Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Introduction to Law
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
LAW511041
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
This course aims to provide students with an introductory foundation in law by clarifying the core concepts, functions, and fundamental principles of law within the Vietnamese legal system. Through the course, students develop the ability to understand and analyse essential legal concepts such as legal relations, the implementation of law, legal violations, and legal liability. The course also introduces the basic contours of the legal profession and approaches to legal analysis, thereby fostering initial legal reasoning and establishing a foundation for advanced legal studies.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
This subject provides learners with the concept of law, jurisprudence, the legal profession and legal ethics. Learners shall systematically access legal concepts under two theoretical approaches (schools, theories and approaches on what law is and what the law should be), methods to systemize the law, legal sources and their relationship, important grounds of law such as legal relation, legal practice, breach and liability. Moreover, learners shall be equipped with tools, methods to analyze, apply law and research in jurisprudence, to study legal jobs, jobs standards and legal practicing ethics to have guidance on researching and professional directions ready for upcoming education.