Legal Deontology

Major: Law
Code of subject: 6.081.00.O.007
Credits: 3.00
Department: Department of Theory of Law and Constitutionalism
Lecturer: Chornobai Olena
Semester: 1 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Integral competence (INT): Ability to solve complex specialized problems and practical problems in the field of professional legal activity or in the learning process, which involves the application of legal doctrines, principles and legal institutions and is characterized by complexity and uncertainty of conditions. General competencies (GC): - GC 1. Ability to abstract thinking, analysis and synthesis; - GC 2. Ability to apply knowledge in practical situations; - GC 3. Knowledge and understanding of the subject area and understanding of professional activity; - GC 7. Ability to learn and master modern knowledge; - GC 8. Ability to be critical and self-critical; - GC 9. Ability to work in a team. Special (SC): SC1. Ability to apply knowledge of the basics of theory and philosophy of law, knowledge and understanding of the structure of the legal profession and its role in society. Communication (COM): COM 1.It is accessible and clear to inform the respondent about certain issues. Autonomy and responsibility (AR): - AR 1. Ability to adapt to new situations and make appropriate decisions; - AR 1. Ability to adapt to new situations and make appropriate decisions; - AR 2. Ability to realize the need for lifelong learning in order to deepen the acquired and acquire new professional knowledge. Software (PR): - PR2. Analyze social processes in the context of the analyzed problem and demonstrate their own vision of ways to solve it; - PR4. Formulate own reasonable judgments based on the analysis of a known problem; - PR5. Give a brief conclusion on certain factual circumstances (data) with sufficient justification; - PR13. Work in a group, forming your own contribution to the tasks of the group; - PR26. Understand and take into account the peculiarities of professional activity and ethical norms of a lawyer.
Required prior and related subjects: The previous subjects: History of State and Law of Foreign Countries, Theory of State and Law. Related and following disciplines: Sociology of law; Culture of law; Philosophy of Law.
Summary of the subject: Legal ethics is a philosophical and legal science of cognition by a lawyer the essence of inner duty's imperative, which creates prerequisites for the formation of his personal rules of professional conduct and motives of their choice. Legal ethics, a sphere of action of which is jurisprudence, from a philosophical point of view, pretends to a kind of monopoly philosophical and legal knowledge of the man. The importance of this discipline can be further defined as: it is an Encyclopedia for a lawyer, the way to high professional skills and guarantee of his free will protection in a natural and legal space. If the lawyer does not possess legal ethics, he will always remain the narrow specialist, sometimes even condemned the "failure" at work. Legal ethics as an area that covers all forms of moral demands, can internally grasp the profession, is able to develop a large pool of skills of a future lawyer and a logic of professional activities, ethics of thinking, etc.
Assessment methods and criteria: The assessment of a student's learning outcomes is subject to a 100-point scale established by Lviv National Polytechnic University, according to the regulations on the rating evaluation of students' achievement. A final mark of the subject matter consists of the mark of a final control of learning outcomes during a semester and the mark of learning outcomes in conducting a control measure during a semester control. Practical studies are conducted on the main, the most important topics and sections of legal ethics. Based on the active form of training theoretical material, skills and abilities, creativity are assigned, psychological readiness for future legal activity is formed. Independent work is planned as a form of training that aims to assist in the study of proposed literature, in search of answers to the problematic issues of the course, mastering the practical tasks of the course. This form of work is the basis for students. SC is conducted in the form of examination based on a storage system in terms stipulated with a schedule of the educational process of the University. Examination is a form of SC student's learning outcomes on a subject matter for the semester. For the exam (EC) theoretical issues, tasks that require creativity and the ability to synthesize knowledge and apply them to solve practical problems basing on the material provided by the working curriculum of the subject matter are submitted. Practical (seminar) studies – 40 points. Examination control – 50 points and 10 points oral component. Total for the subject matter – 100 points.
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