Concepts of Private Law and of Public Law I

Recommended Prerequisites

Average high school knowledge.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical lectures on the topics, in dialogue with students. Continuous evaluation, based on students’ in class participation and two written tests (two hours each).

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic concepts of private and public law.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. A basic approach to the concept of Law; social order – the “normative” orders

2. The legal order

       a) First distinctions: Nation, State, Law

       b) Subjective structures: subjective rights

       c) Objective structures: the legal norm; the legal (private and public) protection

       d) Sources of the Law; branches of the Law, main codifications

3. Goals the Law; foundations of the Law

4. Law methodology

       a) Methodological guidelines

       b) Legal technique: interpretation and integration

       c) Legal application in time and space.

Head Lecturer(s)

Francisco Manuel de Brito Pereira Coelho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 80.0%

Bibliography

ANTÓNIO DOS SANTOS JUSTO, Introdução ao Estudo do Direito, 12.ª ed. (Coimbra, 2021).