2017-2018 / 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 crédits 

Lecturer

Written work or participation in a seminar : Collégialité
Internship : Luc Bihain, Collégialité, François Minon, Aurélie Mortier, Didier Pire, Annick Sadzot, Sylvie Thielen
Oral Test : Collégialité, Fabienne Kéfer
Interdisciplinary casus test : Aude Berthe, Collégialité

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

Learning unit 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

This course relates to the multidisciplinary examination of cases. The cases drawn from practice involve the students' legal reasoning skills and their overall legal knowledge covering several fields. Rather than showing the extent of their knowledge, students are expected to demonstrate their ability to reason and their aptitude for detecting and presenting reflections and issues of law and fact relevant to solving the case, in a coherent, structured and complete manner. The precision of the reflections expected from the students depends on the information and documents given to the students in support of the case.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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 course aims to initiate students, as future legal professionals, in an interdisciplinary reflection, by placing the emphasis on practice. This involves encouraging them to simultaneously implement several rules from various branches of the law, and helping them to acquire the reflexes required to bring the relevant issues to the fore.

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 course "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 on the website Matheo.ulg.ac.be at the latest by November 30th.
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

Either case studies or case files are presented in class, which the students are asked to prepare for each session. Slides allow students to structure the reflections and the main issues discussed in class.

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

Three organisation sessions will be held during the first term for students who will present their final year dissertation in 2017-2018.
 

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, édition 2016, en vente aux presses universitaires.

Interdisciplinary casus test

The relevant documents are available on the MyULg portal.

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

In accordance with the final year dissertation rules, students will be assessed during the final session of exercises which will take place in December 2017. Students have to solve a case study or case file, similar to those dealt with in class. The test is worth 2/15ths of the overall mark for the final year dissertation.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Internship

Coordinatrice : Antoinette Gosselin Contact : Isabelle Lheureux (ilheureux@ulg.ac.be)
 
 

Oral Test

Florence.Breuwer@ulg.ac.be

Interdisciplinary casus test

Antoinette Gosselin : a.gosselin@ulg.ac.be

Items online

Syllabus - Methods and writing - A. Gosselin
Notes

Written work or participation in a seminar

Syllabus - Méthodologie, lecture d'un arrêt de cassation et rédaction en droit
Notes