Fundamental Rights

Code:

MD110

Acronym:

DF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Public Law

Instance: 2012/2013 - 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
MD	35	Plano Oficial de MD	1	-	10	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Students will be stimulated to discuss some specific fundamental rights, deepening previously knowledge and by means of a problematic thought.

The choice of "Specific Fundamental Rights" aims at the discussion of current issues related do the right of intimacy and frreendom of religion.
The choice of the theme "Fundamental Social Rights" aims to offer students of 2nd cycle a contextual insight on the General Theory of Fundamental Rights in a national, european and global perpsective.
It is particularly adressed to students and graduates who wish to enter careers in research, the judiciary, the bar, diplomacy and legal advice, both internally and internationally.

Learning outcomes and competences

 Students will be stimulated to discuss some specific fundamental rights, deepening previously knowledge and by means of a problematic thought.

The choice of "Specific Fundamental Rights" aims at the discussion of current issues related do the right of intimacy and frreendom of religion.
The choice of the theme "Fundamental Social Rights" aims to offer students of 2nd cycle a contextual insight on the General Theory of Fundamental Rights in a national, european and global perpsective.
It is particularly adressed to students and graduates who wish to enter careers in research, the judiciary, the bar, diplomacy and legal advice, both internally and internationally.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

We take aknowledge of the competences acquired in COnstitutional Law and Fundamental Rights in the 1st cycle of study.

Program

Program of Professors Luísa Neto e Paulo Adragão I. New fundamental rights 1. The Law and the person 2. Law and life 3. BIomedicine and Bioethics 4. Right of privacy: new contexts and new challenges II. Law, Religion and Society.

Prof. Doutora Cristina Queiroz
FUNDAMENTAL SOCIAL RIGHTS
Functions, scope, content, and interpretive questions of justiciability problems
I. The structure of fundamental social rights
II. The diversity of fundamental social rights
III. The guarantee of fundamental social rights through binding legal rules
IV. Forms of protection and limits of the judiciary intervention
V. The limits of constitutional interpretation

Mandatory literature

Neto Maria Luísa Alves da Silva 1971-; Novos direitos ou novo[s] objecto[s] para o direito?. ISBN: 978-989-8265-28-9
Adragão, Paulo; Levar a sério a liberdade religiosa, Almedina, 2012
Queiroz Cristina 1957-; O^princípio da não reversibilidade dos direitos fundamentais sociais. ISBN: 972-32-1424-6
Queiroz Cristina 1957-; Direitos fundamentais. ISBN: 972-32-1136-X
Queiroz Cristina 1957-; Direitos fundamentais. ISBN: 978-972-32-1824-4
Queiroz Cristina 1957-; Direitos fundamentais sociais. ISBN: 972-32-1428-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminar

keywords

Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Public law > Constitutional law

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
Exame	Exame	0,00	100,00
	Total:	-	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study	Estudo autónomo	75
	Total:	75,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the rules enforced in Faculty

Calculation formula of final grade

According to the rules enforced in Faculty

Examinations or Special Assignments

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the rules enforced in Faculty

Classification improvement

According to the rules enforced in Faculty

Observations

The unit taught by Professors Luísa Neto and Paulo Adragão will be assessed only with final exam, according to the rules enforced in Faculty.

The unit taught by Cristina Queiroz will be assessed by distributed evaluation without final exam