Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
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
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.