Academic Program Core Requirements
LAW1501 ( Constitutional Institutions )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course studies the legal structure of modern state institutions with regard to the powers and competencies specified by constitutional laws. It also studies the legal framework of Saudi constitutional institutions in general and the institutions that reflect the reality of the Saudi law, which is based on Islamic Law (shari'a); and focuses on studying legal rules that govern the activities of these institutions and organize their control. |
| NO pre-requisite |
LAW1502 ( Human Rights and Civil Liberty )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course illustrates the legal sources that protect human rights and basic freedoms In the Kingdom Saudi Arabia , the meaning of such rights and freedoms as well as the internal legal mechanisms that guarantee the respect of these rights and freedoms. |
| No pre-requisite |
LAW1503 ( Criminal Responsibility )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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 |
LAW1504 ( The Science of Criminal Policy )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course studies the best means of combating crime in its preventative and deterrent divisions and focuses on illustrating the features of Saudi Arabian criminal policy, such as the policy of incrimination in terms of explaining the reasons of incriminating acts and protected interests. It studies the penal policy in terms of identifying the concept of punishment, its objectives and its relation to criminal law making. In addition to that, the course illustrates the power of the judge in discretionary punishment (the Shari'a judge and the regular judge) as well as the criminal procedural policy related to the suspect and the defendant during interrogation or trial. Furthermore, the course deals with the rights of the sentenced person in the stage of punishment execution. All these topics will be presented in a comparative framework between criminal policy followed by the societies that adopt man-made laws and the policy, which principles are derived from the Islamic Shari'a. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1505 ( International Organizations Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course introduces international organizations’ law, its historical development, its relation to the Public International Law and its other branches. It also studies the general theory of this law in terms of the international organization, its types, organizational structure and activities. Moreover, the course conducts an analytical study of the United Nations Organization and some regional and specialized organizations with focus on the international Arab and Islamic organizations. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1506 ( Administrative Responsibility )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course illustrates the main concepts of the state responsibility for its works, the types of the state responsibility for its different activities and the basic elements of the administration responsibility for its works. It also identifies the personal error, the facility error, rick-based responsibility, the competence of examining compensation cases, the prescription of administrative responsibility lawsuits and the execution of the judicial verdicts issued against the administration. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1507 ( Principles of Administrative Proceedings )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course illustrates the main concepts of the state responsibility for its works, the types of the state responsibility for its different activities and the basic elements of the administration responsibility for its works. It also identifies the personal error, the facility error, rick-based responsibility, the competence of examining compensation cases, the prescription of administrative responsibility lawsuits and the execution of the judicial verdicts issued against the administration. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1516 ( International Criminal Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course identifies the concept of international criminal law, its origin, sources, subjects, characteristics, main principles and distinctiveness from the other branches of the Public International Law. Moreover, it defines international crime and distinguishes it from the internal crimes and the internal crimes that have international nature; and studies the legal system of the most significant international crimes. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1520 ( Schools of Legal Thought )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1521 ( Civil Responsibility )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1522 ( Basis of Civil Proceedings and Execution )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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 |
LAW1549 ( Research Project )
Credit Hours: 3
| 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 |
Academic Program Elective Requirements
LAW1508 ( Comparative Penal Procedures )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course conducts a comparative study of the systems of penal procedures in the Kingdom and other states in the world in order to develop the systems of penal procedures in the Kingdom and to know the aspects of similarity and differences between these different penal systems. It also studies the procedures that precede the criminal lawsuit and identifies provisions of arrest, precautionary detention, the interrogation procedures whether related to searching for evidence or precautionary procedures against the defendant, the trial stage, its rules and different procedures, and finally the subsequent procedures of the penal lawsuit such as supervising the execution of penal verdicts and supervising prisons. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1509 ( Public Employee Theory )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course aims to identify the basic concepts of, the nature of the public employee relation to the state, the impact of this nature on the rights and obligations of the public employee. It also identifies the means of selecting the civil servant and the basic elements that govern this selection as well as the rights and obligations of the public employee, his discipline and the means of terminating his service. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1510 ( Local Administration Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| Include the study of this course a statement the general principles of administrative organization and administrative authority ,the local administration and its philosophy and its components core, which summed up the existence of administrative units independent enjoys legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy, handled by elected local councils manages the facilities of local, operating under the control of the central authority and supervision of administrative control; the problems of the local administration and fleshed international conferences and contemporary trends. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1511 ( International Economic Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course studies the international economic law and identities its, sources, subjects and relation to the public international law. It also illustrates the legal system of the international commercial exchange within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other multi-party or bilateral international agreements as well as the legal rules that govern the different issues related to international investment and the international monetary and financial system. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1512 ( Diplomatic and Consular Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| The course defines the diplomatic and consular law and illustrates its origin, development, sources and relation to the public international law and its other branches. It also defines the legal systems of the internal bodies that concerned with international relations, permanent diplomatic and consular representation, special missions and the exchanged representation among states and international organization. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1513 ( Public Utility Theory )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course identifies the legal system of the public utility by means of illustrating the historical development of the public utility as a standard of administrative courts, the means of managing public utilities as well as the principles that govern the running of public utilities and their applications in Saudi administrative laws. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1515 ( Economic Criminal Law )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course illustrates the general rules that govern the economic crime, and especially the historical development of penal laws intervention in the economic field, the meaning of what is called economic law, to what extent crime and punishment are related to the philosophy followed by the state in the economic field, the idea of the economic crime in the Islamic criminal jurisprudence and the elements of the economic crime from the analytical aspect, and the concepts that govern the attribution of criminal responsibility inside the economic project whether with regard to the natural person or legal person (body corporate). The course also aims to illustrate the types of the crimes related to economic activity such as the crimes related to credit, deception, fraud and illegal speculation, besides the crimes of companies and economic institutions, and the crimes related to the practices of financial markets and the responsibility emanating from them. |
| pre-requisite : None |
LAW1517 ( Public Law Economic )
Credit Hours: 3
| This course discusses the Public Law Economic definition as a branch of public law, and based sources and indicate the role of the state and local administration and public institutions as Public authorities in the organization and control of the intervention and control of economic activity to achieve the general economic policy drawn and the higher interests of the state and their specific objectives relating to the planning, development, trade, manufacturing, logistics, investment, the environment and the protection of consumer and national producer, etc., and to take the measures and decisions and the use of the most important means of legislation and the imposition of taxes and fees, direct implementation authority. |
| pre-requisite : None |
