Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Law

ÉTICA - 2017/2018

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Manuel Monteiro
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Manuel Monteiro

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

What it is the Ethics? And what it is the Deontology?And what kind of relation we can establish between the Ethics and the Right and the Right and the Ethics? Only must the Right be understood as formal system of norms proceeding from the will of the man or its axiológic dimension has to be present, when studies it? In these terms, what we must understand for Justice, Right and Law? To answer to these questions, here it is the general objective of this discipline.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To contribute for a perception on the some conceptions that we can have of the Right, in view of a solid formation of the future jurists, continuing in the trail of Celso when affirmed that “to know the laws it is not to know its words, before is to understand the direction and the effect for them”.

Skills to be acquired

- Capacity of reflection on the direction of Justice
- Perception of the Right while object of Justice
- Distinction enters the concepts of natural law, statutory law, law joust and unjust law
- Understanding of the importance of the deontology, in the definition and the fulfilment of the professional objectivs

Teaching Procedures

The education of this disciplines understands:
Theoretician-Practical lessons, for the transmission of contents and exemplificação of related concrete situations with these contents.

Programme

1. Ethics, morals and society:
1.1. notions of ethics and morals.
1.2. Ethical, moral and cultural pluralism.
1.3. Ethics and standards relativism.
2. Ethics in community crossroads with society
2.1. What values, for the times we live in?
2.2. The limits on individual freedom and the definition of ethical behavior.
2.3. The political power and the legislative imposition of a given behavior.

3. Ethics and law:
3.1. Legitimacy and legality: the just and the unjust.
3.2. The ethical basis of the laws.
3.2. The ethics, the law and the law.

4. Ethical theories:
4.1. Some classical theory: from Plato to Kant.
4.2. Ethics and utilitarian theories.
4.3. Ethical and deontological theories.

5.. Professional Ethics: the foundations of professional regulation.
5.1. Notion of ethics: ethical assessment of praxis.
5.2. professional ethics and legality: decision-making.
5.3. individual responsibility and social responsibility.
6. The code of ethics of Lawyers.

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment follows the parameters of existing legislation and may be modified according to changes in that legislation and the guidelines of the University.


Continuous assessment will depend on the positive contribution of the following:
1. presence and active participation in class;
2. carrying out two tests of continuous assessment;
3. elaboration of a practical case study to present and discuss in class.

Teaching Resources

Handouts provided by the teacher, scientific articles;
Case study;
Guidelines in order to carry out practical work.
Power Point documents.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Ethics;
Law;
Deontology;
Professional regulation.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography