Legal and Financial Instruments

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Since most students do not possess legal knowledge, lectures will provide students with basic knowledge about the legal problems and issues at stake, followed by oral presentations of papers written by students, with a more practical and concrete approach, in order to make use of the professional experience that some students may have.

Learning Outcomes

This course, essentially directed to legal lay people, aims to introduce and provide a frame for cultural property law, describing and reflecting on the main legal and financial instruments which, at the internal, local and international levels, ensure the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction

Preliminary concept of cultural heritage

Brief contextualization of the Portuguese legal structure

Dogmatic contextualization of cultural property law

Cultural property law and administrative law

Cultural property law and environmental law

Cultural property law and urban planning law

Legal instruments for the protection of cultural heritage

The protection of cultural heritage in the Constitution of 1976

The protection of cultural heritage at international level

The protection of cultural heritage in Portuguese national law

Current instruments of protection of cultural heritage

General principles of cultural property law

Taxonomy of cultural assets

Administrative procedures for the classification of immovable cultural assets

The effects of classification procedures

The establishment of protection zones

The resort to expropriation

Financial instruments for the protection of cultural heritage (at international, national and local level)

Assessment Methods

Assessment
In accordance with the Rules of Assessment of the Faculty of Arts for Master’s Programs (Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos do 2º ciclo).: 100.0%

Bibliography

CASALTA NABAIS, J, Introdução ao Direito do Património Cultural, 2.ª ed., Almedina, 2010.

GALHARDO, M, “As Convenções da Unesco no domínio do património cultural”, Direito do Património Cultural, org. INA, 1996, 95-110.

NOGUEIRA DE BRITO, M, “O Novo Regime do Procedimento de Classificação de Bens Culturais Imóveis”, in Em homenagem ao Professor Doutor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Almedina, 2010.

RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ, F, El patrimonio cultural, Tirant lo blanch, 2012.

RAMOS,JLB, “Direito administrativo da cultura”, Tratado de Direito administrativo especial, vol. II, Almedina, 2009.

SÉRVULO CORREIA, “Procedimento de classificação de bens culturais”, Direito do Património Cultural, org. INA, 1996.

TAVARES DA SILVA, S., “Para uma nova dinâmica do património cultural: o património cultural sustentável”, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito, Stvdia Ivridica, n.º 96

VÁRIOS, Direito do património cultural e ambiental: actas do colóquio realizado em Monserrate, Sintra, 2006.