Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in law (120 ECTS) (Odd years, organized in 2021-2022) | 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
The course is not organized in 2020-2021 The course focuses on a general theme (different every year), divided into a series of more specific or technical sub-themes, all inspired by the world of business, or more broadly, by the world of economic exchanges. Hence, it is a question of studying a specific subject in depth, both from a legal point of view and with regard to its economic, historical and sociological extensions. Since this subject is also the object of research for the teacher, it is necessary to systematically make the link between the research and the teaching given in class, and subsequently actively involve the students in it (in the style of a real research seminar). Students will be asked to prepare et present some texts before each meeting to discuss them. These texts will be sent via the platform MyULiege.
The title of the seminar for the year 2012-2022 is: "The legal organisation of the economy : competition or complementarity between normativities?"
Although economic law has long been derived from a wide variety of sources (international, supranational, national, customary, private, etc.), this trend has become even more pronounced in recent decades, including in the 'legicentrist' legal systems inspired by French law, such as Belgian law.
The sovereignty of the law, the expression of the general will, has been replaced by a much more complex network of interwoven and sometimes competing normativities, which are now addressed to companies: not only the rise of a movement of 'economic constitutionalisation', inspired by certain economic theses, in European Union law and in the laws of several Member States, but also the emergence of private norms, which are increasingly prevalent in the globalised economy, in the form of codes, guidelines and other guiding principles. It is this proliferation of sources of economic law that we propose to study during this academic year, shedding light on the current situation in the light of certain past controversies. Three series of texts (see below, under "Recommended or compulsory reading and course notes") will be successively examined and discussed.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To get students to familiarise themselves with a specific issue regarding business law (in a much more in-depth manner than in the basic course in economic law), by establishing links with disciplines other than law (essentially the economy) and by getting accustomed to looking in a broader and more critical way at the subject under analysis.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good knowledge of economic law.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Course not organized in 2021-2022.
Face-to-face and interactive mode.
Recommended or required readings
Required reading:
1° R. Aydogdu, "La Corporate Social Responsibility, le droit par-delà le marché et l'Etat", TRV/RPS, 2016, pp. 669-704 (part 1) and pp. 868-908 (part 2);
2° G. Grégoire, "Le marché, instance disciplinaire des Etats dans le cadre de l'Union économique et monétaire: des théories économiques aux cadres juridiques", Politeia, 2019, pp. 53-119;
3° C. Schmitt and H. Heller, Du libéralisme autoritaire, Paris, Zones, 2020, intr. by Gr. Chamayou.
The texts will be provided to students in PDF format.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Students will be assessed on the basis of three criteria:
1° their oral presentation of one of the texts or parts of texts studied
2° their active participation in discussions;
3° a dissertation, of minimum five to maximum ten pages, to be handed in by the end of the January session at the latest, devoted to one of the themes seen in the course, to an explanation of the issues related to this theme and to the student's personal argumentative opinion.
More information during the first lesson.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is held every odd year (2015-2016, 2017-2018,...).
Contacts
Economic Law and Legal Theory unit.