Administrative Law
Code: 100520Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Labour Relations | OB | 2 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Judith Gifreu Font
- Email :
- judith.gifreu@uab.cat
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
The subject will be taught from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Objectives
Understand the legal system - administrative, administrative organization, action and activity of the administration, rights of administrators, administrative procedures, administrative appeals, Administration's responsability, contentious-administrative jurisdiction and the rol of civil servants, among other questions.
Learning outcomes
- Identifying the foundations of the Administrative Law: Administrative Law and public administrations.
- Identifying the forms and proceedings of regulation and public ethics management.
- Knowing the administrative act and proceedings and solving the legal-administrative problems derived from the administrative activity.
- Defining the contentious administrative proceeding.
- Enumerating the public corruption control and prevention bodies.
- Preparing documents of implementation of Administrative Law. Detecting incompatibility and conflicts of interest.
- Preparing documents of implementation of Financial and Tax Law in the business and professional activities.
- Working autonomously.
- Organising and managing the available time.
- Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
- Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
- Applying the information and communication technologies to the different areas of action.
- Working effectively in teams.
- Solving the problems related to the implementation of the administrative regulation. Knowing the resorts to administrative jurisdiction.
Contents
A.- THE LEGAL-ADMINISTRATIVE ORDINANCE AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
Item 1.- Origin and evolution of Administrative Law. Concept. The statutory nature of Administrative Law. Content and features of Administrative Law. Law of privileges and guarantees.
Item 2.- Principles of the administrative organization and the performance and operation of the public sector. The principle of legality of the Administration. Administrative powers. Regulated powers and discretionary powers (licenses and authorizations). Organizational powers. Administrative units and administrative bodies. Typology and competence of the organs. Delegation, delegation, delegation of management, delegation of signature and substitution.
Item 3.- The General Administration of the State. The Administration of the Autonomous Communities. The Local Administration. Local autonomy. Typology of local entities. The institutional public sector. Corporate administration. The advisory and control administration.
Item 4.- The sources of administrative law. Administrative Law as a legal system: law, custom and general principles of Law. The value of jurisprudence. The Constitution as a legal rule. European Law as part of the internal legal system. The law. Types of laws. Government regulations with the force of law: Decree-laws and Legislative Decrees. The Regulation. Concept and justification of the regulatory power. Types of regulations. Procedure for drafting regulations. Transparency and public participation.
B.- THE ADMINISTRATIVE ACT AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.
Item 5.- The administrative act. The administrative act. Subjective and objective elements. Requirements: production, motivation and form. Classes. Validity of the acts: nullity and annulment. Effectiveness of the acts: notification and publication. General conditions for the practice of notifications. Electronic notifications.
Item 6.- The administrative procedure. The interesting in the procedure. The rights of interested parties and citizens in their relations with public administrations. Abstention and recusal of the authorities and staff in the service of the administrations. The language of the procedures. Records and filing of documents. Deadlines and computation.
Item 7.- The structure of the administrative procedure. The initiation of the procedure: ex officio and at the request of a party. The adoption of provisional measures. The organization and instruction of the procedure. Completion of the procedure. Obligation to resolve. Administrative silence. Enforceability of administrative resolutions. Means of enforcement.
Item 8.- The ex officio review of acts null and void and the review of voidable acts. Administrative appeals. Classes: height, optional of reposition and extraordinary review. General characteristics of administrative appeals: purpose, standing and acts subject to appeal.
C.- SECTORIAL ACTIVITIES
Item 9.- The patrimonial responsibility of the Public Administration. Historical evolution. Current regulations and characteristics of the Spanish liability system. Presuppositions and requirements of the administrative liability. Procedure to claim the liability of the Administration.
Item 10.- The sanctioning activity. Concept and basis. Principles of the sanctioning power and procedure. Administrative sanctioning procedure. Enforcement of penalties.
Item 11.- The compulsory expropriation. Subjects and object of expropriation. The cause expropiandi. General procedure. Emergency procedure. The determination of the fair price. The payment. The reversion.
Item 12.- The activity of promotion. Means of promotion, in particular, subsidies: characteristics and legal regime. Procedure for the granting of subsidies. Control and sanctions. The treatment of subsidies in Community Law.
D.- CONTENTIOUS-ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION.
