Content module “European experience of transitional justice. EU policy on support transitional justice” within the compulsory course “Transitional Justice”. The module aims to represent key points of the EU policy on supporting transitional justice implementation for non-EU countries, promoting institutional and legislative reforms, truth-seeking commissions, and a victim-focused approach to reparations. European experience of transitional justice (Spain in the years following the death of Generalissimo Francisco; Greece after the military dictatorship: cases of post-communism transitions in Eastern Germany. Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Baltic states; transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina) will also be considered through the lens of European integration processes.
By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- have the knowledge and understanding of the EU policy on supporting transitional justice implementation for non-EU countries;
- understand the EU approaches to truth-seeking initiatives and supporting the International Criminal Court;
- apply knowledge of European transitional justice experience in solving complex professional problems, carry out analysis and qualification of legal phenomena in transitional period in Ukraine;
- solve legal problems arising in Ukraine with the implementation of transitional justice, based on European values.
Content module “EU instruments for ensuring fair access to justice” within the compulsory course “Comparative Judicial Procedure Law” for 3d-year bachelor students majoring in International Law. The module aims to develop abilities to understand and apply the EU and Council of Europe legal instruments to guarantee the process of justice and non-discrimination.
By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- understand the scope of the right to effective access to justice under European law, including the right to fair proceedings, the right to timely justice, the right to adequate redress, the principle of efficiency and effectiveness;
- have the knowledge and understanding of the EU instruments for ensuring fair access to justice, including the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Treaty of the European Union, secondary law of the EU, the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union;
- apply relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights and shift Ukrainian law enforcement practice to approximate EU standards.
Content module “EU civil litigation: key cases on the access to justice” within the compulsory course “International Private Law and Process”. The module aims to develop abilities to understand and apply the key European legal principles in the area of access to justice. It seeks to raise awareness and improve knowledge of relevant legal standards set by the European Union in civil litigation, particularly through the case law.
By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- understand the scope of the right to effective access to justice under European law, including the right to fair proceedings, the right to timely justice, the right to adequate redress, the principle of efficiency and effectiveness;
- have the knowledge and understanding of the EU civil litigation instruments and proceedings, also in cross-border disputes;
- apply relevant case law in cross-border disputes up to the EU standards.
Content module “EU standards of Access to Justice” within the compulsory course “European Law”. The module aims to develop abilities to understand and apply key European legal principles in the area of access to justice, to improve knowledge of relevant legal standards set by the European Union and the Council of Europe, particularly through the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- know the reasons and content of the process of European integration, the institution and the constituent legal system of the European Union;
- explain the legal bases of the European Court of Human Rights and the legal significance of its decisions, the operation of the human rights mechanisms of the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe;
- apply in practice the main European standards of access to justice and explain the mechanism of their action.
Content module “Practical Issues on applying the EU standards of Access to Justice: EU Legal Clinics Best Practices” within the compulsory course “Legal Clinics Education. The module aims to form student’s holistic idea of professional ethics, legal culture and the development of professional skills of a lawyer in practical activities in accordance with European standards.
By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- know and understand the main categories and concepts in the field of European access to justice standards;
- determine relevant and acceptable facts for legal analysis in specific cases at the request of clients;
- systematically analyze legislation and judicial practice, including that of the European Court of Human Rights;
- form and substantiate legal positions in the case, provide legal advice and draft procedural documents necessary for submission to the ECtHR.
Content module “Access to justice: national and European practice for entities” within the compulsory course “Commercial Law and Process”. The module aims to the formation of a holistic system of knowledge among students regarding European standards of access to justice in the field of economic activity, the acqmuisition and development of special practical skills and abilities in this field. By the end of the module, the students are expected to:
- possess a categorical and conceptual apparatus regarding access to justice, analyze EU law and judicial practice;
- apply the norms of substantive and procedural law of the EU when resolving disputes, determine appropriate and acceptable facts for legal analysis;
- compile the necessary procedural documents, projects of law enforcement acts;
- independently solve problems that arise during the implementation of the right of access to justice in the field of business, determine the legal position in the case;
- work in the “Electronic Court” system, receive evidence from databases, information resources.
