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| DROI2214-1 | Comparative substantive and procedural criminal law
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| Duration : | 45h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
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| Lecturer : | Ann Jacobs |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| 1.- Introduction to legal anthropology - major families of criminal law: Russian, Anglo-American, Muslim.
2.- The major issues of criminal procedures: the balance between the group and the individual: who has the power to prosecute and with which means? What are the rights of the person being prosecuted? What are the rules of evidence?
3.- Relations between criminal law and criminal procedures according to the legal systems. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Understanding the different criminal and procedural systems in order to better master the structure of the Belgian system and understand the difficult relations between systems. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Criminal law and the Belgian criminal procedure (or his own criminal law and criminal procedure for the foreign students). Basis of comparative law. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| No workshops |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is organised entirely in the form of a seminar requiring students to prepare the subject. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| among others, interesting readings : Les grands systèmes de droit contemporains, R. David (dir.), ed. Dalloz; J. Pradel, Droit pénal comparé, éd. Dalloz, 2009. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Assessment during the seminar and written summary handed in by the students at the end of the seminar |
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Organizational remarks :
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| No remarks |
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Contacts :
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| Course leader: Ann JACOBS
Bureau: Bât. B.33/I.48
Tel. 04/366.31.73
Mail: Ann.Jacobs@ulg.ac.be
Assistant: Patrick THEVISSEN
Bureau: Bât. B.33/I.11
Tel. 04/366.31.82
Mail: Patrick.Thevissen@ulg.ac.be |
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