Study programme competencies |
Code
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Study programme competences / results
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A2 |
Knowledge of the role of law as a regulatory system of social relations |
A3 |
Grasping the systematic nature of the legal system |
A4 |
Appreciating the interdisciplinary nature of legal problems |
A6 |
Understanding the different manifestations of law in its historical evolution and in its current reality. |
A8 |
Basic knowledge of legal argumentation. |
A10 |
Ability to interpret and critically assess the legal system. |
A12 |
Management of legal oratory (ability to express themselves properly in public). |
A13 |
Mastering new technologies applied to law. |
B1 |
Knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, includes also some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of his field of study. |
B3 |
Ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on social, scientific or ethical relevant issues. |
B6 |
Learning to learn. |
B8 |
Critical, logical, and creative thinking. |
B9 |
Working autonomously on own initiative with a lifelong learning approach. |
B10 |
Teamwork and collaboration. |
B11 |
Ethical and social responsibility. |
B12 |
Effective workplace communication and oral and written skills in Spanish, Galician and foreign languages. |
B13 |
Computing and ICT skills. |
C1 |
Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages. |
C2 |
Mastering oral and written expression in foreign languages. |
C3 |
Using ICT in working contexts and lifelong learning. |
C4 |
Exercising an open, educated, critical, committed, democratic and supportive citizenship for the sake of the common good. |
C6 |
Critically assess the knowledge, technology and information available to solve the problems they face. |
Learning aims |
Learning outcomes |
Study programme competences / results |
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A2 A3 A4 A6 A8 A10 A12
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B9 B1 B3
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C1
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A13
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B6 B8 B10 B11 B12 B13
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C2
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C3 C4 C6
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Contents |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
“SPAIN IN THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF EUROPE”
SPAIN AND THE POST-CLASSICAL ROMAN LAW
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Political meaning of the period called Dominate
Justinian
Features of the post-classical Roman Law |
THE FIRST MEDIEVAL AGE: PER PUGNAM SINE IUSTITIA: AN AGE WITHOUT JURISTS
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The gradual disappearance of the professional jurist
Anthologies and Epitomes in the West: Doctrine and Legislation
The East: The great legislative compilation of Justinian
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SPAIN DURING THE 7th- 11th CENTURIES
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Oral laws: Custom; the Carolingian Capitularies
The presence of the Church
Per pugnam sine iustitia |
A NEW AGE: 12th-15th CENTURIES |
IUS COMMUNE IN EUROPE:
From the feudal World to urban civilization
The twelfth- century renaissance and the autonomy of the law.
The formation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the writings of Irnerius: The rise of Civil Common Law.
Gratian and the Decretum: The rise of Canon Common Law
The great “codifications” of the Church: The Liber Extra of Gregory IX, the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII, the Clementinae of Clement V, and the formation of the Corpus Iuris Canonici.
Civil Law and Canon Law: The utrumque ius
IUS PROPRIUM IN EUROPE.
Italy: Communal legislation.
Europe outside Italy.
The Iberian Peninsula: Fueros, Usatges, an Royal laws; The Siete Partidas.
France: Pays de droit coutumier; local laws and royal law; the great Coutumiers.
Germany: municipal laws; counts, dukes and princes; the emperor’s laws; the Sachsenspiegel.
THE SYSTEM OF THE IUS COMMUNE.
Ius commune and Ius proprium as positive law: Hierarchy in the sources.
The Ius commune without hierarchy.
Major figures: Irnerius
Gratian
The new science of law
The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: Dialectic
The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Ius proprium
Cinus of Pistoia. Bartolus of Saxoferrato
THE UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE AND THE IUS COMMUNE.
The School of Irnerius and the myth of Bologna.
Studying Jurisprudence in terra aliena
The growth of schools in European cities.
The organization of the academic world.
A Different organizational model: The University of Paris
Why were Universities so successful?
