Administrative Law I

Code:

D200 I

Acronym:

DA I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S (since 14-09-2015 to 18-12-2015)

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	228	Oficial Study Plan LD	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Administrative Law I – a subject of the 2nd year of the degree in Law – studies the Administrative Law in general. The program 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.

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

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

Mandatory literature

Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; A^ciência jurídica administrativa. ISBN: 978-972-40-4905-2
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; Para um direito administrativo de garantia do cidadão e da administração. ISBN: 972-40-1344-8
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; O^direito administrativo e a sua justiça no início do século XXI. ISBN: 972-40-1532-7
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço 1952-; A^teoria do acto e a justiça administrativa. ISBN: 972-40-2786-4
Antunes Luís Filipe Colaço ; O direito administrativo sem Estado. Crise ou fim de um paradigma?, Coimbra Editora, 2008
Oliveira Mário Esteves de; Direito administrativo
Amaral Diogo Freitas do; Curso de direito administrativo, I, 3ª ed., Almedina, 2007
Amaral Diogo Freitas do; Curso de direito administrativo, II, Almedina, 2011
Sousa Marcelo Rebelo de 1948-; Lições de direito administrativo
Sousa Marcelo Rebelo de / Matos A. Salgado de; Direito administrativo, I, Lisboa, 2004
Sousa Marcelo Rebelo de / Matos A. Salgado de ; Direito administrativo, III , Lisboa, 2007
Otero Paulo 1963-; Legalidade e administração pública. ISBN: 972-40-1953-5
Soares Rogério Ehrhardt 1925-; Direito administrativo
Moreira Vital; Administração autónoma e associações públicas, Almedina, 1997
Correia J. M. Sérvulo 1937-; Noções de direito administrativo
Andrade José Carlos Vieira de 1949-; O^dever da fundamentação expressa de actos administrativos

Comments from the literature

Detailed bibliography will be registered in the summaries.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The material taught in the theoretical classes 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.

 

 

 

 

keywords

Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Public law > Administrative law

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

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

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

Obtained as a result of rules enforced in FDUP.