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Law

- system of rules usually enforced through a set of institutions. It affects politics, economics and society in numerous ways. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on a derivatives market. Property law defines rights and obligations related to transfer and title of personal and real property. Trust law applies to assets held for investment and financial security. Tort law allows claims for compensation when someone or their property is injured or harmed. Constitutional law provides a framework for creating laws, protecting people's human rights, and electing political representatives. Administrative law relates to the activities of administrative agencies of government. International law regulates affairs between sovereign nation-states - Wikipedia.

Politics

- process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. Politics consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.

Political science (also political studies) is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power. - Wikipedia.

Politics (courses)

Wisconsin University (US)
  • Ethnic Politics - overview of the history and strategies of different ethnic groups as they have integrated (and disintegrated) into American politics through the workings of the civic culture

  • Modern Political Thought - thoughts of key philosophers, how modern concepts and ideas were transformed by the impact of historical events and how they evolved with each successive thinker

Political Philosophy

West Georgia State University (US)

examination of significant themes in political philosophy, highlighting way in which major concepts of political thought have evolved from ancient Greece to contemporary western society, By critically examining the works of classical and modern political theorists explore nature of state, justification of political authority, distributive justice: study guide, Writing a Philosophy Paper

Economic Analysis of Law

Santa Clara University (US)

Ideas (World According to Coase), Law (Standards As Intellectual Property, Review of Economic Analysis of Accident Law, Should the Characteristics of Victims and Criminals Count, Private Creation and Enforcement of Law, Less Law than Meets the Eye, Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century, Rational Criminals and Profit-Maximizing Police)

Computers, Crimes and Privacy

Santa Clara University (US)

Computer crime, Old privacy issues, New privacy issue (Privacy via encryption)

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Politics Courses

Rochester University (US)
  • International Political Economy - explores consequences of international trade for domestic political alignments, role of domestic institutions in promoting rise and fall of nations, and other linkages between domestic and international political economy

  • Theories of International Relations - surveys approaches to theory building in international relations, elementary game theory, causes of war, conditions for international cooperation, role of international institutions

Intelligence Analysis

Austin Peay State University (US)

history, ethics, strategies, tactics and techniques used by intelligence, police, and security agencies to produce useful and actionable intelligence products for homeland security purposes

Constitutional Law

North Carolina Wesleyan College (US)

policies derived from critical-analytic reasoning over selected portions of the US Constitution, important, relevant considerations over real-life issues and situations dealing with civil liberties and civil right, Key terms, clauses, cases & chronologies in Constitutional Law

20th Century Middle East

New York State University (US)

contemporary social and political issues in the Middle East from the perspective of its recent history, Middle Eastern history within the broader context of world history, wider geographic area including the Balkans, the Caucasus, Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, overview of nineteenth and twentieth century Middle Eastern history, domestic developments in various states, nationality question in the Caucasus (Chechnya) and the Balkans (Kosovo), oil in the Middle East & Caucasus.

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