Legal Studies

The course provides an overview of working in the United Kingdom and examines the changing organizational structures of work in Britain. It examines the social and economic changes that affect the workplace in the UK. Topics covered include the sociology of work; trade unions; oppression at work; generational changes at work. 

This course offers a broad introduction to international law and provides a foundation for more specialized course of international law.

This course will cover topics including the key sources, actors and institutions of international law; the application of international law by domestic courts; adjudication by international judicial bodies; extraterritorial application of domestic law; and specific issue areas such as international crimes, international trade, the law of the sea, and the use of force.

The course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course studies the legal foundations of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the ECB mandate of monetary policy also in comparison with the Federal Reserve system and central banking in other relevant jurisdictions. Conventional and unconventional monetary policy instruments are considered in depth, also in light of relevant CJEU case law. Macroprudential supervision, lending of last resort and remits over financial stability are discussed in all their institutional and legal implications.

This course examines legal and ethical issues in data engineering. Topics include: information society and telecommunications; personal data protection; information society services; the electronic administration; intellectual and industrial property; online criminal and punitive law; professional deontology and codes of conduct.

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.

The course provides students with an understanding of ‘who does what’ in the Russian echelons of power, who makes law, how laws are made, how they are structured and how they are applied. Example seminar topics include: division of legal systems into legal families, key characteristics of Russian law: codification of the law and the key codes, sources of law, including the highest law of the land, the 1993 Constitution, notable international treaties and the role of court decisions, Russian legal culture, including judges’ reasoning, and Russia’s government structure and key institutions, including the role of the President, the concept of super-presidentialism and also, silovyki or power ministries. 

This course explores and fosters an understanding of the American criminal justice system, with an emphasis on federal criminal law and procedure. Though the course is taught with the basics in mind (using a combination of lecture and Socratic method), students are encouraged to explore well beyond the basics. Topics include overview of constitutional governance in America; classification of offenses; crime specific elements and intent requirements; criminal responsibility (accessories, aiding and abetting, conspiring); constitutionally protected rights; anatomy of a federal criminal case; selected federal offenses intersecting foreign interest in trade, commerce, and travel; and an overview of the death penalty in America.