Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology

DIREITO PENAL (AVANÇADO) - 2025/2026

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Fernando Torrão
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Raquel Cardoso

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórica : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Reflection on fundamental issues in criminal law

Specific Aims/Objectives

Encouraging research and the ability to problematise and relate theoretical issues to the resolution of practical hypotheses.
Developing active learning skills.

Skills to be acquired

Capacity for legal argumentation
Spirit of synthesis
Understanding of works related to the syllabus of the course
Ability to relate various works in the context of the syllabus of the course
Ability to prepare assignments
Ability to present work

Teaching Procedures

Problematization of defined themes
Defining research strategies and deepening knowledge
Preparation and presentation of reports

Programme

PART I - Themes of ‘criminal law of the legal good’

1 Protection of legal goods that conform to human dignity
1.1 Human life
1.1.1 Murder offences
1.1.2 Murder on demand, assisting suicide and medically assisted death
1.1.3 Abortion and voluntary termination of pregnancy
1.2 Physical and moral integrity and sexual freedom and self-determination
1.2.1 Crimes against physical integrity
1.2.2 Participation in a brawl
1.2.3 Arbitrary medical and surgical interventions
1.2.4 Domestic violence
1.2.5 Sexual offences

PART II - ‘Criminal law of risk’ issues

1 Protection of legal assets in the context of the ‘risk society’
1.1 Influence of post-modern thinking
1.2 The need to protect diffuse or supra-individual legal assets
1.2.1 Environmental offences
1.2.2 Economic and financial crime

2. Corporate criminal law
2.1 Need to punish the company itself?
2.2 Models of criminal imputation
2.3 Compliance and criminal law
2.4 Autonomous corporate guilt?

Evaluation Type

Written and oral presentation of report.
Class participation.

Teaching Resources

Library general and specialized

Sustainability Objectives

4 - Quality education
14 - Protecting marine life
15 - Protecting terrestrial life
16 - Peace, Justice and Effective Institutions

Keywords

Legal good
Life
Moral and physical integrity
Risk society
Environmental crime
Legal persons

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography