| Academic year: | 2007-2008 |
| Course code module | MREC0210-A |
| Semester: | 2nd semester |
| Credits: | 6 |
| Study load (hours) | 168 |
| Theory (hours): | |
| Practice/Exercises(hours): | 9,00 |
| Other (hours): | |
| Part-time program: | |
| Instructor(s) | Ingrid Opdebeek
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| Language of instruction: | Dutch |
| Semester exam information: | semester exam in June |
| Contract restriction information: | |
1. Prerequisites
*Algemene competenties
Secondary education degree.
*Sequentiality
2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes)
Students gain an in-depth knowlegge of Belgian administrative law, as well as they broaden their knowledge on this matter.
Students are able to:
- work independently with the different legal sources of administrative law;
- apply these sources on actual cases;
- report orally and in writing on problems of administrative law;
- explain and defend orally different points of view in class.
3. Course content
This course offers a comprehensive curriculum on several live topics of administrative law in general and of administrative law in specific areas. These topics will be examined in the concrete through the resolution of cases, the drafting of records, a consultative document or an annotation, through reading assignments, discussions in class, etc.
Students have to prepare individually several assignments (a case, a consultative document, the study of jurisprudence, ...). These assignments will be discussed in class.
Possibly, a guest speaker gives an interactive lecture on a live sub-topic of administrative law.
4. Teaching method
Direct contact: TutorialsSkills training
Personal work: Assignments - individualAssignments - in groupCase studies - in group
5. Assessment method
Continuous assessment: AssignmentsCase studies
Written assignment: With oral presentation
6. Compulsory reading – study material
Reader with the cases, Â judgements, etc. on which students have to comment.
A. MAST, J. DUJARDIN, M. VAN DAMME en J. VANDE LANOTTE, Overzicht van het Belgisch administratief recht, Mechelen, Kluwer, 2006.
Codex Staats- en bestuursrecht, 2007-2008, Brugge, die Keure, 2007.
The compulsory study material is available at the university's print shop (Universitas).
7. Recommended reading - study material
Recommended study material will be announced during the sessions.
8. Tutoring
Questions can be put to assistant Steven Denys (steven.denys@ua.ac.be) and researcher Joke Goris (Ph.D.Fellowship of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)) (joke.goris@ua.ac.be).