Class Arbitration & Mediation Law

Voluntary Medition and Arbitration curricular unit investigates and analyzes theoretical and practical forms of dispute resolution that try to reconcile interests, not rights, with the aim of pacifying the conflict to the detriment of the legally correct solution.

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1. Mediation and Arbitration Law 2. Alternative means of resolving disputes 3. Mechanisms for conciliation 4. Mechanisms for mediation, 5. Mechanisms for transaction 6. Mechanisms for voluntary arbitration 7. Relations between Arbitration and State Courts until the arbitration award.

The course unit employs active methodologies that place the student at the centre of the learning process, promoting the acquisition of practical and reflective skills essential to arbitration and mediation. In addition to lectures, the course includes simulations of arbitral hearings and mediation sessions, analysis of real cases, allowing students to experience different roles within the context of dispute resolution.   Students with special status provided for by law or regulation that exempts them from mandatory attendance to classes, but who wish to be included in the continuous assessment regime, must inform the Professor of the course as soon as they become aware of this fact, but always with 90 days' notice before the end of classes, so that the Professor can define another form of work or support, which may include completing a written assignment, presenting reports, and/or an oral exam.  

- Gouveia, Mariana França, Curso de Resolução Alternativa, 3.ª edição, Coimbra, Almedina, 2020 - Oliveira, Elsa Dias, Arbitragem Voluntária: Uma Introdução , Coimbra, Almedina, 2020 - Monteiro, António Pedro Pinto; Silva, Artur Flamínio; Mirante, Daniela, Manual de Arbitragem, Reimpressão, Coimbra, Almedina, 2020 - Lei da Arbitragem Voluntária