Administrative Law II

Code:

D302

Acronym:

ADM2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2005/2006 - 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	114	Official Study Plan - LD	3	-	7	-

Objectives

Administrative Law II is a subject of the 3rd year of the degree in Law (2nd semester). The program, presented by the Course Coordinator, Professor Colaço Antunes, will take a close look at and study the scope of administrative jurisdiction, the organization of administrative courts and how they operate and the respective legal procedure.
Since this is a reform we are referring to, it is worthwhile and necessary to start with a dogmatic construction that sheds light on and increases understanding of the topics to be discussed.
Special attention will be given to studying special administrative action and the string of new questions regarding the object of the administrative procedure, legitimacy and carrying out of sentences. Because administrative justice is guided by the principle of full and effective jurisdictional protection, it is extremely relevant to understand the role played by administrative judge, as well as the proof, namely in the provisional measures.

Program

I – Towards an administrative contentious providing guarantees to citizens and Public Administration

1. Guided visit to the administrative contentious. Intelligibility of linguistic statements used
2. The administrative process as a reflex of a determined conception of the Administrative Law
3. The administrative process as a party’s process

II – The new administrative justice and its model

1. The reform of the administrative contentious and its adjustment to the Constitution
2. Structural principles
3. The culture of urgency
4. A look at comparative law: inspiring models

III – Notion and scope of the administrative jurisdiction

1. Notion and scope of administrative justice: some doubts
2. The new and complex relationship between the judge and the Administration

IV – Historic evolution of the administrative contentious in Portugal

1. The first steps of the administrative contentious
2. Evolution of the organization and procedural models used in administrative contentious

V – The legal authority of the organs of administrative justice

1. The organs of administrative jurisdiction
2. Organization and operation of the administrative courts
3. Criteria of legal authority of the administrative courts
4. The lawsuit value limit
5. Conflicts of jurisdictional authority and powers

VI – The dualist structure of the procedural means of access to administrative courts

1. Common administrative action
2. Special administrative action

VII – The object of the administrative process

1. Contestable administrative activity: material and functional limits
2. The claim as an object of the administrative process
3. Delimitation of the object of administrative process
3.1. The claim’s elements
3.2. The subjects
3.3. The substancial petitum
3.4. The causa petendi
4. Morphology of claims
4.1. Action for annulment of administrative acts
4.2. Action for practice of legally due act
4.3. Actions for rules impugnation
5. Plurality of claims
6. The lawsuit value

VIII – The parties in the administrative process

1. The parties. A problematic qualification
2. Requirements concerning the parties
3. Formal amplification of active legitimacy
4. Passive legitimacy. Redouble care
5. Representation and parties’ defense in the administrative process

IX – The legal requirements in the administrative process

1. Process beginning: pleadings
2. Healing, instruction and allegations
3. Trial

X – The urgent processes

1. Urgent objections
1.1. Electoral contentious
1.2. Pre-electoral contentious
1.3. Scope, presuppositions and legal requirements
2. The summonses
2.1. Summons for providing information, processes consultation and certificates passage
2.2. Summons for protection of rights, liberties or guarantees
2.3. Presuppositions and legal procedure
2.4. Situations especially urgent

XI – The provisional measures

1. Characteristics
2. Main principle
3. Provisional measures validity
4. Criteria and effects of the provisional measures
5. Procedural system
6. Specific aspects

XII – The effects of the sentences

1. Types of sentences
2. The effects of the administrative sentences

XIII – The jurisdictional appeals

1. Concept and types of appeals
2. The right to appeal in the administrative process and the principle of the effective jurisdictional protection
3. Legal procedural system

XIV – The executive process

0. Preliminary considerations
1. The executive process for providing facts and things
2. The executive process for payment of an exact amount
3. The executive process for nullifying sentences

XV – The arbitration

1. Scope
2. Appeal against an award by arbitration
3. Centers of arbitration

Main Bibliography

COLAÇO ANTUNES, Para um Direito Administrativo de Garantia do Cidadão e da Administração – Tradição e Reforma, Coimbra, 2000
COLAÇO ANTUNES, O Direito Administrativo e a sua Justiça no Início do Século XXI (Algumas Questões), Coimbra, 2001
COLAÇO ANTUNES, “Interesse público, proporcionalidade e mérito: relevância e autonomia processual do princípio da proporcionalidade”, in Obras de Homenagem à Senhora Prof.ª Doutora Isabel de Magalhães Collaço, Coimbra, 2002
COLAÇO ANTUNES, “Brevíssimas notas sobre a fixação de uma summa gravaminis no processo administrativo”, in Revista da F.D.U.P., n.º 1, 2004
COLAÇO ANTUNES, “O artigo 161.º do Código de Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos: uma complexa simplificação”, in C.J.A., n.º 42, 2004
COLAÇO ANTUNES / SAÍNZ MORENO, O Acto no Contencioso Administrativo (Colóquio Luso-Espanhol), Coimbra, 2005
FERREIRA PINTO / GUILHERME DA FONSECA, Direito Processual Administrativo Contencioso, 3.ª ed., Porto, 1996
FREITAS DO AMARAL, A Execução das Sentenças dos Tribunais Administrativos, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, 1997
FREITAS DO AMARAL / AROSO DE ALMEIDA, Grandes Linhas da Reforma do Contencioso Administrativo, Coimbra, 2002
MÁRIO AROSO DE ALMEIDA, O Novo Regime do Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos, Coimbra, 2005
MÁRIO AROSO DE ALMEIDA/ CARLOS CADILHA - Comentário ao Código de Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos, Coimbra, 2005
MÁRIO ESTEVES DE OLIVEIRA/ RODRIGO ESTEVES DE OLIVEIRA, Código de Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos, volume I, Coimbra, 2006 (reimp.)
MINISTÉRIO DA JUSTIÇA, Reforma do Contencioso Administrativo (O Debate Universitário), Lisboa, 2000
SÉRVULO CORREIA / BERNARDO AYALA / RUI MEDEIROS, Estudos de Direito Processual Administrativo, Lisboa, 2002
SÉRVULO CORREIA, Contencioso Administrativo, Lisboa, 1990
SÉRVULO CORREIA, Direito do Contencioso Administrativo I, Lisboa, 2005
VASCO PEREIRA DA SILVA, O Contencioso Administrativo no Divã da Psicanálise - Ensaio sobre as Acções no Novo Processo Administrativo, Coimbra, 2005
VASCO PEREIRA DA SILVA, Ventos de Mudança no Contencioso Administrativo, Coimbra, 2000
VIEIRA DE ANDRADE, A Justiça Administrativa (Lições), Coimbra, 2005

Complementary Bibliography

Complementary bibliography, as well as supporting texts, will be made available during the year.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The material taught in the theorical classes (lasting approximately 45 hours) is designed to provide an in-depth study of the administrative jurisdiction, with particular emphasis on the administrative process.
In the practical classes (of around 30 hours), in addition to providing clarification and detailed analysis of the specific issues arising from the study of the themes described above, practical cases are resolved, the most relevant jurisprudence is discussed and extracts from procedures are considered with the aim of documenting the practical application of the materials presented in the theory class and stimulating critical reflection on the part of the students.

Software

Text Files made available.

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

Only relevant if the students choose the "continuous assessment", a method that measures up the participation and work made by the students all along the year.

Calculation formula of final grade

Obtained as a result of the rules enforced in FDUP.

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

Observations

Welcoming hours for students
wednesday, 11h to 13h
thursday, 14h to 16h