Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Dereito
Grado en Derecho
 Training and Learning Results


Choose A Code Training and Learning Results
  A1 Students will have shown they have sufficient knowledge and understanding of an area of study, starting after completion of general secondary education, and normally reaching a level of proficiency that, being mostly based on advanced textbooks, will also include familiarity with some cutting-edge developments within the relevant field of study.
  A2 Students will be able to apply their knowledge and skills in their professional practice or vocation and they will show they have the required expertise through the construction and discussion of arguments and the resolution of problems within the relevant area of study.
  A3 Students will be able to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) that will allow them to have a reflection-based considered opinion on important issues of social, scientific and ethical nature.
  A4 Students will be able to present information, ideas, problems and solutions both to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  A5 Students will acquire the learning skills that are required to pursue further studies with a high degree of independence.
Choose B Code Knowledge
  B1 To know the function of the Law as a regulating system of social relations.
  B2 To know the different manifestations of the Law in their historical development and in their present-day incarnations.
  B3 To be able to use the constitutional principles and values as tools for the interpretation of the law and to acquire the skills to argue in juridical terms.
  B4 To be able to identify juridical problems and to suggest solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Choose C Code Skill
  C1 To know the legal framework of private international Law, at national, community and conventional levels, as well as the problems posed by the application of these norms given the unitary character of the legal system.
  C2 CE2 – To be able to identify juridical problems of private international Law and approach their solution in an interdisciplinary manner.
  C3 CE3 – To know the concept and sources of Commercial Law, as well as the legal status of individual entrepreneurs and commercial societies.
  C4 CE4 – To be able to interpret the commercial laws pertaining to individual and social entrepreneurs.
  C5 CE5 – To know the regulation of securities and commercial contracts.
  C6 CE6 – To be able to interpret and apply the rules about securities and commercial contracts.
  C7 CE7 – To reconstruct and evaluate complex juridical arguments.
  C8 CE8 – To know, from the perspective of the Theory of Law, the main juridical institutions, the functions of the Law, the characteristics of a legal system: unity, coherence, integrity; the constitutional principles and values with the aim of being able to apply them in the peaceful resolution of problems in modern society, using juridical interpretation and argumentation resulting from critical, logical and creative thinking.
  C9 CE9 – To know the regulatory framework governing individual and collective labor relations and Social Security.
  C10 CE10 – To be able to identify juridical problems of Labor and Social Security Law and approach their solution through the use and interpretation of juridical sources and doctrine.
  C11 CE13 – To know the principles of functioning governing a market economy, to understand the behavior of different economic agents and to be familiar with the main economic problems.
  C12 CE14 – To be able to use economic principles and concepts as tools to argue in economic terms, identify economic problems and approach their solution through policies that are appropriate for each situation.
  C13 CE17 – To know the Roman legal system, which is the basis of all modern European legal systems.
  C14 CE18 – To be able to solve any theoretical or practical juridical problem of private Law.
  C15 CE19 – To know systematically the specific contents of the general part of Administrative Law, using positive, jurisprudence and doctrinal sources.
  C16 CE20 – To be able to understand correctly the documents that normally constitute an administrative enquiry and to act in accordance with the Law in the proceedings, both from the perspective of the Administration and from that of the interested persons or companies.
  C17 CE21 – To know systematically, both at introductory and in-depth levels, some specific contents of the special part of Administrative Law, using positive, jurisprudence and doctrinal sources.
  C18 CE24 – To know the model of distribution of financial power in Spain, as well as government revenue (particularly, taxes: their essential elements and enforcement procedures) and the norms governing public expenditure.
  C19 CE25 – To be able to interpret and apply the rules of the financial legal framework.
  C20 CE26 – To know the main taxes of the tax system at state, regional-autonomic and local levels.
  C21 CE27 – To be able to identify the essential elements of these taxes (taxable source of income, taxpayers, etc.), as well as to be able to apply the rules of quantification and determination of tax liabilities.
  C22 CE28 – To master new technologies applied to Law.
  C23 CE29 – To be able to use computer-based juridical sources.
  C24 CE30 – To know the history of Spanish Law as a whole, through the different historical periods, especially the Sources and the politico-administrative institutions of each period, and to understand the development of Spanish Law until the present.
  C25 CE31 – To be able to use, master and interpret the main sources of Spanish historical Law.
  C26 CE32 – To know the jurisdictional frameworks of Spain and the E.U., the organization and functions of jurisdictional staff and the staff employed by the Administration of Justice, as well as the basic institutions of civil action and their procedural types.
  C27 CE33 – To be able to identify juridical-procedural problems in civil procedure and to approach their solution through the critical interpretation and application of laws of civil procedure.
  C28 CE34 – To know the basic institutions of criminal procedure and its practical functioning in its different procedural types.
  C29 CE35 – To be able to identify juridical-procedural problems in criminal procedure and to approach their solution through the critical interpretation and application of laws of criminal procedure.
