جامعة النجاح الوطنية
An-Najah National University
Law Program – Minor in Legal Studies in Hebrew
Duration: 48 Months (4 Years)
Degree Awarded: Bachelor
Student must complete 142 credit hours

University Requirements Student must complete 19 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
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Remedial english (e10032100) is a three-hour non-credited english course offered to studentswho score poorly (i.e. below 50%) on the placement test. since the major concern of this courseis to improve the students proficiency before starting their ordinary university english basiccourses and major courses taught in english, special emphasis has been placed on enhancing thestudents ability to effectively acquire the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, andspeaking. specifically, the course attempts to ensure an academically acceptable performance onthe part of the students at the level of the english basic courses. moreover, the course aims atexpanding students vocabulary needed for various tasks.
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This course aims to establish the concept of islamic culture and its position among the other international cultures, its position in the muslim life, its sources, its bases and its characteristics. it also aims to introduce the islamic culture in faith, worship, relations, morals, and knowledge, to discuss the clash between cultures in addition to globalization, human rights, woman rights, democracy and other contemporary issues.
3
This course aims to improve the level of students in language skills and various literary, read and absorb and express written, and oral and tasted literary, through texts flags authors and poets in different eras, lessons in grammar and spelling, and brief definition months dictionaries and arab old ones the modern and how to use them. this course aims to implement the arabic language in the areas of reading and expression of both types oral and written communication.
3
University english i (e11000103) is a three credit-hour university-required english language course designed for students who need to work on the four skills of the language: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. the development of vocabulary and skills of comprehension are integral parts of the course. in addition, various reading strategies (making predictions, identifying main ideas, reading for details, relating information in the text to life experience) are introduced and developed through a wide range of topics for reading and writing. the course encourages a more analytical and independent approach to study and helps prepare the students for any subsequent exam preparation.
3
The course is mandatory for university students from various disciplines, so it provides students with knowledge and `information about the palestinian reality and in particular the political developments of the palestinian cause since its inception until the present day in line social and economic developments and political which constitute the main pillars for the study of the palestinian political reality. this course aims to study the palestinian issue from its beginning until present in social, economic and political issues.
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This course aims to connect university students with charitable, community, and public institutions, while also enhancing students role towards society and familiarizing them with humanitarian needs by providing assistance to targeted groups. it seeks to improve the living conditions of marginalized and impoverished populations. the course prioritizes achieving the greatest possible number of sustainable development goals (sdgs) within the palestinian context. this is not only through raising awareness and introducing these goals, but also by offering students opportunities to engage practically in implementing various sdgs locally. students will participate in programs, projects, and activities aimed at reducing poverty and hunger, providing medical services, treatment, and medication to marginalized and poor groups, supporting gender equality and education, including persons with disabilities and special needs, preserving water resources and natural resources, raising awareness on alternative and clean energy, caring for the environment and agriculture, recycling solid materials, rejecting discrimination, promoting green spaces, and encouraging productive and forestry farming. students enrolled in the course can join different stages designed with alternatives for each phase, allowing them to complete the requirements under flexible conditions. this approach benefits the community while developing students skills and experiences.
1
The course aims to assist students in acquiring modern concepts in the field of communication and understanding the essential skills for effective communication with oneself and others. this is achieved through the use of effective teaching methods that rely on student engagement and motivation to learn through training and self-directed learning. the course emphasizes skill development through teamwork and interactive methods, helping students improve their verbal and non-verbal communication skills by learning public speaking and the fundamentals of oration. additionally, it helps students develop active listening skills, and contributes to enhancing their abilities in dialogue and persuasion, overcoming public speaking anxiety, self-promotion, negotiation, job interviews, presentation and delivery, and writing. the course also provides students with knowledge about innovative and creative ideas that can be implemented, as well as how to write a resume. furthermore, the course aims to refine students' personalities through participation in group presentations.
