Economic Law

Code:

D306

Acronym:

DE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2008/2009 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LDB	146	Oficial Study Plan LD	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

PURPOSES

The discipline is structured athwart: it aims at letting know in an articulated way, the principles and fundamental concepts of the constitutional Economic Law (with special incidence in the fundamental economic rights), of the economic administrative law and of the communitarian economic law.

Program

PROGRAMMATIC CONTENTS

I – Introduction. 1. Economic Legal Grounds. 2. Historical development. II–The Portuguese Economic Constitution. 1. The fundamental principles of the economic organization. 2. The fundamental economic rights. III – The government intervention in the economy. 1. The direct intervention. 1.1. The public business sector. 1.2. Companies that suffered a government intervention, a collective appropriation and nationalization. 2. The indirect intervention. 2.1. The economic regulation. 2.2. The creation of substructure, the planning and the economic furtherance. IV – Defense of competition and the free circulation. 1. The defense of competition in the Portuguese law and in the communitarian law. 2. The fundamental communitarian freedoms. 3. The communitarian rules of the competition. 4. The national rules of the competition.

MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY

MANUEL AFONSO VAZ, Economic Law, 4th ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 1998 (1st reference book of the summaries)
LUÍS CABRAL DE MONCADA, Economic Law, 4th ed., Coimbra, 2003 (2nd reference book of the summaries)
EDUARDO PAZ FERREIRA, Economic Law, Lisbon, 2001
ANTÓNIO CARLOS DOS SANTOS, MARIA EDUARDA GONÇALVES & MARIA MANUELA LEITÃO MARQUES, Economic Law, 5th edition, Coimbra, 2006
JORGE MIRANDA, Economic Law, (poli xeroxed.), Lisbon, 1982/3

COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
JOÃO PACHECO DE AMORIM, A liberdade de profissão, separata, Coimbra 2001
JOÃO PACHECO DE AMORIM, A liberdade de empresa, separata (em vias de publicação)
ANTÓNIO SOUSA FRANCO & GUILHERME D’OLIVEIRA MARTINS, A Constituição Económica Portuguesa, Coimbra, 1993
PAULO OTERO, Vinculação e liberdade de conformação jurídica do sector empresarial do Estado, Coimbra, 1998
SOFIA TOMÉ D’ALTE, A nova configuração do sector empresarial do Estado e a empresarialização dos serviços públicos, Coimbra, 2007
LUÍS BRANCO MORAIS, A evolução recente do sector financeiro. Alguns apontamentos sobre o direito comunitário da concorrência, Lisboa, 1999
AAVV, Concorrência. Estudos, Coimbra, 2006
ANA ROQUE, Regulação do mercado. Novas tendências, Lisboa, 2004
RODRIGO GOUVEIA, Os serviços de interesse geral em Portugal, Coimbra, 2001
MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES, Um curso de Direito da Concorrência, Coimbra, 2002
VITAL MOREIRA & FERNANDA MAÇÃS, Autoridades reguladoras independentes, Coimbra, 2003
AAVV, Estudos de Regulação Pública - I, Coimbra, 2004
MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES, J´~AO PAULO SIMÕES DE ALMEIDA & ANDRÉ MATOS FORTE, Concorrência e regulação, Coimbra, 2005

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical exposition based on main bibliography, and study of judicial case law, depending on the issues of the Program

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Not considered.

Calculation formula of final grade

Acording with the rules enforced in the Faculty.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Acording with the rules enforced in the Faculty.

Classification improvement

Acording with the rules enforced in the Faculty.