História das Instituições (not translated)

Code

7221711100

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Ciências da Comunicação

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Ana Cristina Silva (FD/UNL)

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

(a)To complete the previous study of the History of Portuguese Law with the research of the political and administrative institutions of the Portuguese State, since the 12th. to the 20th. centuries; (b) to underline the importance of the history of public law for a better knowledge of the History of Portugal; (c) to show how often there were polemics and divisions of opinion about the main facts and institutions studied.

Prerequisites

n.a.

Subject matter

I – Introduction. – 1. History of Law and History of Institutions; the “Roman-Germanic” legacy.

II – Middle Ages. – 2. The “Portuguese earldom”; Portugal’s independence: 1143. Interpretations. – 3. The origin of the local counties in the Iberian Peninsula. – 4. The King and the “Cortes” (parliament). – 5. Feudalism and seignorial regime. – 6. The medieval legal system. The “Afonsin Ordnances”. The first courts of law.

III – Modern Age. – 7. The Discoveries; Treaty of Tordesilhas – 8. The strengthening of royal power and the birth of a modern bureaucracy. – 9. The Inquisition.

IV – From the Philips of Spain to Absolutism. – 10. Legal and political nature of the spanish presence in the governance of Portugal. – 11. The Absolute State.

V – Liberal Monarchy. – 12. The French Revolution and the napoleonic invasions. The Portuguese court in Brasil. – 13. The Liberal Revolution of 1820; beginning of written constitutionalism. Civil war. – 14. The major reforms of Mouzinho da Silveira, Passos Manuel and Costa Cabral; constant polemics about centralisation or decentralisation. – 15. Historic decisions of constitutional Monarchy: the abolition of Inquisition, censorship, death penalty and slavery. The Civil Code of 1867. – 16. “Regeneration”, political parties and franchise rights of vote. The “IGNOREismo”.

VI – The 1st. Republic. – 17. Causes of the fall of Monarchy; the debate between parliamentarism and presidencialism. – 18. Public and private institutions in the 1st. Republic. Laicism.

VII – The 2nd. Republic. – 19. Causes of the fall of the 1st. Republic; the problem of the characterisation of the “New State”. – 20. Public and private institutions of the 2nd. Republic.

VIII – The 3rd. Republic. – 21. Causes of the fall of the “Estado Novo”; Revolution and Decolonisation. The pre-constitutional period, the Constitution of 1976 and the “Democratic transition” (1976-1982). – 22. Public and private institutions in the 3rd. Republic. – 23. The great socio-economic crisis (since 2008): Portugal under foreign “assistance” (since 2011): a case of “limited sovereignty”?

Bibliography

a) História de Portugal. - Marques (A.H. de Oliveira), Breve História de Portugal, Editorial Presença,1995; Saraiva (José H.), História concisa de Portugal, Publicações Europa-América, 1978; Serrão (Joel), Cronologia da História de Portugal, Livros Horizonte, reimp. 1980.

b) História do Direito Português e das Instituições. – Albuquerque (Ruy e Martim de), História do Direito Português, Edições Pedro Ferreira, 2004; Caetano (Marcello), História do Direito Português, I, Verbo, 1981; Idem, Estudos de História da Administração Pública, Coimbra Editora, reimp. 1994; Cunha (Paulo Ferreira da), Para uma História Constitucional do Direito Português, Almedina, 1995; Freitas do Amaral (Diogo), História do Pensamento Político Ocidental, Almedina, 2011; Hespanha (António Manuel), História das Instituições : épocas medieval e moderna, Almedina, Coimbra, 1982; Merea (Paulo), Lições de História do Direito Português, Coimbra, 1925; Silva (Nuno Espinoza Gomes da), História do Direito Português, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, reimp. 2000.

Teaching method

To follow an “active pedagogy”, students will be informed, every week, about the issues to be dealt with during the following week, and its specific bibliography; thus, all classes will be taught in dialogue, following the “socratic method”, and this will probably increase significantly the interest of the students and their compreehnsion of the subjects.

Evaluation method

Courses

• Communication, Media and Justice