wir040 - Introduction to Constitutional Law and Foundations of Public Economic Law (Complete module description)
Module label | Introduction to Constitutional Law and Foundations of Public Economic Law |
Module code | wir040 |
Credit points | 6.0 KP |
Workload | 180 h |
Institute directory | Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Economics) |
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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 |
Recommended reading | • 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 |
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Language of instruction | German |
Duration (semesters) | 2 Semester |
Module frequency | jährlich |
Module capacity | unlimited |
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Final exam of module | end of module |
written exam |
Type of course | Lecture |
SWS | 4 |
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Workload attendance time | 56 h |