Study programme competencies |
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Study programme competences / results
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A1 |
Knowledge of the main legal institutions |
A2 |
Knowledge of the role of law as a regulatory system of social relations |
A3 |
Grasping the systematic nature of the legal system |
A5 |
Knowing the constitutional principles and values. |
A6 |
Understanding the different manifestations of law in its historical evolution and in its current reality. |
A7 |
Knowing the national and international legal and political structures. |
A8 |
Basic knowledge of legal argumentation. |
A9 |
Ability to handle legal sources (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal). |
A10 |
Ability to interpret and critically assess the legal system. |
A12 |
Management of legal oratory (ability to express themselves properly in public). |
B2 |
Ability to know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area 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. |
B4 |
Ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public. |
B5 |
Acquisition and assessment of those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy |
B6 |
Learning to learn. |
B7 |
Effective problem solving. |
B8 |
Critical, logical, and creative thinking. |
B9 |
Working autonomously on own initiative with a lifelong learning approach. |
C1 |
Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages. |
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. |
C7 |
Assume as a professional and citizen the importance of lifelong learning. |
C8 |
Valuing the importance of research, innovation and technological development for the socioeconomic and cultural progress of society. |
Learning aims |
Learning outcomes |
Study programme competences / results |
Knowledge of the role of law as a regulatory system of social relations |
A2
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Grasping the systematic nature of the legal system |
A3
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Knowing the constitutional principles and values. |
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B8
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Understanding the different manifestations of law in its historical evolution and in its current reality. |
A6
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C8
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Ability to handle legal sources (statutes, case-law and scholar). |
A9
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B8 B4
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Ability to interpret and critically assess the legal system. |
A1 A3 A10
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B8 B3
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Critical, logical, and creative thinking. |
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B6 B8
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C7
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Working autonomously on own initiative.
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B9
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C4 C6
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Understanding and use of the basic notions and concepts of law that are employed, but not studied, in the different areas of the science of law. |
A1 A5 A10
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B8 B2 B5
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C1
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Knowledge of the basic structure of contemporary legal systems. |
A1 A3 A7
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Accurate use of concepts in legal argumentation. |
A1 A2 A5 A8 A12
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B7 B8
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Knowledge and understanding of the relationship between structural features and the axiological purpose of law. |
A1 A2 A3 A5 A7 A10
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C4 C6
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Contents |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
Part one. Elements of legal analysis: the structure of the legal order |
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Topic 1. Phenomenological approach to the world of law. |
1. Un mundo de normas. 2. Un mundo de normas que gardan entre si unha certa orde. 3. Un mundo de suxeitos en relación: seres humanos, e outros. 4. Un mundo de cousas. 5. Un mundo de feitos. 6. Un mundo de accións e controversias. |
Topic 2. Introduction to the theory of legal norms |
1. A natureza da norma xurídica. 1.1. Unha cuestión preliminar: norma, pensamento e linguaxe. Usos e funcións da linguaxe e das normas. 1.2. A norma como enunciado lingüístico prescriptivo.
