Introduction to law

Introduction to law

Données clés

Professeur(s)	Victor Monnier
Cours	Introduction to law

Lectures

• The Definition of Law
• The State
• The different branches of law
• The sources of law
• The great formative traditions of law
• The elements of the legal relationship
• The application of law
• The implementation of a law
• The evolution of Switzerland from its origins to the 20th century
• Switzerland's domestic legal framework
• Switzerland's state structure, political system and neutrality
• The evolution of international relations from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century
• The universal organizations
• European organisations and their relations with Switzerland
• Categories and generations of fundamental rights
• The origins of fundamental rights
• Declarations of rights at the end of the 18th century
• Towards the construction of a universal conception of fundamental rights in the 20th century

This teaching should enable students who are not lawyers to familiarize themselves with the essential concepts of law. The course covers the different approaches to law, general legal theory, Switzerland's internal and external legal frameworks, international organisations and fundamental rights. This teaching is provided in the form of courses, but also of working sessions, the objective of which is to introduce the student to the study of the sources of law, in particular through the analysis and commentary of a series of fundamental texts.

Languages

English Español

Lectures

Approaches to law

Définition du droit

L’État

Les différentes branches du droit

Les sources du droit

Les grandes traditions formatrices du droit

The general theory of law

Les éléments de la relation juridique

L’application du droit

La mise en œuvre d’une loi

Switzerland's Legal and Political Frameworks

L’évolution de la Suisse des origines au XXème siècle

Le cadre juridique interne de la Suisse

La structure d’État, le régime politique et la neutralité de la Suisse

Developments in international law and international organizations

L’évolution des relations internationales de la fin du XIXe au milieu du XXe siècle

Les organisations universelles

Les organisations européennes et leurs relations avec la Suisse

Fundamental rights

Les catégories et les générations de droits fondamentaux

Les origines des droits fondamentaux

Les déclarations des droits de la fin du XVIIIe siècle

Vers l’édification d’une conception universelle des droits fondamentaux au XXe siècle

Documentary resources

• Code civil suisse
• La Confédération en bref
• Constitution fédérale de la Confédération suisse
• Histoire du droit - cours et textes ; 2008 - 2009 ; basé sur le cours du professeur Monnier