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Law on Property and Law of Obligations
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:10.04.2024 14:21:43
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_385 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law | Target Audience: | Juridical Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Kudeikina | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 10 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to law and civil law. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with extended knowledge of the most important institutions of property and obligations law, legal relationships that arise in connection therewith; to develop the ability to recognize and propose legally and factually sound solutions to problem situations in the area of property and obligations law by applying appropriate legal provisions, in conjunction with case law, and to prepare appropriate procedural documents. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | General provisions. Cases, classification thereof, and place thereof in the legal system. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Possession. Protection and restoration thereof. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Ownership. Content, protection, and limitation thereof. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Rights to property of other persons. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The place of property law in the civil law system. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Basics of the origin of obligations. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | A lawful transaction. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Delict. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Means of reinforcement of obligations. Termination of obligations. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Topical issues of obligation law. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | General provisions. Cases, classification thereof, and place thereof in the legal system. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Possession. Protection and restoration thereof. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Ownership. Content, protection, and limitation thereof. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Rights to property of other persons. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The place of property law in the civil law system. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Basics of the origin of obligations. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | A lawful transaction. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Delict. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Means of reinforcement of obligations. Termination of obligations. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Topical issues of obligation law. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independent study of legislation and literature, writing a reflection on topics covered by the study course for in-depth study of the topic, solving of a practical task (case), preparation of draft documents. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final assessment is constituted by a reflection on property law (10%), a reflection on obligations law (10%), preparation of a procedural document in property law (15%), preparation of a procedural document in obligations law (15%) and the examination score (50%). When assessing independent work, completeness of meeting the requirements, quality of reasoning, correspondence of the expression style to the requirements of grammar and professional legal language are taken into account. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | In-depth knowledge of institutions of property and obligations law, the development trends thereof, the place and role thereof in the legal system, knowledge of protection of property and possession rights. Knowledge of lawful transactions, procedures for making thereof. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Ability to determine the legal composition of legal relationships, to identify problems and choose the most appropriate solution to the situation, to apply the relevant legal norms, to draft documents, to understand property and obligations law in connection with legal norms of other fields, to analyse problems and assess them in independent, motivated manner. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To identify and use sources of property and obligations law, case law, apply knowledge and skills in professional activities, apply legal methods systematically and rationally, improving one’s skills independently, to analyse legal information, make proposals for improvement of legal framework, analyse current problems in practice, identify development tendencies. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Rozenfelds, Jānis. Lietu tiesības, 4.izdevums. Rīga : Zvaigzne ABC, 2011. | ||||||||
| 2 | Torgāns, Kalvis. Saistību tiesības,Otrais papildinātais izdevums. Rīga : Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2018. | ||||||||
| 3 | Torgāns, Kalvis. Līgumu un deliktu problēmas Eiropas Savienībā un Latvijā. Rīga : Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2017. | ||||||||
| 4 | Civillikums. Lietu tiesības. Valdības Vēstnesis, 44, 24.02.1937. | ||||||||
| 5 | Civillikums. Saistību tiesības. Valdības Vēstnesis, 46, 26.02.1937. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Sachenrecht / Wolfgang Brehm/Christian Berger. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. | ||||||||
| 2 | Birks, Peter. The Roman law of obligations : the collected papers of Peter Birks. Oxford University Press, 2014. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kudeikina, Inga. Kopīpašuma institūta problemātika darījumos ar nekustamo īpašumu. | ||||||||
| 4 | Rinmane, Zane. Globalizācijas ietekme uz līgumsodu piemērošanu. Socrates, 2018, Nr. 2 (11) - RSU | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.at.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 2 | www.manas.tiesas.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | www.latvijasnotars.lv | ||||||||
