The only requirement is to have been formally admitted to the Master in Advanced Human Rights Studies

The fundamental objectives of the course are: to give the students a broad perspective of what are the main problems faced in determining what is the concept and foundation of fundamental rights, and also of the different responses that for that determination has been given from the different approaches specific of philosophy of law. Thus, it is intended that the students, knowing the current debate on the concept and foundation of fundamental rights, will be in the best position to conduct its own investigation in those aspects that they considered most relevant or of interest for their own training, for which they can count on the guidance of some teachers who taught the subject.

I. The relevance and meaning of the conceptual and justificatory problem. 1.- Introduction. The distinction and relationship between the concept and the foundation of fundamental rights. 1.1.- Terminological problems: vagueness, ambiguity and emotionality. 1.2.- The concept and the foundation: their relationship. 1.3.- The different concepts: natural rights, human rights, moral rights and fundamental rights. 2.- The problems of the foundation of rights. 2.1.- On the possibility of foundation. 2.2.- On the necessity of the foundation. 2.3.- On the justification of the foundation. 2.4.- On the unity of the foundation. 3.- The relevance of the conceptual and foundational problem: special attention to its repercussion in legal systems. 3.1.- The guarantee system: legislation and jurisdiction. 3.2.- Interpretation: legal interpretation and constitutional interpretation. 4.- Ethics, Power and Law: rights as an expression of the public ethics of Modernity. 4.1.- The dynamism of freedom. 4.2.- Social, political and juridical freedom. 4.3.- Ethics (public ethics of Modernity), Power (Rule of Law) and Law (fundamental rights). II. Proposals on the foundation of rights. 1.- Abstract and historical proposals. 2.- Moral and legal proposals. 2.1.- The iusnaturalist foundation of natural rights. 2.2.- The theory of moral rights. 2.3.- The dualist and trialist foundations of fundamental rights. 3.- Liberal, communitarian and republican proposals. III. Values, principles and rights. 1.- Freedom. 2.- Equality. 3.- Solidarity. IV.- Approach to current challenges to human rights from the perspective of the concept and foundation of rights. 1.- New technologies. 2.- Deinstitutionalization.

Beside the theoretical classes exist 27 hours of tutoring, that students can use to answer questions about the 45 hours of personal work that each student has to make on the course.