General Curriculum: Study of Constitutional Law principles, contemporary political regimes and the constitutional regime of the United Arab Emirates.

Special Curriculum: Extensive study of one topic or more of the Constitutional Law and political regimes determined in light of the criteria approved by the College Board e.g. ruling regime in the United Arab Emirates, control of laws constitutionality and models of public rights and freedoms.

General Curriculum: Study of general principles of the Administrative Law, centralized and decentralized administrative organization and its applications in the United Arab Emirates, administrative discipline, public facilities, general administrations means and public office.

Special Curriculum: Lengthy study of one topic or more of the Administrative Law in the United Arab Emirates such as: administrative decision, administrative contract, administrative discipline, public office, career disciplining, administrative superordinate control, environment administrative protection, electronic administrative contracts and arbitration in the disputes of international administrative contracts.

General Curriculum: Study general theory of crime and punishment, general provisions of criminal litigation, ways of substantiation and challenging judgments delivered therein.

Special Curriculum: Extensive study of one topic or more of the UAE Criminal Law such as criminal liability of juristic persons, special criminal intention and criminal contribution in the national and Islamic legislations.

General Curriculum: This course introduces the contemporary International Public Law and its sources and nature of rules.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of the International Public Law determined in light of the criteria approved by the College Board e.g. International Humanitarian Law, International Economic Law and International Human Rights Law.

General Curriculum: Study of general finance topics of the state, financial and economic legislations and referring to the most important effective laws in the UAE in the economic and financial field.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of the financial and economic legislations in the UAE to be determined in light of the criteria approved by the Department Board.

This course addresses two basic axles, the first generally introduces scientific research methods in its general meaning and its importance, targets and obstacles; the second addresses the legal research in its special meaning, stages and steps of research preparation. It introduces to the student the use of sources and references in pages. It specifically teaches the student legal research ways and sources and way of using them in writing research papers. It also sheds light on the formal and objective aspects in legal writing in a way that develops skills of student in drafting, analysis and preparation of future research and studies.

General Curriculum: It aims at the review of curricula of: approach to Islamic fiqh study, fiqh principles, Islamic culture, and provisions of will, inheritance and endowment.

Special Curriculum: This course introduces the legal state and its emergence and fundamentals in recent constitution and in the Islamic regime. It examines original and collateral sources of constitution and legal rules hierarchy in the recent state and the Islamic regime, and submission of administration to law in both of them. It manifests the basis of rights and freedoms in Islamic fiqh and its properties. It further examines the guarantees of recent legal state fulfillment by separation of powers and regulation of judicial control.

General Curriculum: Introduces the Environment Protection Law, different environment elements protected by the law, environment administrative and criminal protection and public agencies concerned with environment protection.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of the Environment Protection Law in the UAE e.g. sea, land and air environment protection from pollution, environmental risks and protection from same, environmental diversity protection legislations, nuclear radiation pollution, and role of public authorities in protection from environmental risks.

General Curriculum: Study of private section of the Penalty Code, in particular, the crimes committed against persons and monies. This curriculum is determined in consistency with the topic of study in the special curriculum.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of the special criminal legislations in the UAE, for example, recent crimes in modern communications technology scope, Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, money laundering crime, and illegitimate trafficking of human organs.

General Curriculum: Introduces rights and its divisions, human right divisions and its historical development stages, regional and international pacts with reference to the most important public rights and freedoms provided in the UAE Constitution and covers means and methods of their protection in the Islamic Shariah.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of Human Rights Law, position of the Emirati legislator in its regard, determined in light of the criteria approved by the College Board such as right to education, right to health, right to privacy, gender equality, right of nations to self-determination and the International Human Rights in changed world Law.

General Curriculum: Introduces the Criminal Procedures Law, lawsuits that arise from the crime, criminal lawsuit stages, reasons of its abatement, the powers of judicial officers, criminal judgment and ways of challenging judgments.

Special Curriculum: Includes extensive study of one topic or more of the UAE Criminal Procedures Law determined in light of the criteria approved by the College Board: Rule of recovery of illegitimately obtained evidences in the criminal procedures, comparison, evidence legitimacy, criminal matters, legitimacy of evidences originated from scientific means.

The student prepares “thesis” in one of the Public Law Department will be appointed for each student. When necessary, an assistant supervisor can be appointed from other than the Public Law Department. The “thesis” will be registered only after the student successfully completes the study of mandatory courses (18 credit hours).

On proposal of the Public Law Department Board, the supervisor is appointed by resolution of the College Board. The student is evaluated according to Article 11 in the Special Part of the Program in this Document.