Law Degree or Master¿s degree

KNOWLEDGE OR CONTENTS K1: Analyze the content and scope of the constitutional principles governing criminal law and procedure in the context of the Spanish and comparative legal system. criminal procedure in the context of the Spanish and comparative legal system, characterizing the criminal criminal institutions from their constitutional reading. K8: Recognize the characteristics and singularities of the different phases of criminal procedure, as well as the different types of proceedings, ordinary and special, provided by the Spanish legal system. Spanish legal system. K9: Distinguish the peculiarities of the major theoretical models of investigation and criminal prosecution, placing the criminal prosecution, placing them in the international context and comparing the functions carried out by the different legal different legal operators in each of them. K10: Evaluate the specificities of the investigation and prosecution of the most serious forms of crime, such as the most serious forms of crime, such as organized crime and terrorism. K12: Distinguish the various instruments of international police and judicial cooperation existing in each material and territorial framework. and territorial framework, according to their regulation, purpose and requirements, identifying the main practical problems to which they may have given rise and the level of effectiveness achieved through them. effectiveness achieved through them. K15: To become aware of the relevance that the execution presents within the penal system and to and administrative regulations applicable, recognizing the different degrees and existing regimes and linking them to the regimes and linking them to specific situations. K16: Compare the different legal-criminal systems, both in their formal and material aspects, categorizing them within the criminal categorizing them within the major existing procedural and criminal models, according to their characteristics. K17: Identify the divergent and convergent points of common law systems and European continental systems in the field of evidence. European continental systems in the field of evidence, how the roles of the different actors are distributed and the the roles of the different actors and the detection of the most debatable issues in matters of evidence, position of the victims, the the position of the victims, the popular action, the Jury or the incidence of the principle of opportunity. the principle of opportunity. K18: Evaluate the models of judicial reasoning enunciated by the doctrine and by the jurisprudence and compare them with the most jurisprudence and compare them with the existing regulation on evidence, as well as with the standards established by the case standards established by constitutional jurisprudence on presumption of innocence. SKILLS OR ABILITIES S3: Interpret the regulations contained in the Criminal Code, the special criminal laws and the Criminal Procedure Law, in light of the existing jurisprudential doctrine on the concrete and the Law of Criminal Procedure, in the light of the existing jurisprudential doctrine on the specific adjective or substantive adjective or substantive issues addressed. S4: Report, both orally and in writing, on the status of a specific criminal case, the proceedings proceedings carried out to date and the possible forms of continuation of the case, depending on the type of the type of proceeding and the circumstances of the case. S6: Design defense strategies, both at the procedural and substantive level, taking into account the specific characteristics of the case and the the specific characteristics of the case and the interests of the represented person. S7: Represent the roles of the parties in the criminal process, taking into account the singularities that each one of them presents that each one of them presents and the burdens and rights inherent to their legal position. S9: Detect the main practical problems associated with each of the functions performed by the different legal-criminal operators. by the different legal-criminal operators, deducing possible solutions or strategies for each one of the problems for each of the evidenced problems. S10: To build a concrete theory of the case, on the analysis of the information/facts that one information/facts, in order to develop a litigation strategy appropriate to the sources and evidentiary means of evidence to the version of the case from the perspective of its legal and criminal legal framework. S11: Detect logical inconsistencies and conceptual errors present in a given legal argumentation. legal argumentation. S12: To translate the theoretical knowledge acquired into concrete legislative proposals on the criminal and criminal procedure system. criminal law and criminal procedure. ABILITIES OR SKILLS S1: Communicate in a clear and complete manner the legal qualification that applies to certain facts with criminal appearance, specifying facts with criminal appearance, specifying the forms of participation and modifying circumstances that may occur. modifying circumstances that may be present. S2: Select the applicable legal norms and jurisprudential pronouncements appropriate to resolve a given case from the appropriate to solve a given case from the perspective of the judicial body. S4: Report, both orally and in writing, on the status of a given criminal case, the actions taken up to the date of the case. the proceedings carried out to date and the possible forms of continuation of the case, depending on the type of the type of proceeding and the circumstances of the case. S6: Design defense strategies, both at the procedural and substantive level, taking into account the specific characteristics of the case and the the specific characteristics of the case and the interests of the represented person. S7: Represent the roles of the parties in the criminal process, taking into account the singularities that each one of them presents that each one of them presents and the burdens and rights inherent to their legal position. S8: Clearly and synthetically expose the hypotheses that can be formulated in relation to the investigation of a specific crime, as well as to the the investigation of a specific crime, as well as the methodology to follow and the practical implications that this entails. practical implications that this entails.

