Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Human Rights Law (YL) (Non-Thesis) | |||||
| Master | Length of the Programme: 1.5 | Number of Credits: 90 | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF: Level 7 |
ECTS Course Information Package
| School/Faculty/Institute | Graduate School | ||||
| Course Code | HUK 545 | ||||
| Course Title in English | Dealing with the Past and Criminal Justice | ||||
| Course Title in Turkish | Geçmişle Yüzleşme ve Ceza Adaleti | ||||
| Language of Instruction | TR | ||||
| Type of Course | Lecture | ||||
| Level of Course | Seçiniz | ||||
| Semester | Fall | ||||
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| Estimated Student Workload | 138 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 6 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | none | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | Graduate Students Only | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | To comprehend the content of criminal proceedings among the mechanisms of justice in the transition to democracy and their importance in terms of the activity of confronting the past. | ||||
| Course Description | Otoriter totaliter rejimler sonrasında ya da çatışma ertesinde demokratik düzenlerin tesisi demokrasiye geçiş süreci mekanizmalarının işletilmesi ve bu çerçevede özellikle ceza yargılamaları dersin ana konusunu oluşturur. Derste bir vak’a incelemesi olarak 1990 sonrası Yugoslavya örneği ele alınacaktır. Bunun öncesinde de demokrasiye geçiş süreci adaletinin kavramsal konuları işlenecektir. |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) To evaluate the legal aspects of the transition to democracy 2) To understand the importance of criminal proceedings in the process of transition to democracy 3) To evaluate the importance of justice in the transition to democracy in terms of dealing with the past 4) Anticipate how legal philosophy and political theory will change in the classical framework |
| Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Build on the theoretical and practical skills obtained during the undergraduate degree for the subjects within the domain of human rights law. | ||||
| 2) Keep updated concerning developments in jurisprudence and legislation. | ||||
| 3) Diagnose sources of legal disputes in the domain of human rights law, and applying rules and regulations for solving these disputes. | ||||
| 4) Critically analyze existing regulations and theory and proposing new insights to old and new problems occurred in the domain of human rights law. | ||||
| 5) Ability to describe processes and theories both verbally and in writing on national and international platforms within the field of human rights law. | ||||
| 6) Awareness of social, scientific and ethical values regarding human rights law field all related professional activities. | ||||
| 7) Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing at European Language Portfolio General Level B2. | ||||
| 8) Understanding of social and environmental aspects of legislative and jurisprudential measures and theories. |
Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Build on the theoretical and practical skills obtained during the undergraduate degree for the subjects within the domain of human rights law. | H | Homework,Sunum |
| 2) | Keep updated concerning developments in jurisprudence and legislation. | N | |
| 3) | Diagnose sources of legal disputes in the domain of human rights law, and applying rules and regulations for solving these disputes. | N | |
| 4) | Critically analyze existing regulations and theory and proposing new insights to old and new problems occurred in the domain of human rights law. | N | |
| 5) | Ability to describe processes and theories both verbally and in writing on national and international platforms within the field of human rights law. | H | Homework,Sunum |
| 6) | Awareness of social, scientific and ethical values regarding human rights law field all related professional activities. | S | Homework,Sunum |
| 7) | Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing at European Language Portfolio General Level B2. | N | |
| 8) | Understanding of social and environmental aspects of legislative and jurisprudential measures and theories. | S | Homework,Sunum |
| Prepared by and Date | ZEYNEP ÖZEN , February 2024 |
| Course Coordinator | AKTS1 |
| Semester | Fall |
| Name of Instructor | Asst. Prof. Dr. HÜLYA DİNÇER |
Course Contents
| Week | Subject |
| 1) | Confronting the past : Historical context and universalization of the concept |
| 2) | Transitional Justice: Concept, history and criticisms of TJ |
| 3) | Areas of intervention of transitional justice: Justice restoration - Criminal justice, decontamination policies, amnesties |
| 4) | Truth seeking - Truth commissions, trials and unofficial truth mechanisms |
| 5) | Memorialization - The relationship between collective memory, remembrance and law |
| 6) | Reparations - Individual/collective - material/symbolic means of reparation |
| 7) | Social peace and reconciliation: possibilities and limits |
| 8) | Institutional transformation and preventing the recurrence of violence: Never Again! |
| 9) | The limits of law in confronting the past |
| 10) | homework tracking |
| 11) | homework tracking |
| 12) | presentations |
| 13) | presentations |
| 14) | presentations |
| 15) | presentations |
| 16) | presentations |
| Required/Recommended Readings | Mithat Sancar, Geçmişle Hesaplaşma: Unutma Kültüründen Hatırlama Kültürüne, İletişim Yayınları, Ankara, 2007. Ozan Erözden, Geçmişle Hesaplaşma ve Ceza Adaleti: Yugoslavya Örneği, Dost Yayınları, Ankara, 2017. Cansu Muratoğlu, Geçmişle Yüzleşme ve Hukuk: İmkânlar ve İmkânsızlıklar, Zoe Kitap, İstanbul, 2018. Hülya Dinçer, Uluslararası İnsan Hakları Hukukunda Hakikat Hakkı, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Galatasaray Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2017. Geçmişin Yükünden Toplumsal Barış ve Demokrasiye, Geçmişle Hesaplaşma: Neden? Ne zaman? Nasıl?, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Derneği Türkiye Temsilciliği, 2007. Bernhard Schlink, Geçmişe İlişkin Suç ve Bugünkü Hukuk, Zoe Kitap, İstanbul, 1. Baskı, 2019. Mark Freeman ve Priscilla B. Hayner, ‘Hakikat Beyanı’, Çeviri: Hakikat Adalet Hafıza Merkezi https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Freeman-ve-Hayner-Hakikat-Beyan%C4%B1.pdf BM İnsan Hakları Yüksek Komiserliği, Çatışma Sonrası Toplumlarda Hukukun Üstünlüğünü Sağlama Araçları, Hakikat Komisyonları, 2011. Sebastian Brett, Louis Bickford, Liz Ševčenko, Marcela Rios, Hafızalaştırma ve Demokrasi: Devlet Politikaları ve Sivil Eylemler, Çeviri: Hakikat Adalet Hafıza Merkezi https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/kaynak/hafizalastirma-ve-demokrasi-devlet-politikalari-ve-sivil-eylemler/ Asena Günal, Önder Özengi (der.), Bir Daha Asla!: Geçmişle Yüzleşme ve Özür, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013. Özkan Agtaş, Bişeng Özdinç (der.), Hakikat ve İnsan Hakları, Dipnot Yayınları, Ankara, 2011. | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lecture, homework and presentation | ||||||||||||
| Homework and Projects | article related to the assignment topic | ||||||||||||
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| Course Administration |
dincerhu@mef.edu.tr |
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ECTS Student Workload Estimation
| Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
| No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 98 | ||
| Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 20 | ||
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 20 | 20 | ||||
| Total Workload | 138 | ||||||
| Total Workload/25 | 5.5 | ||||||
| ECTS | 6 | ||||||