1.3. A teoría imperativista clásica e os seus defectos. 1.4. Alternativas ao imperativismo. 1.4.1. A teoría das normas de von Wright. Clases de normas. 1.4.2. A teoría das normas de Hart: a) as normas como razóns para a acción; b) normas primarias e normas secundarias: a teoría da norma conduce á teoría do sistema xurídico; c) algúns problemas. 1.5. Conclusións sobre a natureza da norma xurídica. 2. A estrutura da norma xurídica. 2.1. A solución tradicional: suposto de feito e consecuencia xurídica. 2.2. Algúns corolarios: a) a necesidade de distinguir entre normas completas e incompletas; b) Os tipos de normas xurídicas incompletas. 2.3. As críticas ao modelo tradicional. 2.3.1. A excesiva simplicidade. A análise de von Wright. 2.3.2. A estrutura dos principios xurídicos. 3. Fenomenoloxía das normas xurídicas: normas, disposicións e corpos xurídicos. 4. A validez ou existencia das normas xurídicas: a fronteira entre a teoría da norma e a teoría da orde ou do sistema xurídico. |
Topic 3. Notions of legal order and legal system theory,
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1. Caracterización xeral: ordenamento, Estado e sistema. 2. A vocación sistemática do ordenamento xurídico. Os caracteres tradicionalmente atribuídos aos ordenamentos xurídicos: unidade, coherencia, plenitude e independencia. Problemas que xurden actualmente. Que é un sistema xurídico. 3. Dimensión activa e dimensión pasiva do sistema xurídico. 4. Estrutura do lado pasivo do sistema xurídico: normas primarias e normas secundarias, de Kelsen a Hart. 5. A identidade dos sistemas xurídicos e a pertenza das normas a un sistema. O sistema xurídico como sistema dinámico. 6. A validez das normas. 7. A validez no Dereito actual. |
Topic 4. Notions of theory of sources of law and introduction to the Spanish system of sources. |
1. Significados da expresión "fontes do Dereito". 2. Fontes formais e fontes materiais. 3. As fontes formais: aproximación teórica. 3.1. A lei. Lei formal e lei material. 3.2. O costume. Concepto. Lei e costume. Elementos do costume e problemas que presentan. 3.3. A xurisprudencia. Que é unha sentenza xudicial. Son normas as sentenzas? Xurisprudencia e precedente. Utilidade do estudo da xurisprudencia. A xurisprudencia como fonte do Dereito. 3.4. A doutrina. Estrutura do discurso ou texto doctrinal. A doutrina como fonte do Dereito. 4. A evolución histórica das fontes do Dereito. 5. O sistema de fontes do Dereito no Dereito español.
5.1. As "fontes das fontes": o título preliminar do Código civil e a Constitución de 1978. 6.2. A Constitución como norma xurídica e como fonte do Dereito. As sentenzas do Tribunal Constitucional. 5.3. A lei. Evolución histórica e crise actual. A lei como fonte do Dereito e o principio de legalidade. Normas con rango de lei. Os tratados internacionais. 5.4. As normas regulamentarias. 5.5. O costume. Historia e crise actual. Ámbitos onde conserva vixencia. Caracteres do costume no noso ordenamento xurídico. 5.6. Os principios xerais do Dereito. Historia. Os principios no noso ordenamento xurídico. Principios implícitos e principios explícitos. 5.7. A xurisprudencia. É a xurisprudencia fonte do Dereito no noso ordenamento? A creación xudicial do Dereito. Os precedentes: precedente obrigatorio e precedente persuasivo. Conclusión: o xuíz e o lexislador. 5.8. Outras fontes do Dereito: en particular, os instrumentos nos que se plasman os actos da autonomía da vontade. |
Topic 5. The person in law |
