Civil Law: Key Issues

Consideration of topical issues of civil law taking into account the ongoing reform of civil and corporate legislation, formation of new knowledge about promising and relevant areas of development of private law.

Training Program

Introduction to Civil Law

  • Civil law as a private law
  • Features of civil law as a private law
  • System of private law

Sources of civil law

  • The concept and types of sources of civil law
  • Normative acts of civil law
  • Action of civil legislation

Civil legal relations

  • The concept, content and types of civil legal relations
  • Content of civil legal relations
  • Types of civil legal relations

Citizens as parties to civil legal relations

  • Citizens (physical persons) as participants of civil legal relations
  • Legal capacity of citizens (physical persons)
  • The concept and content of legal capacity of citizens.
  • Restriction and deprivation of legal capacity of citizens.

Legal entities as participants of legal relations

  • The concept and types of legal entities
  • Legal entity as a subject of civil law
  • Emergence and termination of legal entities

Commercial and non-commercial organizations

  • Legal nature of commercial organizations
  • Legal nature of non-commercial organizations

Public-law entities as parties to civil legal relations

Objects of civil legal relations

  • Objects of civil legal relations
  • Things as objects of civil legal relations
  • Securities

Invalidity of transactions

  • The invalidity of transactions
  • Grounds of nullity and voidability of transactions
  • Legal consequences of recognizing invalidity of transactions

Civil law contract

  • Rules of application of norms on transactions and obligations to contracts
  • Invalid and non-concluded contracts
  • Problem of application of the principle of freedom of contract

Exercise and protection of civil rights

  • Limits of realization of civil rights
  • Concepts and types of abuse of right
  • Representation

The right to defense of civil rights

  • The concept and content of the right to defense
  • Self-protection of civil rights

Civil liability

  • The concept and types of civil liability
  • Conditions of civil liability
  • Application of civil liability

Terms in civil law

  • The concept, calculation and types of terms in civil law
  • Limitation period.