2024/2025

Methodology of Jurisprudence and Canon Law

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Higher School of Law and Administration

When: 3 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "Legal Method in Secular and Canon Law" is intended to familiarize students with the main problems associated with the possibilities of applying categories, concepts, approaches adopted in secular legal science, to canon law, first of all, to the law of the Russian Orthodox Church, the specifics of canon law in comparison with secular legal systems, including the combination of canonical principles in canon law and "acrivia"; the course is aimed at forming students' understanding of the concept of “church offense” and the purpose of “church punishment (penance), the peculiarities of the interpretation of church rules in comparison with modern approaches to the interpretation of the rule of law.