Droit des sociétés et des associations

The course covers all companies, associations and foundations regulated by the Companies and Associations Code, but special attention will be given to public limited liability companies, private limited liability companies and cooperative companies due to their greater degree of regulation and complexity. It will examine all aspects from the constitution to the dissolution, including securities (with certain elements of financial law essential to understand the rules of company and association law) and the functioning.

The aim of the course is to equip students with the necessary theoretical and practical foundations to master the mechanisms of company and association law. To this end, it is of paramount importance not only to know the general principles, the legal rules and the corporate governance and social responsibility principles, as they are interpreted by case law, but also and above all to understand their rationale, the economic issues that they raise and to be able to apply them. This mastery is essential for all lawyers, whatever their function and specialty: they may always be dealing, at one time or another, with a company or an association.

The course is given in a mixed form, which combines lectures with the support of slides and student participation in the form of quizzes (Wooclap). One or several quizzes will be organized during each course. The quizzes will help identify the most problematic issues for students and explore those issues further. Depending on the degree of difficulty of the topic covered and the students' prior knowledge acquired in other courses, the lecture on the topic in question will follow or precede the quiz. No prior preparation is required to complete the quizzes that precede the lectures, with the understanding that students can use the Code and the syllabus. The attention of students is drawn to the limitations of the quizzes method : it constitutes a learning tool and not a test of mastery of the subject. In particular, it does not permit students to verify whether they have understood the rationale for the applied rule or whether they are able to clearly explain the solution to a third party. Attending classes is strongly recommended in this regard. Knowing the answers to all quizzes therefore does not necessarily equate to mastery of the subject.
Seminars will be organized during the first quadrimester.
The syllabus includes the course material and a selected bibliography. The slides will be available on the VU and quizzes will be available on Wooclap according to the instructions that will be communicated via Teams.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

The students are requested to bring the Companies and Associations Code to the classes.

Course notes

• Syllabus
• Université virtuelle

Contacts

v.simonart@liedekerke.com

Campus

Solbosch

Method(s) of evaluation

• Practice work
• written examination

Practice work

written examination

Final written exam (subject to the number of students). The modalities also depend on the health situation that will prevail at that time and will be communicated in due course.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

The total mark will be out of 20 and include up to a quarter the mark for practical work and three quarters the mark for the exam.

Language(s) of evaluation

• french