Legal Method and EEA Law

Introduction

Legal method and EEA law is a program course for the Bachelor's degree in economics and business law and is adapted to the learning objectives set for this degree. The course is divided into two main subjects:

1. Legal method
2. EEA law

Course content

Legal method:

• Central legal basic concepts, such as the concepts of law, rule of law, source of law, right, application of law, discretion, duty (injunction, prohibition), competence
• The relationship between legal and other normative basic concepts, such as power, morality, justice
• The distinction between written (statutory) and unwritten (non-statutory) law, including the principle of legality
• The principles of legal sources, including the distinction between questions of relevance, inference and emphasis
• The legislative process
• The Constitution's special legal status
• Main principles for interpretation of law, including the distinction between clarifying, limiting, expanding, analogical and antithetical legal interpretation
• Main principles for understanding/interpreting and using legal drafting and case law as a source of law
• The structure of the judicial system
• The relationship between general legal rules and individual norms, for example those provided by agreement
• Resolution of rule conflicts, including on the lex principles

EEA law

• The requirements for the implementation of EEA rules in Norwegian law
• The meaning of the EEA rules in Norwegian law
• The main features of EU law and EEA law
• Institutions and decision-making processes in the EU and EEA
• The main features of the prohibitions against obstacles to the movement of goods, people, services and capital across national borders, and the modifications to these prohibitions (the four freedoms)