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This course will introduce students to feminist legal thinking and a feminist critique of law. Also provide key discussions on issues such as functions of law in achieving gender equality. Key subjects such as suffrage, abortion, marriage and same-sex marriage, gender-based violence and its criminalisation will also be among disucssion points. Students will gain a gender assessment perspective in their further engagements with law.
- Teacher: Busra Candir
- Teacher: Cicek Gockun
The political, social, and legal problems confronting societies after periods of mass human rights violations or war have attracted increasing attention from policymakers and scholars in the last three decades. This course will examine the legacies of atrocities and the institutions and processes that governments and citizens most often use to address them, comparing approaches from across the globe.
Civil rights are important components of democracy and the principle of rule of law. When individuals are being denied opportunities to participate in political society, they are being denied their civil rights. The core mission of this course is to deliver practice-relevant information to the community of lawyers who represent plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits implicating civil rights in front of international mechanisms. As it is very well known, civil rights are the guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics. Examples of civil rights include very important and essential rights such as the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to government services, the right to a public education, and the right to use public facilities.
- Teacher: TIcen OzraSIt
Children have constitutional, civil and human rights, and
have been recognized (for the last 36 years) as legal persons. Yet
increasingly, youngsters find themselves in courts in America where legal
determinations are made which directly affect their liberty, custody, family
membership, education, and health. Children are involved in legal proceedings
involving adoption, school expulsion, asylum, gang activities, speech,
disability benefits, labor, mental health, trafficking and domestic violence,
as well as delinquency and crime. The criminalization of youth behavior and the
transformation of the landscape inhabited by children (schools, family,
neighborhoods, work) results in expanded nets of law enforcement, punishment,
incarceration, probation, rules and scrutiny. Troubled kids, troubling kids,
different kids, bad girls, gangstas, inner-city kids, kids of color, immigrant
kids -- for many, delinquency trumps. In this course, we will examine the
changing constructions of childhood reflected in the law, using the casebook by
Barry Feld, Administration of Juvenile Justice, with bound supplemental
materials from literature, the arts, and social sciences. The class will
analyze critical constitutional rights case law, case studies, and potential
legal remedies through the contending themes of children's rights, children's
participation, child protection, social control and punishment.
This course focuses upon theoretical perceptions of society and how these perceptions contribute to one's understanding of law and its role within society. The course traces classical approaches to society and law by focusing on works of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. These approaches broadly incorporate different takes on economy's role in determining the function of law within societies. In the second part of the course, liberal perspectives on society is contrasted with accounts that challenge the liberal and the democratic outlook. The course delineates problematic aspects of these challenges and then moves onto consider the postmodern schools of thought. By adopting a critical outlook and by questioning conventional wisdom readily accepted heretofore, the postmodern approach rejects normative narratives and opens room for the rethinking of societal concepts and law's changing relation with such concepts.