Duration
30h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Bachelor in law | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Christian Behrendt, Sandra Berbuto, Christine Biquet, Frédéric Bouhon, Rodrigue Capart, Joëlle Decharneux, Marie Forthomme, Vanessa Franssen, François Gadisseur, Elodie Galand, Jean-François Gerkens, Delphine Grisard, Nathalie Iouch, Ludivine Kerzmann, Benoît Kohl, Marjorie Krzesinski, Marc Nève, Lorène Nickels, Michel Peters, Ruxandra Popa, Géraldine Rosoux, Arianne Salvé, Sophie Sequaris, Nicolas Thirion, Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel, Nadège Vancrayebeck
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The student must write a single note or a case note analysis of a legal concept in the following subjects: criminal law, constitutional law, private law, contract law, European law and legal theory .
The work is supervised and evaluated by lecturers, all legal practitioners.
Course Coordinator : Mrs Lorène NICKELS
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course helps students learn to:
- conduct a library research on a topic of specific interest,
- read and analyze a decision of jurisprudence,
- determine the scientific value of a source of documentation
- summarize and write effectively about the synthesis of his research,
- improve writing quality suited to judiriques professions.
The student is responsible for its participation in learning.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course assumes a thorough knowledge of French.
The course also assumes that the student is trained in documentary research, the use of legal databases and be familiar with the library.
To this end, the deadlines of the course spread over the whole academic year have been fixed in coordination with the timing of the "Literature" course of legal methodology organized in the first three months of the first semester.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Two group sessions of training in writing are organized at the beginning of the year, to give students guidance methods and techniques of writing a case comment or a note of doctrine. During the first session, distributed the settlement of the container during the course organization, procedures and deadlines for submission of work, and the method of course evaluation.
Students are then distributed among the lecturers and the various legal matters. Each lecturer is a group session of the group of students to distribute the research subjects and explain his instructions for the drafting work.
A first version of the work must be filed before the Christmas break at the time and manner specified in the regulations of the course.
At the beginning of second semester, the lecturer met the student during an interview to discuss the substance and form of the work and communicate to the student improvement that must be done.
Based on these observations, the student is asked to correct their work and make a second version before the Easter break at the time and manner determined by the rules of the course.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Choice of the matter and constitution of the groups: the student will be invited to indicate, by order of preference, the matter in which he wishes to do the work. It will take account of these preferences as much as possible.
Attendance at training sessions and meetings and discussion with the lecturer is mandatory.
Settlement of the course outlines the terms and deadlines for submission of work. These are imperatives.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Online informations :
https://www.droit.uliege.be/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-09/engag_peda_td2b_2020-2021.pdf
https://www.facdroit.uliege.be
Mandatory reference book :
Nicolas Bernard (dir.), Guide des citations, références et abréviations juridiques, 6e édition, Waterloo, Wolters Kluwer, 2017.
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 )
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
The evaluation of the student will be based on the final work, taking into account :
- the quality of the version submitted,
- through the interview meeting with the lecturer, and
- the way in which the student will have integrated the comments of the lecturer in the correction of his work (final version).
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,
- the non-filing of a written work,
- unjustifiable failure to maintain individual
Pursuant to Articles 42 § 2 of the General Exam Regulations, the student who has not filed two works and did not attend the interview is inadmissible 2nd session.
Second session:
- the student retains the same subject and must submit a new corrected version of his written work, with real improvements.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Communications related to the course are mainly by ECampus and MyULiegeg.
Contacts
Secretariat : 04/366.27.31 - bac.droit@misc.uliege.be