| This course studies the general theory of criminal responsibility as one of the main pillars of the criminal law system. This is conducted by means of identifying the concept and elements of that theory as well as the reasons that stand behind it in the Islamic Law and man-made law in addition to identifying the persons who are criminally responsible, the barriers of establishing this responsibility and specifying its impact on civil and disciplinary responsibility. |
| NO pre-requisite |
| This course illustrates the legal thought in ancient and modern ages. It focuses on the method of legal thought that depends on legal precedents, as it is the case in Anglo-Saxon laws. It also focuses on the style that depends on legal texts as the pillar of the legal system as it is the case in the Latino-Germanic laws. Moreover, the course deals with the method and style of the Islamic law. All of this will be in a comparative framework. |
| No pre-requisite |
| This course explores the types and basic elements of civil responsibility and studies the legal rules that specify how to estimate the damages and compensations and their legal applications. It also deals with the legal and judicial treatment of the conditions related to estimating the damages and compensations. Moreover, the course deals with the role of the person who caused the damage and its impact on establishing the responsibility and its scope besides presenting the special nature of the professional responsibility resulting from exercising free professions such as the responsibility of the medical doctor, lawyer, accountant and engineer. |
| No pre-requisite |
| This course studies the civil procedures through explaining the philosophy upon which civil judicial systems are based and comparing them to the philosophy of the Islamic Law in the field of litigation. The course illustrates the role of the judge and the litigants in all stages of the litigation and deals with the different penalties resulting from breaching the litigation rules such as nullity, non-suit, etc. Moreover, the course studies the legal rules related to the execution of the judicial verdicts and illustrates how to deal with problems that ensue from execution; starting from notifying the defendant of the verdict, signing different penalties and up until the liquidation of the defendant's property. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course studies the general provisions of real estate ownership in terms of its characteristics and the general ways of obtaining it. It also studies the real estate rights, the system of real estate ownership of foreigners, common ownership and nullity of common ownership as well as the provisions of real estate registration. Moreover, it studies the provisions of real estate unit's ownership and their classification, the provisions of real estate registration, the provisions related to the procedures of real estate units registration, the provisions related to the ownership of floors and flats and the provisions related to the associations of multi-units real estate owners and their competencies. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course introduces the legal framework that governs the transactions of the banks that operate in Saudi Arabia, the main legislative rules and provisions that are enacted by the Central Bank (the Saudi Monetary Agency SAMA), the main rules and provisions that govern the banks and enacted by other legislative bodies, the most significant trends adopted by the legislative bodies that regulate the banks' transactions internationally and to what extent the Saudi legislator is influenced by them. It also studies the organizational structure as well as the supervisory, monitoring and legislative role, banks disputes and the mechanisms of resoling them. Moreover, it studies the main banking services and products that are governed by the Saudi banking legislations and the legal cases associated with them. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course illustrates the rules and legal mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through presenting the issues that are put forward by the legal organization of the international commercial exchange and the parties to this exchange such as international companies and others. It also illustrates the rules, which govern the processes of international trade, especially the international trade contracts and the issues related to their conclusion and implementation besides the means of settling the international trade disputes, especially through international trade arbitration. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course is an intensive study of some issues related to the practical applications of the general theory of companies, the different patterns and forms of companies such as holding companies and real companies, the legal impact of companies' merger, liquidation and bankruptcy, other persons' rights and the companies' obligations. The course also studies the responsibility of the persons, bodies or agencies who are in charge of running the company or financially supervising it, the legal treatment of debt stricken companies and projects and the impact of such treatment to such situations in legal terms. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course introduces the concept of stock markets in terms of their types and roles. It also introduces the rules and provisions that regulate the Saudi Stock Market, the sources of these rules, the financial stocks and tools that are governed by the Stock Market provisions, their types and legal nature as well as their issuing, legal presentation and listing. Moreover, the course introduces supervision, organizational structure of the Saudi Stock Market supervisory authority as well as its competencies, powers and monitoring role besides SAMA mechanisms for controlling the breaches committed by the dealers in the Stock Market, the judicial competence related to the disputes resulting from trading stocks and the behavior of the dealers. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course studies the possible means of protecting the rights of creditors, ensuring that they get these rights, the impact of activating these means on running and strengthening the credit that exists in the financial relations in civil and commercial activities. It also conducts a comprehensive and intensive study in comparative jurisprudence with regard to the debt security idea, its historic development and the security crisis at the present time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The course also deals with the most significant Islamic Law and legal means of debt security whether they are personal or in kind in order to facilitate the repayment of debts at their maturity date. Moreover, it focuses in particular on the mortgage of movable property and real estate in accordance with the rules that govern mortgage in the Kingdom, the legal problems resulting from sale by installments in terms of legal and Islamic Law aspects and the means of documenting those securities in their different forms. