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Faculty of Law
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  Obligations and Tort Law
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LESSON 1: THE CONCEPT OF «OBLIGATION» AND THE «LAW OF OBLIGATIONS» 1.Economic private law and its basic rights: obligations and property rights
2.What is an obligation?
3.Importance of the Law of obligations within the continental legal systems
4.Where are the rules of the law of obligations in the common law systems?
LESSON 2: LAW OF CONTRACT AND LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 1.The place of contract in private law systems
a.Obligations and contract
b.Contract and tort
c.Contract and property
d.General contract rules and specific contracts
2.The principles of contract law: differences between the common law and the continental law
a.Contract as an agreement between parties
b.The doctrine of consideration and the «cause» of the contract
c.The role of the good faith principle
d.The meaning of contract freedom
e.Drafting contracts in continental and common law.
3.«Life of the contract»
a.Contract formation: negotiations and lack of negotiations
b.Contract conclusion: contract validity and content
c.Contract performance.
LESSON 3: PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 1. Lack of a common legal vocabulary in the field of the law of obligations
2. DCFR solution for a European model law of obligations
a. Scope of the model rules on obligations (Book III)
b. Definitions: obligation, terms of an obligation, performance, non-performance, reciprocal obligation.
3. DCFR basic principles of the law of obligations
a. The duty of good faith and fair dealing
b. The duty of cooperation between the parties
4. Rules regarding conditions and time limits in obligations
a. Conditional obligations
b. Time limited obligations
LESSON 4: PERFORMANCE AND NON-PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS. REMEDIES FOR NON-PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS 1. Performance, obligation to perform and payment: continental and common law approaches
2. Time, place, currency and method of payment.
3. Who has to perform the obligation? Payment by a third person
4. General remedies against non performance in continental systems
a. The right to enforce performance
b. Specific performance and damages
5. General remedies in common law systems
a. Damages
b. The problem of specific performance
3. Termination
a. Scope of the right to terminate
b. Restitution
LESSON 6: PLURALITY OF DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. CHANGE OF PARTIES 1. Obligations with several parties: continental systems and common law systems
2. Joint, several and joint and several liability
3. The model rules of DCFR regarding plurality of debtors and creditors
4. Change of creditor: requirements and effects regarding creditor and debtor
5. Change of debtor: types, requirements and effects
6. Change of a contractual party
LESSON 6: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS OF LIABILITY 1. Scope of protected interest
a. Protection of the person
b. Protection of economic interests: protection against «pure economic loss»
2. Causation
a. The «Certainty of damages» principle
b. Traditional causation theories in the European legal systems
c. Burden of proof
d. The problem of uncertainty over causation
e. Limiting the scope of results: remoteness of damage and «objective zurechnung»
3. The reasons behind the right to damage compensation: Strict liability and negligence liability. The «law and economics» approach
4. Negligence
a. Role of negligence in continental tort law
b. Role of the tort of negligence in common law
5. Strict liability
a. Background of strict liability
b. Types of strict liability regimes: liability based on risk and enterprise liability
c. Negligence influence on certain strict liability concepts and requirements
6. Damages
a. Compensation and punishment: the problem of punitive damages
b. Types of damages: Economic damages and Personal injuries
c. Compensating personal injuries: different approaches
5. Defences in Tort Law
LESSON 10: THE DIFFERENT TORT LAW SYSTEMS IN EUROPE
1. The French family system
2. The German system
3. The common law system
4. Towards a harmonization in Europe?
a. Different policy approaches and legal cultures
b. The EU influence
c. The achievements of this century: PETL and DCFR
LESSON 11: SPECIFIC LIABILITY REGIMES AND TORTS 1. Liability for other persons and vicarious liability
2. Liability for risky activities and dangerous goods
3. Defective products
4. Environmental liability
5. Public bodies liability
TEMA 9: Concurrencia de acreedores e insuficiencia do patrimonio do deudor. 1. Nociones generales. 2. Los créditos privilegiados. 3. Concurrencia singular de acreedores. 4. Concurrencia universal de acreedores. 5. Ley Concursal.
TEMA 10: A modificación e a extinción da relación obrigatoria. 1. La novación y sus clases. 2. Novación por cambio del acreedor. 3. Novación por cambio del deudor. 4. Novación por cesión de contrato. 5. Extinción de la relación obligatoria.
TEMA 11: Os cuasicontrantos 1. Los cuasicontratos. 2. El enriquecimiento sin causa. 3. La gestión de negocios ajenos sin mandato. 4. El cobro de lo indebido.
TEMA 12: A responsabilidade civil. 1. Concepto y funciones de la responsabilidad civil. 2. Responsabilidad civil contractual y extracontractual. 3. Responsabilidad civil y responsabilidad penal. 4. Los elementos constitutivos de la responsabilidad civil. 5. Los sujetos de la responsabilidad civil. La responsabilidad por hecho ajeno. 6. La prescripción de la acción de reclamación de daños. 7. El seguro de repsonsabilidad civil.
TEMA 13: As responsabilidades civiles especiais. 1. La responsabilidad civil en la circulación de vehículos a motor. 2. La responsabilidad civil por daños causados por productos defectuosos. 3. La responsabilidad civil médica. 4. La responsabilidad por daños causados por animales y en el ámbito de la caza. 5. Los accidentes de trabajo.
TEMA 14: A responsabilidade pola actuación administrativa 1. Introducción. 2. El régimen jurídico de la responsabilidad de la administración pública. 3. El resarcimiento de la lesión. La indemnización. 4. Los procedimientos de responsabilidad patrimonial.
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