Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Fundamental Issues in Public and Private Law 1

• code 13538
• course 1
• term Semester 1
• type op
• credits 4

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,

Head instructor

Dra. Carmen María LÁZARO - cmlazaro@uic.es

Office hours

Any queries regarding the progress of the subject, its content or its assessment should be directed to the course coordinator.

This is an essential subject for this optional academic pathway. Students will be guided through an in-depth exploration of selected legal issues of singular relevance to private and public law, until they achieve the knowledge levels of true specialists.

None required.

That students develop their knowledge in relation to certain subjects, until they reach a level of excellence that makes them true specialists, with full mastery of legal texts and their jurisprudential and doctrinal interpretation.

• CA11 - Know how to develop skills that allow lawyers to be more efficient in their work and enhance the overall functioning of the team or institution they belong to by accessing information sources, using their knowledge of languages, knowledge management and the management of applied techniques and tools
• CB06 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas in a professional context.
• CB10 - Possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a mainly self-motivated and self-reliant way.
• CG01 - Acquire the ability to work individually and as part of a team as well as the communication and leadership skills required to progress in the legal profession.

Students will learn how to:

Further develop the knowledge acquired in their Law Degree with regard to certain specific subjects reaching a level of excellence and achieving the complete mastery of legal texts, together with the keys to their jurisprudential and doctrinal interpretation.

To be determined by the teaching team.

The teaching staff will indicate to the students, at the beginning of the course, the topics they should work on and the recommended sources of study material (mainly legal texts).

Students will prepare the subjects autonomously, prior to the teaching sessions, studying them in a complete and rigorous way. Upon arrival in the classroom and during the first hour of class, the teacher in charge will cover the study content planned for that day and resolve any student queries that may have arisen. In the second hour, the students will present, orally, the topic or topics planned for that day. For the oral presentation, the methodology will be the same used for public function entrance exams, enabling students to demonstrate they have fully assimilated and understand perfectly the knowledge learnt previously.

The subject will be assessed by grading the oral presentation of the topics by the students in the second hour of each lesson.

The teaching staff of the subject will provide students with the necessary materials at the beginning of the subject.