COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMH 5027 CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Public Law

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SERDAR NARIN

Offered to

Public Law

Course Objective

To teach the students, concept of Constitutional Jurisdiction, its organs and types of constitutional review, the preventive dutys, preventive functions for protecting the constitutional balances, constructions and formations, duties and power of fundamental rights and freedoms in comparative law and Constitutional Court in Turkey, the concept of constitutionality complex, working and judgment method of Constitutional Courts, legal conclusions and effects of their decisions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To express the ideal basis of the concept of constitutional review
2   To analyse the construction and formation of constitutional courts
3   To interiorise the function of constitutional courts about preventing the constitutional balances and fundamental rights and freedoms
4   To classify the types of constitutional review
5   To clarify the duties and power of the constitutional courts
6   To express the legal conclusions, effects and obligatory of decisions of constitutional courts

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept of constitutional review
2 Meaning of constitutional review
3 Existence conditions of constitutional review
4 The function of constitutional courts about preventing the fundamental rights and freedoms
5 The function of constitutional courts about protecting the constitutional balances
6 Types of constitutional review
7 Formation and organisation of constitutional courts
8 Intermediate
9 Types and ways of constitutional review
10 Duties and power of constitutional courts
11 Norms and procedures which are subject to supervision of constitutional courts and criterion of constitutional review
12 Extent of constitutional review
13 Judgment methods of constitutional courts
14 Conclusions of becoming effective of constitutional courts decisions and Speciality and effects of constitutional courts decisions

Recomended or Required Reading

Main literature:
1.Kaboğlu Ibrahim, Anayasa Yargısı; Gülsoy M. Tevfik, Özgürlüklerin Korunmasında Anayasa Yargısının Yeri ve Meşruluğu; Aliefendioğlu Yılmaz, Anayasa Yargısı ve Türk Anayasa Mahkemesi; Tunç Hasan, Karşılaştırmalı Anayasa Yargısı; Kanadoğlu O. Korkut, Anayasa Mahkemesi, etc.
2.Monographies about constitutional review.
Secondary literature:
1. www.tbmm.gov.tr
2. www.danistay.gov.tr
3. www.yargitay.gov.tr
4. www.echr.coe.int/echr/.
5. www.basbakanlik.gov.tr
6. www.adalet.gov.tr
7. www.anayasa.gov.tr
References: Constitutional Court s and European Court Of Human Rights s decisions.
Other materials: Other materials.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, seminar, analysing Constitutional court decision.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** 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)

D.E.Ü. Hukuk Fakültesi Dokuzçeşmeler Kampusü- Buca 35160 Izmir/TÜRKIYE
Tel : (90) (232) 420 18 32 10302 ( Dahili )
E-Posta : serdarnarins@hotmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 36 36
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 170

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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