General Administrative and Urban Law

Classes will be taught through the exposition of theoretical contents and their practical application.
Teaching and learning methodologies aim at the integrated development of students in the knowledge referred to in the syllabus and the
achievement of established objectives and skills. The use of a continuous assessment system implies active participation by students in
terms of study and oral intervention on the subjects taught. The teacher/student and student/student dialectics are accentuated, creating
synergies of bi-directional communication focused on reflection and discussion.
At the same time, we seek to resolve concrete legal problems, aiming to provide students with very close contact with legal reality.
The UC also offers lectures on its topics.

Through the subject of General Administrative and Urban Law, the student should be able to:
a) Understand the meaning of Public Administration and its historical evolution
b) Understand the framework of the separation of powers and the material separation of State functions
c) Know the administrative organization and the constitutional model of Public Administration
d) Understand the principle of legality and apply it in practice
e) Understand the legal activity of the Administration
f) Know the access regime to Administration documents.
g) Know the main rules of land occupation, use and transformation that characterize Urban Law in Portugal.
h) Recognize norms of urban plans with a view to their own execution.
i) Know and identify the special administrative procedures that aim to control the legality of urban operations.

PART I – Public Administration and administrative law
CHAPTER I – Public Administration (AP)
CHAPTER II – Historical evolution of administrative law
CHAPTER III – The principle of separation of powers
CHAPTER IV – Material separation of state functions
PART II – The organization of AP
CHAPTER I – Organic structure
CHAPTER II – AP sectors
CHAPTER III – Types of functional relationships
CHAPTER IV – The constitutional model
PART III – AP activity
CHAPTER I – The administrative act
CHAPTER II – Administrative regulations
CHAPTER III- The administrative procedure
CHAPTER IV – The right of access to Public Administration documents
CHAPTER VI – Administrative contract
Part IV – Urban Law
1. General Characterization of Urban Law
2. The Rules for Occupation, Use and Transformation of Land
3. Land Law and Policy: the Urban Land Ownership Regime
4. Public Administration Intervention in Soil

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