Key words
Administrative law, IWETO code S111
Objectives
- Students acquire a theoretical basis and can apply it in simple contexts.
- Students know where to find information on administrative law.
- Students learn to work with the codex.
- Students learn to analyse and summarize professional literature.
- Students learn to be alert to current events from their newly acquired understanding of administrative law.
- Students acquire attitudes like meticulousness, punctuality and assertiveness.
- Students learn to use the correct legal terminology and how to reason in a legally correct fashion.
- Students learn to give motives when phrasing their points of view.
Topics
- Introduction (notion of 'administrative law', sources, practicable administrative decision)
- Public services in general (notion, principles, forms of management, public office) and in an elaborate example (e.g. a city)
- Public goods (public and private domain) and expropriation
- Administrative contracts and an elaborate example (public commission)
- Environmental planning and environmental protection law
Any topic is supplemented with exercises/assignments and/or lectures, possibly an excursion
Prerequisites
Basics of civil law
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
General:
Job-related:- Knowing sources of law
- Knowing laws, legal regulation
- General knowledge of public services
- Knowing public goods and expropriation
- Knowing basics of administrative contracts (public commission)
- Knowing regulations on environmental planning and environmental protection law
Skills:
General:- Thinking and reasoning skills
- Capacity of critical reflection
General and job-related:- Being able to argue
- Expressing oneself correctly
Attitudes:
General:- Meticulousness
- Attitude for lifelong learning
- Willingness to learn
Job-related:- Sense of structure
- Meticulousness
Materials used
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- Syllabus with exercises
- Codex
- Professional literature
- Newspapers and magazines
Study costs
- Syllabus "Administratief recht - deel 1", A. D'Hooghe, I. Cleymaet, with exercise series … at the going rate for photocopies in Hogeschool Gent
- VRG codex, 2 parts, Kluwer (already bought for the 1st year) at the normal price
- Photocopies at the going rate for photocopies in Hogeschool Gent
- Expenses linked with possible excursions
Study guidance
Students are guided in their study by means of assignments, interactive classes, debate and self-study
Teaching Methods
Lectures, cases, (class) exercises, interactive classes and debate, lectures, self-study
Assessment
- First exam session: 10% continuous assessment and 90% written exam
- Second exam session: 100% written exam
Students registered for the examinations only:- First session: 10% individual assignment and 90% written exam
- Second session: 100% written exam
Lecturer(s)
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