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Curricular Grid






			MASTER PROGRAM – In order to fulfill the 20 (twenty) credits required for defence of the dissertation, the student should take:


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				Three compulsory courses common to all areas (General Theory of Law, Scientific Methodology and Human Rights, and Fundamental Rights), totaling 12 (twelve) credits and 204 (two hundred and four) hours. Each course is equivalent to 4 (four) credits and has a workload of 68 (sixty eight) hours.
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				Two elective courses, totaling 8 (eight) credits and 136 (one hundred and six) hours. The grid of elective courses varies according to the area of concentration.  The area of Public Law has the following courses: Juridical Hermeneutics, Theory of Constitution, Economic Administrative Law, Theory of Procedural, Tax Constitutional System, Grounds of Administrative Law, Contemporary Criminal Law, Law and Environment, Comparative Criminal Law, Constitutional Due Process of Law, Tax Judicial Situations, Contitutional Jurisdication, Law and Argumentation. As for the area of Social Relations and New Rights, the curricular grid has the following courses: Juridical Hermeneutics, Law and Argumentation, Fundamentals of Civil Law, Macrobioethics, State, Society and Labor Relations, Forms of Composition of Labor Conflicts, Private Autonomy and Macrobioethics. The student must choose two courses related to his/her research group and project.
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				Three compulsory activities: Guided Research, Guided Teaching Practice, Research Seminar
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DOCTORATE PROGRAM – To complete the Doctorate Program, so as to achieve the 64 (sixty four) credits required for defending the thesis, the student must take the following courses and activities:


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				Five compulsory courses common to all fields: Law Philosophy, General Theory of Law, Research Methodology on Law, Human Rights and Fundamental Rights, and Contemporary Juridical Systems. Each one has a workload of 68 (sixty eight) hours and is equivalent to 4 (four) credits.
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				A compulsory specific course that varies according to the research line to which the student is related. The compulsory specific courses are the following: Comparative Public Law (Line 1.1); Theory of Jurisprudence (case law) and Procedural Law (Line 1.2); History of the Private Law (Line 2.1), and Extensive Studies on Bioethics (Line 2.2).
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				Two elective courses, each one with a workload of 68 (sixty eight) hours, equivalent to 4 (four credits). There are two grids of elective courses that vary according to the field of concentration. The following elective courses are available to the field of Public Law: Writing a Scientific Text (or Juridical Hermeneutics), Theory of the Constitution, Economic Administrative Law, Theory of Judicial Proceedings, Constitutional Tax Law System, Grounds of Administrative Law, Contemporary Criminal Law, Law and Environment, Comparative Criminal Law, Constitutional Due Process of Law, Tax Law Juridical Situations, Constitutional Jurisdiction, and Law and Argumentation.  Whereas the following courses are available to the field of Social Relations and New Rights: Writing a Scientific Text (Juridical Hermeneutics), Law and Argumentation, Fundamentals of Civil Law, Macrobioethics, State, Society and Labor Relations, Forms of Composition of Labor Conflicts, Private Autonomy, and Macrobioethics. The student shall choose two courses related to his/her research group and research project. Similarly to the Master Program, the doctorate student shall also choose two courses related to his/her research group and research project.
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				Four compulsory activities: Guided Research, Guided Teaching Practice, and Research Seminar.
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It is necessary to observe that the student of both, Master and Doctorate Programs, shall be submitted to a qualificafying exam, to be taken in the semester before the time planned for defense of the dissertation or thesis, always before delivering the research paper.


All compulsory and elective courses are monographic, which means that at the end of each semester the student must present a paper on the course indicated by the Professor of the course. Thus, there is a stimulus for the student’s production within the Program, as many papers end up by being published as articles in technical or scientific magazines/journals.