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LevelTutorial on Comparative Law (B-KUL-C07G6A)
Aims
This course aims to encourages students to apply themselves the comparative law method, on the basis of primary legal sources taken from foreign legal systems. In this way, students acquire the ability to read legal texts in a foreign language, by preference the original language of the legal source material.
Furthermore, this course aims for students to develop the skill of bringing forward and defending a well-founded opinion in a group discussion.
In subsidiary order, this course aims to develop a sensitivity for methodological questions that may arise in comparative law.
Previous knowledge
General introduction to national private and public law
Course material
Articles and literature
Examples and samples
Toledo / e-platform
Order of Enrolment
Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBEL: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.
SIMULTANEOUS (C07G5A)
The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
C07G5A : Comparative Law
Is also included in other courses
- Bridging Programme: Master of Laws 89 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Programme being phased out as of 2012-2013) (General Option) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Programme being phased out as of 2012-2013) (Option Economics, Laws and Business Studies) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Programme being phased out as of 2012-2013) (Option Political Sciences) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Programme being phased out as of 2012-2013) (Option Public Management and -Policy) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Abridged Programme)(Programme being phased out as of 2012-2013) (General Option) 121 ects.
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Bachelor of Laws (HUB)
180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (HUB)(Abridged Programme) (General Option) 120 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (New Enrolments as from 2012-2013) (General Option) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (New Enrolments as from 2012-2013) (Option Economics, Laws and Business Studies) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (New Enrolments as from 2012-2013) (Option Political Sciences) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (New Enrolments as from 2012-2013) (Option Public Management and -Policy) 180 ects.
- Bachelor of Laws (Abridged Programme) (new enrolments 2012-2013) (General option) 121 ects.
- Preparatory Programme: Master of Laws 56 ects.
Activities
3.0 ects. Tutorial on Comparative Law (B-KUL-C07G6a)
Content
The Comparative law tutorials aim to develop skills rather than transfer knowledge. Thoroughly prepared students participate actively in discussions in smaller groups. During each session certain capita selecta from different legal areas are studied through a comparative law approach. In this way students find themselves oliged to read legal texts in a foreign language. They are encouraged to engage in a comparative law method themselves and to apply, in a creative way, the theory taught during the Comparative Law lectures to concrete questions. The sessions provide sufficient time for students to come forward with their own opinions in a constructively critical way.