1. A orde xurídica, orde humana: a persoa. 2. O concepto xurídico de persoa e a súa evolución. 3. Elementos para unha crítica do concepto xurídico de persoa. 4. A extensión da personalidade xurídica: capacidade xurídica e capacidade de obrar. 5. Outros suxeitos de dereito: a persoa xurídica. |
Topic 6. The legal relationship |
1. Concepto. 2. Presupostos. Alteridade. Igualdade. 3. Elementos: suxeitos, obxecto, vínculo, fundamento. 4. Relación xurídica e situación xurídica. 5. Situacións xurídicas activas e pasivas. |
Topic 7. The legal duty |
1. Aproximación a partir do uso lingüístico. "Ter o deber de" e "verse obrigado a". 2. Deber xurídico e deber moral. 3. Características do deber xurídico: posibilidade; exterioridade; licitude; equivalencia entre débito e prestación; irrenunciabilidade; esixibilidade; determinación ou determinabilidade; inexcusabilidade. 4. As garantías do deber xurídico. 5. Límites do deber xurídico. |
Topic 8. Legal rights |
1. Idea xeral. Aproximación desde o uso lingüístico e desde as clasificacións científicas máis estendidas. 2. Estrutura do dereito subxectivo: suxeito activo; suxeito(s) pasivo(s); obxecto; contido; fundamento; título. 3. Dimensión dinámica do dereito subxectivo. Condicións de exercicio. Extensión. Límites. 5. Recapitulación: o dereito subxectivo, construción abstracta. 6. Outras situacións de poder xurídico: as potestades. |
Topic 9. Facts and Actions in Law |
1. Actos e feitos. 1.1. Feitos e feitos xurídicos. 1.2. Os actos xurídicos. 1.2.1. Actos libres. A autonomía da vontade. 1.2.2. Actos debidos ou de cumprimento do Dereito. 2. A violación da orde xurídica. Acto ilícito, responsabilidade e sanción. 2.1. O acto ilícito. Concepto. Ilícitos típicos e ilícitos atípicos. 2.2. A responsabilidade. Concepto e clases. Elementos. 2.3. A sanción. Concepto e clases de sancións. |
Topic 10. Approach to adjudication |
1. Os problemas da linguaxe do Dereito e a necesidade da interpretación. Noción e tipos. 2. Interpretación e aplicación. A aplicación do dereito e a resolución da controversia como actividade complexa: subsunción e decisión. 3. A xustificación das decisións xudiciais. A tarefa creativa dos xuíces. |
Part two. Towards a global understanding: law as social practice |
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Topic 11. The Law as an instrument for social life. |
1. A orde social. 2. A orde social non é unha orde espontánea: funcións do Dereito en relación coa orde social. 3. Dereito, Estado e poder. 3.1. A comunidade política como creadora e conservadora da orde xurídica. 3.2. O Dereito como factor de organización, lexitimación e conservación da comunidade política. |
Topic 12. The law as a set of binding materials for the resolution of conflicts. |
1. O Dereito non é só o sistema de normas que se deriva ou extrae do sistema de fontes. 2. A técnica xurídica. 3. O elemento ideal: os valores. Valores xurídicos. 4. A interrelación entre o elemento ideal, a técnica e os preceptos. |
Topic 13. Purposes of law and legal values |
1. A xustiza. 1.1. Aproximación á noción de xustiza. Xustiza material e xustiza formal. 1.2. Principais proxeccións da xustiza. 2. A seguridade. 2.1. A seguridade como condición e esixencia da vida humana. 2.2. A seguridade xurídica, cualidade do Dereito que introduce certeza e orde. 2.3. Principais proxeccións e limitacións da seguridade xurídica. 3. Relacións entre xustiza e seguridade. |
Topic 14. Forms of legal activity. |
1. A produción de normas: en particular, a lexislación. 2. O tráfico xurídico. 3. A adxudicación. 3. Relación entre as actividades anteriores e o Dereito como conxunto de materiais vinculantes. |
