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- Course descriptions arranged by discipline for all English-taught courses offered in the autumn and spring semester for 2012-2013.
Choose the Danish version if you want to see the course selection offered in Danish.
Be aware of the following icons used to indicate when the course is offered:
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The course is offered in the spring term. |
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The course is offered in the autumn term. |
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The course is offered in both the spring and autumn term with the same content. |
Shortly before the start of the coming semester, we encourage you to check the latest version of course descriptions as some changes may have occured.
Study load and ECTS-credits
A full study load in one semester consists of 30 ECTS points, which typically amounts to 3 courses weighing 10 ECTS points each. In the online course registration forms listed below, you select your first priority courses. In addition, please state 2 additional law courses if the courses, in which you wish to enrol, are full or otherwise unavailable. Be aware that we sometime experience some very late course cancellations due to very few course registrations in a specific course or due to problems on behalf of the lecturer. There is a limit on the number of students in each class, and if a class is full you will be entered into your next alternative course.
All courses last one semester. They consist of 34 contact hours. Depending on whether the specific course is taught for 3 or 4 hours per week the class will run for either 9 weeks or 12 weeks.
It is not compulsory to attend classes, but we encourage you to do so. Before each class, you are expected to do a considerable amount of reading.
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that examination results from written exams are announced at the end of January 2012 / July 2013. If you graduate this year and need certification of your examination results at an earlier stage, it will be a good idea to select courses with oral exams, please check the information given in relation to exams in the course descriptions on http://sis.ku.dk/. Examination periods are rarely changed and only due to problems on behalf of the lecturer.
Online course registration forms for exchange students and new LLM students
Click on Course Registration Form for ordinary Law courses
Click on Course Registration Form for non-credit courses, e.g. Legal English, Intro. to EU Law and Institutions etc.
Click on Course Registration Form for students allowed to take only ONE law course
The Course Registration Forms above for the autumn semester 2012 will be accessible from 29 May, 10:00 am Danish time, until 12 June 2012. Prompt course registration will help to improve your chances of being admitted to your first priority classes. Course registration for the spring semester is made in October.
Non-credit courses
Apart from the law courses you have the possibility of signing up for respectively Legal English, Legal German and Legal French and the intensive course Introduction to European Union Law (especially for students outside EU). These courses are without credit and without exam.
You can check your course registrations. Your course registrations for the spring semester 2012 are announced on Monday 9 July 2012 at the latest on the website KUnet by following the guidance below:
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Log in to KUnet and choose “Self Service”.
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Choose “Courses & Exams”
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At the login page, click the British flag to choose the English language login
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Log in using your KU-user name and password (just as when you log in to KUnet).
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Choose “Courses” → “Registrations and Cancellations”.
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Click the “+” next to “Efterårssemsteret 2012 and corresponding custom periods”
It is your own responsibility to check for clash of hours - meaning you should not register for two classes which have overlapping hours. The classrooms at the Faculty of Law are spread around on different addresses in the inner centre of Copenhagen. All classes start after an academic quarter e.g. if your class is scheduled to start on 8:00 it will start at 8:15 and a class scheduled for 13:00 will start at 13:15 etc. This academic quarter gives you plenty of time to go from one classroom to another.
Course changes
Provided that there are places available it is possible to change courses between 20 August to 7 September 2012, 12 o'clock noon. It is your own responsibility to check if your courses clash and make the necessary changes before the final deadline. Also do check that your home university can approve your course choices before the final deadline. With the course change period the final deadline for course registration for the autumn semester 2012 is Friday 7 September 2012, 12 o'clock noon sharp!
Classes are in general NOT public - which means that you cannot be in a class where you are not registered. However, during the course change period you are allowed to listen in for having an impression of the class. This is the only time you can be in classes where you are not enrolled.
First day for each course and the academic calender
In the course descriptions on http://sis.ku.dk/kurser/portal.aspx?pnr=6 you can check the first date for each course. See additional information about semester dates in the academic calender
Class size
Most of the courses have a limit of max. 40 students, however a few courses have a limit of max. 30 students.
The information below about thesis writing and term papers is directed towards our LLM students (2-year programme).
Thesis
During your LLM programme you must write a thesis of 30 ECTS point. You will need to fill out a contract, which you can find in the list of forms under "Forms in English".
Read more about the thesis.
Term paper
From 1st of September 2009 a new curriculum for the LLM programme became effective. You must pass two mandatory courses in Tax law and Civil Procedure during your LLM programme.
Both courses are only taught in Danish and the syllabus will also be in Danish. The oral exam will be in Danish only.
The exam in Civil procedure will be an oral exam. The exam in Tax Law will be oral with preparation. The oral exam will be in Danish only.
As an alternative it is possible to write a term paper instead in Civil Procedure and Tax Law.
To write a term paper in one or both of the mandatory courses, you need to fill out a contract. Please notice that you will have to sign a contract for each subject, so if you want to write a paper in both courses, you'll have to make two contracts.
You'll find all relevant information regarding the paper as page two in the contract below, including information on how to find a supervisor.
The finished paper should be handed in to the Student Councelling Centre.
Please notice, that it is not possbile to write the term paper as a group project.
The Term Paper should be submitted to The Students Counselling Centre in 3 copies, each with a front page with your name, the name of the course and the name of your thesis counsellor.