11000129 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 2
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University english ii (e11000326) is a three-credit hour university-required english language course which is offered to students majoring in law. in reading, students will be exposed to a variety of materials, in law, taken from college texts, magazines, newspapers and related literature. students will learn how to identify main ideas, use context clues, build vocabulary, and recognize organizational structure and rhetorical strategies. in writing, students will gain mastery of english sentence structure and paragraph. in speaking, the focus will be on development of conversational skills useful in everyday life. in listening, the aim is to perfect students pronunciation, stress, and intonation and help them understand a spoken text. the course also aims at preparing students to function effectively in the world of work, in law, after graduation.

Faculty Optional Requirements Student must complete 3 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
3
    • 11101311
    • 11101315
This course aims to introduce the students to legal regulation and the working process in legal departments. it provides students with field training in specialized legal departments as students spend 192 hours; 4 hours daily and 12 weekly. students are evaluated by both the legal department and the course teacher.
3
    • 11101311
    • 11101315
The legal clinic course aims to train students on scientific solving of legal issues sent to the legal clinic by offering the customers services and consulting for free. students spend 192 hours, four daily and 12 weekly, and are evaluated by the legal clinic director.
3
    • 11101315
    • 11101311
The course aims to teach students the practical aspects of legal life by simulating civil, criminal, and administrative courts and presenting cases before a court. roles are distributed among students, including the governing body, prosecutors, and the defense. students spend 96 hours and are evaluated according to their functional performance.

Speciality Requirements Student must complete 81 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
3
This course aims to introduce students to the nature and historical development of law, and how to formulate its rules and identify the goals, properties and sources of these rules, as well as categorize legal principles, apply and interpret them.
3
In this course students study the nature and development of commercial law, merchandising and general laws that regulate business. the course provides a detailed reference to different types of commercial contracts: commercial sale contracts, agency contracts, broker agreement contracts, commission contracts and contracts of carriage.
3
This course provides a definition of constitutional law in political systems. the course introduces students to different constitutional systems, methods of granting power, electoral procedure, individual rights and public freedoms. the separation of powers between the legislature, judiciary and executive- is examined, addressing the philosophy behind the separation and the respective responsibilities and areas of influence of each of these organs of government.
3
This course mainly focuses on general theories, sources of international law and the development of law making processes. emphasis will be placed upon the role of law in times of peace and war. students learn about states rights and duties within this framework, and the legal means of settling inter-state conflicts. (palestine and the international law).
3
    • 11101110 or
    • 111101
This course introduces students to the definition of civil law and its foundations. it particularly focuses on individual, real and pecuniary rights and sources of obligation. the course defines contract law, including types of contracts, conditionality, individual will, detrimental acts, and responsibilities. the course also covers dishonest assistance, misrepresentation and unjust enrichment.
3
    • 11101115
This course is a study of the effects of obligation in terms of explaining optional implementation means, namely, payment, settling of accounts, unity of pecuniary; means of compulsory implementation, namely, real implementation, implementation through compensation; means of protecting execution, urgent case-direct and indirect trials, modified definitions of obligation effects, right to imprison, conditions, terms and clearance impossibility of execution passing of time preventing from hearing lawsuits.
3
This course aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct legal research in accordance with the scientific and objective principles adopted in the field of law. this includes an introduction to legal research methodologies and tools, and the formal and objective standards of legal research. the course also deals with methods of handling legal texts in terms of interpretation, analysis, rooting, deducing principles, pointing out defects, and the rules regulating the formulation of various legal researches, whether it is research, an article, a a judicial judgments commentary, or legal advice.in addition, in light of technical developments, the course integrates a focus on the mechanisms and ethics of employing artificial intelligence in the field of legal research. this part of the course addresses the concepts of privacy, justice, impartiality, and responsibility when using legal analysis techniques based on artificial intelligence, whether in collecting data, processing it, or forming conclusions.
3
    • 11101111
This course covers a number of topics, including the definition of commercial companies, their types, their dissolution, their divisions, the way of establishing them, their registration, administration (management) and liquidation. furthermore, the course also provides the definition of bankruptcy, its causes, conditions, types, position of law towards it, penalty imposed on bankrupt traders, in some cases, particularly when it is criminal bankruptcy
3
    • 11101215
    • 11101111
This course covers a number of topics including the definition of commercial papers, their characteristics, types, policies (order bills), checks, the establishment of commercial drafts and their exchange and the guarantee of their payment and the expiration of obligation cited in them. in addition, the course tackles banks in terms of their definition, and their role in economy, development, in external and internal trade as well as loans, their conditions, interests and their kinds.
