Legal culture and comparative law (BRV330)
The Norwegian legal culture has recently been under a lot of pressure. This is mostly due to the international obligations that the students learn more about in the courses BRV230 Human rights and BRV200 Norwegian and International Legal Institutions. These obligations lead to major changes in the Norwegian legal culture, as well as the other legal cultures that have ratified the same international obligations. In BRV330, we will learn about the Norwegian, English, French and German legal cultures and how they have become as they are today. Further on, we will discuss the challenges that these legal cultures face today due to the above-mentioned international obligations. From 2025 the course will be held parallel with other courses in the same semester.
Course description for study year 2024-2025
Course code
BRV330
Version
1
Credits (ECTS)
5
Semester tution start
Spring
Number of semesters
1
Exam semester
Spring
Language of instruction
English
Content
Learning outcome
Knowledge: Upon completion of the course, the students should:
In terms of legal culture in general:
- Have the necessary background knowledge regarding law as culture
- Have knowledge about how legal cultures are formed
- Have knowledge about the encounter among legal cultures
- Have knowledge about legal cultures and reception of law
- Have knowledge about the tools used when analysing a legal culture
Regarding the Norwegian, English, French and German legal cultures:
- Have general knowledge about common law and civil law
- Have knowledge of the Norwegian legal culture
- Have knowledge of the English legal culture
- Have knowledge of the French legal culture
- Have knowledge of the German legal culture
- Have knowledge about the challenges that EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights are raising for the English, French and German legal cultures.
Skills: Upon completion of the course, the student should be able:
- To explain and discuss how legal cultures are composed by the legal cultural elements of conflict resolution, norm production, ideal of justice, legal method, degree of professionalisation and character of internationalisation.
- To explain and discuss the character of the abovementioned legal cultural elements in the Norwegian, English, French and German legal cultures.
- To be able to explain and discuss ongoing changes of the above mentioned legal cultural elements in the abovementioned legal cultures.
Required prerequisite knowledge
Exam
Form of assessment | Weight | Duration | Marks | Aid |
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Homeexam | 1/1 | 28 Hours | Letter grades |