Private International Law II

Recommended Prerequisites

Private International Law

Teaching Methods

A blend of lectures and discussion classes. Students are also encouraged to reflect upon the most significant texts by the fathers of PIL. In addition, some training on the PIL techniques will be provided in the resolution process of specific cases.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims at promoting the study of the multi-level (state, European, international) regulation of different institutes that integrate the special area of Private International Law.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Chapter I – Legal personality

- Section I: Natural persons

- Section II: Juridical persons

Chapter II – Law of obligations

Chapter III – Property regulation

- Section I: Property Law

- Section II: Intellectual Property

Chapter IV – Family Law

- Section I: Marriage as a legislative act

- Section II: Marriage as a status

- Section III: Legal separation and divorce

- Section IV: Affiliation and adoption

- Chapter V – Inheritance Law

- Section I: Succession law and legal succession

- Section II: Voluntary succession and inter vivos acts with implications for the succession.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Students are strongly encouraged to engage in homeworks and team-works in order to enrich their own background and develop their skills as jurists to-be.: 100.0%

Bibliography

- J. Baptista Machado, Âmbito de eficácia e âmbito de competência das leis: Coimbra: Almedina, 1970.

- Luis Lima Pinheiro, Direito Internacional privado, Volume 2º - 3ª Edição-Coimbra, 2012, Almedina.

- Rui Moura Ramos, Estudos de Direito Internacional privado e de Direito Processual Civil Internacional, Volume 1, Coimbra, 2002, Coimbra Editora, Volume II, Coimbra, 2007, Coimbra Editora.