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Constitutional Law (2026/2027)

Study Cycle:	Second Cycle (Postgraduate)
Faculty:	Law

Programme Code:	CAL60
Academic year:	2023 / 2024
Title:	Master of Legal Sciences - Module: Constitutional Law
ECTS:	60 (1 year)
Decision:

The study program is in line with contemporary global and European trends and is comparable to similar programs in foreign higher education institutions, especially in the European educational space. The goal is to prepare qualified lawyers through modern scientific studies and research that contribute to the shaping of legal policies and the functioning of the legal system in the Republic of North Macedonia and beyond. The study program is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge of the latest developments in the field of constitutional and administrative law. Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their competences, knowledge and research skills through seminars, research projects and practical work, as well as by preparing master's theses. The goal is to prepare students to contribute constructively to legal issues in the pursuit of their professional activities in society. The study program encourages innovation within its framework and supports scientific research, in order to enable students to develop and advance the knowledge, skills and expertise necessary to become specialized lawyers in this field. The study program also aims to enable students to correctly interpret the Constitution and other legal acts and to apply constitutional provisions, laws and other general acts when performing public functions, administrative activities or managing institutions and other public bodies in the administrative field. The mission of this study program is to advance students' knowledge and skills in the constitutional-administrative field, as well as to further strengthen practical skills in interpreting the constitution and the constitutional protection of human and citizen freedoms and rights in the domestic, European and international context. Special attention is paid to practical skills in administrative justice, which is a rather complex but important dimension for the protection of individual rights and the rule of law as a fundamental value of the constitutional order.

Law Faculty diploma is recognized by the Chamber of Lawyers and Notaries in RNM. Exercise of legal professions requires formal registration in these rooms. The diploma of the Faculty of Law enables students to approach the relevant state bodies, especially in judicial branch as courts and public prosecutors. The Law Faculty has signed cooperation agreements with the Academy for training of judges and public prosecutors in the RNM. Students who will have the ambition to engage scientific research work, the SEEU Faulty of Law, enables the continuation of third cycle studies (PhD studies).

Knowledge and understanding

- Shows knowledge and understanding of constitutional law and administrative law by applying the adequate methodology for solving complex constitutional and administrative problems, both systematically and creatively, providing a basis or opportunity for originality in development and/or implementation of autonomous ideas in the context of constitutional and administrative research;
- Ability to use extensive and deep constitutional-administrative knowledge;
- Shows high level of competence in constitutional-administrative law;
- Possesses knowledge from one or more subject areas, which, in the scientific fields, rely on the most renowned international research in the constitutional-administrative field.

Applying knowledge and understanding

- Ability to critically, independently and creatively solve problems with originality in new or unknown environments and in a multidisciplinary context related to contemporary trends of constitutional and administrative law.

Making judgement

- Ability to synthesize and integrate knowledge;
- Ability to deal with complex issues, systematically and creatively, for solid assessment even in the case of incomplete and limited information, but which include personal, social and ethical responsibilities in the application of acquired constitutional and administrative knowledge;
- Ability to evaluate and select the scientific theories, methodologies, tools and general skills in the subject areas, and to set up new analysis and solutions on a scientific basis.

Communication skills

- Ability to exchange conclusions and suggestions with argumentation and rationally support them, both with professional and non-professional persons, clearly and unambiguously;
- Taking a significant responsibility for the common results; managing and initiating activities.

Learning skills

- Ability to recognize the personal need for further knowledge and ability for independent action in acquiring new knowledge and skills in national, regional and European as well as world context;
- Ability to take responsibility for further professional development and improvement.

