Law and Public Policy

Lecture 1. Introduction: Law and Public Policy

- Expectation for the course

- Introduction

- Overall challenges of government and law

Case 1: Forced Addiction Rehabilitation

Lecture 2. Overall law and Methodologies

- Concepts of law, system of law, source of law

- Social function of law

- Theories to study law

Readings:

1. Randall Peerenboon, Research Study on Court Administration in China, UNDP-Judicial Reform Steering Committee, 2011 (unpublished document) – pg. 1-35

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 9 - 42

Additional Readings:

1. Pham Duy Nghia, Methodology of legal studies, Chapter 2, Public Sercurity Publishing House, 2014

Lecture 3. Law and Development

- Role of law

- Law and economics

Readings:

1. Milhaupt at al: Chs. 1-2

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 43 - 87

Lecture 4. Law and Development: East Asia's Experience

- Japan

- Korea

- China

Readings:

1. Milhaupt at al: Chs. 5-7

Lecture 5. Overview of constitutional law

- The people's sovereignty

- Constitutionalism

- Constitutional protection

Readings:

1. Weingast (2010)

2. PDN 88-135

3. Thái Vĩnh Thắng (2011): Constitutionalism in Vietnam before the August Revolution 1945

4. Constitution 2013

Lecture 6. Legislative procedure

Legislative initiatives, Priority setting, draft and enforce

Readings:

1. Seidman (2004) Consider the draft of law, Chapter 1-4

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 136 – 154

3. Milhaupt at al: Chapter 9

4. Legal documents: Law on Issuance of Legal Normative Document 2008

Lecture 7. Legal Reform: Assess the quality of legal documents

- Criteria and methods of assessing law

Readings:

1. Seidman 2004, Chapter 5-9

2. Milhaupt at al: Chapter 10

3. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 155 - 165.

Lecture 8. Overview of property law: Land law

Case study 2: Conflicts Over Forest Land

Readings:

1. Truong Thien Thu, Ranjith Perera (2010)

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 166 -195

3. Legal documents: Civil Code 2005, Land Law 2003.

Reference:

1. UNPD, Legal Empowerment, Book I.

Lecture 9. Decentralize property right: Enforcing the right of ownership in state-own enterprises

Case study 3: Vinashin

Readings:

1. OECD 2007: Guidance on managing state-own enterprises

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 196 – 219

3. Pham Duy Nghia (2014): Restructuring economic groups and SOEs: Institutional and legal reform perspective.

4. Legal documents: Law on Public Investment 2014.

Reference:

1. OECD 2007: SOEs Governance Guidelines

Lecture 10. Overview of competition law

Case study 4: Vinapco

Readings:

1. PDN: Overview of Competition law

2. Document: Competition Law, 2004

Lecture 11. Approach to Justice (1): Overview of conflict resolution

Case study 5: Vedan

Readings:

1. WB, VDR 2010, (Vietnam Development Report 2010: Current institutions) Chapter 5, pages 85-103

2. Pham Duy Nghia, pgs 265 - 289

3. Document: BLDS 2005, Environmental law 2005

Additional reading:

1. UNDP-VN Supreme Court 2010

Approach to Justice (2): Overview of procedural law and the system of court of justice in Vietnam

Case study 6: Case of Mrs. Ba Sương

Readings:

1. Tom Ginsburg, Judicial Independence in East Asia: Lessons for China, in Randall Peerenboon, Judicial Independence in China, Cambridge University Press 2010, pp 247-259

2. Document: Constitution 2013, Draft law of organization of the people's courts.

Group Presentation 01 - 03

Group Presentation 04 – 06

Group Presentation 07- 09

Group Presentation 10 -12