3
    • 11101313
This course covers the implementation of civil and commercial procedure law, in terms of time and place, and the important principles on which the litigation system is based, formation of courts, degrees of litigation in these courts, including urgent litigation. the course also deals with the rules of jurisdiction, conflict of jurisdiction and its types and international jurisdiction of judiciary. furthermore, the course will examine lawsuit theory and litigation procedures; bringing legal action, its conditions, notifying the appellee, trial proceedings, consideration of the case, aspects of its use, requests, motions of defense, intervention, adjournment of the lawsuit case and its termination, sentences and their types, determination of their effects and ways of appealing against them.
3
    • 11101311
This course covers the law of evidence according to the different fiqh schools. it also includes a study of evidence: written evidence, testimony, and the new argument of quran in proof, besides admission, the right, preview, and experience in accordance with the rules set out in civil law and evidence law.
3
    • 11101210
This course is a study of the most common contracts: lease and sale contracts. the course will provide students with a definition of sale contracts, their characteristics, elements, rules, impacts and expiration. the course will discuss proprietor and tenant law.
3
    • 11101317
    • 11101316
This course defines the code of criminal procedure and explains its relationship to other branches of law, particularly penal law. it also outlines the scope of criminal procedural provision and examines the various stages of criminal proceedings, starting with the preliminary investigation and its various procedures (the preliminary investigation stage). it then examines lawsuits arising from crimes, identifying their parties, limitations, etc. the course also examines civil lawsuits arising from criminal lawsuits, in terms of their conditions and effects. criminal judicial is also studied in terms of its formation and organizational rules. it then examines the various rules of jurisdiction, criminal trial procedures and their origins, as well as the rules of evidence, judgments, and ways of appeal, whether ordinary or exceptional.
3
    • 11102114 or
    • 11101211
This course addresses crimes against persons such as murder of different types (premeditated murder, depraved, felony murder) and crimes of abuse, indecent assault, rape, abortion, crimes against freedom, threats, defamation as well as crimes like (forgery, bribery).
3
    • 11101316
This course will address the crimes against property such as theft and embezzlement, fraud and the crime of giving a check without balance and methods of credit
3
    • 11101313
This course introduces palestinian labor law. topics covered include definition of the law, its historical development, its sources, contracts based on it, conditions for their validity, subsequent obligations on employer and employee, reasons for termination of an individuals work contract, collective labor contract, union organizations, ways of settling labor disputes with special reference to the most important rights, and advantages and disadvantages of these unions.
3
    • 11101312
This course studies the powers of the executive council; its responsibilities, authority, structure and competence. along with methods of enforcement, it also covers executive bonds and methods of executing the local and foreign judgments, funds that may be excluded, custody and consequences.
3
    • 11101313
This course covers the fundamentals of insurance, its emergence, evolution and types of insurance; in addition to studying the effects, and obligations of the insurer and the insured according to the insurance contract. legal solutions, direct matter and obsolescence will also be covered
3
    • 11101313
This course deals with commercial arbitration as an alternative means of resolving disputes. conditions of an arbitration agreement are covered along with procedures, issuance of an award, objections to implementation, and appeal. all this is in the context of palestinian arbitration law. the course deals with the definition of international commercial arbitration and what distinguishes it from domestic arbitration, and its role in international trade relations.
3
    • 11101311
This course begins with the definition of private international law, its sources, its nature, general theory of law conflict, analysis of evidence base and schools, concerning the theory of conflict of jurisdiction and types of this latter.
3
    • 11101313
The main part of this course is concerned with land law. this includes classification of estates, registered and unregistered conveyance, co-ownership and trusts of land, leases, licenses, easements, covenants and mortgages.
3
    • 10602418 or
    • 11101313
The main part of this course is concerned with land law. this includes classification of estates, registered and unregistered conveyance, co-ownership and trusts of land, leases, licenses, easements, covenants and mortgages.learning outcomes: after successful completion of this course, students should have gained knowledge of the working land and real estate laws since the ottomanic rule until now.
