2020-2021 / DROI0923-1

Private Law History

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in law (120 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Fabienne Kéfer

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 course is organised in 2016-2017. It will not be organised in 2017-2018. The course consists in a  study of the key-decisions of the CJEU and the Court of cassation related to the  safeguarding of employee's rignts in the event of transfers of undertakings.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

By the end of the course, students will have learnt to how to handle the reasoning behind jurisprudence, and especially that of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Belgian Court of Cassation by themselves, and to connect a set of decisions - that aren't always coherent; in other words, they will have learnt to develop their own legal reasoning by presenting their arguments in a logical, rigorous and coherent manner by referring to key rulings.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is based on participative teaching methods. Students are encouraged to prepare the relevant cases before each course and take an active part in it. They must also write two short papers on an assigned topic.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

The course is given during the first semester, face-to-face, subject to the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The schedule is as follows: Wednesdays from 8:15 to 10:30 a.m., September 23, October 7, 14 and 28, November 18 and 25 and December 9 and 16.

Written papers are due on October 19 and November 22, respectively.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

in code orange, no change for the course itself. Nevertheless, teacher will allow confined students to follow the course live on the "collaborate" platform.
pour the exam, if the university is able to provide suitable examination rooms, no change. If not, adaptations will be considered to make the distance examination as similar as possible to what is planned for the face-to-face examination.

Recommended or required readings

Document file.

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

- Remote

written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

The assessment takes into account three parameters: active participation in the course sessions, written assignments and the January assessment. The January assessment takes the form of a mixed examination, consisting of an open book written and an oral examination. These modalities could be adapted according to the health situation.
The main evaluation criteria include the student's ability to develop judicial reasoning, by setting out the arguments that support it, articulating those arguments in a logical, rigourous and coherent way, using reliable sources, as well as the ability to choose between different options, justifying this choice with judicial arguments.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course is held every even year (2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2023...).

Contacts

Professor : Fabienne Kéfer - Office R.59 - tel.: 04.366.30.54 ; fkefer@ulg.ac.be
Secretary : Catterine Fett -  Office I. 75 - tel.: 04.366.31.57 - mail: catherine.fett@ulg.ac.be
Assistant : France Dachouffe - local R.60 - tél.: 04.366.30.55 - mail : fdachouffe@uiege.be