COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF LAW OF OBLIGATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HUK 1055 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF LAW OF OBLIGATIONS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Law

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NALAN TUNCER

Offered to

Law

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to help the students, who will take during the third and fourth semester Law of Obligations Course, which is very comprehensive and hard, to success through providing a basis for this compulsory course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize the mainly principles which influence the Law of Obligations
2   Be aware of the differences between the sources of the obligations and their results
3   To comprehend the content of the obligation relationship
4   To understand the effect of the legal transactions on the asset

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Law of Obligations Definition of the Law of Obligation, its place according to the other law sections and its importance, its function and mainly principles which influence the Law of Obligation.
2 Obligation Relationship (Obligation in a broad sense) Parties, content, sources, termination of the obligation relationship and especially its diference from the obligation in the strict sense
3 Concepts of duty, obligation, deed, burden, liability The places of these concepts according to the eachother, their similarities and differences
4 Credit and the related rights, claim
5 imperfect obligations Concept of the imperfect obligations and the most common types of them in our Law of Obligations, espacially prescription.
6 Obligations arive from legal transactions Consept of the legal transaction and its elements, especially decleration of intention
7 Obligations arive from legal transactions Legal transactions according to their effects on the asset (obligatory-dispositive-acquisitive transactions and diference between real rights and personal rights)
8 Obligations arive from legal transactions Legal grounds of acquisitive transactions, difference between legal ground and motive, situations, in which the content of motive is important in the Law of Obligation
9 Official holiday (Fest of Ramadan) Concluding of contractions (Offer, invitation to an offer, acceptance- general terms of transactions)
10 Obligations arive from legal transactions
11 Tort Elements of the liability from tort, types of objective liability
12 Performance, impossibility of the performance, failure of the performance and espaciailly default
13 Midterm Exams Week
14 Special situations in obligatin relationships Parties, place, time of the performance; different apperances from failure of performance and their results, default of debtor and creditor
15 Special situations in obligatin relationships Solidarity, conditions, bargain money-forfait money and espacially penal clause

Recomended or Required Reading

REISOĞLU, SAFA: Borçlar Hukuku, Genel Hükümler, Istanbul 2014.
EREN, FIKRET: Borçlar Hukuku Genel Hükümler, Ankara 2017.
OĞUZMAN, M.KEMAL/ÖZ, TURGUT: Borçlar Hukuku Genel Hükümler, C.I-II. Istanbul 2016.
KOCAYUSUFPAŞAOĞLU, NECIP/ HATEMI, HÜSEYIN/ SEROZAN, RONA/ ARPACI, ABDÜLKADIR: Borçlar Hukuku Genel Bölüm, Istanbul 2014.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


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)

damla.gurpinar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 15:00- 16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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