Administrative Law

Code:

D201

Acronym:

DADM1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2006/2007 - A

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	161	Official Study Plan - LD	2	-	13	-

Objectives

Administrative Law I – a subject of the 2nd year of the degree in Law – studies the Administrative Law in general. The program, presented by the Course Coordinator, Professor Colaço Antunes, develops the following major points: an approach to the notion of public administration, administrative law, administration systems, genesis and development of Administrative Law.
The discipline has also to deal with and to explain the administrative organization, the administrative activity, and involves an in-depth study of administrative act, administrative regulations, administrative contract and administrative liability.

Program

I – Introduction

1. Public Administration: notion
2. Administration’s systems: executive and judiciary administration
3. Administrative function in the context of State’s functions
4. Genesis and development of the Administrative Law
5. Administrative Law: notion
6. Constitutionals basis of the Portuguese Administrative Law
7. The Administrative Law sources


II – The administrative organization

1. Administrative organization: notion
2. Constitutionals principles of the administrative organization
3. The administrative organization’s elements
4. Attributions and abilities
6. Types of Administration
7. The private exercise of the public functions
8. The independent administrative authorities


III – Public interest, administrative power and administrative function

1. Public interest, proportionality and merit
2. Administrative activity’s types
3. The major principles of the administrative activity
4. The administrative discretionarity as the distinguish element of the Administrative Law
5. The procedure’s role in the administrative activity
6. Administrative procedure’s legal regime
7. Act and administrative procedure
8. The administrative guarantees
9. The jurisdictional guarantees


IV – The administrative act

1. Administrative act: notion
2. Elements of the administrative act
3. Types of administrative acts
4. Validity and efficacy of the administrative act
8. The administrative act’s invalidities
9. The administrative act’s vices
10. The criteria of the European Court of Justice. The Evidenztheorie
12. The enforcement of the administrative act


V – The administrative regulations

1. Introduction
2. Notion and types
3. Distinction between regulation and law
4. Distinction between regulation and administrative act
5. The regulation-making process


VI – The administrative contract

1. The administrative contract: notion and types
2. The parties
3. The pre-contractual administrative procedure
4. The administrative contract’s invalidity
5. The contractual litigious


VII – The administrative liability

Main Bibliography

A.A.V.V., Responsabilidade Civil Extra-Contratual do Estado, Coimbra, 2002
COLAÇO ANTUNES, O Procedimento Administrativo de Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental - Para uma Tutela Preventiva do Ambiente, Coimbra, 1998
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
ESTEVES DE OLIVEIRA, Direito Administrativo, I, reimp., Coimbra, 1984
FAUSTO DE QUADROS, A Nova Dimensão do Direito Administrativo Português na Perspectiva Comunitária, Coimbra, 2001
FREITAS DO AMARAL, Curso de Direito Administrativo, I, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, 1996; II, Coimbra, 2001
GARCIA DE ENTERRÍA / TOMÁS-RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ, Curso de Derecho Administrativo, I, 8.ª ed., 1997; II, 4.ª ed., Madrid, 1993
H. MAURER, Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, 13.ª ed., München, 2000 (há tradução parcial francesa)
JOÃO CAUPERS, Introdução ao Direito Administrativo, 6.ª ed., Lisboa, 2001
M. REBELO DE SOUSA, Lições de Direito Administrativo, I, 2.ª ed., Lisboa, 1999
MARIA DA GLÓRIA DIAS GARCIA, A Responsabilidade Civil do Estado e Demais Pessoas Colectivas Públicas, Lisboa, 1997
MARIA JOÃO ESTORNINHO, A Fuga para o Direito Privado, Coimbra, 1996
PAULO OTERO, Direito Administrativo, Lisboa, 1998
PEDRO GONÇALVES, O Contrato Administrativo, Coimbra, 2003
R. CHAPUS, Droit Administratif Général, I e II, 15.ª ed., Paris, 2001
ROGÉRIO SOARES, Direito Administrativo, polic., Coimbra, 1978
S. CASSESE (Coord.), Trattato di Diritto Amministrativo, I e II, Milano, 2000
SÉRVULO CORREIA, Noções de Direito Administrativo, I, Lisboa, 1982
V. PEREIRA DA SILVA, Em Busca do Acto Administrativo Perdido, Coimbra, 1996
VIEIRA DE ANDRADE, O Dever da Fundamentação Expressa de Actos Administrativos, Coimbra, 1991
VITAL MOREIRA, Administração Autónoma e Associações Públicas, Coimbra, 1997

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 75 hours) is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Administrative Law, with particular emphasis on the structuring principles of the Administrative Law, the basis of the administrative organization and activity, followed by a systematic study of the administrative act, the administrative regulations, the administrative contract and, at last, the administrative liability.
In the practical classes (of around 50 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.

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

Not considered.

Calculation formula of final grade

Obtained as a result of the rules enforced in FDUP.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not considered.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Obtained as a result of the rules enforced in FDUP.