US and Russian Legal Systems: comparative analysis (Spring/Fall)

COURSE OUTLINE

1. GENERAL

SCHOOL/ DEPARTMENT: Department of Civil Law Disciplines
LEVEL OF STUDY: Undergraduate
COURSE TITLE: Investment Law
SEMESTER OF STUDY: Spring/Fall
LECTURERS: Olga Miroshnichenko, Assoc. Prof., PhD in Legal Science, LLM

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

After completion, students should be able to:

• to analyze and systematize information from specialized legal sources;
• to compare Russian and American legal systems with the use of special methodology;
• to identify the main legal families in the world and evaluate the similarities and dissimilarities between them;
• to understand the essence of the main legal sources in Russian and American legal systems;
• to evaluate the advantages and perspectives of American and Russian legal systems.
• to analyze the methods and purposes of Anglo-American law

General Skills

• Critical thinking;
• Comparative analysis;
• Communication skills;
• Intellectual competency;
• A good ability to find, evaluate and use relevant legal sources in a critical manner to solve a given research issue;
• ability to present complicated issues, information and ideas in an instructive, well-structured and well-written manner;
• Ethical competency.

3. COURSE CONTENTS

. Theoretical and practical issues of continental and civil legal families;

2. Considering Russian and American legal cultures;
3. Analysis of the roots of common and continental legal traditions;
4. Comparison of the differences of codified and uncodified law
5. Comparison of Russian and American legal sources;
6. Comparison of “legal precedent” and “legislative act”;
7. Structuring Russian and American court system;
8. Analyzing the main cases of US Higher Court and Russian Constitutional Court.

4. TEACHING  METHODS - ASSESMENT

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: Lectures with interactive information and practical analysis of cases.

5. BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Recommended Book and Journal Article Resources:

1. Black’s Law Dictionary
2. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Common Law.
3. Lawrence M. Friedman. A History of American Law
4. Patrick Glenn, Legal Traditions of the World (Oxford University Press, 5th ed, 2015);
5. Richard A. Posner. Overcoming Law

Additional materials will be provided later