Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory.

First term
Friday from 17:15 to 19:15 at 119 Marais 3100

Dutch.

Students are expected to learn how to understand and use Dutch legal texts (case law, scholarship, legislation, et cetera), pertaining to general themes in public and private law, dealing with the legal system's organisation and involving sources and principles of law.
Students should also acquire a passive knowledge of the relevant legal vocabulary in Dutch; and succeed in translating excerpts from texts discussed in class.

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Before regular classes start, an orientation test on the knowledge of Dutch is organized, which is mandatory. This ensures, on the one hand, that students are subdivided into the proper groups, i.e. groups of students with a similar level of Dutch, and, on the other hand, that students acquire a better insight as to their level of Dutch. Students scoring 16/20 or more are exempt from having to take the course.
At the beginning of the semester, a syllabus will be available at the university copy services (reprographie). The course is structured around eleven chapters and a list of basic legal vocabulary. Each chapter consists of (i) legal texts and (ii) exercises related to the content of these texts. During the semester, additional course material may be uploaded on Moodle.
Students are expected to read the texts and prepare the exercises before class, as an active student participation is required.
The first courses contain some grammatical exercises, helping to refresh students' general knowledge of Dutch . Students are expected to practice these themselves, or deal with them during the tutorial. Likewise, the course materials comprise translation exercises as well as legal basic vocabulary lists that should be studied by students on their own or during the tutorial. At mid-semester, a mock examination is organized.

Lectures requiring active preparation and student participation (2hrs per week in the first semester, totalling 30 hrs).

Students are evaluated, not only on the basis of a permanent assessment of class participation, but also by means of a written exam.
The written exam comprises three parts, namely:
1. a list of questions on the legal vocabulary, either found in texts that were dealt with in class, or in the basic legal vocabulary list;
2. a set of questions that assess the comprehension of a new text, which is similar in nature and alike in topic as those that were treated in class;
3. a Dutch to French translation of excerpts of texts that were dealt with in class.

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