Advanced Course on Law of Persons and Family Law

Academic year: 2010-2011 Course code module MREC0010 Semester: 2nd semester Credits: 6 Study load (hours) 168 Theory (hours): Practice/Exercises(hours): 45,00 Other (hours): Part-time program: Instructor(s) Frederik Swennen Language of instruction: Dutch Semester exam information: exam in the 2nd semester Contract restriction information: 1. Prerequisites *Algemene competenties Bachelor of Law *Sequentiality Law of Persons and Family Law (1BREC-25) OR Law of Persons and Family Law (1BREC-15) OR Law of Persons and Family Law (3BREC-29) 2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes) This course aims at giving a profound and critical study of the rules of law concerning the law of persons and family law.   Its objectives are:   -Thorough knowledge of law of persons and family law and insight into the application of legal rules on cases. -Ability to make a critical and personal analysis of a legal problem. -Ability to develop a logically structured argument, written and orally. -Ability to make connections to other fields of law, e.g. the law of obligations and matrimonial property law. -Ability to make a comparison with foreign legal systems 3. Course content Students work on an integrated case on the law of persons, vertical family law and horizontal family during the semester, on which practical and theoretical (oral and written) assignments must be carried out.   Assignments consist of: -meetings in which a case is discussed -meetings in which a writ or a pleading is discussed -meetings in which a legal advice is discussed -meetings in which policies of different legal systems are debated. 4. Teaching method Direct contact: Lectures Tutorials Skills training Personal work: Assignments - individual Assignments - in group Case studies - in group Paper - individual Supervised self-study Portfolio 5. Assessment method Continuous assessment: Assignments Case studies (Interim) tests Participation in classroom activities Written assignment: With oral presentation Portfolio: Without oral presentation 6. Compulsory reading – study material Civil code. Procedural law code. Specific acts. F. Swennen, Personenrecht in kort bestek, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2007. F. Swennen, Familierecht in kort bestek, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2007.         Reader 7. Recommended reading - study material 8. Tutoring laatste aanpassing: last update: 13/01/2011 15:30 frederik.swennen