Private International Law

Code:

D406

Acronym:

DIP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

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
D	118	Official Study Plan - LD	5	-	7	-

Objectives

1. On the aim of Private International Law (PIL): international private relations.
2. On the various modes of regulating international private relations. Rules for conflict of laws in space.
3. Definition of the scope of the course.
4. General outline of historical development of PIL.
5. Contemporary orientations of PIL.
6. PIL and other subjects in law.

Program

PART I - GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE PORTUGUESE LAW OF CONFLICTS

CHAPTER I - Sources, applying bodies, aim, function and nature of rules of conflicts

CHAPTER II - General structure of rules of conflicts

CHAPTER III - Interpretation and application of rules of conflicts

CHAPTER IV - On the element of connection

CHAPTER V - Remission to complex legal systems

CHAPTER VI - Devolution or returning

CHAPTER VII - Fraud in obtaining judgment in PIL

CHAPTER VIII - The preserve of international public order

CHAPTER IX - Qualification in PIL

CHAPTER X - Status of foreign law

PART II - SPECIAL SECTION ON THE PORTUGUESE LAW OF CONFLICTS

CHAPTER I - Introduction
CHAPTER II - Basic aspects of Portuguese law on norms of conflict of laws

§ 1st – Persons
§ 2nd – Legal act
§ 3rd - Obligations
§ 4th - Rights in rem and intellectual property
§ 5th - Family relations
§ 6th - Succession

PART III - ON THE EFFECTS OF FOREIGN PUBLIC ACTS ON PRIVATE RIGHTS

CHAPTER I - Introduction

CHAPTER II - On the effects of foreign judgments on private rights

PART IV - ON INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ARBITRATION

Main Bibliography

A. MARQUES DOS SANTOS, Direito Internacional Privado ─ Introdução ─ I Volume, Lisbon, AAFDL, 2001.

A. MARQUES DOS SANTOS, Direito Internacional Privado ─ Sumários, reimpressão, Lisbon, AAFDL, 1999.

A. MARQUES DOS SANTOS, Direito Internacional Privado ─ Colectânea de textos legislativos de fonte interna e internacional, 2nd edition, Coimbra, Almedina (in preparation for publication).

A. FERRER CORREIA, Lições de Direito Internacional Privado ─ I, Coimbra, Almedina, 2000.

J. BAPTISTA MACHADO, Lições de Direito Internacional Privado, 2nd edition, reimpressão, Coimbra, Almedina, 1999.

L. LIMA PINHEIRO, Direito Internacional Privado ─ Volume I ─ Introdução e Direito de Conflitos ─ Parte Geral, Coimbra, Almedina, 2001.

L. LIMA PINHEIRO, Direito Internacional Privado ─ Parte Especial (Direito de Conflitos), Coimbra, Almedina, 1999.

Complementary Bibliography

R.MOURA RAMOS, Estudos de direito internacional privado e de direito processual civil internacional / Rui Manuel Moura Ramos. - Coimbra : Coimbra Editora, 2002. - 391 p.

R.MOURA RAMOS, Direito internacional privado e constituição : Introdução a uma análise das suas relaçöes / Rui Manuel Gens de Moura Ramos. - 3ª reimp.. - Coimbra : Coimbra Editora, 1994. - 274 p.

R. MOURA RAMOS, Das relaçöes privadas internacionais : estudos de Direito Internacional Privado / Rui Manuel Gens de Moura Ramos. - Coimbra : Coimbra Editora, 1995. - 408

Isabel de MagalhãesColaço, Direito internacional privado : problemas especiais de interpretação e aplicação da norma de conflitos 1968 341.9/COL/dir FD( 1/ 0)

Isabel de Magalhães Colaço, Direito internacional privado : determinação da ordem local aplicável em caso de remissão para ordenamentos plurilegislativos / Isabel de Magalhães Collaço; compil. Pedro Vasconcelos, J. Pimentel 1970 341.9/COL/dir-det FD( 1/ 0)

Isabel de Magalhães Colaço, Direito internacional privado : sistema de conflitos português 1971 341.9/COL/dir-con FD( 1/ 0)

Isabel de Magalhães Colaço, Direito internacional privado : sistema de normas de conflito portuguesas / Isabel de Magalhães Collaço; compil. Maria Célia Ramos 1973 341.9/COL/dir-sis FD( 1/ 0)

Isabel de Magalhães Colaço, Direito internacional privado : sistema de normas de conflitos portuguesas / Isabel de Magalhães Collaço; compil. J. B. Macedo 1971 341.9/COL/dir-pri FD( 1/ 0)

Isabel de Magalhães Colaço, Direito internacional privado / Isabel Magalhães Colaço 1984

Dário Moura Vicente,Direito internacional privado : ensaios / Dário Moura Vicente. - Coimbra : Almedina, 2002. - v.1

António Marques dos Santos, Estudos de direito internacional privado e de direito processual civil internacional / António Marques dos Santos. - Coimbra : Almedina, 1998. - 367 p.

António Marques dos Santos, Estudos de direito internacional privado e de direito público / António Marques dos Santos. - Coimbra : Almedina, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes: Exposition of the contents of the discipline with the support of case-studies
Practical classes: The students have to solve practical exercises

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0,20] in one of the following hypotheses:
a)Written final examination;
b)Oral final examination (if the student obtained in a) a mark between 7 and 9.

Calculation formula of final grade

Are the marks obtained in the examinations referred in “Frequency Attaining

Examinations or Special Assignments

None

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Is obtained by doing a written or an oral examination