Special topics of criminal procedure

liure2202  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Special topics of criminal procedure
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Beernaert Marie-Aude;
Language
French
Main themes
The course will propose developments of several parts of the basic course of criminal procedure, for which only the elementary concepts could be taught within the framework of a first degree course. Topics such as time-barred prosecutions, special investigation techniques and the use of remedies will be studied in detail. The other topics covered will vary each year, according to the recent legislative and judicial developments.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 The course aims at supplementing the training of the students in criminal procedure and proposes to examine a number of questions which could not be considered in details during the basic course. Three specific objectives assigned with the course are: - to familiarize the students with the most recent legislative and jurisprudential developments in criminal procedure; - to give them a pragmatic vision of the concrete problems encountered by the actors of criminal justice; - to develop their critical sense and to make them sensitive to respect of human rights in the organization and functioning of criminal justice.
 

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”.
Bibliography
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Teaching materials
  • Code : indispensable à l'examen mais le choix de la maison d'édition est laissé à l'étudiant (la farde de textes législatifs n'étant par contre pas autorisée pour des raisons de praticabilité des contrôles).
Faculty or entity
BUDR


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Law