Urbanism and Environmental Law

Code:

D311

Acronym:

DUA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S (since 05-02-2018 to 18-05-2018)

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	158	Novo Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2016	3	-	6	-
		Plano Transitório do ano letivo 2016	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Study of a discipline of special administrative Law

Learning outcomes and competences

In line with the Program, it is a discipline essential for the formation of any lawyer, seeking to provide the necessary competencies, both theoretical frameworks, as the jurisprudential practice.

Working method

Presencial

Program

INTRODUCTION
DELIMITATION OF URBANISTIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

1. Genesis and historical evolution of urbanism
2. Concept, aim and nature of Urbanistic and Environmental Law
3. Distinction between Urbanistic Law and Environmental Law and other kindred legal subjects. The matrix of the Land use Planning Law
4. Public Administration of Urbanism and Environment: constitutional and organisational aspects



PART I
URBANISTIC LAW


CHAPTER I
GENERAL THEORY OF URBANISTIC PLANNING

1. Functions of urbanistic plans
2. Types of urbanistic plans
3. Towards a just procedure for drawing up urbanistic plans
4. From the structuring legal principles of urbanistic plans to urbanistic and environmental standards
5. Legal nature of urbanistic plans
6. Contentiousness of urbanistic plans


CHAPTER II
FROM THE DISCRETIONARY NATURE OF URBANISTIC PLANS TO UNCERTAINTY AND FORMATION OF RIGHT TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF LAND

1. Precision and limits of discretionary nature of urbanistic planning
2. Urbanistic planning and the principle of equality
3. Constitutional guarantee of right to private ownership of land
4. Meaning and scope of the principle of situational obligation of private ownership of land
5. From the imbalancing effects of the urbanistic plan regarding the right to own land to the need for compensatory measures
6. The urbanistic content of land ownership. The right to private ownership of land and the jus aedificandi: right and duty to build



CHAPTER III
SYSTEMS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR EXECUTING PLANS

1. Execution systems
2. Execution instruments:
2.1. The right of preference
2.2. The re-division of urban land
2.3. The licensing for private building
2.4. The allocation and works of urbanisation
2.5. Expropriation for public utility


CHAPTER IV
URBAN REHABILITATION, AESTHETICS AND HISTORIC CENTRES

1. Urbanistic Law. From the ethics of design to the beauty of form
2. Guardianship of historic centres
3. Urban rehabilitation



PART II
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW


PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS

1. From a society at risk to Environmental Law as law of complexity
2. Sources of Environmental Law
3. Structuring principles of Environmental Law
4. Approach to the constitutional legal concept of the environment


CHAPTER I
EUROPEAN UNION LAW OF ENVIRONMENT

1. The promotional function of European Union Law in the Portuguese legal system (primacy and direct effect)
2. Principles, goals and conditions for Community action in environmental matters
3. European Union Environmental Law and International Environmental Law. Relativity and need for international environmental law


CHAPTER II
GUARDIANSHIP OF THE ENVIRONMENT

1. Guardianship of the environment between procedures and administrative processes.
2. Environmental impact assessment (EIA) as standard procedure in the prevention of the environment
3 Complex authorizing procedures with justifying preclusive effects and protection of third parties
4. Jurisdictional guardianship of the environment. Particularly, the right of popular action and provisional measures

Mandatory literature

Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; O^procedimento administrativo de avaliação de impacto ambiental. ISBN: 972-40-1111-9
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; Direito urbanístico. ISBN: 972-40-1714-1
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; Contributo para uma percepção jurídico-cultural do centro histórico
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; Tutela do ambiente e heterointegração da norma penal
Colaço Antunes, Luis Filipe; Direito Público do Ambiente - Diagnose e Prognose da Tutela Processual da Paisagem, Almedina, 2008. ISBN: 9789724035116
Raquel Carvalho; Introdução ao Direito do Urbanismo, Universidade Católica, 2017. ISBN: 9789898835178
Gomes Carla Amado 1970-; Introdução ao direito do ambiente. ISBN: 5606939007155
Gomes Carla Amado 1970-; Textos dispersos de direito do ambiente
Correia Fernando Alves; Manual de direito do urbanismo. ISBN: 978-972-40-3571-0
Correia Fernando Alves; As^garantias do particular na expropriação por utilidade pública
Moreno Molina Ángel Manuel; Derecho comunitario del medio ambiente. ISBN: 84-9768-305-6
Fernando dos Reis Codesso; Direito do Ambiente - Ambiente e Território. Urbanismo e Reabilitação Urbana, Almedina, 2017. ISBN: 9789724068169
Fernanda Paula Oliveira, Jorge Carvalho ; Classificação do Solo no Novo Quadro Legal , Almedina, 2016. ISBN: 9789724066851

Comments from the literature

Detailed bibliography will be registered in the summaries.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation with final exam. The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0-20].

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation with final exam. The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0-20].

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

See article 19.º from the "Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Direito da FDUP".