The Methodological Problem of Judicial Adjudication

Year
1
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
02036205
Subject Area
Legal and Forensic Science
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
7.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Theoretical legal acknowledge acquired in the 1st. cycle of studies is required, as well as reading of legal sources in  the main European languages.

Teaching Methods

Exhibition and discussion from recommended reading and accompanied; analysis of jurisprudence.

Learning Outcomes

This Course Unit aims at the critical consideration of different perspectives on the jurisdictional realisation of law, starting on the analysis of different theories of legal interpretation, and intending its projections on practice.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Jurisdiction as concrete realisation of law: methodical models

2. The realisation of law by mediation of the legal norm - between legal interpretation and judicial decision

2.1. The traditional theory of legal interpretation: the hermeneutical moment and the norm-text

2.2. Interpretation as a moment of the methodological problem of the judicative-concrete realisation of law

2.2.1. A interpretação como resultado do seu resultado: a norma-problema

2.2.2. The results of interpretation as construction of law to the concrete case

3. A realização do direito sem a mediação da norma legal

3.1. Gaps filling as correlate of the logical plenitude of legal system's dogma(s)

3.2. The realisation of law without the medation of the legal norm

3.2.1. Immediate analogies and mediate analogies

3.2.2. The criteria and foundations of the autonomous normative constitution

4. Conclusion: the analogical matrix of the jurisdictional realisation of law

Head Lecturer(s)

José Manuel Aroso Linhares

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

A. Castanheira Neves, Metodologia Jurídica. Problemas fundamentais, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra,1993

A. Castanheira Neves, “O actual problema metodológico da realização do direito”, II, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 1995, p. 249-282

A. Castanheira Neves, O actual problema metodológico da interpretação jurídica, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2003

A. Castanheira Neves, “O sentido actual da Metodologia Jurídica”, Digesta, III, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2008, p. 381-411

Fernando José Bronze, Analogias, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2012

José Manuel Aroso Linhares, “Na ‘coroa de fumo’ da teoria dos princípios: poderá um tratamento dos princípios como normas servir-nos de guia?”, in A. CORREIA, J. MACHADO, J. LOUREIRO, Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor José Joaquim Gomes Canotilho, STVDIA IVRIDICA, III, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2012, p. 395-421