A good knowledge of French is necessary to understand the course and pass the examination.
The course of Historic foundations of the private law has for objective to familiarize the students with the concepts, the vocabulary, the distinctions and the reasonings of the private law. It aims to arrest and understand notions and basic rules of the right of persons, the law of property and the law of contract, in a historical perspective which covers the period from the former roman law to the current law.
The course emphasizes the relativity of legal institutions and their insertion in time. The law being the fruit of the history, any understanding of rules governing life in society has to take into account their genesis. At the end of the course, the student will so have to be capable of understanding and of explaining the links between the roman law and the current law.
The study of the foundations of our private law allows us to understand this law for what it is : a tool at the service of the society that produces it, in line with its times and in perpetual evolution.
After an introduction dedicated to the historical environment of the roman law, the course deals with the three pillars of private law : the right of people (capacity, marriage, filiation, will and testament), the right of the properties (ownership and detention, property, manners of acquisition of the property, property rights in thing belonging to another) and the law of obligations (sale contract and complex transactions).
These three parts begin with the presentation of the concepts and classifications and then deal with specific questions, chosen for the richness of their historical evolution, with the resolution of practical cases.
See the manual.
The material seen in the lecture establishes the material of the examination. A list of questions supplied from the beginning of the new academic year notes the main tackled issues and allows to confine exactly the contents of the examination.
The evaluation will be made by a written examination and with a closed book but students are allowed to bring the Bac Code. The duration of the exam is two hours. The evaluation is presented in the form of open-ended questions and resolutions of exercises and practical problems.
The assesment criteria are the following ones :
If the health situation deteriorates and does not allow for a face-to-face examination, the evaluation methods could be modified. Students will be notified via the WebCampus platform of the new modalities in application.
Course materials :
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| Training | Study programme | Block | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | 0 | 9 | ||
| Standard | 1 | 9 |