3
    • 11101110
This course tackles two subjects: divorce and marriage. topics covering marriage include definition, wisdom behind it, legality, engagement, elements of marriage contract, legal conditions for its completion, conditions tied to contract, effect of marriage contract on dowry, adequate support of wife, fair treatment of wife in case of polygamy; loyalty to husband and decision-making at home. in the second part of the course, students will learn about divorce, its divisions, khulu (initiating divorce by wife), its prescriptions or rules; custody (of infant) and its rules, and kinship expenses
3
    • 11102101
Topics covered in this course include legacy and rights pertinent to it, reasons and conditions of inheritance, men and women heirs, reduction of heirs' shares, distribution of remaining shares among heirs, greed, and abolishment, as well as kinship inheritance. another topic covered in this course is the will in terms of its wisdom, pillars, conditions, voiding, retraction, acceptance, rejection and obligatory will. the last topic is wakf (endowment). the course will look at the meaning, conditions and rules governing wakf.
3
    • 11101110
This course discusses general legal rules applicable to criminal convictions. it addresses reasons for disclosure and the liability of the culprit, instigator and accomplice. students will examine the personal and territorial jurisdiction of penalty law.
3
    • 11101110
This course provides students with a definition of administrative law, and knowledge of its origins and sources. the rules governing public authorities and public spending will be examined.
3
    • 11102116
This course introduces administrative judiciary, traces its development and explains the principle of legitimacy, the laws of guaranteeing its implementation, and determining types of controlling the administration, particularly judiciary control, its types, its development and organization. the course will provide examples, namely, from egypt, france and jordan. students will also be introduced to supreme court of justice in jordan, its specialization, lawsuit abrogation, its definition, its characteristics, conditions for its acceptance, aspects of its cancellation and its judgment

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 12 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
3
    • 11000102
The objective is to equip law students with the skill of writing presently to express meanings clearly and avoid common errors in expression. this includes an understanding of expressive methods and the rules of linguistic interpretation of texts, as well as the correctness of legal writing and research language.
3
    • 11101113
This course provides students with a definition of human rights, and knowledge of their historical overview, evolution and types. it shows the application and implementation of international covenants on human rights and civil liberties at the national level. students will learn about the development of the international recognition of human rights, the united nations and human rights, the universal declaration of human right and the international agreements and covenants on human rights. this course examines the basic concepts of human rights and its origins, explaining the major international and regional human rights instruments such as treaties and recommendations as well as international instruments that are still in progress such as peremptory norm (also called jus cogens). in addition, this course addresses the content of human rights and the first, second and third generation rights. moreover, it introduces the international means for protecting and strengthening human rights worldwide. for example, the legal means: reports system, complaints of states and individuals, and investigation committees, or the political and economic pressure, as well as using power or the theory of intervention for the benefit of humanity. contemporary issues such as honour crimes, violence against women, and the death penalty will be examined.
3
    • 11101113
This course introduces the law of war and how it developed starting from the second half of the nineteenth century. the course also examines the most important sources of this law: customary and conventional ones. the course, further, discusses the most important legal obligations of disputing parties and neutral states, and the duties of the occupying country towards the occupied region and its population. the course ends with an illustration of the characteristics of war and occupation law and its shortcomings. palestine is takes as an example
3
    • 11101313
This course includes a detailed examination of the four civil contracts, agency, guarantee, contracting and assignment. in the first type of contract, the course examines the creation of the agency and its implications and expiration. in the second type of contract, students are introduced to the meaning, elements, types and effects of the contract, particularly between the guarantor and the lender, and between the guarantor and the borrower. in the third type of the contract, the course will focus on the contractor's obligations vis--vis the employer's obligations, and expiration of contracting contracts. in the fourth contract, the course addresses the types of agency and its creation, implications and expiration.
