This course is jointly offered by Istanbul Bilgi University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). It is intended to explain the basic principles of international copyright law and introduce the international treaties, as well as recent developments and trends in the area of international copyright. It also covers the role of WIPO in the worldwide protection of copyright. The course consists of ten substantive modules on the Berne Convention, TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Copyright Treaty, Enforcement Issues, Related Rights, Collective Management of Rights and Copyright on the Internet. The course modules will be taught online and discussions will take place both online and during three-hour classroom seminars that will be held once a month (four times). Course material and electronic discussion forums will be provided by the WIPO Academy. The course will be given in English. Students taking the course will need access to a computer with sound card and internet access. Course assessment will be done by essay-type final exam and/or paper submissions in English. The course is recommended to students who have previously taken a basic Copyright Law course.

This course is jointly offered by Istanbul Bilgi University and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The course contains two parts. The first part will begin with an introduction to basic concepts involved with e-commerce and IP and followed by the IP aspects of e-commerce in three main areas: Copyright, Trademarks, Patents. The first part will be concluded by a more detailed discussion of various sub-topics in each of the above areas, such as protection of databases and software and domain names. The second part of the course will focus on the WIPO Dispute Resolution System. In this part, the Rules of Arbitration and Mediation adopted by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center will be examined together with the selection process of the most appropriate dispute resolution procedure for any given case and appropriate dispute resolution clauses for insertion into an agreement. The course modules will be taught online and discussions will take place both online and during three-hour classroom seminars that will be held once a month (four times). Course material and electronic discussion forums will be provided by the WIPO Academy. The course will be given in English. Students taking the course will need access to a computer with sound card and internet access. Course assessment will be done by essay-type final exam and/or paper submissions in English.

The course focuses on critiques of mainstream schools of legal theory. Within this course, approaches that situate themselves outside the main antagonisms of legal theory and those that take the legal system itself as their target are analyzed and opened to discussion.

In this course the contractual obligations will be discussed. Also they will be compared to the contractual obligations. In this context, new Turkish Code of Obligations and other countries' regulations will be discussed.

The rules of the criminal procedure law provide the protection of human rights in a country with a democratic system and a rule of law. Consequently, the criminal procedure law whose primary funtion is the protection of freedoms, facilitates the improvement of the society. This course aims to explain liberal aspects of the criminal procedure law and bring proposals for the problems that can occur during the formal proceedings.

The aim of this course is to analyse and discuss the discrimination based on sexual orientation, along with the civil rights of sexual minorities within the framework of international human rights, foreign legal systems and Turkish law. The concept of sexual orientation and non-discrimination principle, right to respect for private and family life, legal aspects of the gender reassignment process, right of access to employment, health and education, freedom of expression, assembly and association are some of the topics covered in this course. Civil rights of sexual minorities in the world will be analysed with court decisions and regulations in order to develop considerable solutions to the current situation in Turkey.

In this lesson from the twentieth century to the present day the seventh art cinema was the run-up to existential and fundamental rights has developed different forms of expression are closely examined. Holding a mirror to life functions of triggered the cinema Cinema – in the process of the relationship of human rights "human rights in Cinema," formation of a sub-type known arrival, fiction and documentary films through will be discussed.

In this course, students will be informed on solving juridical problems in a consistent and correct methodological manner without falling into traps of logical errors.

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The aim of the course is to provide Doctoral candidates with the knowledge and skills to analyze the main research areas and functions of law. The reasoning of legal thinking is integrated within the methodology it follows. This rule applies to the Doctoral program as well. The methodology adopted for the writing and the justification of the opinions put forward within the Doctoral thesis constitute the pillar of the dissertation that will be prepared by the end of this program. This course will examine the methodology in contemporary legal thinking. In this context, the history of legal thinking as well as the logical and ethical reference points will be examined in the light of modern society and the rights and requirements of the individual. This approach requires law to make use of the research methods and reasoning tools of the social sciences. To this end, this course will not only cover the tools and methods of law, but also the research and analysis methods of the social sciences. Thus, analytic methods and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches such as Law and Society, Law and Economics and Critical Legal Studies, which have become significant research fields of contemporary law, will also be examined within the scope of this course. Consequently, the course will aim for the students to obtain, through the use of legal, social and interdisciplinary research methods, an understanding which is based on theoretical foundations and tested in the light of cases with respect to categories of legal relations and the solutions to legal problems.