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course presents and illustrates the modern principles upon which the process of formulating all types of legal texts is based, especially legislative texts. It also studies legislative policy and futurology, the role of legislative tools in achieving the vision of the society, the extent of harmony between these tolls and policies inside the society. Moreover, the course presents the methods of interpretation and how to implement legal texts in real terms as well as practical training of students on how to formulate, interpret and understand legal texts. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course is concerned with training students on the rules and fundamentals of scientific research in the legal field through the study of scientific research methods according to different legal schools and comparing them and completing an applied research project. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course studies the legal framework of the insurance operations such as the insurance of persons and property. It also studies the insurance idea, its importance, legal status and types. Moreover, it studies the insurance contract and the insurance companies in accordance with the local laws, the means of settling insurance disputes. Furthermore, this course will deal with some insurance branches such as maritime insurance, the stages of the maritime insurance contract, the concept of joint maritime loss, maritime rescue and the impact of the maritime insurance contract. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course identifies the legal framework that governs direct and indirect foreign investments and studies the legal means whereby foreign establishments can confirm their existence in an external market. It also analyzes the element and components of this framework as well as the different legal methods for the commercial representation of foreign establishments, the contracts of distribution agencies and the contracts of commercial franchising. Moreover, the course studies the legal determinants of the investment form, the scope of rights and liabilities resulting from these contracts, the analysis of the legal effects and the study of the Saudi and foreign rules that are relevant to this issue. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course illustrates the rules related to the transport of goods and persons especially the rules related to land, sea and air transport. It also illustrates the liabilities of the transporter, the passenger and the provisions of the transporter's liability, the provisions of the ship, maritime navigation persons, ship registration, ship mortgage, responsibilities of the ship captain, maritime contracts, maritime aid and the responsibility of the maritime transporter. The course also studies the origin and development of maritime navigation, the legal system of air navigation, definition of airline law, the sources of the airliner legal system, the airspace legal system, navigation persons, the purposes of air navigation liabilities and impact of air navigation, aerial aid as well as aerial insurance and its provisions. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course studies the legal provisions of intellectual and commercial property for the protection of human inventions and innovations in their different artistic, literary, scientific and technical forms and shapes. It also studies the legal means that are provided for such protection, the international agreements such as the World Trade Organization agreement known as TRIPS. Moreover, the course studies the different aspects of intellectual rights such as industrial and commercial property rights, author's rights, patents, industrial graphics, designs and models, trademarks, brand names, commercial data, business and literary rights. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course illustrates the importance of legal evidence before the courts and analyzes the legal concept of evidence as a means of establishing rights. The course also conducts an intensive study of the general procedural and objective rules of establishing evidence, the different schools of evidence, the means of evidence and their procedures, the role of the judge in evidence in Islamic jurisprudence and comparative laws, the modern role of the judge and litigants with regard to evidence. Moreover, the course studies the practical importance of the burden of evidence, the legal rules of electronic transactions, the legal aspects of concluding such transactions, implementing them and establishing the liabilities that result from them. Furthermore, the course studies the international character of these transactions and its impact on their legal system. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course studies the development stages of the contract theory and illustrates the reasons that led the standardization of the contract provisions on the international level and keeping away from the purely local character. The components of this course focus on listing this modern development in all the stages and aspects of the contract in a manner that suits its structure. This is conducted through discussing and illustrating the fundamentals upon which the contract theory was built, the extent of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations impact on these fundamentals, the modern methods of concluding and formulating contracts, the problems of implementing contract obligations and how to deal with them as well as terminating the contract and the developments attached to the role of each party, the judge and the law in this regard. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course conducts an intensive study of the topics related to the labor law, social insurance law, health insurance and social security law. It also studies the standard of dependence as well as the two elements of labor and wage as the two objects of the contract. Moreover, the course studies the legal effects of the termination of the legal relation between the employer and the employee, labor dispute and how to end it as well as the insurance facts that necessitate the right to insurance and the legal rules that stipulate them. |
| pre-requisite : None |
| This course explains and analyzes the legal rules enacted in the Kingdom that aim to protect the consumer from unjust conditions, defected and unfit for use commercial products as well as all other laws that necessary for the protection of the consumer. Moreover, the course is indicating their flaws and suggesting the improvements which can be introduced to enable these rules to achieve their objectives. |
| pre-requisite : None |