wir040 - Introduction to Constitutional Law and Foundations of Public Economic Law (Complete module description)

wir040 - Introduction to Constitutional Law and Foundations of Public Economic Law (Complete module description)

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Module label Introduction to Constitutional Law and Foundations of Public Economic Law
Modulkürzel wir040
Credit points 6.0 KP
Workload 180 h
Institute directory Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Economics)
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls
  • Bachelor's Programme Business Administration and Law (Bachelor) >
  • Bachelor's Programme Economics and Business Administration (Bachelor) >
  • Bachelor's Programme Sustainability Economics (Bachelor) >
Zuständige Personen
  • Boehme-Neßler, Volker (module responsibility)
  • Lehrenden, Die im Modul (Prüfungsberechtigt)
  • Rüscher, Vera (Prüfungsberechtigt)
Prerequisites
Skills to be acquired in this module
Upon completion of the module, students will be able to:
• will have a basic knowledge of German Constitutional Law and a more advanced knowledge of exemplary problems with the Constitution
• will have critically worked with the most important leading cases of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (Constitutional Court)
• will be able to analyse Constitutional Law in its political, historical, and economic context
Module contents
• position of the constitution in the hierarchy of norms
• constitutional theory: the special character of a constitution
• a short history of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz)
• constitutional/political background of the Basic Law
• the organisation of the state
• the aims of the German Basic Law
• exemplary investigations: Democracy and the Rule of Law
• Art. 12 GG, freedom of occupation
• Art. 14 GG, freedom of property
Literaturempfehlungen
• Stein, Ekkehart/ Frank, Götz: Staatsrecht, 21. Aufl. 2010. Mohr Siebeck
• Morlok, Martin & Michael, Lothar: Staatsorganisationsrecht, 2. Auflage, Nomos 2015
• Degenhart, Christoph: Staatsrecht I Staatsorganisationsrecht: Mit Bezügen zum Europarecht, 30. Auflage, C.F. Müller 2015
• Katz, Alfred: Staatsrecht: Grundkurs im öffentlichen Recht, 18. Auflage, C.F. Müller 2010
Links
Language of instruction German
Duration (semesters) 2 Semester
Module frequency jährlich
Module capacity unlimited
Examination Prüfungszeiten Type of examination
Final exam of module
end of module
written exam
Form of instruction Lecture
SWS 4
Frequency