The bachelor's programme in Law introduces to the principles of both private and public law. Its aim however is also to train the students to the rigour and precision essential for the reading, reasoning and expression of legal materials. In addition, it offers an opening into other disciplines... Law is not a science constructed in isolation. It mirrors social values, is linked to history and is dependent on psychological, economic, sociological and other such realities.
The knowledge and skills to be acquired throughout the bachelor's programme of Law are three-fold. Firstly, the student is trained in the correct use of the "tools" and strategies for learning how to learn (grasping the methodology linked to the diversity of the formal sources of Law and the knowledge of languages other than French). Secondly, they are taught to master the concepts required in order to develop a spirit of critical analysis of the Law. And thirdly, they are introduced to a number of juridical fields, in which they will develop their analytical skills.
Law as a discipline still bears the hallmarks of sovereignty over a given territory and over a national community. European Law and International Law, however have a growing influence.
The international dimensions of the programme are reflected principally in the presence of the course in European Law as part of the major. They are also clearly present in the course on Comparative Law, given in a language other than French, and in other optional courses aimed at introducing the student to the relativity of the juridical systems.
As for the international exchanges, these are only organised at master's level.
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
1. KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING
Know and understand the role of standards, the principles governing their development and application and its application, the key stages in the development of the law development of the law, the content of the main rules of positive Belgian law Belgian law, the impact of European and international standards on Belgian law and the essential features of certain foreign systems.
1.2. Be familiar with the main stages in the development of the law and its institutions, as well as the currents of legal thought.
1.3 Understand the role of the norm, the judge and the other legal actors in a modern constitutional state.
1.4. Master the techniques for researching, referencing, reading, understanding, comparing, using and criticising the sources of law (legislation, case law, doctrine).
1.5. Have a current knowledge and general command of the principles, rules, theories, doctrines and case law that give substance to the various branches of law, in particular constitutional law, the law of obligations, criminal law, the law of criminal procedure, European Union law, personal and family law, social law, company law, contract law, administrative law, real and intellectual property rights and judicial law.
1.6. Know and understand the influence of certain European and international standards and institutions on these different branches of law.
1.7 Be familiar with a few essential features of these same branches of law in the light of a number of foreign systems and master the techniques and reflexes of comparative law research in order to deepen this knowledge.
1.8. Researching, reading and understanding legal documents written in Dutch and English or German.
1.9. Be able to follow a university course in Dutch and English or German.
2. APPLY
Applying the law, i.e. moving from the abstraction of the norm to concrete facts and vice versa, and therefore being able to provide argued solutions to a legal problem diagnosed independently.
2.2. make effective use of all types of legislative compendium, whatever the medium, in order to find the standard applicable to a given situation, even if the content of that standard has not (yet) been the subject of specific teaching.
2.3 Be able to move from the abstraction of the rule of law to the concrete facts, and vice versa.
3. COMMUNICATE
Communicate the results of legal research and analysis in a clear, precise and structured manner, in full compliance with the rules governing scientific production.
3.2. Develop, orally and in writing, a structured summary of an idea, an institution, a rule, an analysis, a thesis or a legal controversy and be able to support his/her subject with relevant illustrations.
3.3. Take part in a routine conversation of moderate difficulty in a language other than French (Dutch or English).
3.4. Respect the rules governing scientific production (literal quotations, references, bibliography, etc.) in all forms of communication.
4. ASKING QUESTIONS AND GETTING INVOLVED
Questioning the choices conveyed by standards, getting involved in promoting the founding values of the law.
4.2 Identify and promote the ethical and social values underpinning law and justice, and guard against any form of instrumentalisation.
5. GETTING ORGANIZED
Getting organized, planning your work and meeting deadlines.
6. OPENING UP
Be open to others, to other human sciences, to their relationship with law and, where appropriate, to other legal cultures or the professional world.
6.2. Know and understand concepts and theories from other human sciences (in particular political economy, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history and ethics) in order to understand the role, scope and limits of law and justice.
6.3. Capitalise on the intellectual openness resulting from in-depth knowledge of law or introductory knowledge of other human sciences, or from an internship in legal practice, depending on the choice of minor.