Syllabus:

GENERAL
– Know the importance of the Administrative Law and of the administrative organization;
– Possess critical thinking and ability to deal with and solve practical situations.
SPECIFIC
After concluding this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
1 – Know the administrative law and identify its characteristics;
2 – Know and distinguish the various sources of Administrative Law;
3 – Understand and characterize the portuguese administrative organization and distinguish its principles;
4 – Identify / distinguish when the government is bound to act or use of discretion.

CONTENTS

1 – The Administrative Law
2 – The Public Administration
3 – The Administration and the Law
4 – The sources of Administrative Law
5 – The Administrative organization

Syllabus:

General objectives:
1- To know the importance of Constitutional Law.
2- To know the main norms of the TUE-Lisbon and TFEU.
Specific objectives:
1- To know the main norms of Constitutional Law and the main aspects of the Portuguese constitutionalism;
2 – To reproduce the theory of the constitution and the constituent power and to recognize the fundamental Rights in the CRP and
the concept and functions of the State;
3- Identify economic and political systems and the government systems and political parties;
4 – Demonstrate the review of constitutionality;
5- Understand the genesis of the European Union and the evolution of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as understand the sources and
principles of EU law;
6 – Acquire knowledge of EU objectives, freedoms of movement, EU institutions (and bodies) and EU competences, applying the
knowledge thus acquired to the relationship between EU law and national law.

CONTENTS

I – Constitutional Law
1- The Constitutional Law
2 – The Portuguese Constitutionalism
3- Theory of the Constitution.
4- The Constituent Power
5- Fundamental Rights in the CRP
6- State: Historical Type, Purposes and Functions of the State
7- Economic and Political Systems and Regimes; Government Systems and Political Parties
8- Supervision of Constitutionality
II – European Union law
1. Introduction. From the genesis of the European Union to the Treaty of Lisbon
2. The objectives of the European Union (EU) and the freedoms of movement
3. The EU institutions (and bodies)
4- The sources and principles of EU law
5. EU competences
6- Relations between EU law and national law

Syllabus:

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
1. To apprehend the concept of Juridical Order as normative order and to recognize its importance for the coexistence in society.
2. To know basic concepts of Law that will allow to create the bases of essential juridical reasoning for the study of other curricular
units.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand the meaning of law, its framework in the social order, the purposes it pursues and its means of protectorship.
2. To know the structuring lines of the Legal Order and its sources.
3. To apprehend the concept of legal norm, its classifications and consequences of its violation.
4. Know the legal methodology, namely, interpretation of the law, integration of gaps and law enforcement in time and space.
5. Identify a legally relevant situation, apprehending the concept of legal relationship and its structuring elements.
6. Solve real or hypothetical situations that arise.

CONTENTS

PART I – CONCEPT AND GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF THE LAW
1. The concept and nature of law
2. The law as a normative complex and the other normative orders
3. The Purposes of Law
4. The protection of the law
PART II – LEGAL STRUCTURE
1. Branches of Law
2. Sources of Law
2.1. Classification of Law Sources
2.2. Sources Cast
2.2.1. The law
2.2.2. The Jurisprudence
2.2.3. The doctrine
2.2.4. The custom
3. The Legal Standard
3.1. Concept and structure of the rule of law
3.2. Characteristics of the legal norm
3.3. Breach of legal rules – legal sanctions
PART III – LEGAL METHODOLOGY
1. Application of the Law, individualization of the norm and fullness of the legal order
2. Dynamics of the law
3. Interpretation of the law
4. Integrating the gaps in the law
5. Law enforcement in time and space
PART IV – LEGAL RELATIONSHIP
1. Concept of legal relationship
2. Structuring elements of the legal relationship
2.1. Subjects
2.2. Object
2.3. Legal fact
2.4. Warranty

Syllabus:

1. To understand the fundamental elements of financial operations and how to apply their techniques.
2. To know the financial instruments that support the decision-making process considering the applications offered by the capital market.
3. To possess a critical culture and the ability to solve problems in the economic- business context.
4. To create and integrate multidisciplinary groups/teams, in the context of economic and business cooperation at both national and international levels.

After completing the subject, the student must be able to:
– Understand and apply the techniques used in the development of financial products.
– Calculate interest and interest rates, develop capitalization and capital discount operations, identify several types of rents and loan repayment systems.
– Make operational and strategic decisions considering the proposed objectives.

CONTENTS

1. Basic principles of financial maths
2. Capitalization regimes
– Simple interest regime
– Compound interest regime
3. Problems related with interest rates
– Annual and periodic rates
– Nominal and effective rates
– Equivalent and proportional rates
– Gross and net rates
– Current and real rates
– TAE, TAER and TAEG
4. Actualization (capital discount)
– Simple interest regime
– Compound interest regime
5. Rents
– Temporary rents of constant terms
– Temporary rents of variable terms (arithmetic and geometric progression)
– Perpetual rents

Syllabus:

General objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
– Dominate basic notions of Family Law;

Specific objectives:
a) Distinguish civil marriage from Catholic marriage, apreend the requirements of civil marriage, particularly matrimonial capacity and consent, as well as the de marital relationship;
b) Understand the patrimonial and personal effects of marriage;
c) know the forms of suspension and dissolution of marriage;
d) Learn the rules of the legal system of filiation, adoption and civil sponsorship.
e) Know the rules of the maintenance obligation.
f) Understand and deal with the legal regime of the Juvenile Law.

