2020-2021 / DROI2201-4

Special Contracts

Duration

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in law4 crédits 
 Master in management, professional focus in law4 crédits 

Lecturer

Benoît Kohl

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The aim of the course is to study the rules of some specific contracts. Have been selected the following contracts that are the most important as well as for private consumers as for business transactions: sale contracts (included the rules which protect the consumers and succinctly the rules on international sales); lease contract; deposit agreement (and leasing); renting agreement; agency; service contract and specific rules of construction law (included subcontract relations); and settlement agreement.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course is aimed at helping the students to resolve practical cases in the field of contrat law and to deepen the concepts of contract law, taking into account the multiple legal theories as well as the links existing between the several specific contracts.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

This course is the following of the Law of Obligations (included Tort Law) which is the indispensable prerequisite of the study of the Law of Contracts

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

See hereafter

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

Course given during the first quadrimeste. Some lectures will be in the form of problem lectures. The Workshops is to show the students the practical importance of the knowledge of the legal rules, the importance of the rules involving the burden of proof as well as the links with Procedural Law.
 
Study of case law is part of the program. Outside the resolution of problems during the lectures, the assistant lectures can help students in answering the questions of the students.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus

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.

One written exam in First and Second Session with problem and essay questions. 

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Assistant lecturers : A. Rigolet (alexandre.rigolet@ulg.ac.be), R. Salzburger (romain.salzburger@ulg.ac.be)