Topic 15. In short, what is the law? Law as a social practice. |
1. A unificación dos sentidos de "Dereito".
2. Proposta dunha definición descriptiva do Dereito.
3. Carácteres do Dereito como práctica social: 3.1. Carácter institucional. 3.2. Normatividade. 3.3. Coactividade. 3.4. Pretensión de comprehensividade e pretensión de supremacía. |
Planning |
Methodologies / tests |
Competencies / Results |
Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) |
Student’s personal work hours |
Total hours |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
A1 A2 A3 A5 A6 A7 |
28 |
42 |
70 |
Workbook |
A9 A10 B3 C1 C7 C8 |
0 |
10 |
10 |
Speaking test |
B6 B9 B4 B5 C1 C7 C8 |
0.5 |
19.5 |
20 |
Seminar |
A8 A9 A10 A12 B7 B8 B2 B3 B4 |
14 |
21 |
35 |
Document analysis |
A3 A5 A6 A9 A10 B6 B3 C7 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
Case study |
A5 A8 A9 A10 A12 B6 B7 B8 B9 B2 B3 C4 C6 C7 |
0 |
5 |
5 |
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Personalized attention |
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4 |
0 |
4 |
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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 |
Through them, the teachers will explain and transmit the basic concepts and notions. The specificity of legal language requires an exposition that allows the student to grasp its correct use. |
Workbook |
As a way of stimulating self-learning and a critical thinking process in the students, some of the contents of the course will not be the target of a lecture, but will be read by the students, who will have to choose between several texts related to those contents, which will be determined by the professors. |
Speaking test |
The contents of the lectures and readings will be assessed by oral examination. |
Seminar |
In the seminar sessions, the lecturer will only moderate the students' interventions, and they will deal with the content of the readings, the documentary analyses and the case study. |
Document analysis |
The study of some contents of the course (theory of the legal norms, practical functioning of the system of sources, introduction to the application of the law) makes it recommendable that students be able to identify these contents in norms and other concrete documents, as well as to analyze case-law texts. These documents will also be important working materials for other learning activities, such as case studies. |
Case study |
Analysis of situations and cases that reflect the use of basic notions and other contents of the course. Students will be initiated here in the exercise of argumentative skills and will put their knowledge into practice in an applied way. This activity will be completed with debates and presentations in seminar sessions. |
Personalized attention |
Methodologies
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Workbook |
Document analysis |
Case study |
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Description |
The personalised attention indicated for the readings will consist of tutorial sessions with the lecturer, where students may express their doubts and comments in regard to the texts that they have read and the lecturer may assess their level of comprehension and achievement. |
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Assessment |
Methodologies
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Competencies / Results |
Description
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Qualification
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Speaking test |
B6 B9 B4 B5 C1 C7 C8 |
The oral exam will have a mixed character, and will be used to evaluate the learning of the contents of the lectures and the level of critical reflection achieved around them. In the objective part of the exam, special emphasis will be placed on understanding the contents, the ability to identify precisely the answers to the questions and the ability to respond with conceptual and linguistic precision, avoiding ambiguity and misunderstanding. In the questions that require reflection, the ability to synthesize, identify problems and personal reflection will also be valued. Correctness of expression will be relevant in the assessment. |
70 |
Seminar |
A8 A9 A10 A12 B7 B8 B2 B3 B4 |
The seminars will deal with documentary sources, readings and cases that can be downloaded from Moodle. The assessment criteria will be the degree of understanding of the sources, the capacity for analysis, the consistency of the arguments and the quality of the presentations. Lack of participation and lack of accuracy in the preparation of presentations and speeches will be assessed negatively. The methodology of the seminars and the selection of materials for them are subject to the discretion of the lecturer responsible for each small group. Eventually, a written version of the students' interventions may be required. |
30 |
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Assessment comments |
To pass the course, the sum of the marks obtained in the continuous assessment of the seminars and the marks of the oral test must reach 5 points. The two marks will not be added together unless at least 1.2 points (out of a possible 3) are obtained in the seminars; and 3.5 points (out of a possible 7) in the oral test. For students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic dispensation from attendance who cannot participate in the seminar sessions, the evaluation of the competencies corresponding to the seminars (30% of the final qualification) will be carried out by means of written paper. This alternative form of evaluation will also be available to students who, for justified reasons that must be appreciated by the coordinating lecturer of the course, cannot attend the seminar sessions. To do so, they must inform the professor of the circumstances that justify the exceptionality within the first two school weeks of the four-month period. If the circumstances are supervenient, they must communicate them as soon as they occur. Students who take the oral test in the second call or opportunity (July) will keep the grades of the seminars, if they have achieved at least 1.2 points out of 3. Students who do not achieve a score of 1.2 in the January evaluation of the seminars must take the alternative evaluation described above in the July call or opportunity. For those who do not achieve a score of 1.5 the renunciation of the mark of the seminars will be optional.
