Supervised work and notions of legal methodology

Duration

10h Th, 30h Pr.

Number of credits

Lecturer

Collégialité, Pierre Moreau, Lorène Nickels

Coordinator

Lorène Nickels

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The student must write an individual work of research and legal analysis, consisting either of a review of case law is in a scholarly article.
Supervision and evaluation work is supported by professors of the department of law. They may, in accordance with Article 14 of the examination regulations, delegate the monitoring and evaluation of their work (s) assistant (s). The logistician, A. Gosselin is coordinating the course.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The student must learn how to write a scientific individual paper, and for this purpose:
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The course aims to prepare the student to the final work graduation final year of master in law.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The course assumes a thorough knowledge of French.
It also involves the acquisition of technical literature searches.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Submission of works exclusively on the eCampus platform.
The contacts are made with the tutor exclusively by email, with the exception of individual meeting with the correction of the first version of the work (second step).

Recommended or required readings

The notes are for sale at he Presses universitaires and on line on myUlg (see MyUlg).   The power point training sessions will be made available to students through the end on MyULiège sessions. Mandatory reference book : Pierre Vandernoot (sous la direction de), Guide des citations, références et abréviations juridiques, 5e édition, Waterloo, Kluwer, 2010. The settlement of the current, distributed to students during the firt session, is also available on the website of the faculty. Also the Regulation concerning the instructions for submission of written work (handbook) and a model of a cover page in a computer file (word) dirct used for writing the work.

Assessment methods and criteria

The mark takes considers the work in each of three steps. The criteria of evaluation of the work are:
-           bottom of the work : the initial understanding of the subject ( 1st step), the 1st bibliographical research, the use of sources, the accuracy (absence of error of law), the legal reasoning, the critical mind ( personal reflection), the structure;
-          shape :  the writing (style, syntax), the spelling, the display, the quotations and the references, the choice of titles,
-          The appreciation of the personal work supplied by the student and the evolution of its work between the 1st work and the definitive version (in 1st and 2nd session) considering the quality of departure of the student (number of remarks or intervention of the tutor), the consideration of the remarks formulated by the tutor and the personal initiative of the student (to what extent he seized the opportunity to go farther to the deepening of his work?)
 
The evaluation of the student will be based on the following elements : written work and oral presentation. The presentation, spelling and legibility are also factors taken into account.
The work must be the personal work of the student. Fraud or plagiarism results in a score of 0 / 20.
Is automatically cause for adjournment : - the failure to meet deadlines and the character limit, - failure to file a three-step process.
Pursuant to Articles 4 and 6 § 2 § 2 General Exam, the student who has not filed two works and did not attend the interview is inadmissible 2nd session.
In second session, student must rewrite the third version of his original subject with real improvments.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Choice of material and distribution issues: The student is prompted, in order of preference, several legal matters in which he wishes to do the job. Consideration will be given to these preferences wherever possible. In any event, the allocation of subjects is imperative.

Contacts

Secretary: Florence BREUWER - bac.droit@misc.uliege.be
Coordinator: Lorène NICKELS
Preparation seminar : Raluca POPA - r.popa@uliege.be  

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

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Assessment subjects

No change

Assessment methods

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Contacts

Lorène Nickels : lnickels@uliege.be

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

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