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

METODOLOGIA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO - 2025/2026

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

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Paulo Amorim
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Paulo Amorim

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Develop capacity for understanding complex legal phenomena .

Specific Aims/Objectives

Deliver the methodologychal tools to legal research

Skills to be acquired

Ability to formulate hypotheses for research and development of their proposed methodological and epistemological reasoned and presented

Teaching Procedures

Weekly coursework

Programme

1. Technology Resources
1.1 Information Technology
1.2 and-Lusíada
1.3 Databases Online
2. Epistemology
2.1 The Theory of Knowledge
2.2 Sense and perception
2.3 Positivism and post-positivism
3. Methodologies
3.1 Methodology Quantitative
3.2 Qualitative Methods
4. The technical standards Portuguese: NP 405-1, 2, 3 and 4.
5. Planning
5.1 The "research question"
5.2 Proposal research
5.3 Plans
6. Legal Methodology
6.1 Methodology of Law, Positive Law and Natural Law.
6.2 Methodology of Law, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
6.3 Law and Economics
6.4 Comparative Law

Evaluation Type

Weekly coursework and 2 writen tests

Teaching Resources

Sustainability Objectives

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 4; 5 ; 12 ; 13; 16 and 17

Keywords

Methodologies
Investigation
Epistemology
Hermeneutics
Reference

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography