Law Basic Notions

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures.

Learning Outcomes

To introduce Social Work students in the universe of law, particularly considering an internal perspective which presents an autonomous project searching for a certain man. It is aimed that students acquire a set of introductory notions, essential for understanding the universe of law and the interpretation of legislation, so that, in their professional practice, they can identify and understand the legal limits and possibilities, the margins of law interpretation, the legal system and the type of legal norms.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I.The law: a first approach of its place in the human world

1. Confrontation between the normative perspective and the sociological, philosophical and epistemological

perspectives,

2. Relations between the law and the other dimensions of practice

II.The legal order as an immediate phenomenon of law seizure

1. The experience of the legal controversy

2. Structure of the legal system (lines, requirements and types of problems)

3. Functions of the legal order

4. Recognition of the shortcomings that it presents

5. Practical-cultural law caracter: the requirement of identification of an autonomous project

III.The law so-to-be

1. The validity / positivity

2. Regulatory arrangements

IV. The experience of the legal system

1. The precipitation of the community validity

2. The layers system

V.Sources of law

1.The process of creation and manifestation of the law

2.The moments of legal experience

3.The constituents methods

4. Some specificities of our system

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam (100%) or Midtern exam (2-75%) + Oral presentation (25%): 100.0%

Bibliography

António Castanheira Neves, Colectânea de textos de Introdução ao Estudo do Direito (textos reunidos sob a designação genérica Curso de Introdução ao Estudo do Direito), polic., s/ data

Fernando José Bronze, Lições de Introdução ao Direito, 2ª ed., Coimbra, 2006

José Manuel Aroso Linhares, Sumários desenvolvidos de Introdução ao Direito, polic.

João Baptista Machado, Introdução ao Direito e ao Discurso Legitimador, Coimbra, 1983 (sucessivamente reeditado)

Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto, Teoria Geral do Direito Civil, 4ª ed. por António Pinto Monteiro e Paulo Mota Pinto, Coimbra, 2004