Class Law for Administrative Offences

This curricular unit aims to study the main substantive and procedural principles of the law of administrative offenses and their confrontation with the "new general regimes".

1- Introductory considerations on the law of offenses: its genesis, its raison d'être and its place
in the Portuguese legal system. The German Referent
2- The main dogmatic categories of the law of the offenses
3- The structuring principles of the substantive law of administrative offenses
4- Structure and structuring principles of the process of the offenses. The different procedural stages and the
need for its proper delimitation: the powers of the administration, the prosecutor and the court
5- Confrontation of some norms of the General Regime of Inordinations with other norms of other "mini-regimes"
general
6- The need for revision of the General Regime of Infractions
7- The legal regime for the issuing and enforcement of decisions imposing financial penalties (Law No 93/2009 of 1
September) and the road to an EU counter-national law

The classes will consist of a theoretical exposition and a practical part. Will always take place
calling the student to oral and written exposition. To this end, judgments, journal articles from the
specialty and doctrinal texts.
Assessment composed by the elaboration of works (70%) and participation in class and oral performance (30%)

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de Faria (1986),«Les problèmes juridiques et pratiques posés par la différence entre le droit criminel et le droit
administratif-pénal». In:BFD, 62, p.141-182;
GÓMEZ TOMILLO, M./ SANZ RUBIALES (2013), Derecho Administrativo Sancionador. Parte General, 3.a ed.,
Navarra: Ed. Aranzadi;
VILELA, A. (2013), O direito de mera ordenação social. Entre a ideia de ¿recorrência¿ e a de ¿erosão¿ do direito penal
clássico, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora;
__(2013), «Crime e contraordenação: por morrerem algumas andorinhas pode acabar a primavera».In: RFDULP, 2, p.
194-206 on-line: http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rfdulp/article/view/3255/2412;
__(2014)«A segunda parte do regime geral do ilícito de mera ordenação social: um direito processual muitas vezes
ignorado».In: RFDULP, 4, 2014, p. 1-10 on-line: http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rfdulp/article/view/4356/2963