DROI1108-1 : Introduction to private law

Study Programmes 2015-2016

DROI1108-1

Introduction to private law

Duration :

50h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits :

Bachelor in law		6
Bachelor in political sciences : general		6
Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...)		6

Lecturer :

Pascale Lecocq

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

After an introduction whose purpose is to set private law within the Belgian legal system, we address the topic of private rights (notions of real rights and claims; birth, transmission and extinguishment) as well as the concept of possession in patrimonial and non-patrimonial domains.
The ¿legal act¿ (definition, classifications, creation, performance, effects regarding people) will then retain our attention, before we examine a specific ¿legal fact¿, the one of ¿civil responsibility¿ (torts).
In the final part of the class, attention is given to the subjects of Evidence in civil law (ways of proving, admissibility and power of various ways of proving, specificities of proving transactions on the Internet) and to the notion of legal personality (study of natural and legal persons and their capability).

Learning outcomes of the course :

The aim of the class is to provide students in political sciences and public administration with the basic principles of private law, contracts, torts, property law, family law and merchant law. First, these fundamentals constitute the basis of a legal culture; second, they are necessary for understanding further legal classes. The learning is eventually useful in the perspective of professional exams, including those organized by public authorities.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Three or five lessons of practical cases are organized to prepare the student for the exam.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

The course consists in 2X2 h. a week during the second semester and practical work.