Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in law (120 ECTS) (Even years, not organized in 2023-2024) | 5 crédits |
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
This course is organised in 2022-2023. It will not be organised in 2023-2024. The course consists in a study of the key-decisions of the CJEU and the Court of cassation related to the safeguarding of employee's rignts in the event of transfers of undertakings.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, students will have learnt to how to handle the reasoning behind jurisprudence, and especially that of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Belgian Court of Cassation by themselves, and to connect a set of decisions - that aren't always coherent; in other words, they will have learnt to develop their own legal reasoning by presenting their arguments in a logical, rigorous and coherent manner by referring to key rulings.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is based on participative teaching methods. Students are encouraged to prepare the relevant cases before each course and take an active part in it. They must also write two short papers on an assigned topic.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The course is given during the first semester, face-to-face, subject to the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The schedule is as follows: Wednesdays from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., September 21, October 12 and 19, November 2, 16 and 23 and December 7 and 14.
Written papers are due on October 25 and November 22, respectively.
Recommended or required readings
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
The assessment takes into account three parameters: active participation in the course sessions, written assignments and the January assessment. The January assessment takes the form of a mixed examination, consisting of an open book written and an oral examination. These modalities could be adapted according to the health situation.
The main evaluation criteria include the student's ability to develop judicial reasoning, by setting out the arguments that support it, articulating those arguments in a logical, rigourous and coherent way, using reliable sources, as well as the ability to choose between different options, justifying this choice with judicial arguments.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course is held every even year (2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2023...).
Contacts
Professor : Fabienne Kéfer - Office R.59 - tel.: 04.366.30.54 ; fkefer@ulg.ac.be
Secretary : Catterine Fett - Office 2. 71 - tel.: 04.366.31.57 - mail: catherine.fett@ulg.ac.be
Assistant : Célia Zimbile - local R.62 - tel.: 04.366.30.57 - mail : Celia.Zimbile@uliege.be