Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Legal Thinking
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
LAW511097
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
This course helps students understand and develop legal thinking in relation to general thinking systems and fields of study within legal studies. Students will learn how to identify and apply the rules of logical thinking in legal reasoning, as well as detect and minimize fallacies in legal debates. The course also equips students with persuasive skills by presenting clear and coherent legal arguments and applying the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) method to effectively solve legal problems. Students will develop a self-awareness of the role of legal thinking in interpreting, enforcing, and applying the law, while fostering sharp thinking and professional ethics to gain a multifaceted perspective in legal work.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
Legal thinking is an activity of applying the laws of general logical thinking to solving legal problems arising in research activities and applying law into practice. On the objective side, the outward manifestation of legal thinking is the ability to present correctly, neatly, clearly by verbal or written language. As a skill-oriented subject, a supplementary subject for law learners, right, sharp and strict thinking skills, forming legal thinking in learners to support the practice of other subjects and for post-graduate work. The course provides a background in knowledge of the fundamental laws of thinking, fallacy and basic legal thinking methods, introducing some of the legal techniques that law practitioners need to master. Based on the introduced knowledge, learners practice the skills of reasoning, explaining and analyzing the law in accordance with facts. Learners also practice their presentation skills correctly, neatly and clearly on the basis of a correct application of specific legal methods of thinking, avoiding sophistication errors and proficient application of legal techniques. The subject is divided into two main parts:
(1) Introduce the knowledge of legal thinking in a logical progression, including the contents of the basic laws of logical thinking, the fallacy errors to avoid in reasoning, towards the identification of specific thinking in the legal realm and special techniques that law practitioners must master;
(2) Train debate skills, reasoning based on specific cases, skills to identify and handle legal issues according to the IRAC model and some other models, partially combined with presentation skills oral or presented in the written form correctly, concisely and clearly