Study Programmes 2015-2016
DTFE0017-6  
Thesis
  • Written work or participation in a seminar
  • Internship
  • Oral Test
  • Interdisciplinary casus test
Duration :
Written work or participation in a seminar :
Internship : 90h Internship
Oral Test : 4h AUTR
Interdisciplinary casus test :
Number of credits :
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Lecturer :
Written work or participation in a seminar : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
Internship : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin, François Minon, Didier Pire, Annick Sadzot, Sylvie Thielen
Oral Test : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
Interdisciplinary casus test : Collégialité, Antoinette Gosselin
Coordinator :
Antoinette Gosselin
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
All year long
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
Written work or participation 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.
Internship
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 Test
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
Interdisciplinary casus test
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 participation 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.
Internship
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 Test
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.
Interdisciplinary casus test
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Written work or participation 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
Internship
The student must have done the training course in the written communication organized in 1th year of the Master's degree
Oral Test
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 participation 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.
Internship
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 Test
See section above
Interdisciplinary casus test
Training sessions at the event are held in the seminar  DROI1302-1 in 1st and DROI1303-1 in  2nd year of the Master.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Written work or participation in a seminar
Deadline : - The 1st opening day of May for the 1st session - The 3rd Monday of August for the 2nd session
Internship
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.
Interdisciplinary casus test
The event takes place in the form of a written examination set for the June session
Recommended or required readings :
Written work or participation in a seminar
Syllabus en ligne via le portail MyULg (nouvelle du 28 septembre 2015) : Méthodes, techniques et conseils de rédaction des travaux écrits en droit, A. Gosselin et S. Steils, en vente aux presses universitaires.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Written work or participation 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.
Internship
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 Test
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)
Interdisciplinary casus test
The event comes to the overall score in 2/15e Labour graduation.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Interdisciplinary casus test
Sarah Steils : Sarah.Steils@ulg.ac.be