Duration
60h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in law | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Administrative Law is considered a branch of Public Law. Administrative Law is the body of Law that governs the activities of Administrative Agencies of Government or local authorities.
It deals also with dispute resolution, judicial review and administrative liability.
Administrative Law expanded greatly as legislative bodies created more Government Agencies. In Belgium the Federalisation of the State gave birth to new legislative bodies and therefore to new Governments and Agencies, Tasks and Regulations.
As a body of Law, Administrative Law deals with Institutions and rulemaking, Law and Order, Environmental Law, Town and Country Planning Law, Educational Law, Migration Law, Public Procurements, Municipalities an local Government, Dispute Resolution, Liability and Judicial Review...
This course concerns the principles applicable in all matters of Administrative Law: sources, shape of Institutions, rulemaking, dispute resolution, judicial review and administrative liability.
Numerous courses of administrative Law focusing on peculiar administrative matters (as public procurements, civil service, town and country planning, environment, local authorities, social care, migration law...) are available during the Master in Law. This course provides the student with basics (and sometimes more) to all those peculiar matters
See also: http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/jcms/service/index.php?serv=38
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The mainest aim of this course is to give students the ability to identify and carefully describe administrative legal problems, to criticize administrative decisions and suggest remedy.
This course deals only with basics of Administrative Law. Nevertheless, basics are rather substantial and give through examples and cases a good view of positive law.
The course outline is as follows:
-Introduction
1.- Sources and principles (Administrative, Executive functions and the State, Normative Administrative action, Principles of Good Administration)
2.- Administrative Organisation
3.- The Role of Administration in the Modern State: "Service public" theory, Services of general interest, Law and order policy, Administrative penalties
4.- Unilateral decision and contract, the Role of Administrative Discretion in the development of Public Policy - Public Procurements - Civil Servants - Real Estate - Takings - Regulatory Takings
5.- Basics of Administrative Dispute Resolution. Administrative Recourses, Access to Justice, Judicial review of Agencies Decisions and Liability.
-Conclusion
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Constitutional Law and European Institutional Law
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Session will be devoted to practical work. See ad valvas.
A mandatory session of practical work for each student
in small groups will be organized in November (22 and 29).
It will involve exercising criticism of an administrative act
under the direction of a Magistrate or a Member of the Bar
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures first term Monday and Friday morning.
The first course takes place on Friday, September 20, 2019, at 8.30
Recommended or required readings
ESSENTIAL
A.Updated Lecture notes written by Michel PAQUES
1- Fisrt book (Fall, 2019) Liège University Press.
2- Second book on Unilateral decision,contract, Public Procurements -
Real Estate - Takings - Regulatory Takings (Fall, 2019)
Liège University Press
NB. Compared to previous editions, the 2019 course notes (especially 1) have been considerably modified.
3- Principes de contentieux administratif (dispute resolution, judicial review and administrative liability), Bruxelles, Larcier, 2017, also availble from Liège University Press.
B.- Four major cases support those Lecture notes. Their extensive knowledge is essential. They are bundled in a Case book (Fall, 2017 unchanged 2019) with a list of questions to guide the reader.
C-An updated Code containing the main administrative Laws is needed.
NB. The cases (B) and code (C) may be used during exams. The use of highlighters is permitted. Annotations are prohibited.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam january 2019
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Michel PAQUES,
Extraordinary Professor of Law
Department of Public and Administrative Law,
ULg Sart Tilman, Suite I (7-9), by appointment
michel.paques@ulg.ac.be
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs 3,
Bât. B31
B-4000 Liège
Fax : +32 4 366 29 52
Sylvia Lehnen
Service administratif
Tél.: +32 4 366 91 14
Bâtiment: B31 - Bureau: 1.76
http://local.droit.ulg.ac.be/jcms/perso/index.php?idpers=400
Sophie CHARLIER et Marie VANDERHEYDEN
Assistantes,
Service de droit public et administratif,
ULg Sart Tilman B. 31
R 6-8
04/366 31.04
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs 3,
Bât. B31, B-4000 Liège
sophie.charlier@uliege.be
Sessions of questions and answers will be organized in good time. For schedules, see the valves.
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Distance oral exam
See the calendar and the timetable published by the secretary and the guidelines to the on line connection to E-campus & collaborate:
- admission of the Student to the virtual waiting room;
- admission of the Student to a second room where He or She receives a question which He or She can prepare as He or She wishes for about ten minutes;
- admission to the examination room for +/- 15 minutes. The prepared question is most often a way to a broader discussion.
NB The exam cannot consist in the simple reading of the preparation or from other documents.