Study Programmes 2015-2016
DTFE0017-9  
Thesis
  • Written work or participation in a seminar
  • Interdisciplinary casus test
Duration :
Written work or participation in a seminar :
Interdisciplinary casus test :
Number of credits :
Master in law (120 ECTS)18
Lecturer :
Written work or participation in a seminar : 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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