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The course treats the organisation of the Swedish legal system and the working methods of jurisprudence, especially in relation to family law and healthcare law.

The course focuses specifically on Swedish family law and healthcare law. In relation to family law, the course treats legal issues pertaining to children, parents, elderly people, marriage, property settlements, and inheritance. In relation to laws that concern the elderly, the course covers elderly people's right to work and housing as well as the responsibility of the social services. In relation to healthcare law, the course treats the Swedish healthcare system from a legal perspective, including everyone's right to good care and issues of responsibility when various caregivers make mistakes.

legal areas: welfare law, family law, and medicine law. In relation to welfare law, students discuss the responsibility of municipalities and social services for vulnerable persons, the right to assistance, and so on. The basics of the Swedish social insurance system are included, with a special focus on the right to compensation due to illness. The course also treats the specific character of compulsory treatment legislation. In relation to family law, the course covers for instance the legal aspects of marriage, property settlements, and inheritance. In relation to medicine law, the Swedish healthcare system is discussed from a legal perspective, including the right to good care and the issue of responsibility when caregivers fail to provide it.

Instruction is in the form of alternating lectures, seminars, and exercises.

Progressive specialisation: G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)

Education level: Undergraduate level

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.