Aims

This is a complement to the basic 2nd year " licence " course for those who are interested in business law and have the opportunity to go deeper into the subject from the perspective of comparative law.

Main themes

Examination of questions specific to commercial law, from a comparative perspective, and extension of the subject matters taught during the general commerical lawcourse. The specific topics are determined at the beginning of each academic year, in concertation with the department. Lectures. The methodology may well become more flexible and bear more resemblance to the Anglo-Saxon case system approach.

Content and teaching methods

Research on the universality of commercial law through the study of foreign laws and recourse to the comparative method. Special attention will be given to the law of the United States and the main countries of Europe. Extension of the subjects taught or touched on in the second " licence " year. In 1995-1996, four domains will be given priority:- Financial law, stock exchange laws and banking laws: general principles and current state of European and Belgian legislation - Company law : comparative law and Belgian laws of 7 and 13 april 1995.- Belgian and European competition laws - Law and Economics : introduction

Lectures, supervised study of texts, information research and individual work on the part of the student with a view to helping him master the legal and reglementary procedures of commercial law ; to analyse, in a critical way, the legal Belgian and foreign processes and to solve specific problems within the domains concerned.