Academic Year/course:
2021/22
18191 - SEMINAR ON PRIVATE LAW II
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Information of the subject
Code - Course title:
18191 - SEMINAR ON PRIVATE LAW II
Degree:
466 - Graduado/a en Derecho
468 - Graduado/a en Derecho y en Administración y Dirección de Empresas
686 - Graduado/a en Derecho (2016)
731 - Graduado/a en Derecho y en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (2019)
Faculty:
102 - Facultad de Derecho
Academic year:
2021/22
1.1. Content area
SEMINAR ON PRIVATE LAW II: Foundations of Comparative Law
1.2. Course nature
Optional
1.3. Course level
Grado (EQF/MECU 6)
1.4. Year of study
466 - Graduado/a en Derecho: 4
731 - Graduado/a en Derecho y en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (2019): 6
686 - Graduado/a en Derecho (2016): 4
468 - Graduado/a en Derecho y en Administración y Dirección de Empresas: 6
1.5. Semester
First semester
1.6. ECTS Credit allotment
6.0
1.7. Language of instruction
English
1.9. Recommendations
None.
1.10. Minimum attendance requirement
Attendance to class is mandatory. Attendance to tutorial session is also mandatory.
1.11. Subject coordinator
Laura Beck Varela
1.12. Competences and learning outcomes
1.12.1. Competences
1. General competences:
-G1. To acquire a critical attitude towards reality and ideas, and openness and interest in intellectual work and its outcomes.
-G2. To express and adequately transmit in English complex ideas, problems and solutions, orally, to both specialised and non-specialised audiences, and in writing.
-G5. To search for, select, analyse and synthesise information in order to formulate judgements that come from a personal reflection on academically relevant topics.
-G7. Learning to design, plan and organise one's own work, encouraging initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
-G9. Learning to critically analyse the ethical and political dimension of institutions, problems and legal solutions.
2. Specific competences:
-E1. To know the fundamentals of comparative law.
-E5. To search, select, analyze and synthesize comparative information.
-E7. To demonstrate the capacity to pronounce oneself with a convincing legal argument on a theoretical question of medium complexity relative to the comparative field.
-E10. To present orally in public in an orderly and understandable manner legal arguments.
1.12.2. Learning outcomes
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1.12.3. Course objectives
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1.13. Course contents
A. Seminars
B. Lectures
1. Student duties:
- Compulsory attendance at a minimum of 80% of the seminars, without prejudice to the absences that the teacher of each group deems justified.
- Previous preparation of the seminars, consisting of the search for materials and the oral presentation of papers on different comparative models.
- Carrying out at least 80% of the activities planned in the seminar classes.
2. Activities programme:
See timetable of activities.
3. Materials:
The materials (bibliographic and jurisprudential) indicated to follow the activities of the course will be announced in the first sessions of the Seminar.
C. Tutorials
Tutorial 1: Assessment of the performance up to that moment of the participants in the Seminar. Tutorial 2: Assessment of the performance in the second part of the course. Review of tests carried out in the seminars.
1.14. Course bibliography
David, R.; Brierley, J., Major legal systems in the world today: an introduction to the comparative study of law. London: Stevens & Sons, 1985.
De Cruz, Peter. Comparative Law in a Changing World, 3rd ed. London and New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.
Glenn, P. Legal Traditions of the World, 4th ed, Oxford: OUP, 2010
Mattei, Ugo; Schlesinger, R. B; Gidi, A., Ruskola, T. Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials, 7h ed. New York: Foundation Press, 2009.
Reimann, M.; Zimmermann, R., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law. Oxford, OUP, 2006.
Other monographic references will be indicated at the beginning of the sessions.
2. Teaching-and-learning methodologies and student workload
2.1. Contact hours
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#horas
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Contact hours (minimum 33%)
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50
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Independent study time
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100
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A. Lectures
B. Seminars
- In view of its nature as a seminar, a lecture structure is not followed, without prejudice to the teaching of some classes in a format close to a lecture.
- In the first few weeks, as indicated in the timetable, the teacher will make a presentation or general explanation of the topics foreseen in the programme.
- In the remaining sessions of the Seminar, the work will revolve around the analysis and discussion of the materials under consideration.
