Penal law of Companies

Duration

15h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Adrien Masset

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This 15 hr. course is divided into three parts:
- the first part (10/10/18) establishes the context of the material: objective of criminal law of companies, principles of general criminal law and criminal procedures specific to the field, most common offences
- the students are then asked to examine a court ruling rendered in the matter
- a second part (19/12/18) will examine the said court ruling critically and place it in the field as a whole.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Critical examination of court rulings and study of the logic of the criminal law of companies

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Course given in the form of lectures + individual study of a decision or a file + a course in the form of exchanges

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

classical

Recommended or required readings

A. MASSET, Guide juridique de l'entreprise - La responsabilité pénale dans l'entreprise, Kluwer, 2012 (available on electronic media)
Recommended reading: Spreutels, Roggen, Roger-France, Droit pénal des affaires, Bruylant, 2005

Assessment methods and criteria

Two- to five-page written commentary on a given court ruling. Deadline for submission: 12 noon on 22 January 2019 (20 August for the second session), sent by email to a.masset@ulg.ac.be with a request for confirmation of receipt, expressing reflections on what this decision inspires in connection with the courses given, with the reference work (Guide juridique de l'entreprise) and related to the students own knowledge of theory and practice, even by way of complementing this topic but still in connection with it.
Style and form are important.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Teacher :
Adrien MASSET - a.masset@uliege.be
Bât. B.33 (bur. I.10) - 04/366.31.84

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