HUK362

School of Law \ Law

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Elective

Turkish

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Bachelor of Law Program

The subject of the Roman public law course is the Roman State, the constitutional order of the Roman State, its political history and political doctrines related to this political structure.

1. Cornell, T./Matthews, J. (Trans. Şadan Karadeniz): Roman World, Encyclopedia of Great Civilizations, Volume 5, Iletisim Publishing, İstanbul 1988.
2. Erişgin, Söğütlü Ö.: “General Outlines of the Patricius-Plebe Class Struggle and its Impact on the Development of Roman Private Law”, A tribute to Prof. Dr. Ejder Yılmaz V. 2, Ankara 2014, p. 1753-1784.
3. Söğütlü, Ö. / Yıldız, S.: Introduction to Roman Public Law, Expanded 2nd Edition, Ankara 2024.
4.Şenel, A.: History of Political Thought, Ankara 1985.
5. Umur, Z.: Roman Law, Historical Introduction and Sources, İstanbul 1967.

The aim of Roman public law is to teach the bureaucratic administration understanding that aims to ensure world peace and the state model that can be considered as the pioneer of the modern state, which was formed in the Republican Period and continued its existence in the First Empire Period.

1. Aware that the Roman Empire, founded as a city-state, transformed into a centralized empire through wars.
2. Has a thorough understanding of the characteristics of the Republican regime, which the Romans called res publica, and compare it with the Republic of Turkey.
3. Aware that Rome, which transformed from a city-state into an empire and dominated many different cultures under its sovereignty, left a bureaucratic administrative understanding and a developed legal culture that ensures and protects world peace.
4. He/She concludes that the Roman State can be considered a precursor to the modern state by analyzing the principles of governance and the necessary qualities of a ruler.
5. Compares the forms of government of the Roman State with today's forms of government.
6. Aware that the foundation of the Roman State, the changes, developments, the conflicts of people and groups within the state and the political and legal structure that these conflicts led to.
7. Has the knowledge that the basic political and legal values such as equality, freedom and political participation, representation system, which have taken place in the European democratic culture, are based on Ancient Greece and the Roman State.
8. Aware that the principles such as the law being merciful, humanitarian and fair were adopted by the state administrators through the Roman jurists who lived in the First Empire Period.
9. Has the ability to conduct research on a subject related to Roman public law and to present his research in writing and orally in accordance with the rules of scientific writing.
10. Has developed the ability to ask questions about Rome, the state, politics and law and to answer them by using different methods such as movies and literature readings.