Information Package / Course Catalogue
Basic Concepts of Law
Course Code: BAS107
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, systematics, and sources of law, and to help them comprehend the place and importance of law among the rules regulating social life. Furthermore, it aims to introduce core legal concepts required in the finance, banking, and insurance sectors—such as rights, obligations, liability, personality, contracts, and property—thereby enabling students to approach situations they will encounter in their professional lives with a basic legal perspective.

Course Content

Rules of social order and law; sources and application of law; branches of law (Public Law, Private Law, and Mixed Law branches); the concept of rights, types of rights, acquisition, loss, and protection of rights; concepts of legal events, legal acts, and legal transactions; the concept of personality, real persons and legal entities, capacities (legal capacity and capacity to act); fundamental elements of liability and obligation relations; state organs and the judicial organization.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Yakup KARACA
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to explain the place and function of law within social order rules and the core sources of law.
2.To be able to distinguish between branches of public and private law, and define the main characteristics of law branches relevant to finance and banking.
3.To be able to analyze the concept of rights, types of rights, and the ways of acquiring and protecting rights within the framework of principles of integrity and good faith.
4.To be able to interpret the legal structures of real persons and legal entities, the capacity to hold rights and act, and the conditions for restricting these capacities.
5.To be able to identify, at a basic level, legal events, acts, transactions, and obligation-liability relations that may be encountered in professional life.
6.To be able to evaluate the emergence of obligation relations, the concept of contract, and the invalidity of legal transactions (nullity, annulment, etc.) in terms of professional applications.
7.İngilizce: To be able to comprehend the importance of basic property law concepts such as property rights, possession, and land registry in banking and insurance transactions (pledge, mortgage, etc.).
8.To be able to explain the Turkish judicial organization, types of courts, and the primary judicial authorities to appeal to in financial disputes.
9.To be able to explain the judge's discretionary power by distinguishing the types of gaps (statutory gaps and legal gaps) in the interpretation and application of legal rules.
10.To be able to define the tax duties, financial powers of the state, and the effects of administrative sanctions on financial institutions within the scope of public law.
11.To be able to comprehend the basic operating mechanism of enforcement and bankruptcy law, which is activated in case of non-performance of debts in banking and commercial life.
12.To be able to justify the fundamental legal regulations aimed at protecting consumer rights in financial service provision and insurance contracts.
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Rules of Social Order and Definition of Law
Week 2 - Theoretical
Sources of Law and Hierarchy of Written Sources
Week 3 - Theoretical
Application of Law (In Terms of Time, Place, and Meaning)
Week 4 - Theoretical
Branches of Law I: Public Law Branches and Characteristics
Week 5 - Theoretical
Branches of Law II: Private Law and Mixed Law Branches
Week 6 - Theoretical
Concept of Rights and Types of Rights, Protection of Rights and Types of Lawsuits
Week 7 - Theoretical
Concept of Personality: Real Persons, Its Beginning and End
Week 8 - Theoretical
Legal Entities (Associations, Foundations, and Intro to Companies)
Week 9 - Theoretical
Legal Capacity and Capacity to Act (Requirements and Types)
Week 10 - Theoretical
Concepts of Legal Events, Legal Acts, and Legal Transactions
Week 11 - Theoretical
The Concept of Debt, Debt Generating Persons
Week 12 - Theoretical
Concept of Liability, Foundations of Contract and Obligation
Week 13 - Theoretical
Contract types
Week 14 - Theoretical
Turkish Judicial Organization, Types of Courts, and General Review
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Assignment1%5
Quiz1%5
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment33215
Reading4028
Individual Work43220
Quiz1112
Midterm Examination1224
Final Examination1459
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)100
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
5
5
5
2
4
4
OÇ-2
5
4
4
2
4
4
OÇ-3
5
5
4
2
4
4
OÇ-4
5
4
4
2
4
4
OÇ-5
5
4
4
2
4
4
OÇ-6
5
4
4
2
4
4
OÇ-7
5
4
4
2
4
4
OÇ-8
5
4
4
2
4
2
OÇ-9
5
4
4
2
4
2
OÇ-10
5
4
4
2
4
2
OÇ-11
5
4
4
2
4
2
OÇ-12
5
4
4
2
4
2
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026