Decision No. 12 dated 12/12/1972 Organizing programs and exams and establishing new faculties

Lebanese University

Organizational and legal texts

1972-12-12

Programs and exams

Article 1

The Faculty of Law, Political & Administrative Sciences at the Lebanese University consists of the following educational departments:

- Department of Legal Sciences

- Department of Political Sciences

- Department of Economics

- Center for Criminal Sciences

- Center for Comparative Legal Studies

Article 2

1. The duration of study in each of the first three departments is four years, leading to granting the following degrees:

- Bachelor’s degree in law

- Bachelor’s degree in political sciences

- Bachelor’s degree in economics

2. The departments of Law and Political Sciences grant two higher specialization degrees (i.e., postgraduate diplomas) and a State PhD in Law and a State PhD in Political Sciences, in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Law.

3. A higher specialization certificate and a State PhD in Economics may be established in accordance with a regulation to be issued later.

Article 3

A special regulation shall be established for each of the Center for Criminal Sciences and the Center for Comparative Legal Studies.

Title I: First Educational Unit or Legal Sciences Department

Chapter I: Bachelor's Degree

Section I: Programs

Article 4

The curriculum for the four years of the bachelor's degree in law includes the following subjects:

Article 5

First year	Annual hours
1. Civil law: introduction and original property rights	75
2. General constitutional law	75
3. Economic principles	75
4. History of laws in Lebanon and Arab countries (Roman law and Islamic law)	75
5. Public freedoms	50
6. Social and political institutions in the modern state	75
7. Comparative law: introduction to legal sciences (in a foreign language)	75
Total	475