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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Law |
| Grao en Dereito |
 Subjects |
| Law and Biomedicine |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Law and Biomedicine | Code | 612G01040 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Case study | The knowledge of life and health issues requires the analysis both of national and international statutes and case law. Students learn into depth classical and contemporary cases, specially the rulings of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts as well as the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice Case study trains the students to identify the legal issues at stake, deliberate about them and find a solution using legal arguments Case study includes other methodologies: analysis of bibliographical and normative sources, as well as research papers. |
| Objective test | Assessment of the knowledge and understanding of bibliographical and legal sources. |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Lectures ease the understanding of the special features, language, and concepts of health law, following a human rights-based approach. Furthermore, lectures are intended to clarify the meaning of the bibliographical and normative sources and the main topics |
| Workshop | Specific topics are studied thoroughly combining different methodologies (legal sources analysis, case study). It is expected the student takes part more actively and individually, implementing his/her knowledge and argumentative skills. Some of the workshops are given by guest and visiting professors. |
| Document analysis | The main legal answers to life and health issues come from international and national statutes and case law. Identifying, understanding and assessing these legal sources is an important feature to grasp the meaning of relations between biomedicine and law. |
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