Bachelor’s Degree Program of School of Law
Bachelor Program in Law
Language of Study: Georgian
Number of credits to be obtained: 240 ECTS
Qualification: Bachelor of Law
Code NAEC: 0100125
Admission type: Unified admission
About the program
The bachelor program of the Law School at Ilia State University was developed in 2011 and is periodically updated to improve the educational process.
Since 2017, the world-renowned scientific electronic database Lexis Nexis Academic, which combines information resources of more than 5800 publishers, has become available to Iliauni students. It has access to both United States federal and state court materials and hundreds of legal reviews.
Within the framework of the cooperation between the Ilia State University and the East-West Management Institute’s program ‘Supporting the Rule of Law in Georgia (USAID/PROLOG)’, a Human Rights Clinic was founded in the 2018-2019 academic year. Within the framework of the project, the School of Law cooperates with the Northwestern University (Chicago, USA).
Students work on real cases and investigate specific cases in the Human Rights Clinic. The main mission of the clinic is to create, transfer, use legal knowledge, develop theoretical, practical and advocacy skills for students in the field of human rights, develop legal thinking and form values.
Program objectives
The objective of the program is to prepare competitive specialists in the field of law, who:
a) will have broad knowledge of the essence of law, basic principles, peculiarities of the national system, specifics of the main issues of public, criminal, private and international law;
b) will be able to identify legal problems, evaluate them and determine the legal action necessary to solve the problem;
c) will be able to communicate appropriately verbally and in writing with specialists and non-specialists, following the principles of academic integrity;
d) will be able to act by respecting the rules of professional conduct of lawyers and basic human rights.
Main directions:
The School of Law bachelor program subjects include materials based on:
- Law introductory part
- Public law
- Private law
- Criminal law
- International law
The program allows the students to choose a study courses of their interest, which includes both theoretical and practical work.
Study outcomes
The student who has completed the bachelor program:
- Describes the essence of law, system, basic principles, legal systems, historical sources of Georgian law;
- Describes the conceptual and value issues of human rights, the principles of limitation and the peculiarities of the national protection mechanism, the main principles of state organization and the peculiarities of the national model, the forms of activity of administrative bodies, the peculiarities of constitutional and administrative proceedings;
- Describes the private law system, the concepts and principles of civil law in details, the national mechanisms for the protection of entrepreneurial freedom and the right to work, the peculiarities of civil proceedings;
- Describes the principles of criminal law, the essence and types of crime, the punishment system, the stages and peculiarities of criminal proceedings;
- Describes the system of international law, basic principles, institutions, mechanisms of international legal responsibilities, the relationship between international and national law.
- Determines the causes of legal disputes, their main characteristics and the ways to resolve them by legal means.
- Identifies complex and unpredicted problems in the field of law and develops appropriate ways to solve them using standard and/or some of the latest methods;
- Analyzes legal norms, sources, methods in order to determine the factual circumstances of the case, evaluate them, justify positions in legal disputes, implement specific legal actions or solve other legal tasks;
- Drafts legal documents, including civil and administrative agreements, legal acts, procedural documents, individual and normative administrative acts; develops projects of a practical nature, in accordance with predetermined guidelines;
- Develops dispute resolution strategy and tactics, taking into account legal means of dispute resolution and ethics norms;
- Discusses own ideas, existing legal problems and ways to solve them with specialists and non-specialists verbally and in writing, following the principles of academic integrity and using appropriate information and communication technologies;
- Searches and identifies necessary information, including sources of national and international law, legislative changes, judicial practice, scientific news, through electronic library systems and other databases as well as basic legal information systems;
- Recognizes the need for ethical standards of a lawyer, acts within the framework of ethical and professional behavior norms of a lawyer, respects human rights, participates in the process of relevant legal proceedings taking legal values into account;
- Conducts activities focused on own development and the development of others by folowing the basic principles of individual and team work;
- Demonstrates the ability to constantly update his/her knowledge, following the principle of lifelong learning.
Methods of study
The development of practical skills in the bachelor of law program is provided by practical teaching of different study course topics, as well as by offering practical educational courses (practical component).
The curriculum uses interactive lectures and seminars, discussion/debate, group work, problem-based learning (PBL), cooperative learning, case study, analysis and synthesis, brain storming, role-playing and situational games (simulated process), demonstration method and practical work method. Students can also use the School of Law clinics and research centers.
Employment opportunities
The bachelor of law graduate can work in public, corporate, non-governmental and international organizations. In order for a person with a bachelor's degree in law to be able to work as a lawyer, prosecutor or notary, he/she must pass the state certification examinations.
The Bachelor program graduate will have an opportunity to work in any position that does not require an academic degree of Master of Law.
At the same time, the graduate of the bachelor's program is entitled to continue studies at the master's level, which is focused on the training specialists of the next level. The knowledge gained through the program will make the graduate competitive in his/her field.
Contact information
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