LAW

The program aims to expand individual's awareness by appreciation of the meaning of law and formation of justice based values. Student composes individual profile through concentration of subjects of different specialization. The program endeavors practice-oriented learning as well as students’ integration in professional environment and research activities.

Compulsory elements entail working groups oriented towards the development of various practical and research skills. Legal clinics ensure broader guidance and teach how to choose effective ways for resolving common problems of the society. Student learns by Doing.

The program ensures integrated teaching enabling to understand historical background of various legal institutes and to interrelate issues of different disciplines. Program components complement one another. In teaching methodology prevails comparative teaching and retrieving the gained competences through reiteration (repetitorium) in private, public and criminal law with integrated international law elements, facilitates the entry into a professional life.

Program (Qualification): 

Bachelor's Degree in Law

ECTS / Duration: 

240 credits / 4 years 

Annual tuition fee:

2250 ლ 

The Language of Instruction:

Georgian

  Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

The aim of the program is to develop competencies in the field of comparative private and/or international law needed for conducting activities at internationally active national, as well as international and transnational institutions. As a student, you can get acquainted with modern developments in respective fields and be able to conduct independent research in accordance with NQF VII level competencies.

The broad choice between comparative private and international law components enables a student to shape his/her profile in either way: to make emphasis on comparative private law or on international law or to combine components from both concentrations and develop competencies most suitable for prospective employment. Core courses are offered only in the first semester of the course developing competencies generally necessary in both fields of concentration.

Methods employed are widely based on the mixture of interactive teaching and promotion of independent personal development through a combination of theoretical components and practical experience, aiming at the development of skills and values needed to interpret the law in line with the requirements of human rights primacy, i.e. equality and proportionality. 

The Graduates will have:

• Broad and systemic knowledge in the field of chosen concentration, which fosters development of original ideas and exposure to the wider understanding of the lawyer’s role in the changing environment;

• Ability to act in a new, unpredictable and multidisciplinary environment while providing complex assessment of legal problems and developing original ways of resolving them through utilization of the most recent methods and approaches in analyzing legislative developments and judicial practice;

• Ability to make sound judgments on the basis of critical analysis of complex and incomplete information (including analysis of novelties in the context of new legislative regulation, judicial practice or recent research approaches) and capacity to synthesize innovatively recent data with older one;

• Ability to communicate own judgments, arguments, and research methods to academic and professional community in the English language, with due consideration of the academic integrity/disclaiming standards and recent developments in the field of information, technology and communication;

• Ability to independently manage learning process, to determine the synthesis of theoretical components and practical experience, as well as to expand own knowledge on the basis of recent methods through generalized analysis of primary sources, academic articles and court decisions;

• Ability to evaluate own and others’ attitude towards values, to analyse the existing legal values with a view to fair balancing of the party interests and, in the case of need, contribute to the creation of new ones; to develop values needed to interpret law in line with the requirements of human rights primacy (i.e. equality, proportionality) and to contribute to the establishment of new solutions.

The program was re-accredited on January 22th, 2019 through involvement of international experts.

Program (Qualification): 

Master of Laws

ECTS / Duration: 

120 credits / 2 years

Annual tuition fee:

4500$

The Language of Instruction:

English / Georgian

Master’s program in Comparative Private and International Law

The objective of the program for the Doctorate in Law is to contribute to the free development of an individual and expansion of human vision through enhancement of the existing knowledge and establishment of innovative methods in lawmaking and interpretation of legal rules. It also aims to enhance the research and teaching competencies by NQF VIII level learning outcomes.

Introduction to the basic research tools is provided in the first semester of the doctoral program through specific core course schedule (Basic Tools for Ph.D. Research). Skills gained within this framework enable students to get acquainted with the organizational tools of the PhD-research, to learn specificities of working with primary sources while incorporating secondary sources.

The primary method utilized in the program is the practice of “learning by doing,” which demands that a student submits components referred to an own doctoral thesis. Following semester provides a choice for a student: to accomplish core teaching elements (Teaching Methods I or II ), to start with professor guided research or to continue studies with the first colloquium.

The seminar is a teaching component and thus is not related to the doctoral thesis, yet the colloquium is the doctoral thesis related component and extensively reflects the parts of a dissertation. On the other hand, unlike to the professor guided research in which large scale of guidance is available, the colloquium is primarily based on independent work.

A reasonable mixture of professor guided research and independently conducted colloquium (three 15 credit component each) supports the development of those skills which are conditioned by independent or interactive work respectively. Teaching Methods II and II Seminar are electives, enabling a student to further shape his/her profile, especially when a student demonstrates the specific interest in teaching rather than in conducting additional research.

Program (Qualification):

Doctorate in Law (Doctoris iuris, Doctor of Law)

ECTS / Duration:

180 credits / 3 years

Annual tuition fee:

2,500 ლ

The Language of Instruction:

English / Georgian

PhD - Doctorate in Law