3
    • 11101110
This course aims to identify the importance of electronic commerce and the evolution of international laws in this area. students will study the establishment of the electronic contract and the problem this can cause in relation to validity
3
    • 11101111
This course examines the international trade law, its sources and evolution. the most important international trade contracts are addressed, including: the international sale of goods, as well as the most international conventions and norms in international trade law.
3
    • 11101316
This course is a study of various forms of suspicious deaths, for example, murder, honor crimes, rape and methods of identification including fingerprinting, use of forensic doctors and their specialties. the course will further teach students techniques used in discovering forgery and fraud.
3
    • 11101313
This course is an analytical study of the gift, bare trust, and the loan in terms of establishment, legal effect and expiry. it also includes a study of fiqh's different points of views on such contracts.
3
This course requires students to consider the moral aspects of a career in law. the ethical values and practices of judges, lawyers, prosecutors, legal advisers and law professors will be considered along with the disciplinary procedures applied in cases of misconduct. in respect of client confidences, candor toward the tribunal, truthfulness in statements to others, and professional independence are some of the defining features of legal ethics.
3
    • 11101112
It deals with the genesis of constitutional rules, the evolution of the system of constitutional governance and general constitutional fundamentals in palestine, and how the constitutions of palestine are put forward, their nature, objectives, and their organization of public authorities in terms of jurisdiction and relationship. it also addresses the nature of the constitutional system in palestine, the real practice of political sovereignty, and the features of the current constitutional system
3
    • 11101110
Looking at topics related to local administration, the course will cover the rules governing local administration, competences and the relationship with the central administration. students will learn about the expertise of each administrative body, systems of practice, types of administrative control in the context of democracy and accountability. students will come away with a sound theoretical basis of administrative law and its relationship with ensuring respect for rule of law and protecting public interests.
3
    • 11101311
In this course students will learn about the various types of legal drafting: the legislative drafting, drafting the pleadings and the submissions, writing the judicial decisions, contracts, agreements, legal letters, and legal consultations... etc.
3
    • 11101113
It studies sides of the international law that is related to the rights and protection of refugees in general, with extra focus on the palestinian refugees, and the cases related to them in terms of history of the palestinian forced migration, the localization of the refugees, the return to the home country, their protection and the un resolutions concerned with them.
3
    • 11101313
This course studies the legal relationship between the doctor and the patient and the contracted agreements, professional responsibility, medical mistakes and life medicine ethics. it also addresses the medical legislations in palestine in comparison with other legislations.
3
    • 11101313
This course will deal with the divisions of judgments, the procedures for issuing them, the implications of the judgment, in addition to the methods of appealing judgments. where the general rules for appealing judgments, appeal, criticism, objection by others and retrial will be studied.
3
    • 11101318
This course deals with the substantive provisions of corruption crimes in the palestinian law, comparative systems, and the sorts of corruption. this course will also address the study of procedural rules to face corruption crimes based on the illegal gaining law no. 1 of 2005, which has become known as the anti-corruption law no. 1 of 2005. moreover, students will also study the tasks and powers of the palestinian anti-corruption authority, legal problems of corruption crimes, and the united nations convention against corruption and the applicable palestinian legislation. students of this course will have a substantial opportunity to build communication channels with workers in institutions that combating corruption in palestine. this course deals with the substantive provisions of corruption crimes in the palestinian law, comparative systems, and the sorts of corruption. this course will also address the study of procedural rules to face corruption crimes based on the illegal gaining law no. 1 of 2005, which has become known as the anti-corruption law no. 1 of 2005. moreover, students will also study the tasks and powers of the palestinian anti-corruption authority, legal problems of corruption crimes, and the united nations convention against corruption and the applicable palestinian legislation. students of this course will have a substantial opportunity to build communication channels with workers in institutions that combating corruption in palestine.
3
    • 11102116 or
    • 11101116
This course includes a study of general foundations and bases organizing revenues, expenditures,public budget, and a practical study of it. athe course is also a study of the principles of public finance, theory of taxes and its goals with emphasis on taxing regulations that are effective in the palestinian areas. The course also highlights the role of taxes in striking the necessary balance between revenues and social justice.
