Aims

Fundamental Aim :

• To educate and train competent lawyers qualified for a globally competitive environment.
• Making students aware of the importance of the legal profession in society.
• Reflecting national and international developments.
• Bringing up of lawyers equipped with appropriate methods of legal reasoning.
• Teaching methods and techniques of comprehension instead of memorizing.
• Augmenting lectures not only with research but also with extracurricular activities including regular panil discussions, seminars and the like.
• Enabling more effective use of library resources and the internet.
• Promoting active participation in classroom discussions.

Features of the Programme
 

• Most courses in the curriculum are compulsory, while some are elective.
• Medium of instruction in lectures in courses pertaining to the core branches of legal dogmatics is Turkish.
• Medium of instruction in lectures in courses pertaining to other areas of the social sciences related in various ways to legal studies and fields of international specification is English.
• Instruction of most courses involves analyses and discussion of legal practice in related fields, making an extensive use of case law material.
• Lectures are bolstered by student participation and research, especially in the form of compulsory term-papers.
• Supporting courses by extraclassroom conferences.