Legal Methods

Course Objective

During the course students will learn to:
• think critically about a legal question or problem
• see all sides of a legal problem
• form their own opinion regarding a legal problem: and
• underpin their legal arguments

Course Content

The overall theme of the MBL Program is ‘Social Responsibility and Sustainability’ and this course is the second of the 3 courses of the first segment of introductory modules. This course is an introduction to legal institutions, theories, and practices. It provides the skills necessary to understand the sources, forms, and development of legal doctrine, to analyse and synthesize case law, to interpret statutes and laws and to engage in legal reasoning.

Teaching Methods

In class teaching will be principally in a lecturing mode. On-line teaching will be in the form of consultations, Question and Answer sessions and/or Tutorials

Method of Assessment

Paper.

Target Audience

Master students International Business Law from the FHR Institute for Higher Education in Paramaribo, Suriname