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FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC LAW PROGRAM

 

UNIT 1. Law and State

1.1.- Concept and functions of Law

1.2.- Law, morality and social uses. Law and justice.

1.3.- Legality and legitimacy: Validity, validity, applicability, effectiveness

1.4.- State and Law

1.5.- Legal concepts from a gender perspective.

 

UNIT 2. The legal system

2.1.- The order as a system of norms.

2.2.- The great legal systems: common law and civil law.

2.3.- Criteria of relations between norms and normative systems.

2.4.- The sources of law: the rules (type of rules), customs, general principles of law, jurisprudence.

2.5.- The branches of Law. Public Law

 

UNIT 3. The Constitution and constitutionalism

3.1.- Theoretical foundations and evolution of constitutionalism

3.2.- Historical evolution of constitutionalism

3.3.- Concepts of Constitution

3.4.- The Spanish Constitution of 1978

 

UNIT 4. The guarantees of the Constitution

4.1.- The defense of the Constitution: control of constitutionality and reform of the Constitution.

4.2.- Constitutional justice. Historical models of constitutional justice: the American system and the European system4.3.- La justicia constitucional en el ordenamiento español: el Tribunal Constitucional

UNIT 5. The form of State: the social and democratic State of law

5.1.- The rule of law: concept and manifestations

5.2.- The democratic state and the concepts of democracy and representation. Embodiment in the Spanish Constitution.

5.3.- The social state. The economic constitution. Normative efficacy and social status.

 

UNIT 6. The Law and the Regulation

6.1.- Concept of Law.

6.2.- The legislative procedureType of Law

6.3.- Regulations with the force of law: decree-laws and legislative decrees

6.4.- Concept and types of Regulation

6.5.- Relations with the law: control of the legality of the Regulations.

 

UNIT 7. The State of the Autonomies

7.1.- The autonomic principle and the structure of the legal system.

7.2.- The Statutes of Autonomy.

7.3.- The laws of Article 150 of the Constitution.

7.4.- The regulatory power of the bodies of the Autonomous Communities.

 

UNIT 8. International Law and Community Law

8.1.- The sources of International Law.

8.2.- International Treaties. The integration of International Law in the domestic legal system.

8.3.- European Union and Community Law. Effects of community law in the Spanish legal system.

 

UNIT 9. Fundamental rights (I)

9.1.- Human rights and fundamental rights

9.2.- The configuration of fundamental rights in the Spanish Constitution of 1978

9.3.- Effectiveness, ownership and exercise of fundamental rights

9.4.- The guarantees of fundamental rights

9.5.- The right to effective judicial protection

 

UNIT 10. Fundamental rights (II)

10.1.- The principle of equality. Right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex.

10.2.- Main personal rights: life, personal freedom, thought, privacy

10.3.- Main rights of the public sphere: freedom of expression and information; the right of meeting, association and unionization; the right to participate in public affairs.

10.4.- Main economic, social and cultural rights: property, strike and education. The guiding principles of social and economic policy.

Competences in these subjects may be assessed through: (1) exams; (2) Elaboration of assignments, the presentation of which may be oral or written at the teacher's discretion, and the resolution of practical cases.
										
											
										
											The evaluation system will take into account:
										
											
										
											The completion of work or practical cases (and the possible oral presentation) will have an overall weight of 50%.
										
											
										
											Written exam-type tests will have an overall weight of 50%. Among them, there will be a final exam for the whole subject to check the overall acquisition of skills, abilities and knowledge. There may be partial exams.
										
											
										
											The coordinating teacher of each group at the beginning of the course will present the schedule of teaching and practical activities, and specify the continuous evaluation system and set the percentage assigned to each of the selected activities, also the revaluation system suspended activities The revaluation can only be carried out if the student has followed the continuous assessment. These instructions will be displayed on the virtual campus /Moodle.
										
											
										
											A student who copies or tries to copy in an exam will get a 0 in the exam. A student who submits an assignment in which plagiarism has occurred will receive a 0 and a warning. In case of repetition of the behavior, the student will suspend the subject.
										
											
										
											Single evaluación: it will consist of a theoretical exam with a value of 50% of the grade, the resolution of a practical case with a value of 25% of the grade and the presentation and, where applicable, oral defense of a work , with a value of 25% of the grade.