UMH - DEFENSE STRATEGIES AND SPECIALTIES IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

DEFENSE STRATEGIES AND SPECIALTIES IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

Course

Code: 2681

Degree: Master's in Law

Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Elche

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Law

Semester: Spring

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 4.5

Lecture: 4.5

Laboratory: 0

Hours: 112.5

Directed: 45

Shared: 33.75

Autonomous: 33.75

Subject matter: Legal Framework of Professional Associations and the Practice of Law

Module: Specialized Training Module

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Defense strategies and specialties in the practice of law:
I. Instruments and action techniques.
II. Extrajudicial conflict resolution techniques (mediation, reconciliation, and arbitration).
III. Fundamental rights and its specialties in the practice of law.
IV. Specialization of the attorney in the area of supranational law.
V. Legal specialties deriving from citizenship rights and immigration law.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
LÓPEZ SÁNCHEZ, CRISTINA	■	■	■
SANJUAN ANDRES, FRANCISCO JAVIER		■	■
ORTEGA GIMENEZ, ALFONSO		■	■
CRESPO NAVARRO, ELENA		■	■
RECHE TELLO, NURIA		■	■
HEREDIA SANCHEZ, LERDYS SARAY		■	■
TUR AUSINA, ROSARIO		■	■

Professional interest

Specialized vocational training related to the exercise of the attorney's profession.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Obtain and select relevant information and sources for solving problems, developing action strategies, and advising clients.
Develop and manage the most suitable writing, reporting, and operating procedures for problems that arise.
Acquire the tools to plan, organize, and channel activities in such a manner to avoid as much as possible that unforeseen, predict and minimize eventual problems, and anticipate their solutions.
Consider as a whole and take into account different aspects and implications in the different issues arising from the decisions and options chosen, knowing how to choose or provide those most appropriate within ethics, legality, and values of social coexistence.
Ability to work in professional and multi-professional teams efficiently and effectively, producing real contexts and providing and coordinating their own knowledge with other fields and participants.
Make individual decisions and actively participate in making collective decisions.
Understand and incorporate new technologies into practice.
Discern conflicting information and develop a critical judgment about it.
Learn to prepare and report cases, problems, or situations, and raise and defend potential solutions using different techniques - oral, written, or in presentation form.
Learn techniques for analyzing problems and making professional decisions.
Develop the ability to manage, monitor, and resolve any legal issue, both judicial and extrajudicial.

Specific competencies

Possess, understand, and develop skills that enable applying the specialized academic expertise acquired in undergraduate education to the changing reality facing lawyers to avoid situations of injury, risk, or conflict in relation to the interests entrusted or in their professional practice in courtrooms or before public authorities and in advisory functions.
Learn the techniques for inquiry and establishment of the facts in different types of procedures, especially the production of documents, interviews, and expert evidence.
Know and be able to integrate the protections of clients' rights in the context of national and international judicial protection.
Learn different reconciliation of interests techniques and know how to find solutions to problems using alternative methods to the judicial process.
Know and apply professional ethics rights and duties in the relationships of the lawyer with the client, other parties, the court or the public authority, and among lawyers.
Identify and evaluate the varied responsibilities related to professional activity, including the basic functions of free legal assistance and the promotion of the social responsibility of the lawyer.
Know how to identify conflicts of interest and learn techniques for resolving them, establish the scope of professional secrecy and confidentiality, and preserve independence of judgment.
Know how to identify the requirements for the provision and organization of determinants for legal advice.
Understand and know how to apply in practice the organizational, management, and business areas of the legal profession, as well as its associative, fiscal, labor, and protection of personal data legal framework.
Develop skills and abilities for choosing the correct strategy for defending the clients' rights, taking the requirements of the different areas of professional practice into account.
Develop skills that allow the lawyer to improve work efficiency and enhance the overall operation of the team or institution where it develops through access to information sources, knowledge of languages, managing knowledge, and handling applied tools and techniques.
Understand and know how to organize and plan individual and collective resources available for practicing the legal profession in its different organizational forms.
Know how to present facts orally and in writing, and arguably draw legal consequences in the context and to whom they are addressed, in accordance where applicable with the terms of each procedural area.
Develop professional work in specific and interdisciplinary teams.
Learn how to develop interpersonal abilities and skills that facilitate the practice of the legal profession in its relationships with citizens, other professionals, and institutions.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

The students will be able to apply the defense strategies valuing the different specialties in the practice of advocacy.
The student will dominate the beginning, values and constitutional laws as working tool in the interpretation and practical application of Law.
Knowledge of the remedies provided in the international law and the European Union in favor of individuals.
The student will implemet the Nationality and Immigration rules.
The student will resolve issues that may arise in the practice of a lawyer and for which there is necessary the previous knowledge of medical or biological aspects.
Evaluate so much the strategies used by the other part as their own.
Express a good oral communication putting in practice the interview lawyer - customer.
To develop searches of jurisprudence, legislation and doctrine.
The future lawyer will be able to begin to function in another language with their customers.
The students will be able to know in an advanced way the basic aspects related to the organization and management of a lawyer.
The students will be able to put into practice specialized knowledge concerning to compliance with obligations of the lawyer.

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Masanet Fernández, Juan Manuel. Heredia Sánchez, Lerdys Saray / Ortega Giménez, Alfonso coord. "Formularios de nacionalidad y extranjería". Madrid Grupo Difusión D.L. 2008.
Fuentes i Gasó, Josep Ramon, dir. / Gifreu i Font, Judith, dir. / Torres Estrada, Ramon, dir. "Esquemas de extranjeria ". Valencia Tirant Lo Blanch 2009.
Martinez Selva, J.M. ISBN 9788449317354 . "La Psicología de la Mentira". Paidos.
Nichols, Ralph E. / Aparicio Aldazábal, María Elenea trad. "Comunicación eficaz". Barcelona Deusto D. L. 2004.
Baró, Teresa. "Saber decir. Recetas para hacer buenas presentaciones en público.". Barcelona Ediciones del Serbal 2011.
García-Clairac, Santiago. "Presentaciones en público [recurso electronico] /". Madrid : Ediciones Díaz de Santos, 2000.
Alcaraz Varó, Enrique 1940-2008. Hughes, Brian. "Diccionario de términos jurídicos : inglés-español, spanish-english". Barcelona : Ariel, 2001.
Alcaraz Varó, Enrique 1940-2008. Campos Pardillos, Miguel Ángel / Miguélez, Cynthia. "El inglés jurídico norteamericano". Barcelona Ariel 2001.
HAIGH, R. 978-0-19-457193-7 . "Oxford Handbook of Legal Correspondence". Ozford University Press.
Mackenzie, I. E. "Professional English in use . Finance". Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press 2006.
Heredia Sánchez, Lerdys / Ortega Giménez, Alfonso. "Diccionario LID, migración y extranjería inmigración y emigración, mediación y mercado de trabajo ... : 500 términos definidos, español-inglés-francés-portugués-rumano-chino-árabe". Madrid LID 2014.
SEARL, D. "You & the Law in Spain. ". Ozford University Press.
BRIEGER, N. 0582468981. "Test Your Professional English: Law". Harlow: Pearson.

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.
Project-based learning: Realization of a project to solve a problem, applying acquired learning and promoting abilities related to planning, design, performing activities, and reaching conclusions.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

An unavoidable requirement in order to approve this subject is the assistance to the 85 % of the classes. From there, the professorship will consider:
1) The valuation of the questionnaires solved individually by the student (40%)
2) The active participation of the students in the practices

Academics: DEFENSE STRATEGIES AND SPECIALTIES IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Links

Software

Methodology

Grading