- Throughout the seminars, students will present papers elaborated during the course.
- The students will have to prepare previously the Seminar sessions, with support in the basic and specific bibliography indicated in order to be able to participate actively in the sessions.
2.2. List of training activities
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Activity
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# hours
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Development of the theoretical-practical contents.
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46
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Assessment activities.
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2,5
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Advice and monitoring of the student by the teacher.
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1,5
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Personal study by the student and performance of academic tasks.
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100
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3. Evaluation procedures and weight of components in the final grade
3.1. Regular assessment
1. Continuous evaluation system: seminars.
1.1. Activities planned in seminars and weight in the evaluation:
-Participation in the sessions of the Seminar and in the tutorials will be taken into account.
-The participation in the continuous evaluation will have a triple modality: participation in the discussion in class, accomplishment of presentations, writing of papers.
-Percentage of evaluation: 50%.
1.2. Additional tests (to be carried out in seminars), date of celebration and weight in the evaluation:
-Complementary control (final). Percentage of the evaluation: 50%
1.3. Evaluation of tutorials
Not applicable
1.4 Evaluation of students who enrol after the start of the course:
a) Aim and content of the test:
- Checking of knowledge of the materials discussed up to that moment and immediate incorporation to the system of continuous evaluation.
b) Date of delivery or completion of the test:
-At the end of the first block of sessions of the Seminar (or, as the case may be, two weeks after joining the Seminar)
3. Final test
Requirements to be able to take part in the final test:
To have attended, as a minimum, 80% of the seminars, without detriment of the absences that the teacher deems justified.
To have carried out at least 80% of the activities foreseen in the seminar classes (percentage adapted to the moment of joining the group).
Aim and content:
- To assess the skills developed throughout the course, the knowledge acquired and the capacity for exposure, use and analysis of the basic concepts of the subject. The subject of examination is the one that is analysed and debated in the sessions of the Seminar according to the timetable.
Date and place: Consult the calendar of final tests on the Faculty's website.
4. Final grade
Percentage final test score: 50%.
Percentage continuous evaluation seminars and tutorials: 50% (see, however, special rules for late entrants, supra 1.4)
Those students will be given the final grade of not assessed:
- who have not participated in any of the tests or assignments subject to continuous evaluation,
- who, meeting the requirements to take the final test, do not take it.
However, in no case will students who, in any of the tests of the continuous evaluation, do not act with probity and academic honesty be given the grade of not assessed. Any failure of this type will result in a grade of 0.0 Suspense in the final grade of the subject, without prejudice to the opening of the file referred to in the UAM academic evaluation regulations.
- Evaluation of second-enrollment students: Second enrolled students will not be able to keep the grade obtained in the continuous evaluation of the first enrollment.
3.1.1. List of evaluation activities
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Evaluatory activity
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%
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Final exam
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50
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Continuous assessment
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50
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3.2. Resit
- Resit test:
Requirements to be able to perform the resit test:
None
2. Purpose and content of the resit test:
Contents: the same as the final test of the regular evaluation.
The activities of the continuous evaluation are not recoverable, so the mark obtained is retained.
Those students who do not take the resit test will be given the grade of not assessed.
However, in no case will the qualification of not assessed correspond to those students who, in any of the tests of the continuous evaluation, have not acted with probity and academic honesty.
3. Date, time, and place of the test:
Consult the calendar of final tests on the Faculty's website.
3.2.1. List of evaluation activities
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Evaluatory activity
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%
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Final exam
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60
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Continuous assessment
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40
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4. Proposed workplan
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Week
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Session
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Tutorials
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1
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Introduction to Comparative Law
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2
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Legal Families of the World I
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3
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Legal Families of the World II
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4
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Legal Families of the World III
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5
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Legal Families of the World IV
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Tutorial (1h)
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6
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New Approaches to Comparative Law I
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7
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New Approaches to Comparative Law II
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8
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New Approaches to Comparative Law III
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9
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New Approaches to Comparative Law IV
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Tutorial(1h)
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10
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Case Studies on Comparative Law
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Consult each teacher's Moodle page. The timetable, in any case, will be merely indicative of the teaching scheduling, and changes may occur according to the needs and development of the programme.