Course Unit / Family Law and Family Procedural Law I

Family Law and Family Procedural Law I

Year
1
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
02046830
Subject Area
Civil Legal
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
7.5
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Students should be able to summon knowledge of Family Law, Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law. The should also have language skills in languages other than Portuguese that allow them to çead research in non-Portuguese speaking legal systems.

Teaching Methods

Weekly sessions composed by theoretical lectures regarding substantial and procedural aspects of Family Law and a problem-based approach second part to be developed by Students. 

Learning Outcomes

Teaching and scientific approach that stems from the idea that both substantive Family Law and Procedural Family Law pursue the goals of pacifying family relations and protecting vulnerable persons and are also both particularly influenced by societal and political changes of legal policy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Substantial and Procedural Family Law regarding the relations between adults within the family: marriage and its consequences, divorce and its consequences; de facto union; custodianship of vulnerable adults.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paula Sofia Couceiro Almeida Távora Vítor

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

AA. VV., Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation - Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (Eds. Mitra, Schicktanz, Patel)

Springer, 2018

 

Aa. Vv., European Family Law, vol. III (edited by Jens M. Scherpe) Elgar Publishiungs

Dethloff, Nina, New models of partnership: the financial consequences

of separation,Springer, ERA Forum (2011) 12: 89–102

 

Dethloff, Nina; Martiny, Dieter; Zschoche, Myriam, NATIONAL REPORT: GERMANY, 2015 in http://ceflonline.net/wp-content/uploads/Germany-IR.pdf

 

 Oliveira, Guilherme; Martins, Rosa; Vítor, Paula NATIONAL REPORT: PORTUGAL , 2015, in http://ceflonline.net/wp-content/uploads/Portugal-IR.pdf

 

Oliveira, Guilherme de; Vítor, Paula. Family and Succession Law in Portugal. Wolters Kluwer. 2019.

 

Vítor, Paula Távora; Oliveira, Guilherme de. "Post mortem insemination and surrogacy in the Portuguese system". Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRz) Heft 18 69 Jahrg (2022): 1442-1445.

 

Vítor, Paula Távora. "Banni