CONTENTS

I – BASIC NOTIONS OF FAMILY LAW
II – MARRIAGE
III – NONMARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
IV – FILIATION
V – ADOPTION LEGAL REGIME
VI – “APADRINHAMENTO CIVIL” – SHORT NOTICE
VII – SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS
VIII – MINORS LAW

Syllabus:

General objective
Understand the rules and fundamental principles of the general theory of obligations
Solve practical exercises in the framework of compulsory relationships

Specific objectives
1. Know and contextualize the concepts and principles of the Law of Obligations.
2. Master the interpretation and application of the rules governing the relations of credit, based on the concept of obligation.
3. Identify the sources, the obligations, the guarantees of obligations and the mechanisms of compliance and non-compliance with obligations

CONTENTS

I Introduction
II Sources of obligations
III Modalities of obligations
IV Guarantees of the obligations
V Fulfillment and non fulfillment of obligations

Syllabus:

General Objectives (OG):
OG1. Understanding the fundamental concepts of labor law;
OG2. To apply the legal regime (Labour Code) in resolving issues relating to the individual employment relationship.

Specific Objectives (OE)
After completion of UC, the student must be able to:
OE1. resolving specific issues affecting individual employment relationship, since its inception (the formation of the employment contract) to its termination;
OE2. know the system of collective labor relations, including collective subjects, the IRCT and the type of collective conflicts;
OE3. know the basic principles of labor process and the main differences from the Civil Procedure.

CONTENTS

Introduction
I – Characterization of Labour Law
II – Sources of Labour Law
III – Collective Labour Relations
IV – Individual employment relationship
V-Labour Procedure

Syllabus:

General objectives
A. Mastering the main concepts and general principles of CPD
B. Studying effective and provisional judicial protection
C. Building foundations for understanding the judicial system
D. to know the relevant procedural acts in the declaratory process and in the protective custody
Specific objectives
E. Understand the object, characteristics and sources of the CPS
F.Identify and interpret the general principles of civil procedure
G. Classify the actions according to object, form and interests under discussion.
H. Knowing the declarative procedural formalism
I. Be able to comply with the procedural requirements
J. Identify the procedural faults and the consequences according to whether the defect is curable or insanitary
K. Knowing the procedural legal relationship and the vicissitudes of the instance
L. Rule the procedures of the common declaratory action and the examination of the process.
M.Understand the formalism of the special procedures of debt collection
N. Applying the substantive and adjective regime of evidence
O.Identifying protective procedures

CAP I. INTRODUCTION
1.Concept, characteristics and sources of the CPD
2.Fundamental Principles of the CPD
CAP II. CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIONS
3.Regarding the object, form and interests under discussion
CAP III. PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS
4.Concerning the Parties
a.Personality and judicial capacity
b.Legitimacy.
c.Mandatory Judicial Assistance
d.Interest in Acting
5.Concerning the Court
6.Concerning the Object of the Cause
7.Failure of Procedural Requirements
CAP IV. PROCEEDINGS
8.Initiative, stay and termination of proceedings
CAP V. DECLARATORY PROCESS
9.Initial Phase
a.Application
b.Distribution
c.Service and notifications
d.Procedural acts in general. Counting of deadlines.
e.Opposition
i.Complaint
ii.Principles of defence
iii.Counterclaim
iv.Defendant’s default
f.Replica and supervening Articulate
10.Intermediate stage: organization of the process and sanitation
11.Final phase: final hearing and judgment
12.Injunction procedure and AECOPE
13. Evidence
CAP VI. PRELIMINARY
14. Tipology

Syllabus:

General objectives:
1 – Know the N.R.A.U. (New Urban Lease Scheme) and confront it with previous legal regimes;
2 – Characterize the relationships established between the owners and between them and the Condominium Administration;
Specific objectives:
3 – Identify the lease agreement and the respective legal framework;
4 – Know and analyze the various vicissitudes of the tenancy relationship;
5 – Apply the transitional regime to lease agreements prior to the entry into force of Law 6/2006 of 27/02;
6 – Recognize the rights and duties of joint owners and know the legal solutions to conflicts arising from their relations, particularly in the context of local housing.

