ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Special Public Law and Company Law
Areas: Philosophy of Law
Center Faculty of Law
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
• Reflecting critically on the legal experience.
• Learning to use ideas and arguments that help to understand, analyse and evaluate the law, both in its theoretical concept and ethical ideal, and in its current and historical presence.
• Thinking and debating on the basic philosophical problems of the law.
DESCRIPTORS: The Philosophy of Law and the legal phenomena. Legal ontology and axiology. Basic philosophical problems of law. Legal methodology, science and argumentation.
LESSONS
PHILOSOPHYH OF LAW AND THE LEGAL PHENOMENA
1. Philosophy of Law and the legal phenomena.
LEGAL ONTOLOGY
2. The idea of law.
3. Legal thinking in the XIX century.
4. Legal thinking in the XX century.
5. Current conceptions on law
LEGAL METHODOLOGY, SCIECE AND ARGUMENTATION
6. Legal knowledge and methodology.
7. Language and law.
8. Reason and law. Legal argumentation.
9. Logic and law.
LEGAL AXIOLOGY. BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF LAW
10. Legal values.
11. Legality and legitimacy issues.
12. Legal ethics and professional deontology.
Reference works
-HART, H.L.A., The Concept of Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (3rd. ed.; 1st ed. 1961). -KELSEN, H., Reine Rechtslehre, 2nd ed., Vienn: Franz Deuticke 1960. Engl. trans. by M. Knight: Pure Theory of Law, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
-MILL, J.S., On Liberty [1859], e.g. in: On Liberty and Other Essays, ed. by J. Gray, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
-RAWLS, J., A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
-ROSS, A., On Law and Justice, London: Stevens and Sons, 1958.
Introductory collections
-CASANOVAS, P. and MORESO, J.J. (eds.), El ámbito de lo jurídico, Barcelona: Crítica, 1994.
-COLEMAN, J. and SHAPIRO, S. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
-DÍAZ, E. and COLOMER, J.L. (eds.), Estado, justicia, derechos, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2002.
-FABRA J.L. et al. (eds.), Enciclopedia de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, México D.F.: UNAM, 2015, 3 vols. Accesible en http://biblio.juridicas.unam.mx/libros/libro.htm?l=3875; .... =3796; .... =3876.
-GARZÓN VALDÉS, E. and LAPORTA, F.J. (eds.), El Derecho y la justicia, Madrid: Trotta-CSIC-BOE, 1996.
Manuals
-AA.VV., Base de conocimiento jurídico iustel (sección de filosofía del derecho), www.usc.es; Biblioteca, Bases de datos.
-ATIENZA, M., El sentido del Derecho, Barcelona: Ariel, 2001.
-BIX, B., Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, 7th ed., Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015.
-FASSÒ, G., Historia de la Filosofía del Derecho, vol. 3 [1970], Madrid: Pirámide, 1996.
-HERNÁNDEZ MARÍN, R., Historia de la Filosofía del Derecho contemporánea, Madrid: Tecnos, 1989 (2ª ed.).
-LARENZ, K., Metodología de la Ciencia del Derecho [1979], Barcelona: Ariel, 1994 (2ª ed.).
-LEGAZ Y LACAMBRA, L., Filosofía del Derecho, Barcelona: Bosch, 1978 (5ª ed.).
-PÉREZ LUÑO, A. E., Lecciones de filosofía del derecho: presupuestos para una filosofía de la experiencia jurídica, Sevilla: Mergablum, 2002 (3ª ed.).
-TRUYOL SERRA, A., Historia de la Filosofía del Derecho y del Estado, vol. 3, Madrid: Alianza, 2004.
Specialized works
-ALEXY, R., A Theory of Constitutional Rights [1986], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
-APARISI MIRALLES, Á., Ética y deontología para juristas, Pamplona: EUNSA, 2006.
-ATIENZA, M., Curso de argumentación jurídica, Madrid: Trotta, 2013.
-BOBBIO, N., Contribución a la Teoría del Derecho [1950-1981], trad. A. Ruiz Miguel, Madrid: Debate, 1990.
-COTTERRELL, R., The Sociology of Law: An Introduction, 2nd ed., London: Butterworths / Oxford University Press, 1992.
-DWORKIN, R., Taking Rights Seriously, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1977.
-FERRAJOLI, L., Derecho y razón [1989], Madrid: Trotta, 1995.
-GONZÁLEZ VICÉN, F., Estudios de Filosofía del Derecho, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna, 1979.
-HABERMAS, J., Between Facts and Norms [1992], Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998.
-HART, H.L.A., Law, Liberty, and Morality, London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
-MORESO, J.J., Lógica, argumentación e interpretación en el derecho, Barcelona: UOC, 2006.
-RAZ, J., Practical Reason and Norms, 2nd. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990 (1st. ed. 1975).
