Economic and Financial Criminal Law

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4001538FEW for working 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

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Department

Publiek recht

Educational team

Filiep Deruyck (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

39 contact hours Lecture
110 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

1. The course consists of two parts: a general part and a specific part:

In the general part, some specific characteristics and concepts from economic and financial criminal law are explained, including the criminal liablitiy of legal persons, the administrative enforcement and the civil action for the cessation of criminally punishable offences.
In the specific part, several economic and financial criminal acts, both from book II of the Code of Criminal Law (e.g. money-laundering and private bribery) as from specific criminal by-laws (e.g. commercial practices and insider trading), are studied.

2. Two parts of the course are the subject of self-study: one related to the criminal liability of legal persons, and one related to the offences related to insolvency. The self-study consists of answering two questions for each part.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Economisch en financieel strafrecht, Syllabus, Canvas
Handbook (Recommended) : Bamacodex 3, Strafrecht, Deruyck - Spriet- Traest - Vander Beken - Verstraeten, Die Keure, 978 90 4864 460 5
Practical course material (Recommended) : De tekst van de diverse economische en financiële strafwetten die worden bestudeerd

Additional info

Lectures are given in the evening, both for day- and working students together.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

1. To duly highlight the specific nature of economic and financial criminal law, holding its own typologies of incrimination, investigation and punishment.

2. To duly highlight the specific finality of economic and financial criminal law, which principally consists in the restoration of the economic order that was disrupted.

3. To duly highlight the evolving nature of economic and financial criminal law, considering the evolution of economic law and economic life in large.

The study of economic and financial criminal law comprises both criminal law aspects as well as criminal procedural law aspects.

Grading

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

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

Examen Mondeling with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral examination with written preparation.

Legislative texts, non-annotated, may be used during the written preparation of the exam, but not during the oral continuation.

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