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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
DTFE0017-6  Final work
- Written work or taking part in a seminar
- Work placement
- Oral defense
- National or international competition or international meetings

Duration :  Written work or taking part in a seminar :
Work placement : 90h Internship
Oral defense : 4h AUTR
National or international competition or international meetings :
Number of credits :  
Master in Law, Professional Focus in Business Law, 2nd year18
Master in Law, Professional Focus in Public and Administrative Law, 2nd year18
Master in Law, Professional Focus in Private Law, 2nd year18
Master in Law, Professional focus in Criminal Law, 2nd year18
Master in Law, Professional Focus in Labour Law, 2nd year18
Lecturer :  Written work or taking part in a seminar : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
Work placement : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin, François Minon, Didier Pire, Annick Sadzot, Sylvie Thielen
Oral defense : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
National or international competition or international meetings : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
Coordinator :  Antoinette Gosselin
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
All year long
Course contents :  
Work graduation master of law basically consists of four events: written work, an internship, an oral and an interdisciplinary casus.
These four tests are performed in the second year of the master. They are subject to a preparatory training, including training in written communication (1 master), an interdisciplinary training casus (1st and 2nd master) and training in oral communication (2nd master).
Moreover, it is referred to the Rules of TFE contained on the website of the faculty:

Written work or taking part in a seminar

Written work must consist of a research and similar synthetic study of doctrine, about 25 pages, under the guidance of a teacher. The assistants or such teaching can participate in monitoring and supervising the work.
For students Interuniversity mobility having stayed a whole year in the host university, the work should be on a topic related to their stay (comparative law, international law and European law).
written work must include a minimum of 38,000 characters and a maximum of 70,000 characters (about 25-30 pages).
Those limits are mandatory. The non-compliance is due to adjournment.
For students Interuniversity mobility having stayed a whole year in the host university, character limits are min. 60,000, max. 100,000 (about 35-40 pages)
The student will meet the editorial guidelines and reporting imposed by the Commission. These guidelines are subject to a document entitled "vade-mecum des travaux écrits", annexed to the Rules.

Work placement

Training course in occupational environment of a duration of 90 hours.Master of training course has to be a jurist.
The training course is followed by a teacher.
The student has to draft a reportof training course.

Oral defense

Third part of the work of graduation, the oral test is an exercise in speaking in public in a legal context.
The event takes place before a panel of three persons, consisting of at least one teacher and at least one practitioner.
Three modules are organized events: - A simulation argument - A presentation of simulation as a corporate lawyer before a Board of Directors - A simulation of parliamentary debate

National or international competition or international meetings

The test consists of a written based on one or several interdisciplinary casus review.
The casus posed inspired practice implement the legal reasoning skills of students and their general legal knowledge covering several disciplines.
The expected student response is not to demonstrate the extent of their knowledge, but their thinking skills and their ability to décler from elements of facts, legal issues that should be asked to solve the case.

Learning outcomes of the course :  
Written work or taking part in a seminar

In the term of this event, the student must have acquired the skills of research, reflection, reasoning, legal argumentation and writing of a scientific contribution.

Work placement

The student has to have: - Exercised and developed his legal editorial skills in a professional frame; - Acquired a perception concretizes of the practice professional of a jurist; - Put compared to this practice the theoretical knowledge acquired during this studies and developed an approach criticizes of this confrontation.

Oral defense

After this test, the student will become aware of the importance of oral communication in the legal professions, the need to prepare and be able to test stress his own oratorical skills.

National or international competition or international meetings

The objective of the training is to equip students, future professionals of law, interdisciplinary thinking, focusing on practice. This is the result in the simultaneous implementation of several rules from several branches of law and to acquire the skills needed to make the identification of relevant issues reflexes.

Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Written work or taking part in a seminar

The student must have done the training course in the written communication organized over the first year of the Master's degree in law

Work placement

The student must have done the training course in the written communication organized in 1th year of the Master's degree

Oral defense

It is advisable to take the training "Preparing to work graduation - seminars communication and argumentation applied to business law

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Written work or taking part in a seminar

The search for the subject falls to the student, in dialogue with the professor who oversees his work.
The subject proposed by the student and accepted by the professor must be communicated with the secretariat of the dean at the latest by December 15th.
The student has to show autonomy and must be capable of leading only his activities of research.

Work placement

The training course is not an internship of observation. The student must be brought to work on cases, to make tasks and to draft documents with legal reach.

Oral defense

See section above

National or international competition or international meetings

Training sessions at the event are held in the seminar DROI1275-1 in 1st and 2nd year of the Master.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Written work or taking part in a seminar

Deadline : - The 1st opening day of May for the 1st session - The 3rd Monday of August for the 2nd session

Work placement

The performances of the training course must be made during the academic year until April 30th at the latest.
Deadline for the report of training cours : - The 1st opening day of May for the 1st session - The 3rd Monday of August for the 2nd session
A single printed and connected copy, at the secretary of dean and a copy send by mail at master.droit@ulg.ac.be
The oral interview with the teacher is compulsory.

National or international competition or international meetings

The event takes place in the form of a written examination set for the June session

Recommended or required readings :  
Work rules graduation and the handbook written work containing the instructions for submitting work are distributed to Masters students at the beginning of academic year. A copy is available at the Office of the Dean or the website of the Faculty of Law)
Assessment methods and criteria :  
The final score of tfe involved in the deliberation of the second year of the master, is composed of scores for these four components, weighted on the basis of 8/15 for work writing 4/15 for the course, for 1/15 the oral test and 2/15 for interdisciplinary casus.
However:
1) a score equal to or less than 8/20 in the written work or internship, induces automatically a failing grade or less 8/20 for the overall score of TFE.
2) a failing grade for the oral test may result in failure if the other tests are successful TFE.

Written work or taking part in a seminar

The note of the written work is attributedawarded by the professor.
If a written work must be again presented in 2nd session, the student has to get in touch with the academic guardian to fix the modalities and the instructions to be respected.

Work placement

The note is determined by the professor on the base:
- Of the evaluation of master(teacher) of training course,
- Of the written report(relationship)
- Of the oral interview(maintenance).

Oral defense

The rating is determined by the jury of the event under the responsibility of the member of the academic faculty who belongs.
The rating takes into account the following evaluation criteria: - Behavior during the performance (attitude - non-verbal) - Voice (volume, flow) - Speaking (politeness, use of titles, management of timing, vocabulary, fluency of speech) - Effectiveness of the presentation (Introduction, existence and perception of strategy, structure of argument, strength of conviction, finding) - Base (knowledge and understanding of the file)

National or international competition or international meetings

The event comes to the overall score in 2/15e Labour graduation.

Work placement(s) :  
Cf. component
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Antoinette Gosselin : 04/366.93.00 a.gosselin@ulg.ac.be

National or international competition or international meetings

Sarah Steils : Sarah.Steils@ulg.ac.be

Items online :  
Regulation works graduation
Regulation works graduation

handbook written work
Instructions on the form and models



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