Compulsory Requirements
L2701 Comparative Legal Research Methods
This course is dedicated to scientific legal research. It focuses on the methods of legal research and directions to attain knowledge. It deals with the common approaches in conducting legal research. It guides students on how to define the research problem, questions and structuring. It then moves to the techniques of data collection and analysis as well as forms of citation and referencing and connecting results to research hypothesis. Other themes include legal drafting, report writing and the use of databases and libraries
L2702 Advance Studies in Civil Law
This course deals with the common sources of civil obligations and directions for civil law enforcement. It selects a number of modern contracts and their legal character and the means to address practical issues arising therefrom
L2703 Common Civil Contracts
This course deals with a number of special civil law contracts, namely the contract of agency, contracts of trust, deposit and loan, guarantees for the fulfillment of the contracts pertinent to movable property and mortgage
L2704 Advance Studies in Land Law
This course deals with the legal regulation of real estate ownership in Palestine. It tackles issues pertinent to property of land since the Ottoman Empire through the present day. It focuses on the rules relating to land ownership and various types of land. The course explains the formulas for owning land, official land registration, shared-land and ways to exploit land and remove common property. It lastly explores the ownership of buildings, floors and apartments
L2705 Advance Studies in Electronic Transactions
This course addresses the legal effects arising from the use of modern technology in civil and commercial transactions. It deals with the legal regulation of electronic transactions, contracts and forms of expressing will electronically. It tackles methods of evidence in electronic correspondence, electronic signature, records and modern ways of electronic payments
L2706 Advance Studies in Banking Contracts and Transactions
This course discusses the concept of banks, their origin, evolution, types and capital. It tackles the official supervision over banks. It studies a number of banking transactions, including: deposits, transfers, debit and credit cards and guarantees. It explores a number of contracts known in Islamic banking, such as murabaha, leasing and leasing that ends with ownership, contracts of salam and parallel salam, istisna and parallel istisna, mudaraba, documentary credits, letters of guarantee, commercial notes, alqabd, altawarruq, agency, contracts of curiosity, mixed contracts, mortgage, agency for investment, promise and appointment. The course finally focuses on the special characteristics of Islamic banks, relationship with other banks and financial institutions
L2707 Advance Studies in Corporate Law
This course analyses the fundamental regulation of companies. It defines the various types of companies, corporate legal foundation, establishment, management, dissolution, mergers and restructuring. The course focuses on new forms of corporation, such as one-person company. In particular, the course deals with company bankruptcy: forms, conditions and consequences
L2799 Thesis
The thesis consists of two stages. Thesis 1: each student works on a proposal for his/her research under the supervision of a professor, who provides guidance and feedback. The student passes if s/he manages to defend his/her proposal. Thesis 2: students shall work on the completion of his/her research project under the supervisor of a faculty member. Each student shall collect and analyze data, conduct a new research, prepare a dissertation and defend it
Elective Requirements
L2710 Alternative Dispute Resolutions in Contracts and Real Property
This course explores alternative and modern means of dispute settlement arising from contractual relations and real estate away from the classical judiciary. It discusses the role of alternative dispute resolution in accelerating justice and the legal implications that result therefrom, particularly as these means have proven to be effective in resolving disputes in various legal fields. The course focuses, specifically, on commercial arbitration as well as mediation at the domestic and international levels. It touches upon the notion of electronic judiciary, which has become an inevitable necessity in light of the technological evolution, especially with the trend of adopting electronic governance worldwide
L2711 Advance Studies in Consumer Protection Law
This course deals with the consumer protection and consumer rights at the global and domestic stages. It explores the United Nations standards for consumer protection, Palestinian consumer protection law and its bylaws. The course also tackles the preventive, retributive and supervisory tools of consumer protection. It gives a particular attention to consumer protection official supervisory bodies as well as consumer protection associations. The course finally considers the balance that should be struck between consumers and producers in traditional and electronic settings and relevant penalties
L2712 Real Property Security
