Comparative Trends in Family Law
Professor Josep Ferrer
Monday to Friday
9:30 - 10:40 am
June 28 -July 29, 2016
The course analyzes the most relevant areas of family law from a comparative perspective, including topics such as the requirements for marriage, divorce, cohabitation, establishment of parentage, assisted reproduction, parental responsibility and child custody. Discussion will focus on legal materials and judicial decisions from major European jurisdictions, other western countries and the European Court of Human Rights.
Armed Conflicts: Regulation of the Use of Force and Peaceful Resolution of Disputes (2 crs.)
Professor Anna Badia
(Course will be offered in Spanish)
Monday to Friday
11:00 am- 12:10 pm
June 28-July 29, 2016
The course begins by studying the typology of contemporary armed conflicts. In so doing it assesses: the causes leading to an armed conflict; how to identify the parties to a dispute and recent development and 3) the nature of the weaponry deployed. The second element of the study is International Humanitarian Law, which constitutes the normative legal corpus regulating armed conflicts. In addition to a study of norms, the relevant international organizations will be studied in terms of application and development (United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross), as well as the international mechanisms that can be brought to bear. The third element encompasses the principle of peaceful resolution of disputes and the procedures leading to the same, with a view to understanding which protocols have produced successful pacification outcomes. The investigation of these themes will rely on the ample use of case studies.
Protection of Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights: Practical Considerations (2credit hours)
Prof. Jordi Bonet
Monday to Friday
12:30 - 1:40pm
The course examines the development of the protection of Human Rights Law in Europe through the analysis of present legislation and judicial decision on the matter. The course will also look at the practical implications to present a case before the European Court of Human Rights.
European Environmental Law
Prof. Angel Manuel Moreno
Monday thru Thursday
4:00 - 5:30pm
The course explores the international development of evironmental law in Europe and how do those laws influence domestic law. The first part of the course covers the rules and principles of environmental protection approved by the European Union. This includes the study of institutional structures in order to make decisions, the analysis of the most important legal rules plus in different sectors of environmental protection (water and air pollution, solid waste, environmental democracy, climate change, and environmental protection).
Mini-course: The right to have rights.
Prof. Erika Fontánez
Monday, July 18th thru Friday, July 22nd
5:00 to 7:00pm
This seminar examines one of the most widely discussed issues in contemporary legal & political theory: the rights to have rights. Based on the philosophy of one the most important political thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, the course will examine what the implications are in the contemporary world in regards to the right to have rights. The context of this phrase within the work of Arendt entails subjects such as the origins of totalitarism, the dissapperance of the judicial subject, the citizen in front of the individual, the right to belong to a political community and the phenomena of refugees, so relevant to our times.
The practice of Law in Europe (3 credit hours) Curso de pasantía
Prof. Efrén Rivera
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00 to 7:00pm
June 28th to July 15th, 2016
Students have the opportunity of working three weeks in a law firm in Barcelona, Spain. Limited spaces available.