Economic Law
Objectives
Students should become familiar with the modern instruments that the State employs in order to intervene in the functioning of the market and thereby achieve certain economic outcomes. This vovers three main areas: the constitutional framework of such intervention (Economic Constitution); the direct intervention on the market, as a market player; and the indirect and nowadays far more common type of interventation usually designated under the heading of "regulation".
General characterization
Code
28105
Credits
4
Responsible teacher
Lúcio Tomé Feteira
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 36
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not Applicable
Bibliography
- APOLINÁRIO, Marisa, O Estado regulador: o novo papel do Estado (Almedina: 2015)
- AZEVEDO, Maria Eduarda, Temas de Direito da Economia, 4.ª edição (Almedina: 2020)
- AZEVEDO, Maria Eduarda, Direito da regulação da economia (Quid Juris, 2017)
- BARNARD, Catherine, The Substantive Law of the EU: the four freedoms, 6th edition (OUP: 2019)
- CABRAL de MONCADA, Luís S., Direito Económico, 7.ª edição (Almedina: 2018)
- CALVÃO DA SILVA, João Nuno, Mercado e Estado. Serviços de Interesse Económico Geral, (Almedina: 2008)
- CONFRARIA, João, Regulação e Concorrência, 2.ª edição (Universidade Católica Editora: 2011)
- FERREIRA, Eduardo Paz/Morais, Luís Silva/Anastácio, Gonçalo (coord.), Regulação em Portugal: Novos Tempos, Novos Modelos? (Almedina: 2009)
- FRANCO, António L. Sousa, Direito da Economia (AAFDL: 1982)
- FREIRE, Paula Vaz, Mercado Interno e União Económica e Monetária. Lições de Direito económico da União Europeia (AAFDL: 2013)
- MORAIS, Luís Silva/Cunha Rodrigues, Nuno/Pardal, Paulo Alves, Direito da Economia, volume I (AAFDL: 2014)
- OTERO, Paulo (coord.), Comentário à Constituição portuguesa, vol. II (organização económica: artigos 80.º a 107.º) (Almedina: 2008)
- PARDAL, Paulo Alves, ¿O acidentado percurso da Constituição económica portuguesa¿ in C&R ¿ Revista de Concorrência e Regulação, ano VI, n.º 22, abril/junho 2015, pp 17-53
- SANCHES, J. L. Saldanha, Direito Económico: Um projecto de reconstrução, (Coimbra Editora: 2008)
Teaching method
Lectures envolving on-class discussion of current topics and case law relating to the specific point of the syllabus being taught.
Evaluation method
Final grade depends either on the combined assessment of participation in class and the grade of the final written exam (50/50) or solely upon the latter (100) according to each students' choice.
Subject matter
- Introduction: presentation of the discipline, exposition of the program, bibliographical indications, organization of classes and evaluation methods.
- Economic Law: concept, alternative designations, object and scientific autonomy.
- Historical evolution of public intervention in the economy. Specificities of the present moment: COVID-19 and the intervention of the State in the economy.
- Economic constitution (EC): introduction.
- The European Economic Constitution (EEC): introduction, characterising elements and Ordoliberal influence.
- The freedoms of movement within the EEC
- The rules of competition in the context of EEC (remission)
- The Portuguese economic constitution
- Direct public intervention: the entrepreneurial State and the enterprise sector of the State (SEE).
- Indirect public intervention: introduction; protection of competition and sectorial regulation (characterization and interaction).
- Indirect public intervention (cont.): the tutelage of competition
- Indirect public intervention (cont.): sectoral regulation
- Conclusion