DROI2201-4 : Special Contracts

Study Programmes 2015-2016

DROI2201-4

Special Contracts

Duration :

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits :

Bachelor in law		4
Master in law, professional focus in management		3
Master in law (120 ECTS)		3
Master in law (120 ECTS)		3
Master in management, professional focus in law		3
Master in management (120 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

Benoît Kohl

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The aim of the course is to study the rules of some specific contracts. Have been selected the following contracts that are the most important as well as for private consumers as for business transactions: sale contracts (included the rules which protect the consumers and succinctly the rules on international sales); lease contract; deposit agreement; renting agreement; agency; service contract and specific rules of construction law (included subcontract relations); and settlement agreement.

Learning outcomes of the course :

The course is aimed at helping the students to resolve practical cases in the field of contrat law and to deepen the concepts of contract law, taking into account the multiple legal theories as well as the links existing between the several specific contracts.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

This course is the following of the Law of Obligations which is the indispensable prerequisite of the study of the Law of Contracts

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

See hereafter

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

Course given during the first quadrimeste. Some lectures will be in the form of problem lectures. The Workshops is to show the students the practical importance of the knowledge of the legal rules, the importance of the rules involving the burden of proof as well as the links with Procedural Law. In the same way, at the end of (almost) each lecture, some time is given to the discussion of a pratical question. The students are invited to prepare the discussion for the next lecture.