3
    • 11101110
Students in this course will learn about local legislations aimed at protection of environment and prevention of pollution. the students will also learn about the environment, its elements, means of its protection and its sustainable development. furthermore, students will be introduced to international environmental laws particularly those related to water and natural resources. pertaining to urban planning, students will learn about laws related to planning in both cities and villages, and different committees charged with planning, their powers and formation.
3
    • 11101113
Students will learn about the establishment of the european union, its institutions and the legal system that regulates its relations with member states. the three eu powers will be discussed: legislative power and executive power, along with the european judicial system
3
    • 11101210
This course will discuss artificial intelligence (ai) from a legal point of view in order to explain its legal nature. in addition, it will deal with the role of ai in litigation, and the possibility of using ai in the processing of data applicable to judicial decisions. moreover, it will explain the civil and criminal liability of ai if used in legal fields. finally, it will discuss some examples of ai in law and the problems that may arise during the application of such examples.
3
    • 11101317
This course discusses the concept of the military judiciary in palestine, the types of military courts, their formation, their specializations, the powers of the security forces justice commission, the formation of the military prosecution and its specializations, and the military judicial departments. also, this course explains military trial procedures and military judgments, as well as methods of appealing and implementing them.
3
    • 11102114 or
    • 11101211
This course deals with the study of the concept of new crimes in the field of criminal law in palestine, which are considered new because they resulted from technological development, globalization and privatization, as well as dealing with the common characteristics between these crimes, in addition to studying the most important types and forms of new crimes such as drug dealing crimes, money laundering crimes, economic crimes, crimes of trafficking in human organs, electronic crimes, and other crimes by clarifying their concept, characteristics, elements, penalties, and their danger to the palestinian society.
3
    • 11000326
This course will focus on studying legal topics in english in various fields of law such as corporate law, constitutional law, etc. as it will deal with legal texts such as legislation and court decisions, in addition to selected essays in law.
3
    • 11101110
This course deals with the philosophical basis of law and the legal rule, knowing their nature, the rules of legal logic and text construction, the philosophy on which the vocabulary of law is based on justice, responsibility, rights, duties, responsibility, equality, persons, protection, interest, agreement, and others, and the role of law in achieving sovereignty and the public interest.
3
    • 11101211 or
    • 11101113
This course aims to provide students with general knowledge about the principles of international criminal law, by examining its concepts and sources, defining international crime and criminal liability, the competent authorities to prosecute its perpetrators, the mechanisms and methods of accountability and the implementation of decisions and sentences handed down, and their effectiveness on the ground and in particular their effectiveness in the palestinian cause.
3
    • 11101110
This course aims to examine the law's relationship with the achievement of sustainable development goals, such as the eradication of poverty and hunger, the preservation of the right to health and quality education, the promotion of investment and employment, the preservation of the environment and the achievement of security, stability and peace, the building of strong institutions, by examining the concept of sustainable development goals and requirements, and the exposure to the most important laws that contribute to their achievement.
3
    • 11101310
The course addresses multiple aspects of the cryptocurrency world, from understanding blockchain technology to legal aspects of cryptocurrencies and smart money, the legal challenges facing cryptocurrencies and smart cash such as taxation and money laundering issues will be studied, and study the legal conduct through which smart contracts arising from the transaction of cryptocurrencies and smart money will be studied and how different they differ from traditional contracts and the legal challenges associated with the validity and effectiveness of smart contracts. decentralized financial markets will be examined, their concepts and functioning and how to trade cryptocurrencies in them.
3
    • 11101112
A general introduction to the development of political parties in palestine since the end of the first world war. the parties that emerged before the nakba and their nature, the emergence of nationalist and islamic parties, the transformations that occurred in the patterns and nature of political organization after the formation of the palestine liberation organization. special interest in the partisan transformation in the era of the palestine liberation organization and the emergence of new or renewed islamic parties after the occupation of 1967. changes in the partisan scene in palestine after the establishment of the palestinian authority.
3
    • 11103002
This course focuses on teaching students how to write in Hebrew using a direct style that clearly conveys intended meanings. It emphasizes avoiding common expression mistakes and encourages familiarity with various expression methods. Students will learn the rules for interpreting texts and ensuring the correctness of language used in legal writing and research.

