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Methodology of Jurisprudence and Canon Law

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Delivered at:
Higher School of Law and Administration
Course type:
Compulsory course
When:
1 year, 3 module

Instructor


Сильвестрова Елена Витальевна

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.