  C30 CE38 – To know constitutional theory and the constitutional norms providing the foundations for the organization of the Spanish State, particularly normative creation and the different organs of the State, as well as their composition, functioning and functions.
  C31 CE39 – To be able to interpret and apply constitutional norms.
  C32 CE40 – To know the fundamental Rights recognized in the Spanish Constitution, as well as the systems of guarantees of these rights and the applicable norms.
  C33 CE41 – To be able to interpret and apply the norms governing fundamental rights and their guarantees.
  C34 CE42 – To be able to interpret and apply the new regulations resulting from such transformations.
  C35 CE43 – To know the international legal order, to identify the problems of its application and to be able to suggest solutions.
  C36 CE44 – To be able to critically interpret and analyze the international legal order.
  C37 CE45 – To know the organizational and institutional structures of the UE, as well as the European Union legal order and its sources and its influence on the national legal system, and their relationships with the international legal order.
  C38 CE46 – To be able to use and interpret the European Union legal order.
  C39 CE47 – To know the civil regulations pertaining to the Law of Obligations, General Contract Theory and to Contracts in particular, with reference to contractual and non-contractual civil liability.
  C40 CE48 – To be able to identify juridical problems in civil Law, approaching their solution through the search, interpretation and application of the civil norms and regulations that are applicable to a specific case.
  C41 CE49 – To know the civil regulations about Rights in Rem with regard to their acquisition, extinction and loss, with a specific study of property rights in rem and of limited rights in rem, as well as the modes of publicity of these Rights in Rem.
  C42 CE50 – To know civil regulations dealing with Family Law, focusing especially on marriage, its crises and the custody of minors and disabled people, as well as inheritance law from the perspective of common law and Galician territorial law.
  C43 CE51 – To know the concept of criminal Law, the criteria for the temporal and spatial application of criminal norms, the General Theory of crime and the juridical consequences of crime.
  C44 CE52 – To be able to interpret and apply the norms of criminal Law, focusing especially on the development of Spanish criminal doctrine from a comparative perspective.
  C45 CE53 – To know the different criminal categories (crimes and minor offenses) that appear in the Penal Code and in the special penal laws, their area of application and the criteria for legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal interpretation.
  C46 CE54 – To be able to identify problems of criminal Law and to suggest solutions that are juridically acceptable in practical cases, using correctly the constitutional sources, principles and values, as well as juridical argumentation.
  C47 CE55 – To understand the compulsory Financial Statements of companies.
  C48 CEI 1 – To understand the international normative framework of sustainability, constituted by agreements and regulations and forms sponsored by NGOs.
  C49 CEI 2 – To be able to identify the specific juridical problems of international Law of sustainable development, suggesting solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective, as well as being able to critically interpret and analyze the specific technical and juridical problems of international litigation.
  C50 CEI 3 – To know the protection of distinctive signs and inventions and the norms regulating competition between business agents in the market.
  C51 CEI 4 – To be able to interpret and apply the norms related to distinctive signs and inventions and competition and unfair competition norms.
  C52 CEI 5 – To know fundamental elements of bankruptcy proceedings from the start until its completion.
  C53 CEI 6 – To be able to interpret and apply the norms through which bankruptcy legislation disciplines insolvency processes.
  C54 CEI 7 – To know the most relevant national regulations and international agreements pertaining to the subject.
  C55 CEI 8 – To be able to solve problems in the field of maritime Law through analysis of jurisprudence and practical documentation.
  C56 CEI 9 – To know the main norms applicable to international trade.
  C57 CEI 10 – To be able to interpret and apply the above-mentioned norms and their main existing uses in this sector.
  C58 CEI 11 – To know the main contemporary theories of juridical interpretation and argumentation.
  C59 CEI 12 – To know the policies and Social Law of the European Union and the consequences they have on domestic legislation.
  C60 CEI 13 – To be able to identify juridical problems arising from the policies and Social Law of the European Union and to suggest solutions through the use and interpretation of European Union and domestic juridical sources and the doctrine of the European Union Court of Justice.
  C61 CEI 14 – To know the basic regulatory framework, the rights of beneficiaries and the obligations of companies regarding Social Security issues.
  C62 CEI 15 – To be able to identify specific juridical problems pertaining to Social Security Law in the corporative field and suggest solutions through the use and interpretation of judicial sources and doctrine.
  C63 CEI 16 – To know systematically the specific contents of Antitrust Law linked to Administrative Law, using positive, jurisprudence and doctrinal sources, and to identify the specific contents of Antitrust Law linked to Commercial Law, using positive, jurisprudence and doctrinal sources.
  C64 CEI 17 – To be able to understand correctly the documents constituting an antitrust administrative enquiry and to act in accordance with the Law in the proceedings, both from the perspective of the Administration and from that of the interested person, as well as to identify situations of restriction of competition in the market, to solve them in accordance with the applicable regulations and to prevent situations that break the right to free competition.
