Administrative Law and dispute resolution

Duration

60h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Michel Delnoy

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Traduction à venir

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The mainest aim of this course is to give students the ability to identify and carefully describe administrative legal problems, to criticize administrative decisions and suggest remedy and/or recourse.

This course deals only with basics of Administrative Law. 

Lot of principles are at stake that are applicable in all situations and have to be known. That's the most important thing a general course can afford the student.

Nevertheless, basics are rather substantial and give through examples and cases a good view of positive law.




 

 



The new 2023-2024 course outline is as follows:

-Introduction


1.- Administrative Law and the Rule of Law. Administrative and Executive functions of the modern State. Constitutional and Statutory Administrative Law. Principles of Good Administration and Governance. The basic point of the public service theory: creation by Law  and allocation of the management to public or private agencies


2.- Administrative Bodies Organisation. Executive branch and public agencies.


3.- Administrative Action Fields (Law and order policy. Public services. Administrative penalties)


4.- Administrative Legal tools. Unilateral decision making. Contracts. The Role of Administrative Discretion in the development of Public Policy. Public Procurements - Civil Servants - Real Estate - Takings - Regulatory Takings

5.- Local Government Administration


6- Basics of Administrative Dispute Resolution. Administrative Recourses, Access to Justice: General Courts, Administrative Courts and the Council of State, Judicial review of Agencies Decisions and Liability.

-Conclusion

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Constitutional Law and European Institutional Law

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Session will be devoted to practical work. See ad valvas.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Lectures first term Monday and Friday.

Some friday sessions could be delivered as podcast

Building B.31, Portalis room

The first course takes place on Monday, feb. 5, 2024, at 8.00

 

Attendance is recommended.

The best way to use the books on which the course is based is indicated during the oral course.

 


Practical work and question-and-answer sessions will take place during the semester.

Course materials and recommended or required readings

ESSENTIALS

A. Books by Prof. Dr. Michel PAQUES

Warning: the former course notes are now outdated. The 2024 Course is based on

1- Droit administratif, Michel Pâques (avec la collaboration de S. Charlier et J. Hubert), Collection de la Faculté de Droit de Liège, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2024 (press release, jan. 2024).

2- Contentieux administratif, Michel Pâques et Luc Donnay, Collection de la Faculté de Droit de Liège, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2023 ((press release, nov. 2023)

B.- Five major cases support this course and make it easier to understand and study. Their extensive knowledge is essential. They are bundled in a Case book (Latest update, 2024, Liège University Press) with a list of questions to guide the reader.

C- An updated Code containing the main administrative Laws is needed.

NB. The cases (B)  and code (C) may be used during exams. The use of highlighters is permitted. Annotations are prohibited.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam


Additional information:

Oral exam in May-June 2024

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

iThere are no plans this year to broadcast the course in podcast form
as was the case in 2020-21

With a possible exception of some Friday sessions, see ad valvas.

Contacts

Michel PAQUES,

Extraordinary Professor of Law
Department of Public and Administrative Law,
ULg Sart Tilman,
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs 3,
Bât. B31
B-4000 Liège

michel.paques@uliege.be

or by appointment

Administrative secretary

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Assistant law clerks

Sophie CHARLIER,

Justine HUBERT,

Master of Laws
Service de droit public et administratif,
ULg Sart Tilman B. 31
R 6-8
04/366 31.04


Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Quartier Agora, Place des Orateurs 3,
Bât. B31, B-4000 Liège

sophie.charlier@uliege.be

justine.hubert@uliege.be

Sessions of questions and answers will be organized in good time. For schedules, see the valves.

Association of one or more MOOCs

The MOOC entitled 'Introduction au Droit (D3)' is associated with this course.


Additional information:

2.3 Droit administratif : https://f.io/GJ7GU9iK

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