The aim of the educational program

The aim of the educational program corresponds with Guram Tavartkiladze Tbilisi Teaching University Mission; it is focused on the employment market and is set up as following paragraphs:

• To acquire and develop the values based on the ideals of democracy and humanism to the Bachelor program students; To train qualified and competitive lawyer in Educational and Employment market by offering higher education in compliance with the modern standards of educational quality, Create conditions for the implementation of its Human Resources;
• Master the socio-historical aspects of the law; Acquire knowledge on the basic peculiarities of the national law system, theories of law, institutions, material and procedural norms, general principles, and values.
• In accordance with the educational program theoretical aspects and the use of practical elements of teaching disciplines, preparation of students for further studies in the Master's program.
• To introduce bachelor basic aspects of contemporary knowledge characteristic of the field of law;
  Current news, development trends, theories, history and international experience.
• Develop a professional approach to the field of law; prepare a student for the Bachelor's Degree Specialist in the field of Law for the activities envisaged by the legislation.

Study outcomes

The consistent and full implementation of the goals set by the Bachelor Program will be ensured Higher Education Qualification Framework for the First Level of Higher Education (Bachelor's) to achieve the learning outcomes relevant to the subjective character of the law education program. After graduation the graduate must have the following competencies:

General competences

Conclusion making skills

Bachelor has:

• Ability to establish reasonable conclusions on the basis of critical analysis of legal information;
• Ability to develop their solution thesis and to justify the selected approach on the basis of multilateral vision and analysis of legal problems ;
• Determination of the behaviour of justice offices and the ability to make reasonable conclusions about the ways of enhancing their effectiveness;
• Ability to justify the use of the principles of management decision making.

Communication Skills

Bachelor has:

• Ability to find information in native and foreign languages and to deliver oral and written form using legal terminology;
• Ability to use modern information and communication technologies with consideration of the features of the field;
• Ability to organize business meetings and presentations within its competence;
  Individual and team work skills.

Learning Skills

Bachelor has:

• Ability to continuously update the legislative amendments, court practice, scientific innovations and knowledge;
• Ability to determine consistently and multilateral assessment of their own learning process, further learning needs;
• Ability to expand the sphere of interest in the field of law and study different issues using different sources.

Values

Bachelor:

• Possesses moral values for the lawyer;
• Protects the principles of team work;
• Protects the values required for the national law system;
• Familiar with the ethical scope of lawyer activities;
• It is committed to facilitating implementation of individual rights and to act in justice, humanism, human rights, social and democratic values.

Field competences:
Knowledge and understanding:

Bachelor has the broad knowledge of the field, which includes critical understanding of theories and principles, realizes the complex issues of the field.

Bachelor has:

Wide knowledge of the basic peculiarities, principles and institutions of the national law system, and depth knowledge of privet or criminal law.

Bachelor knows:

• The basic peculiarities of the national law system, Principles and institutions;
• Legal signs;
• Explanation methods;
• Historical sources of Georgian law;
• State arrangement issues;
• Local self-governance issues;
• Basic human rights and freedoms;
• The essence and principles of administrative law;
• Principles of civil law and civil-law relations;
• Property law;
• Fundamental principles of liability law;
• Contractual and legal relations;
• Comparative legal relations;
• Family and hereditary legal relations;
• The essence of the crime, types and peculiarities of criminal liability;
• Basic Principles of International Public Law;
• The fundamentals of legal ethics;
• Civil, administrative and criminal proceedings;
• Crime investigation tactics and methods;
• Each phase of judicial skills and basic principles of jurisdiction instruction.

Bachelor is aware of:

• The essence of law;
• The importance of fundamental principles of law for the Legal system formation.

Ability to use Knowledge in Practice

Bachelor has:

• Legal problems identification skills;
• Ability to find, interpret and use normative bases for solving legal problems;

Bachelor is able to:

• Creation of legal documents (normative act project, contract, complaint, suit, etc.);
• Determining concrete issues with regard to the interrelationships and interdependence of law standards;
• Issuing qualified legal conclusions and consultations, implementation of legal expertise of normative acts;
• Performing legal actions in accordance with the relevant procedural norms.

Bachelor's professional activity sphere, object and activity types

After completion of the educational program and after receiving the bachelor's degree, Bachelor’s work is carried out in the field of public, private sector, governmental and non-governmental structures and is directed towards legal regulation of public relations, establishment of legal culture and establishment and strengthening of a state of law. Bachelor's professional activity field is lawmaking activity; Legal aspects of organization, management decision-making process. Draw up legal documents (normative act project, contract, complaint, suit, etc.); Human rights protection and promotion.

Bachelor program graduate will have the opportunity to work in any position where the Bachelor's degree is required and it is not necessary to pass the state certification exams. After completion of the Bachelor's Degree Program, a graduate will be able to continue his studies in law master's programs.

Awarded Qualification

After obtaining the number of credits established by the educational program and submitting a certificate confirming the level of English language knowledge, the graduate is granted Qualification / Academic Degree: - The Academic Degree of Bachelor Law and the graduate is granted a diploma in a form established by the state, the graduate is
also granted bilingual diploma supplement, established by the European Commission, Council of Europe and UNERCO / CEPES

Program structure

The program is compiled in accordance with the European Credit Transfer System. The program has a consistent structure that enables the student to develop individual education profile by concentrating on elective study courses and concentrations of various specialized subjects the students also have the opportunity to study different specialization courses in the specialty module.

Private / Business Law: Industrial Property Law; International private law; Corporation law, Labour and social security law; compensation for moral damages; Roman private law; Bankruptcy and rehabilitation law, copyright law.

Criminal Law: International Criminal Justice;
Criminology; Crimes against the judiciary; Penitentiary Law; Prosecutorial Law; Doctrine of punishment; Criminal procedure acts; Drug crime.