Legal Studies

Through an analysis of their health policies, this seminar examines the philosophical, historical, and political conceptions underlying the organization of health systems in France and the United States. It looks at the actions of governmental and local actors through decentralization or devolution; health systems and social coverage financing; the impact of political and media debates reflected in the texts, from the Social Security financing bills to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act instituting "Obamacare”; hospital governance; the management of care, technical, and organizational projects in hospitals; and the reality of daily life management and crises.

The course provides a basis and preconditions to constructively and critically reflect on the interplay between global health, the Convention of the Rights of the Child, and different international and national norm-supporting structures. The course
offers basic knowledge of the contents of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health, and also discusses the interplay between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health. The course discusses the importance of the Convention for the development of children's rights and living conditions, policies, strategies, and laws.
 

This course discusses ideas about law through art such as literature, cinema, painting, architecture, monuments, and music. Among the legal concepts discussed are the definition of law and justice; equality and the role of the state; transitional justice; reparations; women's struggle for resources and power; race, class, and gender discrimination; national borders; and the place of law in the family.

This course focuses on applications of psychology to the legal system. It provides insights and knowledge about typical themes within legal psychology. Such themes range from how reliable eyewitness testimonies in court are to whether criminals have a brain dysfunction making them permanently dangerous to society, to the role of experts in court. The role of psychologists within these themes is to ask questions that have a direct relevance to the legal arena and to conduct research to address these questions. Through working with cases, students become familiarize with various issues in the field in this course, for example police procedures, legal backgrounds, psychological experiments and the disputes that arise when psychology is applied to the law. Moreover, several small exercises in class are provide the opportunity to get a small taste of which tests and procedures are used by academics and professionals working in the field. Drawing from areas of social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and neuropsychology this course deal with questions such as: Are all criminals competent to stand trial? How reliable are lie-detector tests? What is the role of expert witnesses in court? What are the dangers of bias in expert testimonies? Prerequisite SSC1005 Introduction to Psychology. Recommended SSC1007 Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning and/or an interest in Law. This is a device free course. 

This course provides students with an introduction to law. It starts with the basic concepts of law, the actors in the field of law, and the different sources of law. The difference between common law and civil law is also discussed to provide a better understanding of the different traditions in Western jurisdictions. After this introduction, different fields of law are briefly discussed, illustrated with examples taken from cases. The second part of the course focuses on the rule of law, legal philosophy, and legal reasoning.  Then the relation between national law, regional law (i.e., European Law), and international law are discussed. In the last two lectures, students take the role of decision-maker to experience the application of law in practice and what kind of predicaments one might encounter.

This course is a study of the ideology, politics, and social systems of Catalonia and the Catalan people within Spain and greater Europe. It discusses the interaction between various legal systems, the various political parties and interest groups, and the evolution of communication. Topics include: historical evolutions in law and civil rights in Spain, comparison between common law and civil law, the Catalonian parliament, European elections, Spanish university culture, and the mass media in Spain.