Key learning outcomes

By the end of the Bachelor in Law, students will have acquired the following skills:

• development of a culture of human and social sciences specific to decoding legal phenomena;
• appropriation of all the essential and foundational legal knowledge of contemporary law;
• the methodology to master the formal sources of law (command of digital and traditional bibliographic tools);
• ability to critically view the law, familiarity with the theory of law and, more broadly, a reflexive capacity on the philosophy of law;
• reflexive and argumentative capacity on concrete legal situations (casus);
• ability to independently conduct a scientific research and present it in a well-argued written and oral presentation (end of cycle seminar);
• the ability to understand, study and reproduce a theoretical content in a language other than French (English or Dutch).

In addition, for students from bilingual courses of study:

• knowledge of the cultural and legal universe related to the target language (Dutch or English), and more specifically,

-for students of the English section, knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon legal system and its specificities,

-for students of the Dutch section, familiarisation with an active Dutch-speaking environment (courses taught at the KU Leuven-Campus Brussel);

• the ability to conduct legal research and present it in a well-argued manner in the target language (casus in Dutch for the Dutch section and seminar of theory of law for the English section).

and more broadly, a wealth of transferable skills:

• The ability to set down the terms of a problem and conduct a reasoned argumentation;
• A strong analytical and critical thinking ability;
• A sense of autonomy and responsibility when faced with various tasks;
• A written and oral command of the French language.