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This course examines the restriction and guaranty system within the European Convention on Human Rights' provisions on the right to privacy, freedom of belief, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. We will firstly determine the scope of these rights and freedoms, focusing on the criteria used for their restriction and guaranty. Special attention will be given to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Thus, the concept of democratic society which is the guaranty of those rights and freedoms will be defined. Constitutional Court judgements related to those rights and freedoms will be examined and relevant discussions will also be a part of the course.

This course aims to approach the theories of main law theorists and to compare these theories with other theories of the same thinkers. The theorist chosen for this semester is Léon Duguit. It will be dealt with via his two major works, first with Traité de Droit Constitutionnel (Treatise of Constitutional Law) and then with Lectures on Public Law, which is published in Turkish.

The goal of the course is to evaluate the new provisions on corporate groups introduced by the Turkish Commercial Code. The concepts of control, controlling and controlled companies will be examined. The consequences of unlawful use of control will be assessed. In addition, the concept of cross ownership and its consequences will be discussed.

Undergraduate law education does not contain detailed law of collective ownership lesson. The purpose of this course is to review the knowledge obtained during undergraduate education and to evaluate the the law of collective ownership as a whole, as well as to discuss problems that are encountered in practice and solutions adopted by the High Court.

Articles of incorporation is both the formative text of the company and the key source of rules regarding the functioning of the company. Articles of incorporation not only defines the legal status of shareholders but also it has consequences on third parties. This course aims to evaluate the legal nature of the articles of incorporation, its effects on shareholders and third parties, the content of articles of incorporation and the procedure for amendment of articles of incorporation.

In a globalized world differences between legal orders are perceived as obstacles to trade relations. There are European as well as international efforts to overcome these obstacles via law harmonization projects. The most important example of these harmonization projects is certainly the Convention on the International Sale of Goods prepared by the United Nations in 1980 and today ratified by 77 countries of the world. Beside the CISG the Principles of International Commercial Contracts by the Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit); the Principles of European Contract Law; the Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law, the so called Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) and the Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law of December 2011 are major blackletter rules dedicated to the unification of private law. The aim of this course is first of all to examine the dynamics behind the preparation of these partly binding and partly non-binding legal texts and to analyse the output and value of legal harmonisation. Following this, some major problems of contract law and the solutions to these problems will be elaborated by way of comparing the different legal texts and the Turkish Code of Obligations. Especially conclusion of the contract, validity issues, performance and non-performance of the contract will be examined in a comparative manner.

In this course, the abstract concept of crime is examined. Material and incorporeal elements are included in the definition of the crime. In material aspects, the perpetrator, the victim, subject of the offense and features of the action are laid out. İntent constitutes the incorporeal element of the offense. Within the context of incorporeal element, the elements and types of the intent are examined. In classic general criminal theory, negligence and incentive and examined in this definition too. Another element of the crime is violation of the law. Of an action to be able to constitute a crime is not sufficient to meet the definition of an offense specified in Penal Codes. A deliberate act in criminal laws is punishable if it is contrary to the rule of law. In other words, for a crime in order to be the case, there must be a reason for compliance with the law. Fault is something other than elements of the offense and also the conditions which are necessary to blame wrong doer. In this course, the classic and the new understanding of crime in accordance with the constituent elements are laid out.

Nowadays arbitration becomes the common dispute resolution method in international commerce. The purpose of this course is to analyze the legal sources including international agreements in the field of international arbitration and to introduce the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Turkey.

In this course law of torts, unjust enrichment and benevolent intervention in another's affairs (negotiorum gestio) will be discussed with their connections and differences as non-contractual obligations. Also they will be compared to the contractual obligations. In this context, new Turkish Code of Obligations and other countries' regulations will be discussed.

Legal developments regarding the protection of human rights are not anymore dealing with the reviewing over the state’s activities only. It is quite possible to face with the cases among private persons which could be easily defined as human rights violations and it is expected that the human rights law should cover this issues. In this course, the transactions made by the non-state business actors (national, international, transnational corporations) will be scrutinized in the light of the human rights responsibility. It is inevitable to think about the nature of today’s business relations first. On the other hand, it is another phenomenon that today’s business relations which transborders the state territory got a global character. So, from human rights angle, it is also needed to be discussed the business relations which are under the influence of globalization. In this atmosphere in which the market phenomenon and the human rights and freedoms encounters, pure ‘market regulation’ policy without having a vision regarding the protection of human rights is also be critically discussed. In this course, recent institutional developments and initiatives and the related applications for standard-setting within international organizations like the UN will also be immensely covered.