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Sources of information |
Basic
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Alberto Montoro Ballesteros, Sistema de teoría fundamental del Derecho (I), Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 1999.
José Juan Moreso y Josep María Vilajosana, Introducción a la teoría del Derecho, Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2004.
Andrés Ollero, El Derecho en teoría, Cizur Menor, Thomson - Aranzadi, 2011.
Luis Prieto Sanchís, Apuntes de teoría del Derecho, Madrid, Trotta, 2015.
Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, Introducción a la ciencia del Derecho, Salamanca, Librería Cervantes, 2001.
Gregorio Robles, Sociología del Derecho, 2ª ed., Madrid, Civitas, 1997.
Francesco Viola y Giuseppe Zaccaria, Derecho e interpretación. Elementos de teoría hermenéutica del Derecho, Ana Cebeira, Aurelio de Prada y Aurelia Richart (trads.), Gregorio Robles Morchón (coord., prol. y revisión), Madrid, Dykinson, 2008.
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Complementary
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John Austin, “El significado del término ‘deber’”, en El objeto de la jurisprudencia, trad. de J. R. de Páramo Argüelles, Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2002.
Norberto Bobbio, Contribución a la teoría del Derecho. Madrid, Debate, 1991.
Manuel Calvo García, Teoría del Derecho, Madrid, Tecnos, 2010.
Lon L. Fuller, El caso de los exploradores de la caverna, trad. e introducción de G. R. Carrió, Buenos Aires, Lexis Nexis, 2008.
Ernesto Garzón Valdés y Francisco Javier Laporta (eds.), El Derecho y la justicia, Madrid, Trotta, 2ª ed., 2013.
Jürgen Habermas, Facticidad y validez, Madrid, Trotta, 2010.
H.L.A. Hart, El concepto de derecho, trad. G. R. Carrió, Buenos Aires, Abeledo-Perrot, 2011.
Wesley N. Hohfeld, Conceptos jurídicos fundamentales, Genaro Carrió (trad.), México, Fontamara, 1997.
Rafael Hernández Marín, Introducción a la teoría de la norma jurídica, Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2ª ed., 2002.
Hans Kelsen, Teoría pura del Derecho, 2ª ed., R. Vernengo (trad.), México, Porrúa, 2009.
Carlos S. Nino, Introducción al análisis del Derecho, Barcelona, Ariel, 2013.
Renato Rabbi-Baldi Cabanillas, Teoría del Derecho, Buenos Aires, Ábaco de Rodolfo Depalma, 2009.
Gregorio Robles Morchón, Teoría del Derecho. Fundamentos de teoría comunicacional del Derecho. Vol. I, Madrid, Thomson-Civitas, 4ª ed., 2015. |
Recommendations |
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
Roman Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition/612G01001 | Constitutional Law: Sources of Law and Fundamental Rights/612G01003 |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
Philosophy of Law/612G01026 | Legal Reasoning Theory and Practice/612G01041 |
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Other comments |
The progress of this course will rest basically on the students' personal work and learning. For this to be possible: a) it is necessary to attend all the lectures and readings planned for the development of the course. b) The professor of each group will indicate sufficiently in advance, either personally in the classroom or through the technological platform of the University, which materials should be read, analyzed or studied in advance of the lectures and/or seminars in small groups. The normal development of the course depends on the students carrying out these previous tasks. c) It is recommended to read and work on the texts, cases and materials indicated for each program topic before the session in which they will be used. In some circumstances, the professor may provide materials that will be used to work in the small group sessions without the need for any previous work by the students. d) In the explanations of the lectures, the professor will assume that the material indicated for the corresponding topic has been previously read, so that he will only focus on those aspects of the topic not covered by the readings, or those that he judges to be more important or of special complexity, giving a chance to the questions and opinions of those attending the session. During the lectures it is indispensable to take notes and participate actively, interrupting if necessary the professor's presentation, to ask for clarifications, to present points of view or to formulate questions. |
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