2020-2021 / DROI1108-1

Introduction to private law

Duration

50h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in law6 crédits 
 Bachelor in political sciences : general6 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté de Droit, de Sciences politique et de Criminologie)6 crédits 

Lecturer

Pascale Lecocq

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

After an introduction whose purpose is to set private law within the Belgian legal system, we address the topic of private rights (notions of real rights and claims; birth, transmission and extinguishment) as well as the concept of possession in patrimonial domains. The legal act (definition, classifications, creation, performance, effects regarding people) will then retain our attention, before we examine a specific legal fact, the one of civil responsibility (torts). In the final part of the class, attention is given to the subjects of Evidence in civil law (ways of proving, admissibility and power of various ways of proving) and to the notion of legal personality (study of natural and legal persons and their capability).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aim of the class is to provide students in law and political sciences with the basic principles of private law, contracts, torts, property law, family law and merchant law. First, these fundamentals constitute the basis of a legal culture; second, they are necessary for understanding further legal classes.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Five lessons of practical cases are organized to prepare the student for the exam.

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

The course consists in 2X2 h. a week during the first semester and practical work.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Written exam, QCM or QRM; if necessary, oral exams;

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus to complete.  Legal dispositions.

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.

June session :

- In-person

oral exam

- Remote

oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person

August-september session :

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

- Remote

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

Final examination. Civil code and other legal dispositions are necessary.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Civil law service : Law of property, Evidence, B31 prof. : P. LECOCQ, office, I.23, tél. : 04/3663095, email : Pascale.Lecocq@uliege.be
Assistants : Laura DERU (mi-temps), I.15, tel. : 04/3663093,  email :  
Elisabeth JADOUL (mi-temps), I.22, tél. : 04/3663096, email : EJadoul@uliege.be
Noemie GOFFLOT (mi-temps), I.22, tél : 04/3663096, email : noemie.gofflot@uliege.be
Secretaryship : N. BLEVE,  I.77, tél. : 04/3663190, nbleve@uliege.be
mailbox at the university : box 16