Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Documentation and Biblography Search	18,5%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 8
Lectures and principal active participation of professor (Sessions 1, 2, 3 (two thirds) 4 (two thirds), 5, 8 (two thirds), 9 (half), 10 (half)	14,81%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 8
Lectures and student active participation	18,5%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 8
Study	14,81%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 8, 9
Work out classroom	18,5%	2	0.08	1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 8
Writting and presentation of works	25,92%	2	0.08	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 8

Assessment System for Competency Acquisition and Grading Criteria

The assessment is based on continuous monitoring of students' work throughout the course. Each activity—whether completed in class or outside—will be assessed and factored into the final grade. Specifically, the following activities and assignments make up the evaluation structure:

1. Dossier on legal language: up to 1 point

2. Assignment on methodology for writing research papers and legal essays: up to 1 point

3. Written exercise involving the drafting of a legal text (written argumentation): up to 1.5 points

4. Commentary and critical analysis of a legal text: up to 1.5 points

5. Exercise on study techniques and time management: up to 1 point

6. Exercise on legal databases and online resources (research on legislation, case law, and legal doctrine): up to 2 points

7. Group work (legal debate / oral expression): up to 2 points

Assignments 1 and 6 must be completed outside class and submitted electronically to the instructor before the established deadlines. Strict adherence to deadlines is a core feature of this course. In the legal field, deadlines and compliance are of paramount importance; therefore, late submissions will not be accepted, unless there is a duly justified and documented reason. Likewise, if an exercise is scheduledto take place in class on a specific day and the student cannot attend, no make-up opportunity will be provided. This inflexible approach is part of the training of future jurists, who must understand from the outset that deadlines are non-negotiable.

Attendance is mandatory. Missing a practical session or in-class activity cannot be replaced with an alternative assignment done at home, as this would undermine the pedagogical objectives of the session.

Students will be eligible for evaluation only if they have completed activities that account for at least two-thirds of the total course grade. If the total weight of the submitted activities does not reach this threshold, the instructor may consider the student “not assessable”. Students who arrive late to a practical or in-class activity will not be allowed to participate.

In cases where no assignments are submitted and no activities are completed, or only one or two are submitted, the final grade will be “not submitted”. Once three or more assignments have been submitted, this grade can no longer be applied.

Students who leave a practical session, activity, or lecture before its conclusion may also receive a grade of “not submitted”. To this end, instructors are authorized to check attendance at the end of each session.

The final grade for the course will be rounded up to the nearest whole number when it is within one tenth of a grade that results in a higher qualitative assessment. For example: grades of 4.9, 6.9, or 8.9 will be automatically rounded to 5, 7, or 9, respectively, without requiring any additional work from the student. A designated day will be provided for students to review their grades with the instructor.

Please note that assessment in Instruments for Legal Study is entirely continuous. Therefore, there is no final exam and no resit option. This course does not offer a single-assessment pathway.

Restricted Use of AI:
For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as bibliographic or informational research, text correction, or translations, as well as in those cases deemed necessary by the teaching staff for the development of classroom or homework activities. Students must clearly identify which parts have been generated using such technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these tools have influenced both the process and the final outcome of the activity. Lack of transparency in the use of AI in this graded activity will be considered an act of academic dishonesty and may result in partial or total penalties in the grading of the activity, or more severe sanctions in serious cases.