Master
2024/2025
Methodology of Jurisprudence and Canon Law
Type:
Compulsory course (State-Сonfessional Relations. Legal Regulation of the Operations of Religious Organisations)
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
Higher School of Law and Administration
Where:
Higher School of Law and Administration
When:
1 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Государственно-конфессиональные отношения. Правовое регулирование деятельности религиозных объединений
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.