Erasmus+ Course List

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR44
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with general institution of Polish civil law (general part of the civil code). Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.
• Form of assessment: Basic estimate criterion is activity during classes. Oral exam or written paper on the issues in the lecture, the topic agreed earlier with the teacher.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR45
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with general institution of the Law of Property. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.
• Form of assessment: Basic estimate criterion is activity during classes. Oral exam or written paper on the issues in the lecture, the topic agreed earlier with the teacher.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR46
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.4 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with general principles of the Law of Obligations (contract and tort law). Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.
• Form of assessment: Basic estimate criterion is activity during classes. Oral exam or written paper on the issues in the lecture, the topic agreed earlier with the teacher.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR47
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: This course is designed to acquaint foreign students with specific contracts and principles of contract law. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the legal provisions as well as their practical application. Students’ familiarity with provisions of foreign laws will be helpful to compare systems in different countries.
• Form of assessment: Basic estimate criterion is activity during classes. Oral exam or written paper on the issues in the lecture, the topic agreed earlier with the teacher.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1CK002w-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: na/a
• ECTS credits: 2.00
• Language: English
• Short description: Commercial law is a branch of private law encompassing a set of legal norms relating to legal relations involving entrepreneurs. Commercial law is not a uniform field but rather a complex system of various norms whose common denominator is the subjective aspect – their connection to entrepreneurial activity. The subject of the tutorials is exclusively the issues of company law. Other matters – i.e. the general part of commercial law, commercial contract law, bankruptcy and restructuring law, securities law, and commercial arbitration – are covered in the lecture. – (translated internally)
• Form of assessment: The completion of the tutorials takes place according to the rules established by the course instructor and communicated to the students no later than during the first class of the given semester. – (translated internally)
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1CK002s-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 2.00
• Language: English
• Short description: n/a
• Form of assessment: n/a
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR69
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: During the lecture following issues are presented: the theory of the Constitution, the principles of Polish constitutional system, in particular: the principle of the democratic State governed by the rule of law, the separation of powers, social market economy, then the sources of law (universally binding law and acts of internal character), organization, the scope of activities and the mechanisms of functioning of legislative organs (the Sejm, the Senate, the National Assembly).
• Form of assessment: Final examination.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR70
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: During the lecture following issues are presented: the principles concerning the status of individuals (freedoms, rights and obligations), organisation of the judiciary (courts and tribunals), organs of state control and for defence of rights (Supreme Chamber of Control, Ombudsman), elections, executive power (President and Council of Ministers). Lecture also covers legal problems concerning local government and public finances.
• Form of assessment: Final examination.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR22
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: The subject of the course is the institutional law of the European Union; and in particular the structures and mechanisms of functioning of the Eu-ropean Union legal system. The course is based on analysis of the Treaty provisions and other legal instruments, the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the Europe-an Union and selected recent literature.
• Form of assessment: Attendance list and preparation for the classes, active participation during the classes, final essay or test.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1CWHP64-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The lectures present the historical foundations of European legal identity from the Roman Empire to the European Union. In view of the multiple character of this identity the stress lies on the distinction between the common law (British Isles) and the civil law countries (the continent). Within the latter area the gradually disappearing distinction between Eastern and Western Europe is dealt with.
• Form of assessment: The classes combine the traditional lecture method with elements of students’ individual work. Each participant is required to prepare a presentation on a topic of their choice from a list of 15 topics provided in the “full description.” If it is not possible to deliver the presentation, the student submits a written essay on the chosen topic, which is subject to evaluation. – (translated internally)
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR9
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: The subject of the course is the substantive law of the European Union; and in particular the fundamental freedoms of the internal market as well as selected issues of the competition law. The course is based on analysis of the Treaty provisions and other legal instruments, the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and selected recent literature
• Form of assessment: Attendance list and preparation for the classes, active participation during the classes, final essay or test
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1CV13-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (0421)
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The course is designed as an introduction to common law. The very first freedoms of the First Amendment to the US Constitutions give only an occasion to discuss the jurisprudence and methods of the US Supreme Court.
• Form of assessment: Classes held once a week for 90 minutes are skills oriented. Therefore presence (three absences allowed only) and active participation in class discussion are essential to complete the course successfully, although a written exam, i.e. a short essay, will be necessary to get a final grade.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

