Financial and Economic Law

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4022235DEW for working students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - preliminary 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

Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen zijn geslaagd op 'Ondernemingsrecht'. Inschrijven voor dit opleidingsonderdeel is enkel mogelijk voor werkstudenten. Dagstudenten kunnen enkel registreren voor opleidingsonderdelen waarvan de code eindigt op een R.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Department

Economic Law

Educational team

Regine Feltkamp (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

24 contact hours Lecture
116 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The aim of this course is to give the students basic insights in economic and finance law, with the view to providing to the students the necessary tools and reflexes to be able to assist companies or natural persons (either business or consumers) in the future on legal issues relating to economic and financial law. This course is thus highly recommended for the students opting for specialisation in economic law, but is also useful for students with a key interest in contract law and B2B / B2C relations.

This course analyses further the set of rules of law governing the set up and excercise in Belgium of an economic activity by a business in Belgium and the rules governing the relationship between companies or between companies and customers.

The following topics are amongst others addressed:

Description and sources of economic law and main actors,
Freedom of economic activity, access to economic activity
Means of companies:
- capital & financing
- innovation & intellectual property
Behaviour on the market:
- competition (abuse of dominant position and agreements restricting competition)
- market practicies.
Consumer protection (abusive clauses, distant sale)

The financial system being crucial to a business activity and trade, the course also examines basic rules applicable to financing and payments.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Financieel-economisch recht, Ondersteunende documentatie, Canvas

Additional info

A written course (syllabus) by Prof. R. Feltkamp will be made available. Updates will be made available progressively during the year (via markup in the text)

Students are expected to be able to work with the legislative texts and gain insight into the subject matter as a result of the lectures and any notes taken during these lectures.

Additional documentation may be made available via canvas to illustrate the course content. Students are expected to examine this documentation.

A specific codex for this course may be made available in which case the students will be requested to use this codex.

Points for discussion may also be made available via canvas.

The sudents may also receive a reading assignment.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students are:

acquainted with the basic concepts and main legal laws and regulations of economic and financial law ;
able to explain the studied concepts and have insight in the studied material;
able to demonstrate their understanding and the practical and societal relevance of the studied concepts ; they are able to critically assess the studied concepts in light of the actual societal evolutions and problems;
able to make a logical and critical argumentation;
able to identify and solve classical and new problems arising for undertakings or customers.

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 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The following types of questions may be used:

multiple choice questions
theoretical questions (open questions, definition questions, ...)
practical cases
reflection questions

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