:

2. Research Object, Methodology and the concept of Comparative law
3. Comparative law and the study of foreign law
4. The history of comparative law

LESSON 2: ROLES OF COMPARATIVE LAW

1. To the legal culture:

2. Creating basis to understand our national legal system:
3. To legislative issues:
4. Legal Transplant
5.To public international law:
6. To Harmonization and Unification of law:
7. To legal interpretation and application:

LESSON 3 :SOME ISSUES RELATING TO STUDY FOREIGN LAW

1. Overview
2. Values of sources of information
3. Rules of Using and interpreting sources of law

LESSON 4 : SOME MAJOR FAMILIES OF LAW IN THE WORLD

Giving a lecture and group presentation

Lectures: 27.10.2017
1. Concept of national legal system and families of law
2. Criteria for classifying a national legal system into a family of law

GROUP PRESENTATION
AFTER THE DATE: 27.10.2017, THE REMAINING TIME IS USED FOR GROUP
PRESENTATON (6 GROUPS)
3. Several major families of law in the world
- TOPIC: The Civil Law: Group 1(2 hours) –

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 - (History of development)
-Principles of civil Law
- sources of law
- Pháp điển hóa pháp luật trong hệ thống dân luật (Codification)
- (role of judges)

TOPIC: The Common Law: Group 2 (2 hours) –

- (History of development)
- (Principles of common Law)
- Souces of law
+ (common law)
+ (Equity )
+ (Statutes)
+ Customary law
+ EU law
- Pháp điển hóa pháp luật trong hệ thống Thông luật (Codification)
- (role of judges)

TOPIC : The Sharia Law System: Group 3 (2 hours)

- (History of development)
- (Principles of Shariah Law)
- (Sources of law)
- Hiến pháp (Constitution)
- (role of judges)
- (interpretation of Sharia Law)
- (Schools of Sharia law)

LESSON 5 (12 hours): ENGLISH LAW

(Following textbook and curriculums guided)
1. Common Law (Group 4 – 2 hours) -
1.1 History
1.2 Some features of Common Law

2. Equity law (Group 5)

2.1 History

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 2.2 Some feature of Equity Law

3. The English court system (Group 6 – 2 hours)

3.1 Overview:
3.2 Courts (Jurisdiction, judges, power of creating precedents)
- Magistrates’ Courts
- County Courts
- Crown Courts
- High Court of Justice
- Court of Appeals
- Supreme court (Former is House of Lords)

GUIDANCE FOR PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION

After the first class, Class 40 CLC will be divided into 6 groups.
Then, a represetative of each group will choose one in 6 topics for
presentation at random.The group number must be compatible with
the order of presentation (Ex: Group 1 will present the first topic,
group 2 with the second topic…).
All groups are responsible for reading and studying all topics.

Step 1: PREPARATION
There must be a distribution in terms of task assignments among group members. The content
of topic and questions for discusstion need to be prepared. All group members need to
exchange knowledge for understanding properly the whole content of topic.

Requirements:
Before seminar:
- Via-email send your work (word file) to other groups for easy to follow the
presentation.
- Via email submitting the lecturer content of topic with footnotes, acknowledgement
(references) and presentation in powerpoint (before seminar).
Email me: dtmhanh@hcmulaw.edu.vn
Email: Ms. Tran Ngoc Ha : tnha@hcmulaw.edu.vn (CLC 40 A)
Email: Mr. Ngo Kim Hoang Nguyen: nkhnguyen@hcmulaw.edu.vn (CLC 40E)
- Submitting a soft copy of content of topic to the lecturer at the date of presentation
- A minute on group work (State clearly how many percentages members contributes
for group work)

Step 2: PRESENTATION
- Duration for presentation: max 45-50 mins
- Members need to take part in presenting.
- Due to the limited time for presentation, presentation group
can ask other groups on self-study to certain content of topic.

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Step 3: DISCUSSION: max 40 mins:
Presentation group listens and cooperates to answer questions from audience and the
lecturer (if any)

CRITERIA FOR MARKING

Group 1 Group 2 & others

(Presentation)
Content: 3 points - Making questions to presentation
+ Adequate group:
+ Accurate

Presentation quality: 2 points - Answering questions from the

+ Convincing: 0.5 point lecturer if any (if any):
+ Time management: 0,5 point
+ Presentation skills: 1 point

Footnotes and acknowledgment: (1 point)

Answering questions from other groups and

lecturers (if any): 2 point

Max: 8 points

2 points will be calculated from plus +

collected from class activities.

The total points are the result of the semi-course examination which occupies 30
percentage of the final examination.