The course defines key concepts and gives all the participants a common basement for further learning within the AniLex -program and the animal law discipline.
The course will cover topics as:
Basic concepts of law, animal law as a legal discipline, paradigms concerning animal protection.
Please see here: https://studiehandboken.abo.fi/en/course/OR00CC49/16536.
At the end of the course, the students without a prior knowledge of law will be able to understand and explain legal concepts as legal systems, sources of law, norm hierarchy, legal areas, and legal traditions. The students with prior knowledge in law will be able to recognize the difference between animal law and other areas of law in relation to their own topic of interest. All the students will after the course be familiar with the characteristics specific for animal law and be able to understand and explain in general terms what animal law as a legal discipline means and the main paradigms of animal protection.
No prior knowledge is required.
Provided on the course learning platform.
This online course is self-study based and consists of recorded online lectures, group discussions and an exam. The exam is made online and there are several scheduled exam dates to choose from.
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