Ethics and Law
- UE code DROIB325
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Schedule
30Quarter 1
- ECTS Credits 4
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Language
Français
- Teacher Rasson Anne-Catherine
The course enables students to develop a critical view of law and the society that produces it.
The course aims to help students understand the relationship between law and ethics. It seeks to open students up to questions that go beyond the norm itself and that draw their sources from the values that underlie and extend positive law. In this way, it helps to develop a critical view of the law and the society that produces it. As Dumont and Bailleux point out, a purely positivist approach, characterised by the desire to isolate law "from any element external to positive law as enacted by the State" (2010), has its limits. The course therefore aims to show that although "the autonomy of law is real, [...] it is only relative" (ibid.) and proposes a critical and interdisciplinary approach, which "accounts for the coexistence of several distinct and parallel normative orders, including the legal order, and their reciprocal interactions" (Lachapelle, 2021).
Students will thus be able to take a fresh look at the legal discipline, by analysing concrete situations requiring the interpretation and adjustment of rules.
The examination will be written and open, in order to assess students' ability to present a personal and critical point of view based on the skills they have acquired.
Written materials (available to students on Webcampus):
Training | Study programme | Block | Credits | Mandatory |
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Bachelier en droit | Standard | 0 | 4 | |
Bachelier en philosophie | Standard | 0 | 3 | |
Bachelier en philosophie | Standard | 2 | 3 | |
Bachelier en droit | Standard | 3 | 4 | |
Bachelier en philosophie | Standard | 3 | 3 |