CONTENTS

I – THE RENTAL LAW
1 – General principles; Rental modalities; Elements of the lease agreement;
2 – Vicissitudes of the lease: transmission, succession, subletting, leasing, suspension;
3 – Termination of the lease: the modalities of termination of the lease;
4 – The rent update regime;
5 – Housing agreements entered into under the RAU and non-housing contracts entered into after DL No. 257/95 of 30/09;
6 – Housing contracts entered into prior to the validity of the RAU and non-housing contracts entered into prior to DL 257/95 of 30/09;
7 – Procedural provisions concerning urban leasing.
II – CONDOMINIUM
1 – Horizontal property and its constitution; Rights and Duties of Owners;
2 – Administration of the common parts of the building; The acts of the Condominium Administration and the Local Accommodation.

Syllabus:

General:
1. Understand the concept, principles, typology and practical relevance of general contract theory.
2. Know the essential elements of the main civil contract types.

Specifics:
1. Apply the legally relevant concepts of the general theory of contracts.
2. Know and apply to practical situations the legal regime of contracts for: purchase and sale; exchange; donation; free loan; loan and mandate.

CONTENTS

Part I – Contracts in General
1.1. Concept and essential elements of contracts
1.2. Fundamental principles of contracts
1.3. Classification of Contracts
1.4. The formation of contracts
1.5. Pre-contractual civil liability
1.6. Termination of contracts
2. General contractual clauses
Part II – Special Contracts
3.1. The Purchase and Sale Agreement
3.2. The Exchange Contract
3.3. The Donation Contract
3.4. The Free loan Agreement
3.5. The Loan Agreement
3.6. The Mandate Agreement
3.7. The Lease contract

Syllabus:

General Objectives:
1. Develop competences that allow students to understand the rules related to the principles of tax law, namely constitutional, European and Portuguese law.
2. Provide the acquisition of knowledge about the main taxes of the Portuguese tax system, namely Personal Income Tax (IRS), Corporate Income Tax (IRC) and Value Added Tax (VAT), as well as the Statute of Tax Benefits.

Specific objectives:
Upon completion of this UC the student should be able to:
1. Perceive the tax theory, the distinction between tax and tax, the classification of axes, the sources of tax law and the study of the
legal relationship of tax.
2. Grasp the norms, jurisprudence, doctrine and main concepts of taxes.
3. Apply knowledge acquired in real situations in the exercise of the profession of Solicitor.

PART I
1. Tax Law – Nature, relations and autonomy of Tax Law
2. Tax Theory – Tax, tax and similar figures, times and tax classifications
3. Sources of Tax Law
4. Interpretation and Integration of Tax Law
5. The Legal-Fiscal Relationship
PART II
The Portuguese Tax System
The Personal Income Tax (IRS)
PART III
The Corporate Income Tax (IRC)
PART IV
The Value Added Tax (VAT)

Syllabus:

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
Deepening the knowledge gained by students regarding forensic practice through the practical application of skills acquired in the field of procedural law.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Know and apply the law on procedural costs, namely identifying and calculating the costs of proceedings and obligations inherent to it;
2. Count procedural deadlines;
3. Write procedural documents, namely, petition, defense, miscellaneous requirements; Use the citius platform, instructing injunction and executive request; Preparation of relevant extrajudicial documents, namely, transactions;
4. Prepare and know how to act in court hearings.
5. Issuing Unique Collect Documents

CONTENTS

I. General Notions on Civil Procedure
I.1. The role of case law
II. The Procedural Costs
II.1. Justice fees: definition, payment and exemptions
II.2. Charges
II.3. Part costs
II.4. The process account
II.5. Legal aid
III. Preparation of procedural pieces
III.1. The device principle and the initial articulate
III.2. Service, timing and counting
III.3. The contradictory principle and the challenge
III.4. The hearings
III.5. The sentence
III.6. The expense account and the part costs
III.6.1. The execution for costs

Syllabus:

General objectives of the CU:
– To know the function of land and commercial registration as instruments at the service of substantive law;
– Have critical mass and sufficient capacities to solve practical situations of registration;
UC specific objectives
1. Know the land and commercial register and identify its characteristics, purposes and principles;
2. Know and distinguish which facts are subject to registration and among which the facts subject to mandatory registration and the way in which each is registered;
3. Know and know how to organize a registration process, knowing, in particular, the process of supplying deficiencies, and the necessary documents for recording their facts, whether they relate to land registration or commercial registration;
4. Identify ways to challenge conservative decisions and the defects of the register

CONTENTS

1PREDIAL REGISTRATION
1.1 Purposes and functions of the registry.
1.2 The land description and the registered inscriptions.
1.3 Facts subject to registration.
1.4 Registers principles.
1.5 Vices of registration.
1.6 Registration process.
1.7 Termination of registration effects.
1.8 Advertising and means of proof.
1.9 Challenging Conservative Decisions.
1.10 The cost of the acts.

2. COMMERCIAL REGISTRATION:
2.1 Purposes of registration.
2.2 Registration and registration.
2.3 Registered principles.
2.4 Registration process.
2.5 Analysis of the facts subject to registrations, records by transcription and registrations by deposit.
2.6 Analysis of specific registration acts.
2.7 Advertising and means of proof