MODULE I: Evidence in Criminal Proceedings I. MAIN CONCEPTS IN EVIDENTIARY MATTERS: 1. Definition of legal evidence 1.1 Concept of legal evidence 1.2 Epistemological theories about truth and evidence 2. Evidentiary activity and investigation 2.1 Evidentiary activity 2.2 Investigating activity 3. The object of evidence 4. Sources and evidentiary means 4.1 Evidence sources 4.2 Evidentiary means 4.3 Evidentiary means considered by the Spanish legal system 5. Evidence weight and the principle of presumption of innocence 6. Essential principles of the evidentiary activity 6.1 Contradiction 6.2 Immediacy 6.3 Other principles 7. Evidentiary procedure II. THE RIGHT TO EVIDENCE 1. The right to evidence 2. Evidentiary activity 3. The principle of freedom to evidence 4. Right to evidence limits 4.1 Evidentiary pertinence 4.2 Right to secrecy 4.3 Prevailing position of the fundamental rights MODULE II: INVESTIGATION AND EVIDENTIARY MEANS I. TESTIMONY 1. Investigation testimony and oral trial 1.1 Testimony of the prosecuted 1.2 Testimony of the co-prosecuted 1.3 The confession 1.3.1 Legal aspects 1.3.2 Psychological aspects 2. Testimony reliability 2.1 Visual identification 2.2 Suggestion and memory II. EXPERTISE 1. Legal statute of expert evidence 1.1 The expert and the qualifying evidence process 1.2 Procedural development 1.3 Proceedings 1.4 Exceptions 2. Scientific evidence 2.1 Definition 2.2 Evidence scientific nature 2.3 Legal Regime MODULE 3: EVIDENTIARY GUARANTEES AND INTERFERENCE WITH FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS I. INTIMACY AND INFORMATIVE SELF-DETERMINATION 1. Body intimacy 2. Economic intimacy 3. Home intimacy 4. Communication secrecy 5. Undercover investigations 6. Informative self-determination II. DOUBLE INSTANCE 1. Control of facts in the appeal hearing III. ILLICIT EVIDENCE 1. Evidence unlawfulness 1.1 Concept of illicit or irregular evidence 1.2 Exclusion rule 2. Effects of illicit evidence 2.1 Acceptance prohibition and assessment 2.2 Reflected efficiency 3. Exceptions 3.1 Good will 3.2 Causal nexus mitigated 3.3 Inevitable discovery 3.4 Doctrine of antijurycity connection MODULE 4: EVIDENCE ASSESMENT I. KNOWLEDGE OF LEGAL PROCEDURAL FACTS 1. Free assessment of evidence 1.1 Subject of free assessment 1.2 Healthy critic, experience statement and personal certainty of the judge 1.3 Limits to the principle of free assessment 2. Direct evidence and circumstantial evidence 3. Unique evidence and global assessment of the evidentiary material 4. Theoretical models and rational assessment of evidence II. ASSESMENT OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 1. Evidentiary categories and types of reasoning 2. Legal assessment and statistic information 2.1 Fallacies from the fiscal and defense 2.2 Bayes Theorem and conditioned probability

Learning activities: Jurisprudence analysis National and foreign legislation analysis in evidentiary subjects International institutions reports analysis Practical case of competences assignation