2023-2024 / DROI1224-1

Introduction to private law

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology)5 crédits 
 Bachelor in human and social sciences3 crédits 
 Bachelor in human and social sciences (New programme)5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Jean-François Gerkens

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

Private Law rules a very important number of daily matters. To understand civil law is therefore everybody's business and should not be restricted to future jurists. The goal of the lectures is to initiate the students to the bases of private law and prepare them to more specific courses they will attend later.
The course has two parts:
1. Laws : A. Notions, subdivisions (national law, international law, public law, private law) B. Sources of law : 2. Rights : A. Subjects of rights - Physical persons (personal status) ;- Juridical persons ; B. Classification of rights ; C. Creation, transmission and extinction of rights ; D. Modalities of rights (terms and conditions); E. Sanctions of rights ; F. Evidences of rights.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Initiate the students to the bases of private law and prepare them to further, more specific, courses they will have later.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

A good knowledge of the french language.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Oral lectures and handbook

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

Presence highly recommended

Recommended or required readings

Introduction au droit privé, by Jean-François Gerkens, Editions de l'Université de Liège

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- Remote

oral exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

Written exam with physical presence of the students.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

The discussions we had with students after the exams taught us that the most important reason why students fail is because they have not started studying since the beginning of the year. It is since then that they need to read systematically the handbooks and understand every sentence, get used to the terminology and learn to handle the concepts.The students must get the latest edition of the handbooks which have been written for them. They shouldn't confuse them with the summaries that the student's association distributes under it's own

Contacts

See french text

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online

You will find the handbook here
Handbook and slides used during the lectures.