Class Penal Law I

This curricular unit is the student's first contact with the criminal-law science. Here the main principles of criminal law are taught, as well as their place in the legal system. Afterwards, the student will enter into the study of the general theory of criminal offense, a study that begins with criminally relevant conduct, typicality and unlawfulness. The remaining categories would be taught in the Criminal Law UC II. As follows from what has already been written, the field and area of ¿¿action is the criminal-legal field, studying, albeit perfunctorially, and therefore touching on this discipline, the illicit of mere social ordering. The course of Criminal Law I is indispensable and essential to the Cycle of Studies, because much of the legal world, whether as a lawyer, magistrate, or consultant, goes through the understanding of its syllabus.

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I - Introduction 1. Elementary structures of criminal law 2. Towards a new science of total (joint) criminal law 3. The administrative sanctionatory law and criminal law 4. The scope of criminal law 5. The sources of criminal law 6. Interpretation in criminal law 7. The history of criminal law II - The general doctrine of criminal offense 8. The fundamental ordering of conduct (fact) punishable 9. The typical conduct (the type) 10. Illicit conduct (the illicit)

Criminal Law I includes both theoretical and practical classes. In terms of the programme outlined below, the former are designed to provide students with essential frameworks for the material, including the fundamental theories and dogmas of the various institutions and also a detailed analysis of Portuguese Positive Law. In addition to revising and clarifying the material presented in the theoretical classes, the practical classes also include the careful application of this knowledge to the resolution of concrete cases. There is also the use of electronic communication platforms, Moodle and hybrid conferences.

COSTA, José de Faria, Direito Penal, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 2017; VILELA, Alexandra, «Beccaria: contributo do Direito Penal total para o exercício da cidadania», in: BFD, vol. LXXXXVIII, I,Coimbra: Coimbra Editora 2012, 271-285; ____,«Legítima Defesa, in: Maia, Rui Leandro, Nunes, Laura, Caridade, Sónia, Sani, Ana Isabel, Estrada, Rui, Nogueira, Cristiano, Fernandes, Hélder, Afonso, Lígia (Coordenadores), Dicionário Crime, Justiça e Sociedade, Lisboa: Edições Sílabo, 2016, pp. 296, 2.ª coluna-297-2.ª coluna ____, Observações, Reflexões e Desdobramentos Analíticos a partir das Lições de Direito Penal de Faria Costa, Lisboa: Edições Lusófonas, 2023