BASIC INSTITUTIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW  (20992)

2014-2015

Degree/study: Degree in Law
Year: 2nd
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5
Hours of studi dedication: 125
Area: Administrative Law

Syllabus

Basic Institutions of Administrative Law provides an introduction to administrative law and an in-depth look at the discipline's concepts and basic institutions, which are studied on four core and several optional courses.

The course studies the historical antecedents and the concept of administrative law, the principle of legality, the administrative legal system, government agencies' relationship with justice, and the phenomena of government agencies from a legal perspective. Basic Institutions of Administrative Law forms part of the general part of Administrative Law and is especially indispensible as it provides a solid base from which to study the special part which examines aspects of public property, town planning law, administrative law sanctions, and government activity.

The historical antecedents and the concept of administrative law are essential for establishing the discipline's raison d'être, content and scope, and, in an important practical sense, for knowing when administrative law or other specialist branches of law should be implemented. The topic which covers the government and the law analyses the principle of legality and the other legal institutions which make the submitting of political and governmental power to the law a possibility; one of the rule of law's major triumphs. Although students have already studied the importance of regulation as a source of law, this course's framework enables more in-depth study of issues related to the knowledge and scope of regulatory power, the procedure to follow for its exercise and the legal checks applicable to it, in that regulations are one of the most notable manifestations of government agencies.

Historically administrative law is a response to the aim of subjecting government agencies to the law but from a special position with respect to the administration of justice. The fourth topic analyses the essential features of this position in depth, which is explained from the principle of administrative autonomy. Finally, in the four last topics the constitutional bases of government organisation and functioning are studied. The aim is to learn about the phenomenon of government agencies, how they are constituted and develop, how they operate internally and what their respective powers are.

Topic 1: Historical and constitutional bases of administrative law.

Topic 2: The government and the law.

Topic 3: Regulation.

Topic 4: The government and the courts of justice.

Topic 5: Structure and organization of government agencies.

Topic 6: Central government.

Topic 7: Autonomous governments.

Topic 8: Local government.

Topic 9: Institutional bodies.