Duration
60h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in law | 5 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté de Droit, de Sciences politique et de Criminologie) | 6 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
The Romans invented the Law. They were the first to separate law and religion. Therefore they were also the first to criticise the rule of law, in order to improve it.
So one could say that Roman law has the same importance for the jurist, as the Pythagoras Theorem for the mathematician or Aristotle for the philosopher... It is impossible to seriously pretend to do without them.
Study Roman law helps to understand much better the rules we deal with today. Many rules can only be understood with help of the Roman law.
It is impossible to speak of the whole Roman law the Romans developed over more than a millenary in only 60 hours. Therefore, most of the lectures will be about private law. It is indeed in private law that the Roman Roots of our law appear to be the most evident.
The evolution of Roman law will not be neglected. The students will have to make sure that they are aware of the historical perspective.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Help the future jurists to understand their law system and particularly the mechanisms of private law. By learning the origins of today's rules of law, one can understand them much better. It is useful that the rules of law can be understood also when it has not the form of a law written in a modern code.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
There will be lectures twice a week during the first semester.
Tutorials and questions and answers sessions will also be organised.
Recommended or required readings
A textbook containing also definitions and a detailed plan is provided, and powerpoint slides will be available on MyULg.
Assessment methods and criteria
The final exam is written and the students must show that they understand the reasoning of the roman jurists. They will also be able to apply this reasoning to new pratcial cases.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Professor: JF.Gerkens@uliege.be URL: http://www.ulg.ac.be/vinitor/
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
The subject matter is the same as for the January 2020 exam.
Assessment methods
The exam will be in French so you'd better understand what is written left.
Contacts
Items online
Only in french so far
Only in french so far.
Roman Law
This is the text-book used for the Roman Law Course..
Handbook of Roman Law
This handbook is exclusively in french. It contains some definitions of roman legal terms, some roman law texts with their french translation, some texts of legal history and some biographies of roman jurists.