HISTORY OF LAW EVENING

INTRODUCTION TO LAW22

GENDER

MODULE OF LAW OF PERSONS AND FAMILY

This course aims at helping students to acquire knowledge in the field of family law and the law of persons.


HISTORY OF LAW AND FORMAL LOGIC

On completion of this module, the student should be able to demonstrate fundamental knowledge with reference to the external foundations of Rwandan law as well as the internal foundations of the Rwandan law of procedure, law of succession, public law, law of persons and the family; and individually and within a group, apply the above knowledge to the analysis of sets of facts, both routine and unfamiliar but derived from real-life situations and the formulation or adaptation of solutions;


COMPARATIVE LAW

The Comparative law is useful for the comprehension of foreign peoples and it gives a better regime to international relations. This interest does firstly affect the International Public Law. In fact, the conditions of the modern world do impose a total renewal of this branch of law. It must settle among states, the relations of cooperation at all levels. It is clear that these relations may not settle or develop as required due to the ignorance of international law. The UNESCO constitutive act recognizes the knowledge and the mutual comprehension of nations by the development at the universal level of the study of the foreigners law through comparative method. For this reason, diplomats and treaties negotiators must be prepared to understand the legal systems  of the concerned parties in order to know in which way and for which arguments they may hope to convince their interlocutors.

In addition, one of the sources of the International Public Law foreseen by the International Justice Court is the general principles of the law common to the civilised nations. The interpretation of this formula can only be done based on Comparative Law.

Similarly, the Comparative Law has a great role to play in the development of the International Private Law. Indeed, it is required to assure the uniformity of the national solutions of different countries in what concerns private relations in order to avoid the unpredictability and the danger of contraction etc                                                                                             


Ict skills 1&2