Study Programmes 2016-2017
DROI0923-1  
Private Law History
Duration :
30h Th
Number of credits :
Master in law (120 ECTS)6
Lecturer :
Fabienne Kéfer
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
Learning unit contents :
This course is organised in 2016-2017. It will not be organised in 2017-2018. The course consists in a  study of the key-decisions of the CJEU and the Court of cassation related to the  safeguarding of employee's rignts in the event of transfers of undertakings.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
By the end of the course, students will have learnt to how to handle the reasoning behind jurisprudence, and especially that of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Belgian Court of Cassation by themselves, and to connect a set of decisions - that aren't always coherent; in other words, they will have learnt to develop their own legal reasoning by presenting their arguments in a logical, rigorous and coherent manner by referring to key rulings.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The course is based on participative teaching methods. Students are encouraged to prepare the relevant cases before each course and take an active part in it. They must also write two short papers on an assigned topic.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
The course is given during the first semester, face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Document file.
Assessment methods and criteria :
The assessment is in the form of an open book written exam, with an oral exam for retakes. The form of the assesment is written examination. The main evaluation criteria include the student's ability to develop judicial reasoning, by setting out the arguments that support it, articulating those arguments in a logical, rigourous and coherent way, using reliable sources, as well as the ability to choose between different options, justifying this choice with judicial arguments.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
The course is held every even year (2016-2017, 2018-2019,...).
Contacts :
Professor : Fabienne Kéfer - Office R.59 - tel.: 04.366.30.54 ; fkefer@ulg.ac.be
Secretary : Catterine Fett -  Office I. 75 - tel.: 04.366.31.57 - mail: catherine.fett(N.Vrancken@ulg.ac.be)@ulg.ac.be(N.Vrancken@ulg.ac.be )
Assistant : Quentin Cordier - Office R.62 - tel.: 04.366.30.56 - mail : Quentin.Cordier@ulg.ac.be
Items online :
Transferts of undertakings
Casebook and planning of work