JUTCOMPL – Comparative Private Law
Course content
Note: This course will be given a new code from spring semester 2006, and you will find all relevant information JUR5240 – Comparative Private Law (discontinued)
The aim of the course is to focus on the main features of the private law in various legal systems of the world, to show the common features and the main differences. A proper understanding of the relevant legal systems is necessary, first of all, if one is involved in an international legal relationship. However, insight in various legal systems is very useful also to understand and develop one’s own legal system, especially in light of the stronger and stronger internationalisation of the legal sources.
A proper understanding of various legal systems assumes that the systems are studied with the correct method. It is not useful to use one’s own legal categories as a starting point, and look for corresponding rules in the foreign system. Often it will not be possible to find corresponding rules, but the foreign system will achieve similar results by adopting other legal mechanisms, that are peculiar to that particular system.
The course will focus on the contract law of the common law and the civil law systems (which again are to be divided into Romanistic, Germanic and Nordic), with references also to the system of the Former Soviet Union and the process that these systems are undergoing.
This course is a useful complement to the courses of VALINTLEG – Internasjonal privatrett (discontinued) (This is a norwegian course in "private international law") and JUTCOMM – International Commercial Law (discontinued).
The lectures, the reading material and the exam are in the English language.
Learning outcome
See above regarding requirements and syllabus (detailed course information)
Admission
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Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
3 years of law studies.
Teaching
Lectures/seminars
Examination
6-hours written exam
Resit an examination
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Resitting an examination.
- There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take this exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.