UCL - Directed seminar of international law

[MCEU2306]

[15h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Philippe Gautier

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes

Aims

The seminar aims at achieving a graduation paper. Preparing a paper is an exercise students have accomplished when finishing their Law degree. At a postgraduate level, experience suggests that it is preferable to encourage students to work continuously along the whole year. This method is also preferred by students, because they want to specialize in view of getting professional tools. The work is not centred anymore on the ability to realize a paper on an autonomous way, because students are supposed to have acquired this capacity at the graduate level, but rather on the ability to use such tools to new materials into a group.

Thus, the objective is to develop a capacity to face up to new legal developments, and to learn understanding them in their context on an autonomous way and to debate thereon.

Main themes

During lectures (45 h), students are supposed to interact on special issues of public international law and of private international law as well. They discuss on recent case law and statutes and on leading doctrine. Students are supposed to read the materials beforehand and each has to present some of them. The final paper consists of a synthesis of these presentations. The final mark takes into account this paper, but first of all the active participation to the lectures. Preferably, the seminar is coordinated by a teaching team.