Risks and Challenges in Civil Justice in the 21st Century

Recommended Prerequisites

Civil Procedure/Basic knowledge of French, Italian and English languages.

Teaching Methods

Presentation of topics with final discussion.

Presentation of work resulting from an investigation of the candidates.

Learning Outcomes

he curricular unit aims to accomplish a stimulate reflection on the evolution of  civil procedure, especially as it has occurred  in recent years. Ideally this would take into account the enhanced powers of  jugdes, the need to diversify the procedure of legal protection and the articulation of non-judicial means with civil justice.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The new model of the declarative process.

1.1 The judge as the case manager.

2. The search for differentiated guardianship.

2.1. Simplification of procedure before the fair trial guarantees

3. The end of the principle of legality of procedural discipline

3.1. Flexibility of the procedure by judicial initiative.

3.2. The contractualisation of the process. The French experience (the figure of the "Protocole").

4. The articulation between extrajudicial means and public justice: the case of pre-judicial and intra-judicial mediation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria José Oliveira Capelo Pinto Resende

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 10.0%
Research work: 90.0%

Bibliography

A. Alvarado Velloso, Garantismo procesal contra actuación judicial de oficio,Valencia , Tirant lo Blanch, 2005.

Carlos Alberto Alvaro de Oliveira, Do formalismo no processo civil, Editora Saraiva, 2.ª ed, 2003.

F. da Fonseca Gajardoni, Flexibilização Procedimental: um novo enfoque para o estudo do procedimento em matéria processual, Editora Atlas, 2008 .

J. Montero Aroca,Os principios políticos de la nueva ley de enjuiciamiento civil : los poderes del juez y la oralidad , Tirant lo Blanch, 2001.

Lebre de Freitas, Introdução ao processo civil, 3.ª edição.

Lois Cadiet/J. Normand/S. Amrani MeKKi, Puf, Théorie générale du procès, PUF, 2010.

Maria José Capelo , “A tipicidade legal das formas de processo: fim à vista? Valpaços 2011.

P. Biavati, «I procedimenti civili semplificati e accellerati : il quadro europeo e i riflessi italiani», Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto e Procedura Civile. Milano: Giuffrè. Anno 56, N. 3 (2002) p. 751-776.