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| DROI1224-1 | Introduction to private law
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Jean-François Gerkens |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| Private Law rules a very important number of daily matters. To understand civil law is therefore everybody's business and should not be restricted to future jurists. The goal of the lectures is to initiate the students to the bases of private law and prepare them to more specific courses they will attend later.
The course has two parts:
1. Laws :
A. Notions, subdivisions (national law, international law, public law, private law)
B. Sources of law :
2. Rights :
A. Subjects of rights
- Physical persons (personal status) ;- Juridical persons ;
B. Classification of rights ;
C. Creation, transmission and extinction of rights ;
D. Modalities of rights (terms and conditions);
E. Sanctions of rights ;
F. Evidences of rights. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Initiate the students to the bases of private law and prepare them to further, more specific, courses they will have later. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| A good knowledge of the french language. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Oral lectures and handbook |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Presence highly recommended |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Introduction au droit privé, by Jean-François Gerkens, Editions de l'Université de Liège |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The discussions we had with students after the exams taught us that the most important reason why students fail is because they have not started studying since the beginning of the year. It is since then that they need to read systematically the handbooks and understand every sentence, get used to the terminology and learn to handle the concepts.The students must get the latest edition of the handbooks which have been written for them. They shouldn't confuse them with the summaries that the student's association distributes under it's own |
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Contacts :
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| See french text |
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| Items online : |
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| PowerPoint |
| Powerpoint presentation of the lecture |
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