Study Programmes 2015-2016
| DROI1202-2 | ||
| Legal theories | ||
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Duration :
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| 45h Th, 15h Lect. | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Nicolas Thirion | ||
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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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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| The aim of teaching the theory of law is to form an approach to legal matters based on a collection of concepts and constructions taken from the rich and diverse work of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century: Michel Foucault. Of course, it is not simply a matter of limiting ourselves to the works of the latter, but to take inspiration from them in order to construct the general framework of an original reflection on law. In the first part, students will be required to synthesize Foucault's store of knowledge in order to use it in the second part - quantitatively the largest part - with regard to the specific object of the course: legal matters. This part aims to apply the hypotheses presented in the first part, by disassociating the law as power, on the one hand, and the law as knowledge, on the other hand. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| To encourage students to have an objective view the field of law while avoiding the pitfalls and pretences that the law, as an instrument of power and knowledge, uses for the needs of its supposed efficiency. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Students must have successfully completed the course in "History of the Philosophy and Theories of Natural Law" in the first year of their bachelor's degree | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| "Ex cathedra" course | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face course organised in the second quadrimester | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Nicolas THIRION, Théories du droit. Droit, pouvoir, savoir, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2011
Compulsory reading: L. FRANCOIS, Le cap des Tempêtes. Essai de microscopie du droit, 2nd ed., Bruxelles-Paris, Bruylant-LGDJ, 2012 |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral exam | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Considering the complexity of the course which can no more be organized in two quadrimesters because of an absurd decree, we would advice the students to begin the reading of the book of Lucien François from the first quadrimester. | ||
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Contacts :
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| Economic Law and Legal Theory unit. | ||