Social Sustainability and Citizenship
1
2022-2023
03016191
Law
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
15.0
Elective
3rd Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Constitutional Law
Teaching Methods
Seminars
Learning Outcomes
The course objectives include the discussion about:
- the theories of economic (de)growth and scarcity and their relation with social rights guarantees
- the theoretical grounds of the principle of sustainability
- the new challenges of the democratic rule of law
Learning goals:
- understanding social rights and their economic framework
- critical analysis of the open method for the coordination of sociality in the EU context
- discuss the instruments aiming at guaranteeing the sustainability of the subsystems for the implementation of social rights
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The new welfare state paradigms in the 21st century
Theory of scarcity and the social rights in the framework of the dogmatics of scarcity
Theories of justice in the 21st century and the principle of intergenerational justice
Theoretical grounds and dogmatics of the principle of sustainability
The rationing of social assistance in the framework of a responsive sociality
The challenges of the democratic rule of law in the 21st century: participation, transparency, accountability and new instruments for the democratic legitimation of political decisions
Head Lecturer(s)
João Carlos Simões Gonçalves Loureiro
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Research work: 100.0%
Bibliography
- Vieira de Andrade, Os Direitos Fundamentais na Constituição Portuguesa de 1976, 5.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2012
- João Carlos Loureiro, Adeus ao Estado Social?, Coimbra Editora, 2012
- Suzana Tavares da Silva | Maria de Fárima Ribeiro (Org.), Trajectórias de Sustentabilidade, IJ, 2013
- Castles te al., The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford, 2010
- Dobner / Loughlin (ed), The Twilight of Constitutionalism?, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Lindhal, Fault Lines of Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Sandel, Justice: What's the Right thing to Do?, Penguin, 2009
- Sen, A Ideia de Justiça, Almedina, 2012
- Möller, The Global Model of Constitutional Rights, Oxford University Press, 2012
- Young, Constituting Economic and Social Rights, Oxford University Press, 2012