This course explores the legal protection for immovable property in Palestine in the context of the conflict between the Palestinian people and the occupier over land and the social, legal and economic dimensions of land registration. It focuses on the settlement of disputes pertinent to land and real estate. The course deals with the substantive and procedural rules relating to buildings and the organization of local authorities, including instructions pertinent to the property registration and relevant dispute resolution. Finally, the course looks at the ways by which national courts apply these rules and the required reform
L2713 Advance Studies in Labor Law and Social Security
This course offers an in-depth analysis of Palestinian labor law in a comparative perspective. It deals with social security in comparative law and the attempts to adopt such a law in Palestine. The course discusses labor concepts, historical evolution, sources, employment contract, its validity and effects, and rights and obligations of both employers and workers as well as contract termination. The course considers collective labor bargaining, labor unions and settlement of labor disputes. As to social security, the course tackles underlying principles, social security systems, scope of application of social security, social insurance against work injury, occupational diseases, old age, disability and death
L2714 Advance Studies in Insurance Contracts
This course deals with concepts relating to the insurance contract and its technical foundations. It tracks the origin and evolution of insurance, its types and special characteristics as well as its legitimacy from jurisprudential perspectives. The course touches upon the technical aspects of insurance, its foundations and guarantees. It also addresses the formation of the insurance contracts from a technical and legal perspective, its characteristics, its elements, the risk as a nature underlying insurance contract. The course examines the cost of insurance and payable installments. It looks at the obligations of both the insured and insurer and the contract termination. The course flags rules related to selected types of insurance, such as life, damage and automobile
L2715 Comparative Studies in Family Law
This course introduces personal status law, its topics, principles and history. It deals with the marriage contract, engagement, eligibility and marriage authorization. It tackles marriage registration, competence, persons prohibited to marry each other, marriage types, effects of marriage: housing, dowry and alimony. The course also discusses the dissolution of marriage through divorce, multiple divorces, delegation in divorce, divorce of a drunkard, the divorce of a coerced person, or a lunatic, definitive or pending divorce, oaths of divorce, revocable and irrevocable divorce, explicit and implicit divorce, the annulment of divorce and its registration. The course touches upon other types of spouse separation: through defect, mental disease, absence, harm, inability to pay dowry, inability to provide, imprisonment, disappearance, dispute and discord, waiting period, lineage, breastfeeding, custody and maintenance
L2716 Procedural Rights for Litigants
This course examines the procedural rights of litigants in various fields of litigation: civil, commercial, Sharia and litigation before special courts. The course deals with the lawsuit, its formation, application, process, judicial decisions, judicial challenge at various stages and enforcement of judgements
L2717 Legislative Developments in Palestine
This course traces the features of law applicable in Palestine as a unique system that merges a number of features influenced by the Civil Law system, Common Law system and Islamic Law. The course reviews the impact of the multiple eras that Palestine has undergone, starting with the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate, through Egyptian administration in the Gaza Strip, Jordanian rule in the West Bank and the Israeli occupation in both regions. It concludes by the current law applicable during the Palestinian National Authority era as a means to anticipate the legal system that may shape the future of Palestine
L2718 Advanced Studies in Investment Laws
This course considers in depth the fundamental rules relating to investment under the applicable law. It addresses types of investment, especially with regard to the monopoly concession contract. The course reviews the structure of the General Authority for Investment, concept of investment incentives and methods. It also looks at the court jurisdiction in applying investment rules in commercial disputes involving Palestinian investment companies
L2719 Advance Studies in Private International Law
This course introduces the general principles of private international law: its concepts, sources, nature, conflict of laws, jurisdiction of foreign courts and the rules of attribution. The course also deals with the issue of citizenship: its philosophy, concepts and types. It analyses the legal foundations underlying the applicable law that involves contracts among people with different citizenships
L2720 Legal Clinics (Experimental Legal Learning)
This course offers an opportunity for students to practice cases related to the MA program, under the supervision of a specialized faculty member. They may provide pro-bono legal advice to those in need in the local community. The course enables students to deal with actual issues so that they may be able to practice as lawyers, judges or legal advisors upon graduation
