Objectives of general skills

• Understand language of instruction and foreign languages (language skills)
• Use French perfectly in a variety of non-technical situations, both orally and in writing
• Understand, reformulate and summarise documents and presentations, in French, on various topics written by experts, including those related to current affairs
• Use lexicographical resources and reference materials to lead linguistic mediation activities individually or as part of a team (professional skills)
• Use printed or electronic dictionaries and reference materials appropriately
• Reformulate, summarise, translate or interpret a document of general interest written or presented orally in a foreign language into French
• Carry out, alone or in groups, activities or projects involving critical analysis
• Communicate results or conclusions of these activities or projects in an appropriate manner
• Conduct relevant research and report on it in a critical manner (cognitive skills)
• Conduct targeted and reasoned documentary research in both the core language and the foreign languages studied
• Assess the relevance and reliability of documentary sources used
• Give a critique of the studied literature

UE's Learning outcomes

To give elementary tools for analyzing legal standards as processes aiming at shaping economic and social relations, and develop the students’ critical mind as to the genesis of these standards and their implementation.

UE Content

This introduction broadly sketches the legal regulation of economic and social relations, while stressing  the plurality of legal orders. The national, community and international dimensions of Law are straight off emphasized and illustrated by practical cases pertaining to economics.
The second part of the course deals with the way Law organizes private relations (interpersonal relationships and relations to goods and services as sources of liabilities or exchange objects).

Prior experience

Not applicable