Training complements ( PhD in Law)

Profile B applicants should undertake two training complements (18 ECTS), which will be offered annually by the university.

  1. Firstly, the subject  Instruments for the intervention in advanced legal research activity (9 ECTS)..
  2. 2.    Secondly, the student should choose between these two subjects, depending on their research line:
    1. Research lines of Public Law: Fundamental Rights and Public Freedom (9 ECTS).
    2.     Research lines of Private Law and Business Law: :Economic Rights (9ECTS)

For further information about contents, learning outcomes of the training activities and the assessment system for each one required in profile B, continue reading

Instruments for the intervention in advanced legal research activity (9 ECTS).

Contents:

  1. Statements and reasonings;
  2. Interpretation of law according to the philosophy of the language;
  3. Implementation of legal statements;
  4. Correction of judicial decisions;
  5. Cause for the judicial decision as a chain of reasoning;
  6. Techniques for understanding legal texts;
  7. Techniques for writing a quality scientific-legal document

Learning outcomes:

  1. To understand the practical handling of the logical-linguistic structure of statements and reasoning;
  2. To understand the interpretation process of Law according to the philosophy of the language;
  3. To be able to use theory and techniques in the implementation of law;
  4. To identify judicial decision procedures and assess their correctness according to logical and epistemological criteria; to understand the delimitation of judicial decision structure and procedures as an argumentative process;
  5. To recognise and apply the techniques for the interpretation of legislative and judicial texts linked to advanced research;
  6. To know the techniques for writing and presenting a scientific-legal research paper.

Training activities

  1. Lectures;
  2. Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation;
  3. Supervision sessions for conducting supervised projects.

Assessment system

There will be three instruments:

  1. Attendance registers and participation in lectures, practical sessions, seminars and supervision sessions (10-20 % of the final mark);
  2. Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation (structuration and systematisation; originality and creativity; critical and self-critical skills; analysis and summary skills; references, bibliography; inclusion of all the points agreed; logical and coherent organisation of contents; mastery of accuracy in preparing them; clear establishment of the objectives, hypothesis and proceedings; recognition of conclusions and proposals; coherence in the proposals; and expositive clearness). 55-75 % of the final mark; and
  3. A final theoretical-practical test (knowledge of the subjects; accuracy of the answers; explanative clearness; organisation of ideas; presentation of contents in a critical way; and planning and organisation of time). Between 5 % and 25 % of the final mark.

Fundamental Rights and Public Freedom (9 ECTS)

Contents:

  1. History of constitutionalism and fundamental rights;
  2. Philosophical-legal grounds of human rights;
  3. Origin and evolution of the concept «Rule of Law»;
  4. Delve into the knowledge of fundamental rights systems;
  5. Problems derived from the citizens’ participations in public issues;
  6. Socio-legal incidence of the right to religious freedom;
  7. Fundamental rights and new technologies;
  8. Protection of fundamental rights in the working order;
  9. Human rights and international humanitarian law;
  10. Rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain.

Learning outcomes:

  1. To identify and assess the evolution of fundamental rights and public freedoms in the history of constitutionalism;
  2. To understand the theoretical basis of fundamental rights and Rule of Law;
  3. To draft proposals de lege ferenda which help to improve the efficacy of fundamental right systems;
  4. To identify the scope and limits of fundamental rights in relation with the citizens’ participation in public issues;
  5. To assess social and legal transformation as a consequence of the right to religious freedom;
  6. To detect and assess the problems that arise when applying new technologies to fundamental rights;
  7. To identify and resolve situations that compromise fundamental rights and public freedoms in the work order;
  8. To understand, from an international humanitarian law approach, the delimitation of problems as a consequence of human rights protection;
  9. To identify the scope of rights and protection of freedoms for foreigners in the Spanish legislation.

Training activities

a.    Lectures;
b.    Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation;
c.    Supervision sessions for conducting supervised projects.

Assessment system

There will be three instruments:

  1. Attendance registers and participation in lectures, practical sessions, seminars and supervision sessions (10-20 % of the final mark);
  2. Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation (structuration and systematisation; originality and creativity; critical and self-critical skills; analysis and summary skills; references, bibliography; inclusion of all the points agreed; logical and coherent organisation of contents; mastery of accuracy in preparing them; clear establishment of the objectives, hypothesis and proceedings; recognition of conclusions and proposals; coherence in the proposals; and expositive clearness). 55-75 % of the final mark; and
  3. a final theoretical-practical test (knowledge of the subjects; accuracy of the answers; explanative clearness; organisation of ideas; presentation of contents in a critical way; and planning and organisation of time). Between 5 % and 25 % of the final mark.

Property Law (9ECTS)

Contents:

  1. Historical-legal budgets in the current regulation of private wealth;
  2. Dynamics of rights in rem and current transformations of private property law;
  3. Efficiency and inefficiency of contracts. Civil liability;
  4. Legal protection of credit;
  5. Wealth liability in the context of public administration;
  6. Problems in bankruptcy law in the current socio-economic context;
  7. Property law and taxation;
  8. Property law in the European Union

Learning outcomes:

  1. To understand the influence of historical-legal budgets in the evolution and current regulation of private wealth;
  2. To identify, assess and propose solutions for issues related to rights in rem which appear nowadays because of the transformations of private property rights;
  3. To identify rules about efficiency and inefficiency of contracts and the legal consequences related to civil liability;
  4. To identify and resolve specific legal problems related to the legal protection of credit;
  5. To identify the consequences of wealth liability in the context of public administration;
  6. To detect and assess the scope of the problems that arise when applying bankruptcy law in the current socio-economic context;
  7. To establish the limits of specific tax problems of property law;
  8. To understand the consequences of the current property law transformation process at European level as a result of its communitarianisation.

Academic training activities

  1. Lectures;
  2. Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation;
  3. Supervision sessions for conducting supervised projects.

Assessment system

There will be three instruments:

  1. Attendance registers and participation in lectures, practical sessions, seminars and supervision sessions (10-20 % of the final mark);
  2. Seminars, research activities supervised by a tutor, text commentaries, judgments and/or legislation (structuration and systematisation; originality and creativity; critical and self-critical skills; analysis and summary skills; references, bibliography; inclusion of all the points agreed; logical and coherent organisation of contents; mastery of accuracy in preparing them; clear establishment of the objectives, hypothesis and proceedings; recognition of conclusions and proposals; coherence in the proposals; and expositive clearness). 55-75 % of the final mark; and
  3. A final theoretical-practical test (knowledge of the subjects; accuracy of the answers; explanative clearness; organisation of ideas; presentation of contents in a critical way; and planning and organisation of time). Between 5 % and 25 % of the final mark.