Law

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Laws program at Alte University provides a comprehensive foundation in law with a focus on practical skills for careers in various legal fields. Students learn essential legal principles, ethical reasoning, and participate in simulations, internships, and scholarly inquiry. The program emphasizes critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication to prepare graduates for the evolving legal landscape both locally and globally.

Program Outline

• Objectives:
• To provide students with a strong foundation in public, criminal, private, and international law.
• To cultivate practical skills essential for applying legal knowledge, including analytical prowess, critical thinking, and ethical values.
• Description: The program emphasizes a diverse curriculum encompassing communication skills, legal writing, professional ethics, contract law, procedural skills in criminal, civil, and administrative law, constitutional law, fundamental human rights and freedoms, corporate law, banking law, insurance law, international law, and criminology.
Students participate in simulated legal processes, research projects, internships, workshops, seminars, and meetings with invited guests.

Teaching:

• Methods: The program utilizes a variety of pedagogical methods, including lectures, explanations, analysis, discussions, debates, deductive and inductive reasoning, case analysis, comparative legal analysis, historical legal analysis, case studies, problem-based learning (PBL), action-oriented learning, collaborative learning, group work, and other instructional strategies.

Careers:

• Potential Career Paths: Graduates can pursue careers in public and international organizations, consulting firms, law enforcement agencies, academia, politics, business sectors, notarial chambers, and human rights organizations.
• Opportunities: The program emphasizes the increasing demand for legal expertise in both local and international markets.
• Outcomes: Graduates will be able to:
• Apply critical thinking skills to analyze legal concepts, theories, methodologies, sources, legal systems, institutions, norms, principles, and the interplay between national and international law.
• Explain legal mechanisms for safeguarding rights, legal proceedings, and forms of accountability.
• Identify legal issues and resolve them by analyzing legal norms, devising strategies, and working independently and collaboratively.
• Draft legal documents and participate in legal proceedings.
• Articulate ethical positions and conclusions through logical discourse and analysis, communicating effectively in oral and written formats in Georgian and English.
• Research and analyze legally significant information from various sources.
• Expand knowledge through courtroom experience, legislative updates, and scholarly inquiry.
• Adhere to professional ethics, uphold human rights, and operate in accordance with legal principles.

Other:

• Further Studies: A graduate of the Bachelor of Laws can successfully pursue a Master of Laws program at Alte University.