  C65 CEI 18 – To know the direct and indirect taxes that result from the application of the right to engage in business and professional activities on the part of entrepreneurs, self-employed workers and capital companies.
  C66 CEI 19 – To be able to identify tax problems arising in companies and to be able to use the main existing instruments for their resolution, including interdisciplinary perspectives.
  C67 CEI 20 – To know the consequences for Spain, in terms of tax law, deriving from its belonging to the European Union.
  C68 CEI 21 – To know the foundations and goals of Agreements of double taxation, as well as the measures and solutions that the legal system provides to strengthen the exchange of tax data between countries in order to fight against tax evasion globally.
  C69 CEI 22 – To know the existing procedural mechanisms, both in Spain and in the EU, that have been specifically designed to achieve expeditious guardianship of money loans.
  C70 CEI 23 – To be able to identify procedural problems pertaining specifically to the claiming of pecuniary obligations and propose solutions through appropriate procedural and non-procedural mechanisms.
  C71 CEI 24 – To know the specific characteristics of criminal and procedural law applicable to minors.
  C72 CEI 25 - To be able to identify criminal and procedural legal problems and address their solution through the interpretation and critical application of the Organic Act on Criminal Responsibility of Minors and its development regulations.
  C73 CEI 26 – To know the transformations introduced by economic regulations in constitutional regulations.
  C74 CEI 27- To know the civil norms pertaining to tort law and contractual and non-contractual civil liability with special reference to liability for acts of others and legally imposed strict liability.
  C75 CEI 28 – To know the civil norms pertaining to corporate and professional liability with special reference to liability for faulty products, in construction, resulting from traffic accidents and professional liability in general, along with liability in the specific areas of the medical and legal professions. In addition, liability resulting from environmental damage and infringements of personality rights, among others.
  C76 CEI 29 – To know the concept, object and specific functions of Criminology, as well as the prison sentences and their compliance regime.
  C77 CEI 30 – To be able to use the criminological investigation techniques, the rules of determination of sentences and to analyze the prison system.
  C78 CEI 31 – Ability to identify and understand the specific juridical problems of corporate criminal law starting with a real case that shows problems arising in actual professional practice and to suggest solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
  C79 CEI 32 – To know the differences between the two great contemporary juridical systems: The European Roman-Canonical system and Common Law.
  C80 CEI 33 – To know the special characteristics of the legal framework of alternative methods of dispute resolution (AMDR).
  C81 CEI 34 – To be able to identify the most appropriate extra-procedural mechanism for the satisfactory resolution of different types of conflicts arising in the corporate world, and to interpret and apply correctly its specific legal framework.
  C82 CEI 35 – To know the legal principles that regulate the creation of a single European market and the essential characteristics of some European Union policies.
  C83 CEI 36 – To know the influence the legal order of the European Union has on Commercial Law, as well as the regulations of the European Union regarding commercial law in several economic sectors.
  C84 CEI 37 – To be able to use juridical sources of the European union in the commercial sphere, to identify juridical problems and to solve them in accordance with European Union regulations, as well as to critically interpret and analyze European Union norms regarding different sectors of Commercial Law.
  C85 CEI 38 – To know the utility and functioning of the Contentious-Administrative and Social Jurisdictions.
  C86 CEI 39 – To acquire the essential training that is required to develop professional activities in or before Contentious-Administrative and Social judicial bodies.
  C87 CEI 40 – To know the main macroeconomic problems, as well as the different policies and their effects on the economic system, focusing specially on the study of tax policy.
  C88 CEI 41 – To be able to handle and analyze economic data, and to use these to develop skills to diagnose, design and implement economic policies.
  C89 CEI 42 – To know the specific characteristics of civil and criminal special proceedings (or with some special characteristics) included in our juridical order, as well as the legal framework of alternative dispute resolution methods (ADRM).
  C90 CEI 43 – To be able to identify the most appropriate procedural and non-procedural channels for the efficient resolution of different types of conflicts, and to correctly interpret and apply their specific legal framework.
  C91 CEI 44 – Knowledge of the fundamental components of the regulations and jurisprudence of Criminal Law regarding commercial and corporate activities, as well as the juridical consequences contemplated for different criminal activities.
Choose D Code Competences
  D1 Analysis and synthesis skills for the development and defense of arguments, as well as skills for organizing, planning and using time in pressure situations.
  D2 Use of foreign languages in activities from different courses.
  D3 Ability to make decisions independently, leadership skills, ability to do co-operative teamwork, interpersonal skills that are helpful in professional and social situations.
  D4 Ability to behave ethically and with social responsibility as a citizen and as a professional, respecting diversity and multiculturalism.
  D5 To be able to solve problems and interpret data from reality with their associated meanings, and to establish links with the different branches of the juridical order.
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