LEGAL SCIENCE
The orality of knowledge
The Lectura
The Glossae
The Punctatio librorum
The Repetitio
The Quaestio disputata
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MODERN AGE |
Legal humanism
The “Secunda Scholastica”
Francisco de Vitoria and the School of Salamanca
Hugo Grotius and the doctrine of Natural Law
NATIONAL CODIFICATIONS
The age of codifications
Precedents: The experience of consolidations
The theoretical roots of the codifications
From the French Revolution to the Napoleonic Code Civil
Napoleonic Codes and National Codes in Europe
Germany: Historical School of Law
Savigny`s thought
The Pandectists
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Planning |
Methodologies / tests |
Competencies / Results |
Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) |
Student’s personal work hours |
Total hours |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 B11 C4 |
21 |
0 |
21 |
Supervised projects |
A12 A13 B6 B8 B10 B12 B13 B1 B3 C1 C3 |
6 |
6 |
12 |
Objective test |
A3 A6 A10 B3 B1 C1 C2 |
5 |
68 |
73 |
Case study |
A2 A3 A4 A6 A8 A10 B9 B1 B3 C6 |
6 |
18 |
24 |
Document analysis |
A2 A3 A6 A10 B8 B3 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
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Personalized attention |
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10 |
0 |
10 |
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(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies |
Methodologies |
Description |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
Desenvolvemento dos principais puntos do Programa |
Supervised projects |
Desenvolvemento de tutorías que complementen a actividade didáctica das leccións maxistrais
Indicación de lecturas.
Selección e realización de traballos de selección bibbilográfica.
Desenvolvemento de determinadas tarefas de investigación histórico-xurídica básica |
Objective test |
Comprobación dos coñecementos conceptuais obtidos polos alumnos |
Case study |
Análise e estudos de comentarios de texto histórico-xurídicos que axudan a comprender as exposicións teóricas |
Document analysis |
Proxección de películas temáticas sobre aspectos concretos do programa e debate sobre aspectos histórico-xurídicos que se reflictan nas proxeccións. |
Personalized attention |
Methodologies
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Guest lecture / keynote speech |
Supervised projects |
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Description |
Professor will attend any doubt in his office
Students will do practice activities consist on presentations about readings and work previously fixed. |
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Assessment |
Methodologies
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Competencies / Results |
Description
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Qualification
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Guest lecture / keynote speech |
A2 A3 A4 A6 A10 B11 C4 |
Valoraranse as acertadas intervencións dos alumnos nas sesións teóricas de exposición do profesor |
5 |
Supervised projects |
A12 A13 B6 B8 B10 B12 B13 B1 B3 C1 C3 |
Avaliarase tanto o traballo realizado polo grupo no seu conxunto como individualmente por cada alumno así como a súa exposición oral ante o resto de compañeiros |
10 |
Objective test |
A3 A6 A10 B3 B1 C1 C2 |
Avaliarase a correcta aprendizaxe dos contidos básicos da materia |
70 |
Case study |
A2 A3 A4 A6 A8 A10 B9 B1 B3 C6 |
Avaliaranse os comentarios de texto realizados polos alumnos |
10 |
Document analysis |
A2 A3 A6 A10 B8 B3 |
Avaliaranse as intervencións e debates de e entre os alumnos e o profesor sobre a película proxectada |
5 |
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Assessment comments |
An exam will be required at the end of the semester
concerning all the contents. The value of this exam will be 50 % of the final
mark. A continuous assessment will be followed throughout the
course. In addition to traditional means of assessment such as the exam,
students may be asked to: - Make a presentation either individually or as a group project. - Compose research papers or other extended written work, including
annotated bibliographies. These
works will be valued with the other 50 % of the final mark.
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Sources of information |
Basic
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Compulsory
readings BELLOMO, M., The Common legal past of Europe
(1000-1800), Catholic University
Press, (Washington, D.C., 1995). PENNINGTON
, K., “Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The
Tyranny of a Concept”,
in Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 5 (1994) 197-209. Recommended
readings PENNINGTON
, K., “Roman and Secular Law in the Middle Ages”, in Medieval
Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, edd. F.A.C. Mantello and
A.G. Rigg (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1996)
254-266 GROSSI,
P., A History of European law, Wiley-Blackwell, (Chichester, 2010). Online resources Personal webpage professor Pennington,
Catholic University of America European Legal Traditions, Sebastian Golla,
Freie Universitat Berlin. Legal History blog Legal history with a Dutch view |
Complementary
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Recommendations |
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
Spain in the Historical and Legal Context of Europe/612G01002 |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
Roman Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition/612G01001 | Jurisprudence/612G01006 |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
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