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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
DROI8028-1  Extra-contractual responsibility

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in Law, 2nd year3
Master en droit, à finalité spécialisée en droit et gestion, 2nd year3
Lecturer :  Benoît Kohl
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the second semester
Course contents :  
This course will concentrate on nonconventional sources of obligations. It will begin with a general introduction in the course of which we will examine questions such as the extent of extra-contractual civil responsibility or liability, the origin, function, and foundations of extra-contractual civil liability and a number of elementary ideas with regard to conflicts between laws in the matter of extra-contractual responsibility or liability. Next, the first part of the course will be devoted to the conditions of extra-contractual civil liability (damages, fault, and causal relationships). Following this, we will analyze liabilities incurred by the action of other persons, or by things, as well as several special regimes regarding liability (particularly article 29bis of the law concerning mandatory automobile insurance and the law concerning liability in cases of defective products). The first part of the course will end with a review of basic rules concerning the laws governing liability insurance. The second part of the course will concentrate on the question of the relationship between contractual liability and extra-contractual liability, particularly on the question regarding what is known as the option for liabilities. Finally, the third part of the course will analyze the law as it pertains to quasi-contracts (business management, unearned payments, profiting without cause).
Learning outcomes of the course :  
The objective of this course is to provide students with a general overview of the law as it pertains to private liability, and to make them aware of certain controversies and particular questions, allowing them to solve practical exercises in this domain.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Introduction to private law
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
A class meeting for practical work will be arranged regarding each of the subjects covered (liability and quasi-contracts).
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Ex cathedra class meetings, appearances by guest speakers and practical work.
Recommended or required readings :  
Students will be provided with detailed PowerPoint slideshows.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written examination (solving cases and answering theoretical questions).
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Benoît Kohl, instructor; Delphine Grisard, assistant.
Boulevard du Rectorat, 7 - Bât. B31 - 4000 Liège
04/366.30.90 - Benoit.Kohl@ulg.ac.be
04/366.3094 - dgrisard@ulg.ac.be

Items online :  
Livret de casus 2014-2015
Vous trouverez en annexe le Livret de casus 2014-2015. L'horaire des séances de casus et les liste des casus à préparer seront communiquées prochainement



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