Item 13.- Scope, extension and limits of the contentious-administrative jurisdiction. Courts and tribunals of the contentious order. Rules of jurisdiction. The parties in the process: standing, representation and defense. Object of the appeal: acts and provisions that can be challenged and types of claims. The contentious-administrative process.
E.- THE CIVIL SERVICE
Item 14.- Types of public employees: career civil servants, interim, temporary and managerial staff. Public labor regime. Access to the civil service. Selection procedures. Organization of civil servants in bodies, groups, levels and job descriptions. Administrative situations.
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debate | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 3, 10, 13, 14 |
| Theoretycal classes | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 14 |
| Resolution of case studies | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
| Study | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 3, 4, 8 |
| Preparation, writing and presentation of different activities | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Different readings: articles, jurisprudence ... | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 |
At the beginning of the subject, a schedule will be posted in the Moodle classroom.
The subject will be developed face-to-face.
Attention: We will not respond to e-mails requesting information that is already included in this teaching guide or on the Virtual Campus.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practices (3) | 60% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
| Oral presentation of a case or work related to the subject of the course. | 40% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 |
The course includes 2 types of assessment:
1.- Continuous assessment: The assessment will consist of the resolution in the classroom of 4 practical cases (in groups and/or individually) on the content of the syllabus (60% of the final mark) and the oral presentation of a practical case or group work on some aspect of the syllabus (40% of the final mark). In the continuous assessment, class attendance is not compulsory but it will be taken into account in the final grade of the course. In the case that it is duly justified (illness, force majeure or similar), you may miss one of the 4 examinable practicals, which will be made up at the end of the course. If there is no justification, the practical will count as a zero.
Recovery:Students may opt for re-evaluation provided that they have obtained a minimum mark of 3 points out of 10 in the final assessment. The re-evaluation will consist of a written exam (50% of the mark) and two practical cases on the content of the syllabus (25% + 25% of the mark).
2.- Single cassessment: Students who, for justified reasons and with prior authorisation from the teaching staff, are unable to attend classes, may be assessed on the day officially set for the course exam by means of a written exam (50% of the mark) and two practical cases on the content of the syllabus (25% + 25% of the mark).
Recovery: The same recovery system is applied as for the continuous assessment.
IMPORTANT: Should a student cheat, commit plagiarism or be found in possession of a prohibited device during an assessment, the lecturer will mark them with a 0 for that assessment and will report the incident to the Faculty Dean’s Office, submitting a report detailing the circumstances and evidence of the incident in order to request the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against the student. This assessment cannot be retaken. Should more than one irregularity occur in the assessment activities for the same module, the final mark for that module will be 0.
Restricted use of AI: For this module, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches, text correction or translations. Students must clearly identify which parts have been generated using this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final outcome of the activity. Failure to disclose the use of AI in this assessed activity will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may result in a partial or total deduction from the mark for the activity, or more severe sanctions in serious cases.
Bibliography
1.- REQUIRED BIBLIOGRAPHY
FUENTES GASÓ, Josep Ramon i GIFREU FONT, Judith (Dir.), Esquemas de procedimiento administrativo, 5a. Ed., Tirant lo Blanch, 2022.
2.- RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ESTEVE PARDO, José, Lecciones de derecho administrativo, 12a. edición, Marcial Pons, 2025.
- GAMERO CASADO, Eduardo, FERNÁNDEZ RAMOS, Severiano, Manual Básico de Derecho Administrativo, 23a. edición, Tecnos, 2026.
- GIFREU FONT, Judith i FUENTES GASÓ, Josep Ramon (Dir.), Règim jurídic dels governs locals de Catalunya, 2a. edición, Tirant lo Blanch, 2021.
- GIFREU FONT, Judith (Dir.), Litigación administrativa, 3a. edición ampliada, Tirant lo Blanch, 2026.
- PAREJO ALFONSO, Luciano. LECCIONES DE DERECHO ADMINISTRATIVO Ed. Tirant lo Blanch 2018.
https://biblioteca-tirant-com.are.uab.cat/cloudLibrary/ebook/show/9788491903765#ulNotainformativaTitle
Paper
- PONCE SOLÉ, Juli, Manual de fonaments del dret administratiu i de la gestió pública,5a. edición, Tirant lo Blanch, 2024.
- TRAYTER JIMÉNEZ. Joan Manuel, Derecho administrativo. Parte general, 9a. edición, Atelier, 2024.
Software
The subject does not require any specific software.
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 51 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 51 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |