COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 3026 CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR YAŞAR METIN ÖZDEMIR

Offered to

Public Administration
Public Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

To inform students about the legal rules and procedures in order to ensure supremacy of the Constitution.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to analyze the theories of the separation of powers and the supremacy of the constitution.
2   Being able to determine the Constitutional Court s role in democracies
3   Being able to determine the structure of the Constitutional Court
4   Being able to distinguish between concrete and abstract review
5   Being able to put forward the norms which are subject to constitutional review
6   Being able to determine the legal regime of constitutional complaint
7   Being able to discuss the legal effects of the decisions of the Constitutional Court.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Constitutional Courts: The concept of supremacy of the Constitution, the doctrine of separation of powers.
2 Legitimacy of constitutional courts
3 Constitutional justice models
4 Constitutional courts powers and structure
5 Abstract review model
6 Concrete review model
7 Legal norms and omissions subject to the constitutional control
8 Mid-term exam
9 Mid-term exam
10 Scope of Constitutional review
11 Constitutional complaint (individual application) path.
12 Decisions of Constitutional Courts.
13 Effects and execution of Constitutional Court decisions
14 Procedure of the Constitutional Courts

Recomended or Required Reading

Kaboğlu Ibrahim Özden, Anayasa Yargısı, Ankara 2007.
Aliefendioğlu Yılmaz, Anayasa Yargısı ve Türk Anayasa Mahkemesi, Ankara 1996.
Tunç Hasan, Karşılaştırmalı Anayasa Yargısı, Ankara 1997.
Yardımcı Kaynak
Kanadoğlu O., Korkut, Anayasa Mahkemesi, Istanbul 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical lectures. Discussion of current issues. It is done practical excercises to strengthen the theoretical knowledge.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

metin.ozdemir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.144
LO.2444444
LO.343
LO.44443333
LO.53
LO.6344444
LO.7443