ECTS - - Public Law Master's (Without Thesis) Program

Compulsory Departmental Courses

ISL555 - Research Methods (3 + 0) 5

Research designs, probability theories, hypothesis tests, reliability and validity of measurement, model construction, multiple regression, multivariate variance analyses, correlation, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and econometric models.

KMH598 - Term Project (0 + 0) 40

Akademik yazım kuralları, araştırma yöntemleri, veritabanlarını kullanma, atıf ve dipnot kuralları, etkili anlatım ve yasa ya da mahkeme kararlarını kullanma.

SBE-KMH-T-GE1FA6 - Non-Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-GE1FA8 - Non-Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

Elective Courses

KAM502 - The Social Structure of Turkey (3 + 0) 5

The Ottoman modernization; The Ottoman Empire`s heritage to the Republic; Turkey`s modernization; secularism in Turkey; ethnic problems; democracy.

KAM503 - Political Theory (3 + 0) 5

Liberalism; conservatism; socialism; Islamism; fascism; totalitarianism; democracy.

KAM504 - Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy (3 + 0) 5

The concept of freedom; the concept of equality; political power; violence; revolution; transformation; genocide; democracy; civil society.

KAM526 - Judiciary and Politics (3 + 0) 5

The role of the judiciary branch within state; the concept of judiciary independence; examples drawn from various cases.

KMH511 - Main Topics in Modern State Theory (3 + 0) 5

Historical stages in the development of the modern state (i.e. feudalism, policy of estates, absolutism and constitutional liberal state, the emergence of the system of states), sovereignty and nationalism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, development of the modern state in Turkey.

KMH512 - Philosophy of Law (3 + 0) 5

Natural law theory, the formal understanding of law: legal positivism.

KMH513 - Constitutional Law I (3 + 0) 5

General principles of constitutional law, the notion of constitution (types of constitutions, the methods of constitution making and changing etc.), theories on sovereignty and political power; forms of the state; legislative, executive powers and the relations between them, government systems (parliamentary, presidential etc.); judicial review of

KMH514 - Individual, Society and State Relationships (3 + 0) 5

Examining and studying historical process and existence of individual, society and the state.

KMH515 - Main Politics and Law in International Relations (3 + 0) 5

Introduction, conceptualization of international relations as ?politics among nation-states?, conceptualization of international relations as ?trans-national politics?, ?three different conceptions of politcs and two concepts of law?.

KMH517 - Constitutional Law II (Political Parties) (3 + 0) 5

Democratic political representation, parliamentary debate, legislate, control of government, be elected as a member of parliament sufficiency, legislative immunity, the working order GNAT.

KMH518 - Gender Equality: Norms and Policies (3 + 0) 5

The course content will be useful for Judge, public prosecutor, defendant, defense attorney, private prosecutor and intervener to become more qualified when they face with gender discriminations, gender based violence or gender prejudice and inequalities embedded within codes, criminal procedures, trial procedures, appeals and court verdict studied in this course.

KMH519 - Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Foreigners (3 + 0) 5

Knowledge of fundamental rights and freedoms of foreigners in terms of internal law, international law and fundamental principles.

KMH521 - Administrative Law (3 + 0) 5

Administrative law as a discipline of public law, the concept of public administration, historical development and different systems, principles in organization of public administration, the concept of administrative transaction, public service, public order, civil servants.

KMH522 - Administrative Jurisdiction (3 + 0) 5

Main concepts and principles of judicial review of administration, the idea of rule of law and the change in contemporary administrative law.

KMH523 - Tax Disputes, Policy and Law (3 + 0) 5

General information about taxes and tax administration; description of the tax dispute and source of the administrative act; administrative remedies used to solve tax disputes and functioning; methods for the resolution of tax disputes judicial systems; tax disputes of administrative cases, functioning, procedure, legal remedies and the results of

KMH524 - Rule of Law (3 + 0) 5

Differences between the concept of rule of law in common law system and concept of Rechtsstaat in continental Europe; the situation in Turkey, the court decisions in Turkey.

KMH525 - Human Rİghts (3 + 0) 5

The development of idea of human rights and the basic concepts of human rights, international treaties on human rights and freedoms, legal effect of ECoHR on Turkish legal system, the jurisprudence of ECHR on the basis of some human rights.

