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the targeted legal areas.

LAW 231: ENGLISH LEGAL WRITING
Credits: 3 (3-0-0) Prerequisite: LAW112
The course is an obligatory course. It aims to give practical training to law students about
writing, drafting legal documents. These documents are considered essential part of any law
degree. Students receive first-hand experience of what a law firm require in legal writing, once
they join the job market. The course has various areas of legal written practice of making
documents for clients and court proceedings like pleading papers or contracts. Students will
have opportunities to learn and apply their legal English skills by becoming familiar with
resources available to students, observing real-world legal situations

LAW 243: COMMERCIAL LAW
Credits: 3 (3-1-0) Prerequisite: LAW213
This course is part 1 of the Commercial Law System. It covers three sections: the first one
introduces Commercial Law, by indicating the scope of Commercial Law application, the criteria
of differentiating commercial from civil transactions, and the effects of the distinction between
them. The second section explains the conditions for acquiring the status of a trader, its
obligations, and the commercial place and its required licenses. As for the third section, it covers
the definitions of commercial papers, their types (the bill of exchange, the promissory note and
the check), their creation, their circulation, and the guarantees of their fulfillment.

LAW 255: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Credits: 3 (3-0-0) Prerequisite: LAW101
This course is an obligatory course. This course focuses on the relations between states,
international organizations, and other legal actors within the public international framework. It
explores competing notions of sovereignty and the dilemma of conflict resolution between
parties under international law. Special attention will be paid to the recognition of states and the
consequent obligations of states, the law of treaties, and topical issues in international law, for
example illegal settling of territories, the law of the sea, the requirements and obstacles of state
formation and humanitarian law.

LAW 262: CRIMINAL LAW I
Credits: 3 (3-0-0) Prerequisite: LAW101
The course introduces Theory of Crime and Theory of Sanction in Sharia and law. It is presented
in three parts: Part I – defines crime and lists its characteristics, divisions, and types (legal,
material, moral). Part II- deals with the study of the criminal in terms of defining his role as a
contributor to the crime, as being directly involved in the crime (original contribution) or a co-
creator (associative contribution), according to the acts he committed. In addition, this part is
concerned with the statement of the criminal responsibility for what is attributed to him and the
availability of the eligibility conditions at the time of committing the crime (perception, freedom
of choice). Furthermore, it covers the obstacles of criminal responsibility that may result, under
certain conditions, in the absence of criminal responsibility or the removal of the criminal
character of the act. Part III- introduces the Theory of Sanction, its divisions, types, and
individualization. Moreover, it indicates the reasons for mitigating and aggravating the sanction,
the methods of execution, its suspension, its limitations, its alternatives, and the effects of its
implementation.