Public International Law

Code:

MD121

Acronym:

DIP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S (since 05-02-2024 to 17-05-2024)

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	22	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2022	1	-	7,5	-
		Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2023	1	-	7,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The study of the system of regional international protection of human rights established by the Council of Europe through the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as its articulation with the Portuguese legal system and the legal system of the European Union.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be familiar with the ECHR, its system of judicial protection and understand the principles and conditions of its articulation with the Portuguese and European Union legal systems, including fundamental case law. They should be able to critically evaluate real and hypothetical situations in which the ECHR can be applied.

Working method

Presencial

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

Not applicable

Program

I. Seminar "The Council of Europe and the protection of human rights" (Anabela Costa Leão)

1. International and regional protection of human rights. The role of the Council of Europe. 
2. European Convention on Human Rights (1950)

1. Scope of protection


2. Interactions between the Convention, national catalogues and EU protection 

3. The European Court of Human Rights

1. Composition, jurisdiction e competences of the Court; 


2. Individual applications;


3. Decisions of the Court and execution; 


4. Adjudication and the margin of appreciation;


5. The case-law of the court - discussion; 

4. Other instruments and mechanisms of protection (brief mention)

II. Seminar "Responsibility for violation of regional international law" (Juliana Ferraz Coutinho)

1. The internationalization of administrative law
2. The role of the legislator, Public Administration and national courts
3. Responsibility for violating regional international law
4. Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the duration of the administrative procedure: quid iuris?


III. Seminar "The European Convention on Human Rights and European Union Law" (Graça Enes)

    1. The jurisprudential recognition of ECHR rights as general principles of Community law.

    2. The normative recognition of the ECHR and its articulation with the Treaty on European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

    3. The EU's ECHR accession project from 1975 to 2023 - a never-ending story.

Mandatory literature

Eva Brems; Shaping rights in the ECHR. ISBN: 978-1-107-04322-0
Ana Maria Guerra Martins; Direito internacional dos direitos humanos. ISBN: 978-972-40-2768-5
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque; Comentário da Convenção Europeia dos Direitos Humanos e dos Protocolos Adicionais
Pieter van Dijk; Theory and practice of the European Convention on Human Rights. ISBN: 978-1-78068-493-2
Graça Enes; As relações entre a Convenção e o Direito da União Europeia da perspetiva do Luxemburgo, in Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque (Ed.), Comentário da Convenção Europeia dos Direitos Humanos e dos Protocolos Adicionais, Vol. 1, Universidade da Católica Editora, 2019
Graça Enes; O Parecer 2/13 do Tribunal de Justiça: primado do Direito v. primado dos direitos? Atas do IX Encontro de Professores de Direito Público, Universidade da Católica Editora, 2017
Paulo Otero; Legalidade e administração pública. ISBN: 972-40-1953-5
Luís Filipe Colaço Antunes; O^direito administrativo sem estado. ISBN: 978-972-32-1631-8

Complementary Bibliography

Alec Stone Sweet; A^cosmopolitan legal order. ISBN: 978-0-19-882534-0
Andrea Sirotti Gaudenzi; I^recorsi alla Corte Europea dei Diritti dell.Uomo. ISBN: 978-88-916-3431-3
Ireneu Cabral Barreto; A^Convenção Europeia dos Direitos do Homem. ISBN: 972-46-0681-3
Dinah Shelton; The^Oxford handbook of international human rights law. ISBN: 978-0-19-964013-3
Anna Grasso; Droit processuel européen. ISBN: 978-2-919782-70-3
Petr Agha; Human rights between law and politics. ISBN: 978-1-84946-865-7
Maria Luísa Duarte; Direitos humanos e estado de direito. ISBN: 978-972-629-833-5
AA. VV. ; International Human Rights Law, OUP, 2022
Maria José Rangel Mesquita; Justiça Internacional. Lições. Parte II – Justiça Internacional Regional, Justiça Especial. Justiça Regional especializada em matéria de Direitos Humanos. Introdução. Europa, , AAFDL, 2020
Anabela Costa Leão; O^contributo do Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos do Homem
Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann; La^teoría general del derecho administrativo como sistema. ISBN: 84-9768-048-0
EBERHARD SCHMIDT-ASSMANN; Internationalisation of administrative law: actors, fields and techniques of internationalisation – impact of international law on national administrative law, in Revista Europeia de Direito Público, vol. 18, n.º 1, 2006
WIEBKE RÜECKERT; , L’ europeizzazione del diritto amministrativo tedesco, in Diritto Pubblico, n.º 1, ano VI, 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

1. Oral presentations, seminars, discussion of topics, analysis of jurisprudence

keywords

Social sciences > Juridical sciences
Social sciences > Juridical sciences > International law

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

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

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo
Frequência das aulas
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the applicable rules.
Presence in classes is not mandatory for evaluation.

Calculation formula of final grade

Continuous assessment, with one writen test, without final exam.

Students not approved in continuous assessment may take a final appeal exam for the entire subject.

Examinations or Special Assignments

According to the applicable rules.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the applicable rules.

Classification improvement

According to the applicable rules.

Students approved in continuous assessment may take a final exam for the entire subject to improve classification. 

Observations

None.