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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-39
Electronic Documents, Evidence and Signatures
For: In-house lawyers, online service managers, staff of public administrations and institutions who are digitising their instruments and exchanges.
Learning outcomes
- Apply the rules on electronic documents, electronic evidence and electronic signatures.
- Identify the conditions for carrying out electronic certification activities.
- Analyse the evidence produced by an electronic exchange or online process.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Loi n°2008-08 du 25 janvier 2008 sur les transactions électroniques (Electronic Transactions Act): scope and general structure, studied from the text itself. |
| Week 2 | Electronic documents, evidence and electronic signature: rules identified from the text of loi n°2008-08. |
| Week 3 | Electronic certification activities: conditions and procedures laid down by décret n°2008-720 du 30 juin 2008 (Electronic Certification Decree). |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: analysis of a fictitious online ordering process and the evidence it produces. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): analysis of a fictitious online ordering process and the evidence it produces; online knowledge-check quiz (30%).
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Proving Electronic Contracts and General Contract Law
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-39C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Formation and proof of contracts concluded electronically, studied from the texts.
- General law applicable to contracts: COCC (Code des obligations civiles et commerciales, Civil and Commercial Obligations Code) and the Acte uniforme OHADA portant sur le droit commercial général (OHADA Uniform Act on General Commercial Law).
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Legal training or experience, or experience in digitising exchanges, assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Digital Law, within a period set by the certificate regulations.