Law

The course focuses on the following main topics:

• Fundamentals of contract law (e.g., sources of private law, protagonists of contract law, freedom of contract, obligations and their origins, overview of types of contracts)
• Conclusion of contracts (e.g., offer and acceptance, formal requirements, permissible content of contracts, defects of intent, agency, general terms and conditions)
• Performance of contracts (e.g., parties to a contract, aspects of valid performance, individual obligations under a contract, conditional obligations)
• Breach of contract and liability (e.g., non‑performance, bad performance, liability for auxiliary persons, non‑contractual liability for products)
• Termination of the obligation to perform (e.g., extinction by performance, forfeiture and impossibility, termination of contracts, prescription/statutes of limitations)

The course in the English-language track focuses on the following main topics:

Introduction to Constitutional Law

• Legal sources and interpretation of Constitutional Law
• Structural principles of the constitution (rule of law principle, federal state principle, democratic principle, social justice)
• Swiss system of government and organization of the authorities
• Fundamental rights
• Constitutional jurisdiction

Introduction to International Law

• Legal sources and subjects of International Law
• Law of the United Nations
• International Human Rights Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Criminal Law
• International Environmental Law
• International Economic Law
• State responsibility and international dispute settlement

The course in the German-language track focuses on the following main topics:

 State and constitutionalism

• Law as the foundation and limitation of state action
• Federalism
• Main features of the system of government / political rights
• Fundamental rights
• Public authority organization
• Legislation / constitutional jurisdiction