Law

GIPA’s Bachelor’s Program has been granting degrees since 2013 and represents a new opportunity for prospective students to receive a legal education in Georgia.

The Bachelor's Degree Program covers a set of disciplines that gives students the necessary theoretical education and practical skills to pursue a career in the legal field. Such synthesis has been adequately reflected in the program’s faculty, which includes a wide range of legal professionals, many of whom successful practitioners, lawyers and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The program provides students with knowledge of fundamental legal techniques and principles of legal argumentation, as well as the ethical bases of law. At the same time, the Socratic method of teaching facilitates student's understanding of legal issues, developing critical thinking skills, formulating legal arguments and justification.

The Bachelor's Program is oriented towards national law. Along with compulsory subjects, students have the option to choose elective courses covering international, criminal, public and private law. In order to help students better understand these subjects, the program also offers enhanced instruction in the English language and legal English. Furthermore, it promotes an interdisciplinary approach that consists of the study of disciplines that are closely or functionally related to law.

In cooperation with various international universities, the program offers students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge at leading universities in Europe and the USA.

The purpose of the program:

The purpose of the Bachelor's Degree Program is to provide students with the following:

Broad theoretical knowledge on the basic peculiarities, principles and institutions of the national law system; general principles, values, political, public, philosophical, historical and economic aspects of law, as well as national and foreign scientific opinions and legislation; in-depth knowledge and special training in public, private, criminal and international law.

I will learn:  

• The essence of the law, the system, the basic principles, the legal systems, the historical sources of Georgian law;
• human rights conceptual and value issues, principles of restraint and peculiarities of the national protection mechanism; activity of administrative bodies, peculiarities of constitutional and administrative proceedings;
• the system of private law, general concepts and principles of civil law, national mechanisms for the protection of entrepreneurial freedom and the right to work, the peculiarities of civil proceedings;
• principles of criminal law, essence and types of crime, punishment system, stages and peculiarities of criminal proceedings;
• the system of international law, basic principles, institutions, mechanisms of international legal responsibilities, the correspondence between international and national law.

I will become: 

In 4 years, you can master all the necessary skills that a practicing lawyer needs. After receiving higher legal education, students will be able to realize themselves in such main areas as notary, lawyer and prosecutor.

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