KMH526 - Tax Law I (3 + 0) 5

Tax-veiling-tax camouflage, economic interpretation, efforts to influence the tax debt, tax motivation, economic approach.

KMH527 - Tax Law I (3 + 0) 5

Tax-veiling-tax camouflage, economic interpretation, efforts to influence the tax debt, tax motivation, economic approach.

KMH528 - Economic Criminal Law (3 + 0) 5

The historical development of economic criminal law as a separate sub-domain of criminal law, the historical development of economic criminal law in the Turkish legal system, related scientific works in the area; economic crimes, white collar criminality in criminological terms; economic characteristics of the economic criminal law, common charact

KMH529 - General Theory of Crime (3 + 0) 5

The general theory of crime; evaluation of different theories, distinct methods on separation of elements of crime; critical approach to the general provisions of the Turkish Penal Code in the light of the general theory of crime.

KMH530 - Tax Law II (3 + 0) 5

The interaction between the tax law-constitutional law relationship and tax law (constitutional taxation principles, the legality of taxes, ability-to-pay principle of taxation, and other constitutional principles, Decrees of the Council of Ministers having force of Law, the legal status of special regulatory acts of the Council of Ministers), the

KMH531 - Individual Application to Constitutional Court (3 + 0) 5

Conceptual framework concerning individual application;definition and specification of individual application in the light of litigation theories; comparative aspect of constitutional complaint (individual application to Constitutional Court);the provisions of the Constitution and ?Code on Establishment and Rules of Procedures of the Constitutional Court?and Internal Regulations of the Constitutional Court; rules on admissibility criteria; the types of decisions of the Constitutional Court

KMH532 - Financial Responsibility of Public Administration (3 + 0) 5

Constitutional foundations, situation established by case law, judicial and administrative activity of the public administration, the concept of ?public administrations own actions and acts?, its meaning, extent and the problems encountered.

KMH534 - Current Issues of Criminal Procedure Law (3 + 0) 5

Judge, public prosecutor, defendant, defense attorney, private prosecutor and intervener, subject of criminal procedure, evidence, detention, search, arrest, criminal trial procedure, appeals, judgment and special criminal procedures.

KMH536 - Administrative Procedures (3 + 0) 5

General administrative procedures and relevant special procedures and the relationship between the procedures and right to a fair trial.

KMH538 - The Practice of European Convention on Human Rights (3 + 0) 5

The rights prescribed by the Convention and application procedures to the Court.

KMH540 - Contemporary Issues of Environmental Law (3 + 0) 5

The concepts of environment and environmental problems; the development of environmental law and the principles that dominate environmental law; the place of the right to environment in the system of rights; international documents and national legislation that include the right to environment; the perspectives of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court on the environmental right.

KMH542 - Public Health Law (3 + 0) 5

The basic theoretical knowledge required for the understanding of health problems in the context of public law, judicial decisions, international human rights documents, the fact that health is a basic human right, public liability dimension.

MLY503 - Resolution of Disputes and Tax Jurisdiction (3 + 0) 5

Basic concepts and institutions of tax law, the elimination of tax receivables, durations, tax offenses and penalties, remedies, tax jurisdiction, the development of tax jurisdiction in Turkey, the structure and functioning of the tax judiciary institutions, tax judicial procedure and functioning.

MLY509 - Financial Crimes Law (3 + 0) 5

The definition and framework of the concept of financial crime, financial crimes in the Turkish Penal Code, the crime of laundering the assets resulting from the crime, tax crimes, banking crimes, capital market crimes, foreign exchange crimes, financial management crimes, terrorism financing crimes, financial crimes in terms of new commercial law.

MLY513 - Financial Law (3 + 0) 5

Financial markets, bank financing and banks, individual financing, lending, financing capital and financing through capital, financing through borrowing, other means of financing.

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA1 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA2 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA3 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA4 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA5 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA6 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA7 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA8 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

SBE-KMH-T-AE1FA9 - Departmental Elective (0 + 0) 5

UI507 - International Law (3 + 0) 5

Major international treaties, certain court decisions, theories of international law and international relations and the history of public international law; the role of law on the state-to-state (international) level.