Administrative Law I

Recommended Prerequisites

Constitutional Law; Private and Public Law Notions I and II.     

Teaching Methods

Teaching is supported in theoretical-practical content lessons, using expository methods and the presentation and discussion of practical exemples, further deepening students' knowledge and stimulating students' critical thinking abilities.

Learning Outcomes

- Provide an overview of Administrative Law, studying the various meanings of the concept of public administration, the historical evolution of Public Administration and Administrative Law, and administrative law systems

- Study the relations between the Public Administration and the Private Law and Public Law

- Analyse the administrative organization, with particular focus in the Portuguese Administration

- Review the  administrative activity legal forms or instruments, specifically the administrative regulation.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

INTRODUCTION

1. Basic concepts

2. Public Administration historical evolution

3. The principle of the separation of powers

4. Different state functions

5. The administrative systems

PART I - ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION

A - ORGANIC STRUCTURE OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

B - SECTORS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION

C - TYPES OF FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION

D - THE CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL

PART II - THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE LAW

      1. The Public Administration and the Private Law

      2. The Public Administration and the administrative law: the principle of legality

PART III - THE FORMS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY

CHAPTER I - THE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS

      1. Concept

      2. Classification

      3. Grounds of the regulatory power

      4. Limits of the regulatory power

      5. Regulations hierarchy and application

      6. Judicial review of regulations.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernanda Paula Marques Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Final assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous assessment
Frequency: 100.0%

Bibliography

Fernanda Paula Oliveira / José Eduardo Figueiredo Dias, Noções Fundamentais de Direito Administrativo, Almedina, 5.ª ed., 2017

José Carlos Vieira de Andrade, Lições de Direito Administrativo, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 5.ª ed., 2018.