OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Pompeu Fabra University
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Law
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
DESCRIPTION
The course is divided into four parts, and 22 class periods. The first part will be just introductory, but it is an attempt to introduce the student to the new scenario in which the law, politics, and justice are placed. This new scenario is characterized mainly by two distinct but interrelated phenomena that, together, are profoundly changing our societies: globalization and the digital revolution. The second part consists of an introduction to law, to its functions, to the idea of a rule of law, to its sources, the main law traditions, and the law branches. It continues with an introduction to constitutional law and criminal law, as two main branches of public law. And it also introduces the discussions about democratic legitimacy and judicial review. The third part focuses on justice and legitimacy. It focuses on the main contemporary theories of justice, such as utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, Communitarianism, Multiculturalism, Feminism, and Republicanism. And it includes a session on the idea of political legitimacy, and more concretely of democratic legitimacy. The fourth and last part deals with global issues, and mainly with the application of what we have learned on law, justice and legitimacy to this new scenario. It embraces the main recent discussions about global justice, state sovereignty and global democracy.