Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500786 Law | FB | 1 | 1 |
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To be able to follow the subject, it is essential to have optimal linguistic and reading competence in accordance with the level of university studies. Basic knowledge of philosophy and sociology will help to follow the subject.
Theory of Law is a subject that is taught in the first four months of the first year of the degree of Law. It is an introductory course to basic legal concepts for the development of all subjects. The subject develops the great areas of contemporary law theory, starting from the plurality of schools and visions that form the theory and philosophy of modern law.
The major areas that arise in the program are:
The forms of approach to law: law science, sociology and philosophy of law.
Theory of the norm and the legal order.
Application and interpretation of the law.
Values of rights and theories of justice
Fundamentals of the sociology of law.
The main training objectives of the subject are:
Know the main forms of approach to law from the science of law, sociology of law and philosophy of law
Identify, know and apply the basic concepts of the theory of law.
Understand the fundamentals of legal argumentation.
Reflect on the values and functions of law
Understand the formation of contemporary legal concepts in their historical and social context.
1. Ways to approach the Law: Jurisprudence, Sociology of Law and Legal Philosophy.
2. Law and Morals.
3. Law and society.
4. Law, power, and State
5. Determination of the Law: Nautral Law, Legal Positivism, and Legal Realism.
6. Theory of the norm.
7. Legal system.
8. Sources of Law.
9. Fundamental legal conceptions.
10. Legal interpretation.
11. The application of Law.
12. Legal argumentation.
Attendance at seminars, except in some case of justified reason, will be compulsory for students
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Seminars | 19.5 | 0.78 | 10, 14, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 |
Theoretical classes | 19.5 | 0.78 | 4, 5, 2, 6, 3, 8, 9, 20, 11, 16, 18, 17 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 6, 7, 13, 18 |
Individual works | 36 | 1.44 | 21, 24, 7, 23, 22 |
Reading and study of materials | 45 | 1.8 | 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 17 |
Teamwork | 20 | 0.8 | 21, 24, 23, 22, 26, 25 |
Students who copy or try to copy an exam will receive a grade of 0 in that test. Who submits a practice with plagiarism will get a 0 and receive a warning. In case of reoccurrence of the behaviour, the subject will be suspended.
Each teaching group will publish the specific date or week for carrying out the assessable activities on the Virtual Campus before the start of teaching. However, in exceptional circumstances and due to force majeure, these dates or weeks may be modified.
The final grade will be obtained from the following elements:
1.1 Continuous evaluation of the classes. (50% of the note)
Attendance at seminars, based on just cause assumptions, will be mandatory for students.
1st Seminar test 25%.
2nd Seminar test 25%.
1.2 Final exam. (50% of the note)
The final exam must be passed with a mark higher than 5 to average with the rest of the qualifications of the continuous evaluation.
Single Assessment (Guidelines)
First Activity (25%). Reading comprehension.
Second Activity (25%). Essay question.
Common activity (50% of the note). Same task as final exam.
Re-evaluation
There will be a re-evaluation of the part related to the final exam. For single assessment students, the same re-evaluation system will be applied as for continuous assessment.
The maximum grade in the re-evaluation cannot be higher than 6.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evaluation tests | 50% | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 11, 16, 18 |
Individual and teamwork | 50% | 0 | 0 | 21, 1, 4, 24, 7, 10, 14, 12, 13, 15, 18, 17, 19, 23, 22, 26, 25 |
COURSEBOOK
AÑON, M.José, et. al. (2021). Teoría del Derecho (2nd ed.), Tirant lo Blanch (electronic edition available at the UAB Library).
FURTHER READING
ATIENZA, M. (2012). El sentido del derecho (2nd ed.), Ariel.
ATIENZA, M. (2017). Filosofía del Derecho y transformación social, Trotta.
ATIENZA, M. (2015), El Derecho como argumentación, Ariel.
CASANOVAS, P. (2017). Sub lege Pugnamus. De la Gran Guerra a les grans dades. Pubicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona.
CASANOVAS, P. & MORESO, J.J. (2020). El ámbito de lo jurídico. Lecturas de pensamiento jurídico contemporáneo. Ed. Olejnik.
CALVO GARCÍA, M. (2000). Teoría del Derecho (2nd ed.), Technos.
CALVO GARCÍA, M. & PICONTÓ, T. (2017). Introducción y perspectivas actuales de la sociología jurídica, Editorial UOC.
DE LUCAS, J. (coord) (1997). Introducció a la teoria del dret (3rd ed.), Tirant lo Blanc.
DWORKING, R. (2012), Los derechos en serio, Ariel.
DE SOUSA SANTOS, B. (2009). Sociología jurídica crítica. Para un nuevo sentido común en el derecho, Trotta.
FREEMAN, M. D. A. (2011). Lloyd’s introduction to jurisprudence (8th ed., Repr.), Sweet & Maxwell.
MORESO, J. J. & VILAJOSANA, J. M. (2004). Introduccion a la teoria del derecho. Marcial Pons.
PUIGPELAT, F., (Coord.) (1996). Teoria del dret, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
RIDDALL, J. G. (2008). Teoría del Derecho. Gedisa.
RODRIGUEZ, PALOP, M. E. (2010), La nueva generación de derechos Humanos, Dykinson.
RUIZ RESA, J. (2017). Teoría del derecho. Tirant lo Blanc: València (electronic edition available at the UAB Library).
The subject does not requiere any specific software