Semester 1

[MCAL-0101] [6 ECTS] Applied Constitutional Law
Acquiring knowledge about the concepts, phenomena and institutes of constitutional law as well as about state institutions in the Republic of North Macedonia, including different theoretical positions on them. Obtaining specific knowledge about constitutional law as a science and branch of law, including a comparative analysis of the situation and perspectives within the regional and European frameworks. Through this module, students will be provided with basic theoretical and practical knowledge about the organization of state power in the Republic of North Macedonia, as well as about human and citizen freedoms and rights. Encouraging critical thinking among students about the fundamental problems of constitutional regulation in the RNM and within the EU, taking into account the profile of the European lawyer who in the future as an expert will need to interpret and apply European constitutional law both at the national and European levels. The curriculum will address constitutional issues from a comparative and national perspective, because in the context of globalization, constitutional law cannot be understood if it is considered exclusively within national frameworks. The curriculum will include: The new Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, which has a key role in the development of parliamentary democracy in the Republic of Macedonia, new laws regulating constitutional issues, such as: laws in the field of the judiciary, local self-government, electoral system, civil society, defense, foreign policy, etc. In addition to this normative component, the curriculum will also address the practice of the central bodies of state power in the Republic of North Macedonia, namely; the Parliament, the Government, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, which has a major role in constitutional law as a science. The constitutional amendments of 2001 will be addressed, which have a major impact on majority democracy in the Republic of Macedonia and on the fundamental values of the constitutional order of the RNM, as well as the constitutional amendments of 2005 related to justice reforms in the RNM. At the end of the course, students will be able to: make fundamental and essential distinctions between constitutional institutions, their interconnections and their practical functioning; to make the necessary theoretical and practical distinctions between concepts, phenomena and institutes of constitutional law; to explain and analyze the various processes in the constitutional system and order of the Republic of North Macedonia in all aspects of the country's constitutional life, meaning the individual, the citizen, the state and ethnic communities.
[MCAL-0102] [6 ECTS] Applied Administrative Law
The aim of the study program is for students to: - Define and understand the terms administration and administrative function; - Recognize and analyze the legal regulations that regulate the organization and functioning of public administration in the Republic of Macedonia; - Understand the basic activities of the administrative function; - Distinguish between the types of administrative acts and master the first steps in creating such acts; - Study the types of administrative supervision; - Understand the mechanisms of control over the administration and its responsibility before other state bodies, but also before its clients-users of its services; - For future employment in the bodies of the administration of the Republic of North Macedonia, non-governmental organizations, institutions and all institutions in which cases of an administrative-legal nature are resolved.
[CM165] [6 ECTS] Administrative Dispute and Administrative Justice
The course aims to provide law students with theoretical and practical legal knowledge regarding: - Correct use (reading and interpretation) of legal norms that regulate the progress (beginning, course and conclusion) of administrative-judicial procedures at the Administrative Court and the Supreme Court (for all profiles of lawyers); - Preparation of lawsuits for the initiation of administrative-judicial proceedings (for lawyers and judges of the Administrative Court); - Undertaking procedural actions during administrative-judicial proceedings (for lawyers, civil servants who resolve administrative issues, lawyers employed in regulatory bodies and independent state bodies, judges of the Administrative Court, as well as for professional services in the Administrative Court); - Writing of decisions (decisions and judgments) adopted in administrative procedures of first and second instance (for judges in the Administrative Court); - Writing complaints and lawsuits for the renewal of judicial procedures (for lawyers, civil servants who decide administrative cases).
[MCAL-0201] [6 ECTS] Administrative Procedure Law
Aims of the course: Administrative Procedure Law includes two separate areas (parts): the administrative procedure and the administrative dispute, which represent the basic subject of the study of the formal (procedural) part of administrative law. The coursework enables students to acquire knowledge through which they can easily understand, explain and analyze issues related to the concepts and institutes of administrative procedural law. The first part explains the procedure (action) of the public and state administration bodies in the application of the material legal norms when directly applying the legal provisions in specific cases, they decide on the rights, obligations or legal interests of individuals, legal entities or other parties. The second part explains the judicial control of the legality of the final administrative acts-the control over the performance of administrative activity and public services.
