Do students have the duty to study law in Vietnam?

Do students have the duty to study law in Vietnam?

Based on the provisions of Article 2 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012 regarding the rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens as follows:

The rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens

1. Citizens have the rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens.

2. The State ensures and creates conditions for citizens to exercise their right to information about the law.

Thus, referring to the above regulation, it is very clear that citizens (including all people, including students) have the rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens.

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What are the 5 principles in law popularization and education in Vietnam?

Based on Article 5 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012 regulating the principles of law popularization and education as follows:

Principle 1. Accuracy, completeness, clarity, understandability, practicality.

Principle 2. Timeliness, regularity, focused and prioritized topics.

Principle 3. Diverse forms of law popularization and education, suitable for the needs, ages, and educational levels of disseminated and educated subjects and good traditions, customs, and habits of the nation.

Principle 4. Linked with law enforcement, socio-economic development tasks, ensuring national defense and security of the country, localities, and daily life of the people.

Principle 5. Close coordination between agencies, organizations, families, and society.

What are the regulations on state management on law popularization and education in Vietnam?

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012, the management of law popularization and education by state agencies is as follows:

* Regarding the content of state management on law popularization and education, it includes:

- Developing, issuing legal normative documents, programs, plans on law popularization and education;

- Directing, guiding and organizing the implementation of law popularization and education;

- Providing legal knowledge training, law popularization and education operations;

- Developing and managing national legal databases;

- Statistics, summarizing law popularization and education;

- Inspecting, examining, handling complaints, denunciations, and violations in law popularization and education;

- International cooperation on law popularization and education.

* Regarding state management agencies on law popularization and education, it includes:

- the Government of Vietnam uniformly manages the state on law popularization and education;

- Ministry of Justice is responsible before the Government of Vietnam for performing state management on law popularization and education; it takes the lead in developing and submitting long-term, medium-term programs and plans on law popularization and education to the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam for issuance; it leads in constructing national legal databases;

- Ministries, ministerial-level agencies within their missions and powers are responsible for cooperating with the Ministry of Justice to implement state management on law popularization and education;

- People's Committees at all levels are responsible for performing state management on law popularization and education in localities.

What are the details of the 8 current forms of law popularization and education in Vietnam?

According to the regulation in Article 11 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012, the current 8 forms of law popularization and education include:

[1] Press conferences, press releases.

[2] Direct legal dissemination; consulting, guiding to understand the law; providing legal information and documents.

[3] Through mass media, loudspeakers, the internet, billboards, posters, propaganda paintings; posting on the Official Gazette; posting legal information on electronic information pages; posting at the offices, notice boards of agencies, organizations, and residential areas.

[4] Organizing legal knowledge contests.

[5] Through the adjudication, handling administrative violations, citizen reception, handling complaints, denunciations of citizens, and other activities of state agencies; through legal aid activities, grassroots conciliation.

[6] Integrated in cultural, artistic activities, activities of political organizations and unions, clubs, law bookcases, and other cultural institutions at the grassroots.

[7] Through the legal education program in the educational institutions of the national education system.

[8] Other forms of law popularization and education suitable for specific subjects that agencies, organizations, and individuals with authority can apply to ensure the effectiveness of law popularization and education.

*Details on the form: Press conferences, press releases on legal normative documents as follows: (Article 12 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

- The Presidential Office chairs and cooperates with the Office of the National Assembly, the drafting agency to organize press conferences and issue press releases on laws, ordinances, and resolutions containing legal normative regulations of the National Assembly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly after the President of the country signs the promulgation order.

- Monthly, the Ministry of Justice chairs and cooperates with the Office of the Government of Vietnam and the drafting agency to issue press releases on legal normative documents issued by the Government of Vietnam, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam.

- The content of the press release states clearly the necessity, the purposes of the issuance, and the main content of the legal normative document.

*Details on the form: Posting legal information on electronic information pages as follows: (Article 13 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

- The following legal information must be posted on the electronic information pages of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government of Vietnam, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and central agencies of political-social organizations, People's Councils, People's Committees at the provincial level:

+ Legal normative documents related to the field of operation of the agency and organization;

+ Legal normative documents issued by the agency or issued in coordination with the organization;

+ Administrative procedures directly related to the people and businesses under the responsibility of the agency and organization;

+ Draft legal normative documents published for comments as per the legal regulation.

- In addition, agencies and organizations are encouraged to post other information about law-making and implementation activities, legal Q&A necessary for the people on the electronic information pages.

*Details on the form: law popularization and education through mass media (Article 14 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency, Nhan Dan newspaper, legal protection agencies' newspapers, provincial radio and television stations develop programs and legal columns; diversify law popularization and education forms to disseminate legal regulations, the situation of law enforcement, and other legal information.

*Details on the form: Consulting, guiding to understand the law, providing legal information and documents (Article 15 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

- Agencies, organizations, and individuals reviewing and resolving citizens' cases have the responsibility to explain and provide legal regulations directly related to the case being resolved or guide them to search, research on the national legal database upon the citizens' requests.

- The State has policies to encourage legal consulting organizations, other legal service organizations, law training, and research institutions to provide legal consulting, guiding to understand the law, and providing legal information and documents free of charge for the people.

*Details on the form: Legal dissemination, education through adjudication, handling administrative violations, citizen reception, and handling complaints and denunciations (Article 16 of the Law on law popularization and education 2012)

- People's Courts at all levels through adjudication at headquarters select appropriate cases with high educational value to organize mobile adjudication to disseminate and educate the law for court attendees and the people.

- State agencies with authority through handling administrative violations, citizen reception, handling complaints and denunciations, and organizing dialogues with the people integrate law popularization and education.