6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 4022232DEW for working students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.
This course treats themes from the history of public law and international law (treaties, war and peace, alliances, diplomacy, constitutional order). The aim of this course is not pure transfer of knowledge, but the stimulation of understanding and the development of legal reasoning through historical examples. A first partim (8 hours) treats international legal doctrine from the Middle Ages to the present. A second partim (8 hours) treats cases on the European Balance of Power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, using published treaties and diplomatic correspondence. A final partim (8 hours) treats the European balance in the nineteenth century, with a strong emphasis on the Vienna Congress (1814-1815).
Digital reader in PDF through Canvas (treaties, papers, diplomatic sources). Frequent use of English and French, German to a lesser degree.
This course has been selected as a Learning Unit in the European University EUTopia. EUTopia learning activities take place throughout the academic year and will be announced separetely.
This course is a metajuridical course, stimulating reflection. This requires analysis, critical evaluation and synthesis of new, personal perspectives, based on insight acquired in the interactive courses.
As a reflection course, legal history offers a historical perspective on matters already treated during the Bachelor and Master program in Law, in a positivist approach. Starting from primary sources (treaties, diplomatic correspondence, private correspondence), the instructors build a bottom-up and interactive approach, engaging students to participate and discuss the role of law in diplomatic negotiations, as well as the specific place of law in the history of power, as well as ideas. Starting from the structural differences between the law of nations and private law, the common matrix of European legal culture, this leads to a general reflection on the sources of law and normativity.
Students master:
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:
The exam evaluates the students’ capacity to critically assess the documents discussed during the interactive classes (doctrine, treaties, constitutional documents, archival documents). Students are allowed to use a print version of the documents made available on Canvas. Digital material and aids are not allowed.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Laws: Dual Master in Comparative Corporate and Financial Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Civil and Procedural Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Economic Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Tax Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: International and European Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Public Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Social Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminal Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Law and Technology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Social Sciences: rechten (90 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)