Nova School of Business and Economics

Direito para Economia e Gestão

Code

1400-289

Academic unit

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Department

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Credits

7,5

Teacher in charge

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Teaching language

English

Objectives

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Prerequisites

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Subject matter

Introduction to the Course Presentation of syllabus, discussion on materials required Introduction to legal theory
Text Book Ch 1 pages 1-35
Text book Ch 3, Law and Morality pages 67-84
By whom and where are legal rules made. Government and Parliament within an international legal order.
Institutional design: State building
Law and its branches, tidying legal rules: Legal Codes
Text Book Ch 2 Pages 36-66
Making legal jargon easy, what does A Legal relationship: ´Relação Jurídica´ mean after all.
(Legal Personality)
(I) (II)
Division of the Civil Code
Legal relationship (I)
EASTER BREAK
MID TERM TEST 2 sections
Please refer to Intranet for date/room
TUE: Legal Relationship (II + III)
Warranty & Economics of Litigation
Property
See David Friedman, Law´s Order, What Economics has to do with law & Why it Matters, Ch 5, 10,12, Princeton Univ Press
Material in reprografia

Bibliography

There is a RECCOMENDED TEXT BOOK: Law, a Very short Introduction, R Wacks, Oxford University Press, 2008
When topics covered in class are not covered in the Text Book Students will be given access to a series of Word files in English and power point presentations on which to base their studying.
However the following Text Books are available in the Library and may help you to understand topics covered, you may choose any other appropriate text book that covers our syllabus.
For the Topics Of Property/Contract, 3 Chapters from David´d Friedman´s Law´s order, what the Law has to do with Economics and why it matters, ch 5, 10, 12 Princeton Univ Press, will be discussed
For support: Introdução ao Estudo do Direito, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa e Sofia Galvão, Ed. Europa-América-ult. Edição
Introdução ao Direito, J. Castro Mendes,

Teaching method

The Course will consist of 12 weeks of Lectures and circa 10 practical Topics/sessions, some groups may have an extra session or even two due to random distribution of national holidays, those sessions will serve as revision /discussion classes

Evaluation method

Students will sit 2 (two) written exams:
a)There will be a written mid-term exam that is worth 30% of the final mark (6/20 points). The Mid-term exam will cover topics (theoretical and practical) covered until the date of the MID TERM Test , if you do not attend the MTTest you will loose 6 points
b)There will be a final exam that is worth 70% of the mark (14/20 points) and will cover all topics (theoretical and practical).
c) Results from a) and b) will be added together.
d)Behaviour in class will be reflected in your final grade

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