2020-2021 / DROI1242-1

Consumer credit

Duration

36h Th

Number of credits

 Master in law (120 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Christine Biquet

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

The course is held every odd year (2021-2022, 2023-2024, ...). Consumer credit is regulated by Book VII of the Code of Economic Law and the European Directive 2008/48. The Law is analyzed in parallel with other consumerist laws as well as obligation and contract law. This course can be usefully supplemented with the course on mortgage credit.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students must be able to understand the legal and financial mechanisms on which the different types of consumer credit are based. They must be able to understand a consumerist regulation and to articulate such a regulation with the law of obligations and other consumerist laws. .

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Obligation and Contract Law

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures. Practical cases and exercises

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

face-to-face

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

Written material will be distributed.

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.

Written or oral examination depending on the number of students

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Secretary : N. Bleve, office I 77, phone +32 (0)4 366 31 90, nbleve@ulg.ac.be Assistant : Office : R 9; Phone : +32 (0)4 366 30 03.