INTRODUCTION TO LAW

TRAN THANH TAM

Lecturer, Department of Economics and Law, FTU
Senior Legal Advisor, The Lam Law LLC
Arbitrator, The Southern Trade Arbitration Centre (STAC)
 CONTACT
INFORMATION

TRẦN THANH TÂM

Email:

Tranthanhtam.cs2@
ftu.edu.vn

Cellphone:

0918.014.246
 COURSE INTRODUCTION
1. Course content
2. Course objectives
3. Reading materials
4. Teaching method
5. Learning method
6. Course assessment
 1. COURSE CONTENT
1 STATE AND LAW

2 CIVIL LAW IN VIETNAM

3 PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

4 PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

 2. COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the concept of state and its structure, understand the
concept of law and the current structure of the Vietnamese legal
system;
2. Understand fundamental legal concepts and the different ways in
which law can be classified and organized.
3. Understand the notion of contract, its validity and formation; build
up basic knowledge on legal framework governing contract;
understand what should be included in content of a contract.
4. Understand different types of remedies in contract law and
characteristics of each type of remedies.
5. Identify the nature of international law and the structure of the
international legal system and explain the basic elements of public
international law.
6. identify the nature of a conflict of laws issue raised by a case or legal
problem involving a foreign element; identify the rule of choice of
law or jurisdiction relevant to the problem; and apply that rule to
cross-border fact patterns;
 3. READING MATERIALS

Textbook(s):
Mai Hong Quy et.al, 2015, Introduction to
Vietnamese Law, (2nd edition), Hong Duc
Publishing House.
 3. READING MATERIALS

Optional reading(s):
2- Nguyễn Thị Mơ, Introduction to law
(2015) (in Vietnamese)
3- Kenneth W. Clarkson & Roger LeRoy
Miller, 2021, Business Law: Text and
Cases (15th edition), Cengage Learning.
 3. READING MATERIALS
• VIETNAMESE LEGAL DOCUMENTS:
1. CONSTITUTION 2013
2. CIVIL CODE 2015
3. LAW ON COMMERCE 2005
4. LAW ON PROMULGATION OF LEGAL
DOCUMENTS
5. LAW ON TREATIES 2016
 3. READING MATERIALS
• INTERNATIONAL TREATIES:
1. Convention on Contract for International Sale
of Goods 1980 (CISG)
 4. TEACHING METHOD
• BASED ON THE LECTURES (HANDOUTS) GIVEN
TO STUDENTS
• SOCRATIC DIALOGUE
5. LEARNING METHOD

• LEGAL THINKING
• DISCUSSION
• GROUP PRESENTATION
• SELF - STUDY
 LAW ON COMMERCE 2005
Article 317. Forms of resolution of disputes
1. Negotiations between the parties.
2. Mediation between the parties by a body,
organization or individual selected by the parties to
act as the mediator.
3. Resolution by the Arbitration or the Court.
Procedures for resolution of commercial disputes by
arbitration or a court shall comply with procedures
applicable to arbitrations or courts provided for by
law.
 6. COURSE ASSESSMENT
MARK (%) FORM OF ASSESSMENT

ATTENDANCE 10% ATTENDANCE CHECK

MID – TERM TEST 30% PRESENTATION (10%) + Multiple

choice exam (20%)

FINAL EXAM 60% TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT/

OPEN-BOOK EXAM (TBC)

BONUS POINTS
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