Commercial law is a module comprosing of, introdcution to commercial law, company law and insolvency law and is covered in 27 course units/topics.
Introduction to commercial law covers and answers questions like, what is commercial law, what comprises commecial law (scope), what are the sources of commercial law, what comprises commercial activities, commercial intermediaries, and commercial instruments.
Company law covers issues like, company formation (incorporation), separate legal personality and capacity, shareholding, shareholder rights, duties and obligations, and company management, rights, duties and obligations.
Insolvency law covers insolvency of companies, indidividuals, partnerships. It also covers management of insolvency matters including voluntary insolvency mechanisms, administration, liquidation and insolvency practitioners.
The course offers understanding and practical knowledge of the above three components. At the end of the course, the student understands; what comprises of commercial law, what comprises of commercial activities, commercial instruments and the complexities related to application of commercial law and commercial instruments and the student is equipped with skills to understand legal issues in a commercial law dispute and how to resolve it or provide legal advice or opinion on it. Further, the student understands what comprises of company law, the different types of companies, shareholding, rights, duties and obligations of both shareholders and stakeholders. The student is also able to identify legal issues relating to a company law disupte and to handle it.
Lastly, the student is equipped with an undestanding of insolvency law principles, precdeures and mechanisms and skills to be able to determine whether a company or individual is insolvent, whether insolvency proceedings should be commenced, etc and to advise on or handle such issues.
The aim of this module is to imparts to students the knowledge of the law applicable in situations of armed conflicts. It furthermore brings learners to critically think and analyse case-laws and treaties relating to this field. It equips learners with problem-solving solution skills to help them to handle legal cases it the aforementioned field. This module covers the international legal and institutional frameworks relevant to regulate situations of armed conflicts.
Dear students,
Welcome to the module of Socio-Legal Research Methodology and Seminars. It is made of two components: Socio-Legal Research Methodology on the one hand and Seminars on the other hand.
Module's aim
The 1st component aims at helping students to further their research skills by informing them on the different research tools used in social sciences in general and those typically used in legal research in particular. It further aims at informing students on what a legal research and final project in law is all about, how it looks like, how it has to be structured and how legal sources to be presented.
The 2nd component aims at helping students to analyze problematic issue of a topic of law, propose solutions thereof, publicly present the results of the research and make a report of the research.
Intended outcomes
By the end of the component of Socio-Legal Research Methodology, students will be able to:
Choose and formulate relevant research topic in the are of law;
Draft down research proposals and final research projects (dissertations) in the end;
Present correctly references and be abide by ethical rules in academic writings.
At the end of Seminars, students should be able to:
Analyze problematic issue of a topic of law from public or private, propose solutions thereof, publicly present the results of the research and make a report of the research.
Facilitators:
For Socio-Legal Research Methodology
Dr. Yves Muhire Tel. 0788404023 Email: yvesmuhire1@gmail.com
For Seminars:
Mr. Eugene Silas Seminega Tel. 0788541103 Email: seminegae@gmail.com
Mr. Jean Baptiste Serugo Tel. 0788569164 Email: jbsserugo@gmail.com
International Labour Law aims at equipping students with an understanding of specific issues dealt in International Labour Law. It introduces them to International Labour Law instruments, the way and forms in which international labour standards are implemented, and will affect national legal systems. It therefore provides them with a critical understanding of the influence that various international labour law sources can have on the practice of protecting social rights in countries.
This course aims at introducing the students to the law governing public finance. By the end, students shall be able to describe, understand, and resolve legal issues in relation to public finance.
This module has two Units : Legislative drafting and pleading techniques. The module examines the techniques for drafting laws and other legal documents in general. It particularly equips students with court submissions and judgement writing skills as well the techniques for pleading cases before Courts of Law or other competent bodies such as arbitration tribunals.
Module Facilitators:
- Me Jean Paul Mazimpaka ( Module Leader), email: mazijipaul@gmail.com, Tel: 0785660467
- Mr Seminega Eugene , email: Seminegae@gmail.com
The module of matrimonial regimes, liberalities and successions provides basic knowledge and principles governing matrimonial regimes, liberalities and successions. It traces back the evolution of matrimonial regimes, donations and successions aspects in Rwandan framework. It furthermore provides problem-solving and critical thinking and analysis skills to handle issues relating to the legal cases in the field of matrimonial regimes, donations and successions. It more importantly implore the need and foundation of protection of patrimonial rights of couples living in illegal unions.
Dear students, welcome to this module this module of Specific Contracts. it comprises eight units. In the process of learning you will need to have the Law governing contracts and your course materials of the general principles of law of contracts. By the end of this module, learners should be able to - Understand the basic principles of law of contracts; - Analyze and understand different specific contracts set out by the statutes; - Gain an understanding of the legislation that regulates specific contracts, - Understand principle guiding unnamed contract (study and drafting) The module comprises the following units: - Sale and Exchange Contracts, - Lease contract, - Loan contract, - Deposit contract, - Mandate contract, - Pledge and Suretyship, and compromise agreement (transaction)
This module equips students with skills on how to handle family related issues out of court . Students will understand the notion of "Family" under Rwandan context, and the Family Mediation itself. Thus, we'll discuss various types of mediation; family mediator's qualities and techniques; mediation relevance and its whole process.