3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6010990FER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Department
Private Law
Educational team
Mathieu Muylle (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

This course subject covers the legal rules which the notary practice and legal advice seeker are confronted with when property law claims unfold in an international context. Aside from the summary of the general principles and concepts of international private law, and an analysis of the competencies of the notary, more diverse international private law themes will be covered which are important for the notary practice; such as marriage with its primary and secondary consequences, the relationship of living together, divorce, inheritance (intestate inheritance and testamentary inheritance), contractual commitments (sales – donation - power of attorney) and legal persons. Finally, attention will be given to acknowledgement and implementation of notary deeds and the notarial competencies of non-notaries (consuls, etc.).

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Voor de colleges worden actuele artikelen uit de rechtsleer en een powerpoint ter beschikking gesteld via het elektronisch leerplatform., Elektronisch leerplatform
Practical course material (Required) : Een degelijk en recent Wetboek Internationaal Privaatrecht en de relevante Europese regelgeving, In het wetboek en/of de wetteksten mogen onderlijningen en fluomarkeringen worden aangebracht, alsook blanco post-its. Het gebruik van kruisverwijzingen of annotaties is niet toegelaten.
Additional info

- Lecture.

- A complete digital lesson series is made available for working students which will allow them to process the study material better. This digital lesson series is stored via the online study platform Canvas and is also available to non-working students.

- The students are asked and encouraged to let their own practical experience (intership, work, environment,...) and cases become part of the interaction between each other and the lecturer.

- For additional information contact mathieu.muylle@vub.ac.be.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The aim is to gain knowledge and the ability to work with the rules of international private law. The focus will lie with the Belgian notary and the estate planner. Also, how the notary and property planner must deal with this material in order to draw up legal deeds and give correct advice, bearing possible acknowledgement or implementations in mind of the proposed solution in another legal system other than the national legal order.

The student :

- may consult the legal and regulatory norms in a legal code or other public sources.

- is able to assess the hierarchy of the norms.

-  is able to make the methodology of international private law his own and apply it autonomically in cases which may present themselves in notary practice.

-  is able to dismantle complex international cases in diverse judicial questions and preliminary questions.

- is able to upgrade national models and designs of deeds to models and deeds which must gain results and validity in an international private law context.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: It is a written exam based on open questions and cases. On the online study platform Pointcarré examples of exam questions are given to illustrate these.

    The use of a legal code or copied law text is permitted. Underlining and highlighting is permitted in the law book and/or law texts, as well as empty post-its. Cross-references or notes are not permitted.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students receive individual feedback after the exam upon request.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Notarial Law: default (only offered in Dutch)