Comparative private law
Bachelor of Honor
Record #324
Comparative private law
Substantive comparative law, comparative law methodology, common law, continental law, public/private law divide, legal traditions, contract law, tort law, applications to environmental issues
This course follows the Licence 2 course "Great systems of contemporary laws" where students have acquired a critical knowledge of the major legal systems of the world from an institutional standpoint. Here, students tackle substantive comparative law issues. They deepen their understanding of the great specificities of the civil and common law traditions within the context of the law of obligations. The course is both theoretical and practical. While recalling the epistemology of comparative law, it questions the relevance of the public/private law divide, or the possibilities to see consolidate harmonized or unified branches of law at the EU level, taking into account the current entanglement of normative systems at the age of global law. From a more material stance, students discover some key features of contract law and tort law from a common law/civil law/EU law comparative perspective. To that end, court decisions are distributed and critically discussed in class where students are required to come prepared and to actively participate.
Bachelor of Honor
Law
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Critical knowledge of substantive law rules
Enhancing one's legal culture
Being familiar and comfortable with foreign law court decisisons
Critically discuss/analyze foreign law
Express orally a legal reasoning
Pauline Abadie - Associate law professor - Hourly volume: 20
English
Campus-based teaching
C1 - Effective operational proficiency or advanced
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