10735 Introduction to Law

Credits: 4 intermediate credits in Accounting or in Law

Prerequisites: none

Author: Hadara Bar-Mor

The course teaches basic legal concepts and surveys the broad spectrum of legal terminology. The law, like any professional discipline, is a normative body of knowledge, theories and practices with mutual influences. Law absorbs human reality and behavior and produces binding norms of behavior. It develops within the regime and is dependent on its structure. It is composed of a complex infrastructure of distinct statutes (basic laws, laws) and from a national-institutional network (e.g., the legislative branch, courts).

Topics: Legal sources, legal methods, the structure of government in the State of Israel, the nature of criminal responsibility, foundations of administrative law, laws of obligations including contract law, law of tort and property law.