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• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code:  2200-1I126-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: Global learning fosters awareness and critical reflection on topics such as law and politics, economics, finance and trade, as well as questions of wealth, poverty, and cultural diversity. This program introduces students to comparative and international legal studies by engaging them in team projects that tackle pressing global challenges.
• Form of assessment: No exam required, but you are requested to participate in workshops actively. In each class, you’ll build your legal skills in a supportive setting through participation, collaboration, and real-time feedback, with the focus on learning and practical growth.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1PS006-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 6.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The course is divided into three main blocks. The concept of international and EU company law: the rules for determining the applicable law for companies (conflict-of-law rules for companies), the principles governing companies’ exercise of the freedom of establishment within the European Union. The key substantive company law and corporate governance principles: common to EU Member States, harmonized through directives and addressed in recommendations, facilitate legal transactions across the EU. The concept of M&As transactions and the main forms of equity investments in companies: methodology of corporate reorganizations, transactions involving shares or stocks (share deals), including capital restructuring and takeovers of public companies, transactions involving the sale of a business (asset deals).
• Form of assessment: Evaluations Criteria: 1. Attendance (30%) 2. Class participation (30%) 3. Final exam (40%)
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1PS008-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 6.00
• Language: English
• Short description: This course aims to present issues concerning proceedings before arbitral tribunals, proceedings related to arbitration (pre- and post-arbitration), and matters in the field of European and international civil procedure law (including national jurisdiction, lis pendens, recognition and enforcement of judgments). Significant emphasis will be placed on international arbitration practice and problems arising in disputes related to international commercial transactions. In light of intensification of international legal commerce understanding of these issues is necessary for a lawyer working in the field of civil procedure and commercial law.
• Form of assessment: Grading will be based on an oral or written examination.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1I049-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The subject of this class will be an analysis of the key disputes about the law, and their impact on practice. Law is usually perceived as a set of imperatives and prohibitions that are not subject to challenge, but in fact the law is a dynamic phenomenon, and changing views of what the legal order is, what justifies it and what obligations lawyers have are usually quickly reflected in the practice of law making and application. One can learn about the legal theory and legal philosophy by examining key disputes that have been waged over the years and sometimes centuries. In this class we will discuss the following disputes of legal theory and philosophy concerning fundamental questions about law, its interpretation, application and relation to other social phenomena.
• Form of assessment: n/a
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1K003-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The course introduces key issues of legal theory (such as sources of law, legal norms, the legal system, validity of law, legal language, interpretation of law, legal argumentation) in the context of the main philosophical-legal schools of thought from the 19th to 21st century (natural law, original and refined positivism, legal realism, legal hermeneutics, argumentation theories, postmodernism). It will also explain the underlying ideas of various legal theories and institutions (e.g. constitutional review). Emphasis will be placed on the multiplicity of contemporary positions regarding the nature of law, methods of understanding and interpreting it, criteria for its validity, and principles for deciding “hard cases” where traditional legal syllogism is insufficient.
• Form of assessment: Requirements: • Knowledge of lecture topics. • Understanding of discussed texts. • Emphasis on comprehension and independent analysis over rote memorization.
  Evaluation criteria: • Understanding of basic legal concepts and theoretical constructs; • Ability to reconstruct and critique legal-philosophical arguments; • Capacity to formulate and defend personal viewpoints.
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1K013-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 4.00
• Language: English
• Short description: n/a
• Form of assessment: n/a
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1PS014-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: n/a
• ECTS credits: 6.00
• Language: English
• Short description: n/a
• Form of assessment: n/a
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Winter 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR10
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (n/a)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: The Course of Principles of Roman Law, part I aims at introducing the student into the world of legal thinking, law-creation and case-solving methods. It will use as the laboratory the basic notions of Roman Private Law: presenting its history and law-finding methods, from the beginning of the Law till the Justinianic Compilation, and basic institution of the Family law and law of property.
• Form of assessment: Evaluation: homework evaluation, continuous evaluation of the work at the class, evaluation of the students’ participation at Moodle.
  A mock-exam after each semester: cases, open questions, followed an oral colloquium.
  Final exam: in English (optional) or in Polish (with the regular students of the Polish classes). The open-book exam in English shall consist of a written part (cases, open questions, text-exegesis) and of an oral part (discussion of the material).
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-FOR11
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (n/a)
• ECTS credits: 5.50
• Language: English
• Short description: The Course of Principles of Roman Law, part II aims at introducing the student into the world of legal thinking, law-creation and case-solving methods. It will use as the laboratory the basic notions of Roman Private Law: law of successions and law of obligations (contracts and delicts)
• Form of assessment: Evaluation: homework evaluation, continuous evaluation of the work at the class, evaluation of the students’ participation at Moodle. A mock-exam: cases, open questions, followed an oral colloquium. Final exam: in English (optional) or in Polish (with the regular students of the Polish classes). The open-book exam in English shall consist of a written part (cases, open questions, text-exegesis) and of an oral part (discussion of the material).
• Class hours per semester: 30h

• Semester: Summer 2025/26
• Course code: 2200-1CWPA89-ERA
• Erasmus / ISCED code: 10.0 / (n/a)
• ECTS credits: 5.00
• Language: English
• Short description: The purpose of the seminar is to encourage students to make an in-depth research on EU constitutional law issues and to discuss their papers with a group of internationally renowned experts. The course has a form of a number of preparatory meetings (happening always on Mondays, at 8 pm) culminating in two-days block-seminar (crash course) during which papers are presented and thoroughly discussed. This year seminar takes place under honorary patronage of Professor Adam Bodnar, Minister of Justice, within the Polish EU Presidency Programme The final seminar will take place on 11/12 May 2026.
• Form of assessment: Students will be assessed individually on the basis of scholar quality of their papers and understanding of problems covered.
• Class hours per semester: 30h