5.0 credits
30.0 h
1q
Teacher(s)
Bouvier Philippe ;
Language
Français
Main themes
Main topics of the course:
- general principles of law regulating the action of administrations
- legal processes of the action of administrations
- legal categories accounting for the diversity of the public organizations
- the main legislation which governs the human and patrimonial resources of administrations
The stress will be put on the incidence of the European law as well as the issues or controversies that are highlighted by current events.
Aims
The students must acquire a adequate understanding and a good knowledge of administrative law, both concern-ing public authorities' action, and administrative organizations. This course must enable the students to per-ceive and evaluate the incidence of legislation over the action and the functioning of the administrations
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Contents:
The course deals with the tools and constraints which are determinant for public authorities action: processes of authorities (licenses and authorizations, Police Force and administrative sanctions, taxation) and contractual practices (public concessions, public markets, public-private partnerships).
It also approaches the methods of management of the public services: centralization, decentralization, private management, regulation of the liberalized markets, etc
It presents, in relation to these two approaches, the basic elements of civil service law, of public finances legis-lation, and of public property legislation.
Methods: lectures; case studies (jurisprudence or a selection of readings about current affairs).
Other information
Basic knowledge of the Belgian Public Law
Written or oral open-book exam
Syllabus or book referred to ; collection of documents
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