HUK212

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

The main function of the judiciary is focused on the conviction of the actors. In this process, legal terms/concepts, values, principles, validity of arguments, accuracy of consequences, and justice/ injustices appear as important focal points. By including the thoughts of the legal philosophy schools on these issues, the basic legal terms and concepts such as “justice”, “morality”, “validity”, “benefit”, “function”, “interest”, “purpose”, “interpretation”, “reasoned decision” and more will be discussed; also it will be examined what is the relation between law and various ideas expressed by conceptions, to what extent the law is an independent system of values, what the law means normatively, what are the philosophical approaches and analyses to the general problems of social ideal seeking/ value expression; and how the law can contribute to the solution processes of the targeted problems. Legal Philosophy education, broadens the base of the legal education and provides the future practitioner with an awareness of social, economic, and political contexts in which the law is applied. The basic aim of the legal sociology course is to make the students acquire the ability to examine the law sociologically. To be able to see the gap between the normative aspect and the reality/practice aspect of law, and to understand and examine its reasons is the desired basic skill to make students acquire. Thus the students can realize that law is not just a norm/rule, rather its factual aspect can be more important than its normative aspect.