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DegreeMasters
Semesters4
Credits120
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Admission Conditions
Admission Conditions
The following may applly for the Master' s degree: a) holderes of a bachelor's degree in law; b) holderes of a foreign academic degree in law awarded after a 1 st study cycle in Law, organized according to the Bologna bachelor's degree in law; c) holderes of a master's degree in law; d) holderes of a foreign academic degree in law awarded after a 2 st study cycle in Law, organized according to the Bologna master's degree in law; e) holders of a scientific or professional curriculum in criminal law area acknowledged by the due body of ULP certifying the capacity to obtain the present study cycle.
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Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
* Understand the subjects of the different UCs and apply the knowledge acquired in solving legal-practical problems and reflect on them critically; - to deepen the understanding of the penal-legal norms, according to the general theory of the criminal infraction and all that concerns the Portuguese punitive system; - to intensify the guiding principles of criminal proceedings, especially as regards evidence and appeal, in order to deal with and reflect on such matters in legal practice; - Understand the importance of Portuguese contraordenacional law and its dogmatic principles and categories, as well as the European sanctioning system; - Know the problems of international criminal law and know how to solve them according to its norms and be aware of a set of human rights and their importance. * Develop the capacity for legal reasoning on the issues taught; * Deepen the oral criminal-legal discourse in the same argument.
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Objectives
Objectives
The submitted CE, a scientific master's degree, aims to assure the student an academic specialization in the criminallegal sciences that will be acquired through the research, innovation and professional skills development, considering the academic and social relevance of this specific normative area, both in theoretical terms, as in practical terms. Thus, offering students a demanding and updated curriculum structure, but also characterized by some rigidity (in 8 UCs, 4 each semester, the student has only one option UC, which chooses between two, in the 1st Semester), the The first objective of this EC is to train highly specialized professionals in the field of criminal law in the strict sense and other disciplines pertaining to the science of total criminal law, understood in a broad sense and therefore covering other sanctioning rights than just criminal law, suchas, por example, the adminsitrative sancionatory law
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Study plan
Study plan
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1º Ano / Common Core
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Constitutional Theory for Criminal Procedure
7.5 ects -
Criminal Procedure Law
7.5 ects - Option
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Penal Law
7.5 ects
- [2º Semestre]
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Law for Administrative Offences
7.5 ects -
International Criminal Law
7.5 ects -
Legal Methodology and Research
7.5 ects -
Punitive System
7.5 ects
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2º Ano / Common Core
- [Anual]
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Dissertation
60 ects
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1º Ano / Common Core
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Options
Options
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Option
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7.5 ects - Human Rights (Option)
7.5 ects
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Option
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Course Team
Course Team
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Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
The training acquired provides the skills and knowledge necessary for a successful entry into the labor market, in different areas of activity, such as jurist, jurisconsult. It provides a high degree of training to students who intend to join the Bar Association and the Center for Judicial Studies.
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Future Studies
Future Studies
The cycle of studies ensures adequate preparation for students interested in continuing their academic training in the PhD in Law at ULP and ULHT.
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Infrastructure and Equipment
Infrastructure and Equipment
Classes will take place in a classroom equipped with a state-of-the-art multimedia system, at the facilities of the Universidade Lusófona do Porto. Students have at their disposal a library, a research room for the master's degrees, a canteen and bar and have tutorial and advisory support from all teachers.
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Scientific Areas
Scientific Areas
Direito
Porto | Faculdade Direito e Ciência Política
Current Application Dates
Course Direction
Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior
Graduation Requirements
Have completed a total of 120 ECTS.