The public services which occupy an important place inside the activities of the administration run-up to a major change from past to present and will carry on developing into the future. Today, with the privatization process, the concept of public services, its definition, elements, properties and realization methods needs to be examined and discussed once again. In this respect the review and research of the theoretical framework will make important contribution in resolving problems that arise in the practice. Similarly, the contribution of the arguments developed in the judicial resolutions to the theoretical framework cannot be underestimated. Therefore, in this course, the theoretical and practical issues related to the concept of public service will be examined in detail, as well as legal regulations and judicial decisions.

It is universally accepted that information and communication technologies can, on the one hand, significantly enhance the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as the right to freedom of expression, access to information, right to communication, and the right to assembly, while, on the other hand, they may adversely affect these rights and other rights, freedoms and values, such as the respect for private life and secrecy of correspondence, and the dignity of human beings. With this in mind, this doctorate level module will assess the nature of Internet content regulation and censorship in Turkey by providing an overview of the current legislative regime from a critical perspective. This will include legislative attempts to regulate Internet content in Turkey as well as a critical assessment of the recently enacted Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications (“Law No. 5651”) and its related regulations. This will also include an analysis of the legal responsibilities of various actors including content providers, hosting companies, access providers, and Internet cafes. The module will assess how the current regulatory systems work and how websites, predominantly situated outside the Turkish jurisdiction are blocked by court and administrative blocking orders by giving examples. The module will also assess the establishment and the work of the Telecommunications Communication Presidency and its Internet Hotline for reporting illegal activity so far as it relates to the application of Law No. 5651. Freedom of expression has been one of the key issues in Turkey’s democratisation process. The European Court of Human Rights has found Turkey in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) in a number of article 10 cases. The new Turkish law on Internet contains provisions that have potential to cause similar violations. Thus, this study will examine the new regulations bearing this situation in mind. European Convention on Human Rights and constitutional law considerations and safeguards will also be part of the module and critical considerations. Finally, the module will provide an overview of international developments with regards to Internet content regulation at the European Union, and Council of Europe levels.

The purpose of this non-credit course, which is mandatory for the students in the PhD's program, is to enable students to conduct a research using academic research techniques and methods and present and discuss the results of his/her research.

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The seminar will aim to facilitate the research and the writing of the PhD thesis.

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The thesis, which is required for successful completion of the PhD program, is expected to be an original study, the product of intensive research and prepared in compliance with academic criteria. Through this study, the student is expected to analyze findings of a problem or series of problems in his/her area of research and develop a theoretical concept. By means of the outcome of his or her research, the candidate is required to make an original contribution to the Turkish science of law.

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The thesis, which is required for successful completion of the PhD program, is expected to be an original study, the product of intensive research and prepared in compliance with academic criteria. Through this study, the student is expected to analyze findings of a problem or series of problems in his/her area of research and develop a theoretical concept. By means of the outcome of his or her research, the candidate is required to make an original contribution to the Turkish science of law.

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Identification of a research topic and explanation on how it will contribute to the theory or practice of law.

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Recognize a complex legal issue and determine its theoretical frame.

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This course aims at familiarizing the students with essential legal concepts and notions in the fields of arts and cultural management. Topics that involve all actors and shareholders of the arts community such as copyright and intellectual property, contract law and contracts, the relations between the artist and the venues/institutions and artists' rights will be examined in detailed. Upon completing the course, the students are expected to have a good command of the difference between the general/commercial law and law for arts and culture and grasp the legal issues and various aspects of arts and cultural management.

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This course is designed to introduce students the basic functions of employment law in the context of the individual employment relationship and to enable them to understand law and its implications on the employment context. It is aimed to provide a basic knowledge of the principles of employment law and the legal structure of the conclusion, terms and termination of the employment contract. At the end of this course, students are expected to be able to recognize the legal nature of the human resource management procedures.

Main principles of children?s rights. Fundamental rights recognized by the U.N. Children's Rights Convention. Child Abuse and approach to child abuse victims. Protective and supportive measures for child victims of abuse and neglect. Juvenile Justice System and features.