Sub-specialty Requirements Student must complete 27 credit hours

Course Code Course Name Credit Hours Prerequests
3
This course is an introduction to the hebrew language, where the student becomes acquainted with the basic and supporting components to enable the student to express his ideas and purposes, starting with the study of the alphabet in its two types (printed and handwritten) and the phonetics of the language (vowels, syllables and tone) and sentence components. the focus will be on language skills and acquiring basic vocabulary, and constructing simple sentences orally and in writing to enable the student
3
The study of law must take into account not only the formal law but also law as a dynamic subject that reflects, through its rules, patterns of thought, action, and existence within a particular environment and at a specific time. this course also aims to enable students to understand the historical context of laws and how it affects their development and reception. this requires us not to limit the discussion of the sources of the occupying states law to legislation alone, but also to address custom, judicial decisions, and legal doctrine. the course further examines considerations related to hebrew law and its impact on israeli law, as well as the conflict between the israeli law schools over the identity and sources of israeli law.
3
    • 11101210
This course focuses on the principles of israeli civil law by highlighting the rules governing property, contracts, tort and contractual liability, obligations and their sources, as well as civil procedures in israel. it emphasizes the steps of filing and managing lawsuits, including drafting pleadings, presenting evidence, and handling proceedings before courts. the course also addresses legal ethics, highlighting the code of ethics of the israeli bar association, and the lawyers duties toward the client, the judicial system, and society.
3
    • 11101112
This course explores the fundamental principles of constitutional and administrative law in israel, with a focus on the constitutional structure of the state, the distribution of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. it also examines various aspects of administrative law, including the powers of administrative bodies, rules of administrative decision-making, and mechanisms of judicial review.this course will also address the practical application of these constitutional provisions and the extent of discrimination in application between jews and palestinians living in the 1948 lands.
3
    • 11101315
This course covers the basic principles of criminal law and criminal procedure in israel, focusing on the legal framework of criminalization, criminal responsibility, and the sanctions imposed for crimes. it also examines criminal rules and procedures, from criminal investigations, through trials, to judgment issuance and enforcement.
3
    • 11102102
This course examines the legal framework of family and inheritance law in israel, focusing on the rules and principles governing family relations, marriage, divorce, alimony, as well as inheritance laws and estate distribution. it highlights the interaction between civil and religious laws in these areas and their impact on resolving family disputes. the course also studies the role of civil and religious courts in resolving family conflicts.
3
    • 11101411
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of property law in israel, with a focus on different types of real rights, including ownership, easements, mortgages, and lease rights. it discusses the legal framework regulating real and movable property, transfer of rights, and real estate transactions, while emphasizing the practical aspects of property registration and rights protection.this course will examine these laws in relation to the military orders applied in the west bank, and how this combination of laws facilitates the colonizing and seizure of palestinian land.
3
    • 11101319
This course examines the fundamental principles of labor law and obligations in israel, focusing on the legal framework that governs the relationship between workers and employers. it addresses the rights and duties of parties in employment contracts, including wages, working hours, vacations, and workers protection. the course also discusses laws related to civil and commercial contracts, such as contractual obligations and civil liability.
3
    • 11101215
This course explains commercial law as it relates to companies in israel, with a focus on company formation, types, legal structures, and management. it examines the rights and duties of shareholders, directors, and board members, as well as corporate responsibilities toward third parties. it also discusses rules related to bankruptcy, reorganization, and creditors rights protection. furthermore, it addresses commercial transactions, international contracts, competition law, and anti-monopoly regulations. tax law is also covered, including income and profit taxation, and corporate taxation, with a focus on tax regimes related to international trade. the course offers an in-depth study of the legal and regulatory framework, analyzing practical case studies to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of commercial, tax, and related legal challenges.
3
This course focuses on developing students? Hebrew language skills, with particular emphasis on legal Hebrew as used in legislative texts, judicial judgments, and legal documents. The course aims to enhance students? abilities to read, analyze, and accurately comprehend legal texts in Hebrew, while also strengthening their legal writing skills, including the drafting of memoranda and legal documents.

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