Syllabus:

General objectives:
1- To grasp the importance of Contracts Law and its legal regime
2- Demonstrate critical spirit and ability to resolve practical situations in the field of Contract Law
3- Develop skills that allow students to apply the knowledge acquired in solving complex cases specific to the practice of the
profession
Specific objectives:
1- Reproduce the legal regime of civil contracts and their accessory clauses.
2- Explain civil liability and private autonomy
3- Reproduce the legal framework for commercial contracts

CONTENTS

I – 1 – Civil Contracts
1.1 – Service contracts – analysing the legal regime of works contracts
I – 2 – Accessory clauses in contracts
2.1 – General accessory clauses
2.2 – Specific accessory clauses in disposal contracts
II – Civil liability
1 – The third way of liability
2 – Civil liability in obligations of means and obligations of results
2.1 – Compensation for loss of chance in the context of professional liability
3 – Concurrent liability: criminal and contractual
III – Commercial Contracts
1 – Commercial distribution contracts
1.1 – Agency, concession, and franchise contracts
2 – Transport contracts
2.1 – Contracts for the carriage of goods, passenger transport, air
1.1 – Agency, concession, and franchise contracts
2 – Transport contracts
2.1 – Contracts for the carriage of goods, passenger transport, air Licence agreement for intellectual property rights
3 – Publishing contract as a commercial contract

Syllabus:

OBJECTIVES:

General Objectives:
– Provide advanced training on matters related to corporate law.
– Promote attitudes of analysis, criticism, argumentation and debate on the subject.
– Develop skills that allow students to apply the knowledge acquired in solving complex cases specific to the practice of the profession.

Specific Objectives:
Upon completion of this UC the student should be able to:
– Treat the main doctrinal and jurisprudential questions on matters related to corporate law.
– Apply the acquired knowledge, namely, in choosing the appropriate corporate type for a particular business structure, use ICT in commercial companies, etc.

CONTENTS

1. The single-member private limited company
2. The disregard of legal personality in commercial companies
3. Shareholders’ resolutions in commercial companies
4. The governance of commercial companies
5. The association of society to acts practiced by its members.
6. Exclusion of partners in commercial companies
7. Exoneration of shareholders

Syllabus:

General objectives:
1. Provide advanced training on property taxes;
2. Promote attitudes of analysis, criticism, argumentation and debate on the presented themes;
3. Develop skills that allow students to apply the knowledge acquired in solving complex cases specific to the practice of the profession.

Specific objectives:
After concluding this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
1. Understand the legal dispositions, jurisprudence, doctrine, and main concepts of the taxation of the real estate taxation (IMI, IMT, and IS).
2. Acquire capacity to deal with and resolve practical situations related to these taxes.
3. Apply the acquired knowledge, namely, in the choice of the best options when faced with real situations in the exercise of Solicitor’s profession.

CONTENTS

I – Heritage Taxation Reform
II – The Municipal Tax on Real Property (CIMI)
1. Explicitation of the main CIMI standards
2. The model for the evaluation of urban property
3. Practical cases of VPT determination
4. Simulation of VPT using Portal das Finanças
5. Means of defense of taxpayers in the evaluation process
6. Fees
7. Payment period
8. The additional to IMI (AIMI)
III – Municipal Tax on Real Estate Transmission (IMT)
1. Incidence
2. Analysis of the various tax events (taxation of the acquisition of shares, pledges with a free transfer clause, irrevocable powers of
attorney for barters and shares)
3. Exemptions
4. Determination of the taxable amount
5. Fees
6. Settlement
7. Payment terms
IV – Stamp duty – Free transmissions
1. Objective impact.
2. The personal scope
3. Determination of the taxable amount
4. Fees
5. Stamp duty participation
6. Payment of IS
V – Analysis of the main tax benefits on property taxes

Syllabus:

General objectives
A. Develop argumentative criticism skills
B. To research and study concrete issues
C. Problematise procedural issues
D. Solve complex practical cases
Specific Objectives
E. To deepen and update knowledge of Civil Declarative Procedural Law and Provisional Remedies
F. Understand and apply the concepts and institutes of European Civil Declarative Procedural Law
G. Problematise, discuss and research concrete procedural topics, from a doctrinaire and jurisprudential point of view
H. Solve concrete cases of application of issues of declarative process (common and special), incidents of the instance, evidence and injunctive relief; and of European civil procedure.

CONTENTS

I – Injunctive Relief
II – Incidents of the Instance
III – Civil Procedure
IV – Special Procedures
V – European Civil Procedural Law
VI – Evidence Law
The concrete themes to be developed and discussed, concerning each of the topics of the program content,
will result from the list of topics to be provided in the first class and according to the options of students, also for
for assessment purposes.

Syllabus:

– Provide advanced training on the organization and operation of the Notary and Civil Registry.
– To promote attitudes of analysis, criticism, argumentation and debate on the theme.
– Develop skills that allow students to apply the knowledge acquired in the resolution of cases specific to the practice of the profession.
Specific objectives
– After completion of this UC the student should be able to:
– Understand the organization and operation of Notaries, as well as the principles and requirements of the Civil Registry.
Apply the acquired knowledge, namely in the choice of contract to be made in each concrete case, with due respect for the formalities, mentions and requirements legally required
Apply the knowledge acquired to identify the facts subject to civil registration, the way of registration and proper processing of the private processes of the Civil Registry.

CONTENTS

1. The notarial function.
2. Principles of the notarial activity
3. Organs of the notarial function
4. Species of documents
5. Authentication of particular documents
6. The public deed and authenticated particular documents
7. Execution of notarial acts.
8. Information relating to matrix and land registration
9. Instrumental Witnesses and Accidental stakeholders
10. The notarial enabling
11. The deed of justification of rights
12. The documents legally required for the elaboration of contracts
13. Vices of acts.
14. Single instruments
15.Minutes and title of corporate acts
CIVIL REGISTRY:
16. Principles of registry
17. Birth, marriage and death seats.
18. Exclusive civil registration procedures.
19. Nationality: various procedures and forms of acquisition/attribution
20. Means of proof. Certifications.
21. The simplified procedures of hereditary succession

Syllabus:

General
Preparation of a Work of Advanced Project, unique and specially donefor this purpose.

Specific
After completion of this course, the student should be able to:
– Articulate the skills and transversal, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge;
– Write and evaluate a technical-scientific text;
– Know and apply techniques for presentation of papers and the results of technical and scientific research.

CONTENTS

1 – Detailed characterization of the problem (s) to be studied;
2 – Identification and analysis of the methodology to adopt and tools to be use;
3 – Development / realization of the work and conclusions.