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| DROI8011-3 | European substantive law
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| Duration : | 40h Th, 5h Pr, 15h AUTR |
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| Lecturer : | Anne-Lise Sibony |
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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 second semester |
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Course contents :
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| This course complements the course on European institutional law (2nd year bachelor in law), in which students have studied EU institutions and learned how legislation is produced as well as enforcement mechanisms of EU law.
The EU substantive law course focuses on the content of EU rules. More precisely, it gives a general introduction to internal market law and to European citizenship. The four basic freedoms (free movement of goods, persons, capital and services) will be studied. Note however that free movement of capital will only be dealt with briefly. A short introduction to European competition law will be provided.
The methods which characterise European legislation on one hand (harmonisation, mutual recognition, administrative cooperation) and the and case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the other (typical patterns of reasoning) will be emphasised throughout the course. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Learning outcomes specific to EU law
After taking this course, students will have a good command of internal market law and possess the know-how to apply the relevant legal rules in simple factual situations. They will be familiar with the various sources of European law and be capable of conducting a basic legislation or case law research.
Generic learning outcomes
The teaching also aims at developing abilities which are useful beyond the practice of European law. Two skills are more particularly the focus of this teaching: 1) being able to identify legal rules applicable to a given factual situation and relevant in order to reach a practical aim; 2) being able to present in writing the legal analysis of a given factual situation clearly and correctly.
At the end of the course, students will be able to identify whether or not a given factual situation is governed by European law. They will be capable of solving simple problems involving one or several of the four freedoms and develop by themselves the types of legal reasoning most common in European law. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Institutional European Law |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| For every class, students will have to prepare assigned reading (case law or other documents) and answer in writing questions which are to be found in the course pack.
In class, students are expected to take an active part. In particular, it is their responsibility to ask if they would like the professor to give the answers to the questions which had to be prepared for. They should also be prepared to answer questions from the professor on the assigned reading. Questions from students are always welcome during lectures.
Students are also invited to use the forums on the course space on e-Campus to ask questions or further discuss issues arising from the readings or from the lectures. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A course pack containing all the required readings is available. It contains cases and other materials to be studied for this course, as well as questions to be prepared before each lecture.
This course has a dedicated space on e-Campus. Students will find there, inter alia, detailed outline for the course (in pdf and also word and text formats for note taking), the course calendar, the slides used for the lecture, supplementary reading, l deinks to websites relevant for this course, as well as tips for writing succesful case studies and exam papers.
The recommended textbook is N. De Grove-Valdeyron, Droit du marché intérieur européen, 4è ed., LGDJ, 2013 (available at the Point de vue shop on campus).
There are no written notes for this course. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The exam for this course is written both in the first and second exam session. It consists of three parts: precise questions, broader essay questions and case studies.
Students may bring with them the European treaties as well as the documentation package for the exam. Authorised documents may not be annotated. Students may however highlight and/or flag certain sections in authorised documents. They may write a few letters or words on flags in order to mark specific locations in the course pack.
Students may take a monolingual and/or a bilingual dictionnary.
Assessment criteria are as follows:
- ability to correctly identify a legal issue in a given factual situation,
- ability to identify correctly the applicable rule
- ability to enunciate clearly a legal rule
- ability to justify the choice of a legal rule with regard to practical aims
- exact knowledge of legal rules
- ability to select relevant knowledge in relation to a given question or problem,
- logical reasoning,
- quality and sufficiency of reasons given to justify the analysis proposed or the point of view argued,
- correct use of legal vocabulary
- adequate structure of written answer (link with the question, logical order of arguments, link between sentences and between paragraphs)
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Students who enrolled in "option droit" and all other students who have signed up for course "case studies in European law and civil procedure" (DROI1241-1) will take part in seven small group sessions with a tutor and two joint session with the civil procedure class of Aude Berthe (See DROI1241-1 for details).
Students not in the "option droit", as well as students who have not signed up for the course "case studies in European law and civil procedure" (DROI1241-1) will take part in three small group sessions.
In all cases, handing in preparation and participating in small group sessions is compulsory. Assignments will be made available in advance. Students will have to submit their work in writing via e-Campus.
The above applies to Erasmus students as well as to all other students.
Students will sign up on the course website on eCampus and choose their group.
Groups 1 to 6 consist of students who take the course "Case studies in European law and civil procedure". Groups 7 and 8 are made up of students who do not take this course. |
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Contacts :
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| Anne-Lise Sibony alsibony@ulg.ac.be
Teaching Assistant: Audrey Zians audrey.zians@ulg.ac.be(sophie.lieven@ulg.ac.be
)(adefossez@ulg.ac.be) |
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