-SANDEL, M., Justice. What is the Right Thing to Do, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2010.
-SEGURA ORTEGA, M., La racionalidad jurídica, Madrid: Tecnos, 1998.
-WESTON, A., A Rulebook for Arguments, 5th ed., Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2018.
• Ability to understand, analyse and synthesize.
• Oral and written communication.
• Skills for finding and dealing with information.
• Argumentation and deliberation.
• Autonomous learning.
• Creativity.
• Critical reasoning.
• Application of knowledge and contextualization.
• Ethical and deontological commitment.
• Acknowledgment of diversity and multiculturalism.
• Sensibility towards social, economic and environmental reality.
• Using the principles of liberty, equality, justice and pluralism, democratic values, and peace culture when interpreting the legal order, with special concern for fundamental rights.
• Awareness of inter-relations of law with other scientific disciplines and society issues.
• Reasoning and legal argumentation applying a critical perspective to the analysis of legal system.
• Expositive lectures in the classroom, explaining programed lessons.
• Interactive classes in reduced groups, with presentations and/or debates.
• Tutorials demanded by students, either scheduled with the lecturer or in the designed times.
• Study and debate seminars, organized at demand of students or lecturers.
• Voluntary individual or collective essays supervised by the lecturer.
• Use of ‘Campus Virtual’ (on-line learning through USC website) and other information and communication technologies as support for teaching.
• Individual reading, reflection, and study.
• Final written exam in the dates established by the Faculty; although there may be an anticipated oral exam asked by the student. A portion of the written exam will be a multiple-choice questionnaire, and another portion will ask questions that require a developed answer.
• Assessment of performance, attendance and participation in interactive classes, as well as of exercises linked to them, will determine 20% of the qualification of the subject, but passing the final exam will be required to pass the subject. This percentage assigned to interactive classes will not apply to students who the Faculty grants exemption of attendance to class.
• The final qualification may be improved submitting a voluntary essay with the requirements that the lecturer will specify.
• Regarding the USC regulation for continuity of studies, academic activities to be considered in the evaluation will be the final exam and, should it be attended, also active participation in interactive classes and submitted essays. Whoever does not attend the final exam will be qualified as “not present”.
• The evaluation procedures of all groups of the subjects will be coordinated.
• Hours of classes to be attended: 30 expositive y 15 interactive approximately.
• Attendance of tutorials and exams: 4 hours.
• Preparation of interactive classes, reading, thinking and study: 48.5 hours approximately.
• Writing the voluntary essays may require about 15 hours.
TOTAL: 112,5 hours (approximately)
• Listen the explanations in class, involve in the discussions, ask for clarifications during the classes and in the tutorials, and study all the lessons in the program,
• Allow some time every day to go over what was discussed and learned in the class.
• Read the recommended readings and other suitable texts, and reflect on them.
• Discuss and comment with lecturers, other students, and friends the content of the subject.
• Mainly: be aware of what is important, make sure to understand it, and learn it in order to be able to use it fruitfully in personal reasoning, oral arguments and written texts.
• There will be course materials in the “Campus Virtual” (on-line pages at the USC website).
• Lectures will be in Spanish in groups A (prof. Rodríguez-Toubes) and B (prof.ª Otero), and in Galician in group C (prof. Rodríguez-Toubes).
Joaquín Rodríguez-Toubes Muñiz
Coordinador/a- Department
- Special Public Law and Company Law
- Area
- Philosophy of Law
- Phone
- 881814725
- joaquin.rodriguez-toubes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Milagros Maria Otero Parga
- Department
- Special Public Law and Company Law
- Area
- Philosophy of Law
- Phone
- 881814727
- milagros.otero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Tuesday | |||
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| 09:00-10:30 | Grupo B - horario de mañana (G-O) | Spanish | Classroom 3 |
| Thursday | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Grupo C - horario de mañana (P-Z) | Galician | Classroom 2 |
| 16:30-18:00 | Grupo A - horario de tarde (A-F) | Spanish | Classroom 2 |
| Friday | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Grupo C - horario de mañana (P-Z) | Galician | Classroom 2 |
| 16:30-18:00 | Grupo A - horario de tarde (A-F) | Spanish | Classroom 2 |
| 05.23.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo B - horario de mañana (G-O) | Assembly Hall |
| 05.23.2025 13:00-15:00 | Grupo C - horario de mañana (P-Z) | Assembly Hall |
| 05.23.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo A - horario de tarde (A-F) | Assembly Hall |
| 07.03.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo B - horario de mañana (G-O) | Assembly Hall |
| 07.03.2025 13:00-15:00 | Grupo C - horario de mañana (P-Z) | Assembly Hall |
| 07.03.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo A - horario de tarde (A-F) | Assembly Hall |