Administrative Law

Code:

MD103

Acronym:

DA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

Instance: 2016/2017 - 2S (since 13-02-2017 to 26-05-2017)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto
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	32	Plano Oficial MD do ano letivo 2016	1	-	7,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

This course seeks to provide a current scientific research and reflect on trends and today's administrative law deems. Can't stop research on traditional dogmatic matters know, looking new epistemological paths needed to renovate the main legal categories.

In the end of the curricular unit, student’s will be able to understand rigorously dogmatic concepts and institutes of Administrative Law, understand and critically analyze the regulatory and jurisprudential bases, develop an autonomous research and solve real situations that professional practice requires.

Learning outcomes and competences

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and learning outcomes:

The depicted teaching methodology provides the students with essential knowledge on the studied themes, thus enhancing their capacities of a critical reflection and preparing them to the coming writing of their masters’ thesis in Administrative Law.

The proposed methodology meets the goals of teaching / learning defined for the C.U., as it reflects the specific needs of the transmission of knowledge concerning the matter in question.

On the other hand, and in line with former arguments, students’ continuous evaluation is envisaged as the most correct method to evaluate real knowledge and competences acquired within the frame of the curricular unit.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I – THE METAMORPHOSIS OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

II – INTERPRETATION AND DOGMATIC IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

 

Mandatory literature

COLAÇO ANTUNES ; A Ciência Jurídica Administrativa – Noções Fundamentais, Coimbra, 2012
COLAÇO ANTUNES ; O Direito Administrativo sem Estado, Coimbra, 2008
COLAÇO ANTUNES ; A Teoria do Acto e a Justiça Administrativa, Coimbra, 2006
D. SORACE ; Diritto delle amministrazioni pubbliche. Un’introduzione, Bologna, 2005
E. GARCÍA DE ENTERRÍA / T.-R. FERNÁNDEZ ; Curso de Derecho Administrativo, I, 2004, II, 2004, Madrid
E. SCHMIDT-AßMANN ; Das allgemeine Verwaltungsrecht als Ordnungsidee. Grundlegan und Aufgauben der verwaltungsrechtlichen Systembildung, Berlin, 2.ª ed., 2004 (há trad. espanhola de 2003)
FREITAS DO AMARAL ; Curso de Direito Administrativo, vol. I, 2007, vol. II, 2011, Coimbra
H. MAURER ; Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, München, 2006 (trad. francesa parcial)
M. REBELO DE SOUSA / ANDRÉ SALGADO DE MATOS ; Direito Administrativo Geral, I e III, Lisboa, 2006 e 2007
M. REBELO DE SOUSA ; Lições de Direito Administrativo, I, Lisboa, 1999
MARCELLO CAETANO ; Princípios Fundamentais do Direito Administrativo, Lisboa, 1996
MASSIMO SEVERO GIANNINI ; Istituzioni di Diritto Amministrativo, Milano, 2000
P. DEVOLVÉ ; Droit Administratif, Paris, 2006
PAUL GRAIG ; Administrative Law, London, 2008

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methodologies (including evaluation):

Theoretical and practical classes; Exposition of the (subject) contents with regular application of the case-method. Work with cases and study of jurisprudential trends and criteria.

Given the prescribed aims, the curricular unit is submitted to continuous evaluation as defined in the adequate Faculty’s regulation. In the students’ final evaluation will be considered the following elements: (i) active participation of students in class; (ii) written work on Administrative Law themes.

keywords

Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Public law > Administrative law

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Obtained as a result of rules enforced in FDUP.