Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Legal Policy
Course Code
JF_463
Branch of Science
Law; Theory and History of Rights
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Juridical Science
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Andrejs Vilks
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
Promote the understanding of the doctoral students of legal policy, drafting of legal acts and their implementation, objective conditionality of legal policy; and the interaction of legal policy with the public administration system.
Preliminary Knowledge
Theory of Law, Politics and Law, Philosophy of Law.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Doctoral students are able to demonstrate that they are familiar with and understand the most topical conclusions of legal policy; have mastered legal policy planning, their essential ways, the strategy for drafting legislative acts and drafting proposals for amendments to legislative acts.
Skills
1.Doctoral students are able to independently evaluate and analyse the aims, objectives, content, possibilities of implementation of political documents (conventions, regulations, directives, concepts, guidelines, strategies, programmes, plans, information reports); to use the relationship of the analysed political documents with the topics of the selected and approved doctoral theses; to build a legal-political basis for the topicality and innovative approach of the selected topics for doctoral theses.
Competences
1.Doctoral students are capable of solving important legal policy tasks through independent, critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation, and they are able to demonstrate understanding of the legal and political framework; by acquiring in-depth knowledge and skills to enrich the theoretical and empirical part of the doctoral thesis with legal policy planning documents.
Assessment
Individual work
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1.
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Compilation of legal policy planning documents corresponding to the subject of the doctoral thesis, analysis thereof and presentation of the results obtained.
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Examination
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Grade
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1.
Examination |
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Preparation of the compilation of political planning documents; analysis of the political planning documents corresponding to the subject of the doctoral thesis; presentation of the results obtained.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Introduction to the study course.
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Lecture
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Modality
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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The concept and nature of politics.
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Lecture
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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The concept and nature of legal policy.
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Lecture
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Planning of legal policy.
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Lecture
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Results of analysis of political planning documents for the doctoral students’ Doctoral Theses.
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Results of analysis of political planning documents for the doctoral students’ Doctoral Theses.
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Results of analysis of political planning documents for the doctoral students’ Doctoral Theses.
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Lecture
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Modality
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Results of analysis of political planning documents for the doctoral students’ Doctoral Theses.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
16 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Test
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Bojārs Juris. Politiskās stratēģijas māksla un demokrātija. Rīga, Zvaigzne ABC, 2002.
2.
Zahars Vitolds. Latvijas kriminālpolitika: retrospekcija un nākotnes vīzija, Daugavpils, Saule, 2011, (15a/l) – Monogrāfija.
3.
Zahars Vitolds. “Latvijas kriminālpolitika: realitāte, ilūzijas un īss ieskats nākotnē”, zinātniskais raksts žurnālā „Administratīvā un Kriminālā Justīcija”, Rīga, BSA, Nr. 2/2010
4.
Vilks A. Krimināltiesiskā politika: diskursa analīze un attīstības perspektīvas. Rīga, Drukātuva, 2013.
5.
. Levits Egīls. European Community Low within the hierarchy of legal norms of Latvia//First Year in the European Union: Current Legal Issues. Rīga, 2005., p.9.-31.
6.
The Fifth Year as European Union Member States: Topical Problems in Management of Economics and Law. Proceedings of the International Conference 8 – 9 May 2009. Riga, 2009.
Additional Reading
1.
Dworkin R. Taking Rights Seriously. Harvard, 2000.
2.
Hanovs D., Mihailovs I.J., Tēraudkalns V. Globalizācija: teorijas un prakses. Rīga, [b.i.], 2006.
3.
Jundzis T. Drošības apdraudējumi un riski nākotnē//Latvija Eiropā: nākotnes vīzijas. Rīga, LZA, 2004., 9.-30.lpp.
4.
Kusiņš G. Normatīvo aktu jaunrade//Mūsdienu tiesību teorijas atziņas. Rīga, Tiesu namu aģentūra, 1999., 116.-128.lpp.
5.
10. Neimanis J. Ievads tiesībās. Rīga, zv.adv. J.Neimanis, 2004.
6.
Plotnieks A. Tiesību teorija & juridiskā metode. Rīga, Izglītības soļi, 2009.
7.
Reihs N. Izprotot Eiropas Savienības tiesības. Kopienas tiesību mērķi, principi un metodes. Rīga, Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2004.
8.
Krūmiņa V., Skujiņa V. Normatīvo aktu izstrādes rokasgrāmata. Rīga, Valsts kanceleja, 2002.
Other Information Sources
1.
Latvijas zvērinātu advokātu padome: sk.: http://advokatura.lv/
2.
Latvijas zvērinātu notāru padome: sk.: http://notery.lv/
3.
Latvijas zvērinātu tiesas izpildītāju padome: sk.: http://lzti.lv/
4.
Latvijas tiesnešu biedrība: sk.: http://ltb.lv/
5.
Valsts policija: sk.: http://vp.gov.lv/
6.
Latvijas Republikas Satversmes tiesa: sk.: http://satv.tiesa.gov.lv/
7.
Latvijas juristu biedrība: sk.: http://ljb.lv/
8.
Tieslietu ministrija, tās padotībā esošās iestādes un padotībā esošās iestādes un informatīvie resursi: sk.: http://tm.gov.lv/
9.
Iekšlietu ministrija: sk. http://iem.gov.lv
10.
Politiskās plānošanas dokumentu datu bāze: http://polsis.mk.gov.lv/news.do