Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaFundamental Issues in Public and Private Law 1
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,
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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.
The legal subjects objected to the assignment keep paral·lelisme with the corresponding practical aspects of the MUA. This way of proceeding allows the students to study a certain institution, which is essential in the matter, in a meticulous and detailed way, in teòric (more than teacher's explanations) and in practice.
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That students develop their knowledge in relation to certain subjects until they reach a level of excellence that makes them true specialists.
Provide the student with extensive connections at a legal, doctrinal, and jurisprudential level, which allows the practice of the MUA's program as a professional in the matter.
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.
Civil law:
Unit 1. Horizontal property. Constitution. Content. Organization. Common conflicts and jurisprudence.
Unit 2. Urban Leasing Law of November 24, 1994. Scope. Rental lease contract. Duration and withdrawal. Relevant jurisprudence.
Criminal law:
Unit 1. The lesions. Aggravated types. Crimes of violence against women. Analysis of the crimes of physical and mental abuse.
Unit 2. It deals with human beings. Special reference to sexual exploitation and its international protection.
Labor law:
Unit 1. Employee benefits. Professional classification. Organization of working time of victims of domestic violence.
Unit 2. Collective disputes. The strike. The business closure. Other forms of conflict and its jurisprudential treatment
Unions.
Unit 3. The works council and the staff delegates. Union sections and delegations. Ways of proceeding in union negotiation.
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 of the legal rethoric, enabling students to demonstrate they have fully assimilated and understand perfectly the knowledge learnt previously.
The final grade for the course will be made up of the final exam grade that will count 90% and the continuous assessment grade that will count 10%:
The continuous evaluation will consist of the oral presentation of the topics by the students in the second hour of each lesson session.
The final exam will consist of an oral presentation for 15 minutes of one of the subjects of the first semester chosen at random.
Students, following the teacher's guidance, will be responsible for acquiring the necessary materials at the beginning of the course.