Class Administrative Law II

Administrative Law is a branch of Legal Science, of Public Law, pivotial for understanding the organization and functioning of the democratic rule of law and the public entities, as well as garanteeing the rights of citizens in the face of conducts of public authorities.

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I - General principles of organization and administrative activity. II - Administrative procedure: general principles and structuring elements. III - Typified administrative ativity: 1. Administrative regulation: concept, basis, ownership and regulatory classification. 2. Administrative act: legal and doctrinal concept, functions, definitiviness, effectiviness, legal force and validity (defects) of administrative act. 3. Contracts of Administrative Law: context, administrative contracts and private contracts of public authorities, formation procedure, public procurement and categories of administrative contracts. IV - Non-contractual liability of Administration: structure, distribution of responsabilty between public entities and their agents, liability for "faut du service", assumptions (illegality and fault) and responsability for risk. 

Combination of theoretical classes, based on the most modern and relevant national and international bibliographical production, and aimed for the first contact with the basic legal institutes of Administrative Law, stimulating legal reasoning of abstract content, with pratical classes, aimed at the need of consolidation and systematization, with jurisprudencial support when justified, of all contents that constitute the syllabus. Continuous assessment takes place with two writtens tests, during theoretical class time, with a weighting of 50% each for the overall final assessment.

GONÇALVES, Pedro Costa, Manual de Direito Administrativo, Volume I, Almedina, ISBN 978-972-40-8135-9. ALMEIDA, Mário Aroso de, Teoria Geral do Direito Administrativo, Almedina, ISBN 978-989-40-0305-2. ANDRADE, José Carlos Vieira de, Lições de Direito Administrativo, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, ISBN 978-989-26-0627-9. OLIVEIRA, Fernanda Paula/ DIAS, José Eduardo Figueiredo, Almedina, ISBN 978-972-40-711-45. WOLLF, Hans J./ BACHOF, Otto/ STOBER, Rolf, Direito Administrativo, Volume I, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, ISBN 972-31-1157-8.