[6 ECTS] Elective Course
- [EMCAL-01] Local Self-Government Law
  The main objective of the course is to comprehensively and critically, through the prism of contemporary tendencies of globalization, analyze the phenomenon of local self-government, as a fundamental legal category of contemporary European democracy and integration; as a necessary and efficient counterweight to central government; as a necessary prerequisite for a functional political system; as the best school for good governance and democracy. Within the framework of the course, new information and knowledge are offered for the implementation of management in local self-government. Through this course, students: - Will acquire specific knowledge of organizational and functional concepts of local government. - Will acquire knowledge about the functioning of local self-government and financing, the division of power and the relations between local self-government and central government. - Will acquire knowledge and skills necessary for good governance using models and approaches from the theory of modern governance. - Will be able to better understand the problems related to the functioning of local self-government, and they will be able to solve these problems and apply the decisions made efficiently. - Students will develop organizational and leadership skills for work in local administration.
- [EMCA0030] Federalism Theory and Practice
  This course covers knowledge about the organization of federal states, their bodies, competencies, types of complex states, some of the most characteristic federations in the world, as well as the central theoretical and practical issues related to federal states, such as: the constitution of the federal state, the composition-structure of the federation, the division of competencies between the federation and its subjects, the participation of the subjects of the federation in the exercise of federal power, the right to self-organization of the subjects of the federation, the issue of sovereignty (statehood) in the federal state, the perspectives of federalism in the world, as well as the issue of the position of federal units in international relations. The student acquires knowledge about the basic concepts and laws of federalism, which will enable him/her to have a historical, comparative and critical understanding of current federations and processes.
- [EMCA0020] Comparative Constitutional Law
  Within the framework of comparative constitutional law, comparative aspects of the constitutional systems of EU countries and beyond are studied to provide in-depth knowledge of the principles and functioning of key institutions of state power from a comparative perspective.
- [MCAL-0302] Constitutional Justice
  The aim of the course is to gain knowledge about the emergence, development and forms of constitutional-judicial control of constitutionality and legality, about the constitutional judiciary, with special emphasis on the Constitutional Court of the Republic of North Macedonia and its practice.
- [MCAL-0203] Parliamentary Law
  The aim of the course is to acquire theoretical - legal and practical - applied knowledge about the parliament as a representative, legislative and sovereign state body within the framework of state power in a particular country, including its organization, structure and competence in the Republic of North Macedonia, accompanied by comparative legal aspects.
- [EM533] Judicial Law
  Judicial law as a scientific-legal applied discipline focuses on the institutional aspect of justice, more precisely on the judiciary, which aims to provide law students with theoretical and practical scientific-professional legal knowledge regarding: - legal norms for the organization, functions and competencies of the court and other public bodies and institutions that participate in the judicial procedure of applying law; - judicial protection of human rights and freedoms and the realization of justice as fundamental and universal legal values; - legal norms for judicial procedures; - substantive legal norms applied by the court in judicial procedures.

Semester 2

[MCCR1120] [6 ECTS] Research Methodology
Students will be able to: Apply the main legal and other research methods. Critically and creatively collect research materials that are relevant and selectively cited by the authors in their responses; Understand the scope of the research process and the approach of different research methods and be able to critique them; To study through an advanced approach the relationship between legal theory and research practice. Apply the skills and knowledge they have gained through their theses; How to avoid plagiarism; Have advanced knowledge of research methods in legal sciences as well as citation standards.
[CM256] [24 ECTS] Master Thesis
This module enables students to transfer their skills and knowledge to research and make more complex task of Master-Thesis. The module is designed to be fully practical and students to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to approach the writing of thesis. The module has unique return result- to enable students to write the master thesis with minimal difficulties, and with maximum efficiency. The course aims to improve research techniques and style of writing papers, taking account to stop illegal means, such as plagiarism and infringement of copyright, which are prohibited by the Statute of SEEU.