Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in law (120 ECTS) | 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
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