Teaching Methodologies
Theoretical classes are based on the theoretical and dogmatic components of the Law of Obligations and Contracts, with the respective
illustration through the analysis of practical cases, with the following breakdown:
1.Face-to-face: – Theoretical-practical classes: Presentation of the syllabus and resolution of practical cases and case law.
2.Autonomous: – Reading of scientific articles. Specific resources: – Solved practical cases.
Learning Results
1. Allow students a global perspective of the different institutes of Obligations and Contracts Law.
2. Make known the structure of the obligatory relationship and its guiding principles, as well as the dynamics of the facts that give it life.
3. Make known the dogmatic construction of the obligatory legal relationship, following its vital path, from the constitutive fact to the
termination, through the study of the regime of each phase.
4. Make known the various institutes designed to provide compensation for damages.
5. Understanding the private legal mechanisms for movement and access to assets, making them aware of the functions, regulatory
schemes and operational means of the law of obligations, as a branch of civil law.
6. Provide theoretical and practical knowledge of contractual reality, with implications for common contractual relationships aimed at
providing services, transferring rights and using other people’s assets.
Program
CHAPTER I
1. The Law of Obligations
2. General principles of the Law of Obligations
3. Concept and structure of obligation
4. Characteristics of obligations
5. Limitations on the content of obligations
6. Distinction between mandatory rights and real rights
7. Types of obligations
CHAPTER II
CONSTITUTION OF OBLIGATIONS
1. Sources of obligations. Classification
2. Sources of obligations based on the principle of restitution of enrichment
unjustified
3. Sources of obligations based on the principle of compensation for damages
4. Specific situations of sources of obligations not based on general principles
5. Sources of obligations based on the principle of private autonomy
CHAPTER III
TRANSMISSION OF OBLIGATIONS AND EXTINCTION OF OBLIGATIONS
1. Assignment of credits
2. Surrogacy
3. Assumption of debt
4. Assignment of contractual position
5. Causes of extinction
CHAPTER IV
1. CONTRACTS IN GENERAL
2. SPECIAL CONTRACTS
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
MENEZES LEITÃO, Luís Manuel Teles de, Direito das Obrigações, Volume I, 16.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2022 (reimpressão 2024).
MENEZES LEITÃO, Luís Manuel Teles de, Direito das Obrigações, Volume II, 13.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2023 (reimpressão 2024).
ANTUNES, João de Matos, Das Obrigações em Geral, Volume I, 10.º ed., Coimbra: Almedina, 2015 (reimpressão versão 2000).
ANTUNES, João de Matos, Das Obrigações em Geral, Volume II, 7.º ed., Coimbra: Almedina, 2013 (reimpressão).