Face-to-face , first term, 45 hours of theory.

First term
Monday from 13:30 to 15:30 at Ommegang Om10
Wednesday from 13:30 to 14:30 at Ommegang Om10

French

This course aims
- to provide you with a general knowledge of the legal phenomenon, through your command of the appropriate terminology and your understanding of certain fundamental legal concepts;
- you knew the basics of some of the more common branches of law;
- to enable you to carry out (simple) legal research, i.e. to handle your collection of legal texts and legal databases effectively, to base your arguments on the relevant legal basis(s).

The course is built on the idea that a basic understanding of law is necessary for every citizen, especially for those who intend to undertake university studies. Indeed, law is both a human science with close links to various other disciplines, including those you have chosen to study as your main academic subject, but also a mode of social regulation that is ubiquitous in the political arena and in our private lives.

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The course is structured in six parts, each of which is structured (almost) around questions:
- (I) What is law (general introduction)
- (II) Who has rights and which rights (who are the subjects of law and what is the nature of their rights)
- (III) Who produces law and how (which institutions - and which persons - create law, and in what way? what are the sources of law?)
- (IV) Who controls the law (how to enforce rights in court and how to settle conflicts between norms)?
- (V) Where to find the law and how to read it (how to find the relevant legal source and how to understand it properly)
- (VI) Some specific branches of law (economic law, company law, labour law, tenancy law, ...)


The monitorats, given by two assistants in dialogue with the professor, cover the same topics, illustrated and put into practice.

The lectures involve a presentation of the concepts and questions mentioned above, interspersed with interactive exercises. It is based on slides made available to you on moodle before each class; you must complete those slides with notes. In addition, various materials (e.g. legal instruments and court decisions) collected in a collection of appendices will be projected during the session to illustrate the subject. In the same way, the use of the main legal databases (free of charge) will be taught on screen.

Besides, the monitorats offer you the opportunity to carry out exercises aimed particularly at familiarising yourself with the collection of legal texts and legal terminology.

Both the professor and the assistants are available to answer your questions during breaks and at the end of the course.

Is subject to examination : anything that was said in the lecture (even if the developments are not included in the slides) but only what was said in the lecture (for example, the illustrations mentioned in the tutorial that were not taught in the lecture could not be the subject of an examination question).

The evaluation will be a written exam, taken on site if sanitary conditions allow it, on moodle if not. This examination will be composed of open questions, some of which will be very precise and others that will require a development that you will have to construct.

The use of the collection of legal texts is necessary for the resolution of questions and is therefore required during the exam. Words and passages from this collection may be underlined or highlighted, but no annotation is permitted. Warning: any breach of this rule, even a single word, will be considered an irregularity and reported as such to the jury (cf. art. 107 of the Règlement général des Études et des Examens).

No recommended reading

The sources are referenced throughout the course, in the slides mentioned above.
The collection of legal texts contains the necessary normative sources ; the use of another document (as the Code Bac Saint-Louis, Larcier, 2022) is authorised, but it is your responsibility to ensure that it is up-to-date and contains all the dispositions included in the collection of legal texts and that the rule on annotations (see above) is respected.