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Course: 2025/2026

Fundamental Rights and Criminal Law
(17207)
Master in Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law - Blended (Plan: 501 - Estudio: 275)
EPD


Coordinating teacher: VILLALBA LOPEZ, NOEL

Department assigned to the subject: Criminal Law, Procedural Law and History Law Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Bachelor degree in Law. Basic understanding of Criminal Law institutions is required.
Objectives
Grasping the characteristics and creative capacity of the Constitutional Court. Knowing the hermeneutics of constitutional norms Knowing the characteristics of a criminal law oriented Constitution. Learn to build a system that starts directly from the basic text and the declaration of fundamental rights. Controlling the principles that emerge for the formation of the penal system from the Constitution. You can expose the complex picture that is derived from a construction of key constitutional criminal justice system. You can identify the constitutional principles that are the basis of the criminal justice system. You can characterize penal institutions in its constitutional reading.
Learning Outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Module 1. Fundamental rights and Criminal law a. Criminal law and principles of Criminal law b. Fundamental rights c. Criminal law and fundamental rights: normative and institutional perspective Module 2. The fundamental right to criminal legality a. Principle of legality and the fundamental right legality in Criminal law b. Fundamental right to legality in Criminal law: non-delegable legislation, (ir)retroactivity, mandate of certainty, judicial subjection lo law Module 3. The principle of criminal proportionality a. Proportionality, principle of proportionality, weighing b. Principle of proportionality in Criminal law: constitutional enbodiment, criteria, problems Module 4. The principle of culpability a. Culpability and the principle of culpability b. The principle of criminal culpability: criteria Module 5. The fundamental right to ne bis in idem a. Bis in idem: concept and constitutional enbodiment b. Formal and material manifestations Module 6. Fundamental rights and aplication of Special Part a. Absence of prohibition due to exercise of fundamental rights b. Chilling effect
Learning activities and methodology
During the two weeks of online learning, the students shall review and study the materials, power points , judgments and the audiovisual material provided. They must also solve a practical case. Tutorials: they will be conducted daily through Skype/Google Meet/Blackboard Collaborate or via email. Attendance week in Madrid: the students shall attend the scheduled activities, conferences and seminars.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • BARENBOIM/HICKEY/SILKENAT (eds.). The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State. Springer. 2014
  • CARBONELL MATEU/CUERDA ARNAU/GONZÁLEZ CUSSAC/ORTS BERENGUER. Constitución, derechos fundamentales y sistema penal (semblanzas y estudios con motivo del setenta aniversario del profesor Tomás Salvador Vives Antón). Tirant Lo Blanch. 2009
  • CARBONELL/GONZÁLEZ CUSSAC y otros. Constitución, Derechos fundamentales y sistema penal, Libro Homenaje a Tomás Vives,. Tirant Lo Blanch. 2009
  • CORCOY BIDASOLO/MIR PUIG. Constitución y sistema penal. Marcial Pons. 2012
  • CORCOY BIDASOLO/MIR PUIG (dirs.). Constitución y sistema penal. Marcial Pons. 2012
  • GALLARDO CASTILLO. Los principios de la potestad sancionadora: teoría y práctica. Iustel. 2008
  • LAMARCA PÉREZ. Legalidad penal y reserva de ley en la Constitución española. Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional. 1987
  • LASCURAÍN SÁNCHEZ/RUSCONI. El principio de proporcionalidad penal. Ad Hoc. 2014
  • MIR PUIG. Bases constitucionales del Derecho penal. Iustel. 2011
  • MIR PUIG (dir.). Constitución y principios del Derecho penal. Algunas bases constitucionales. Tirant lo Blanch. 2010
  • ROBLES PLANAS (coord.). Límites al Derecho penal. Principios operativos en la fundamentación del castigo. Atelier. 2012
  • RODRÍGUEZ MONTAÑÉS. Libertad de expresión, discurso extremo y delito (Una aproximación desde la Constitución a las fronteras del derecho penal). Tirant lo blanch. 2012
  • ÁLVAREZ GARCÍA. Sobre el principio de legalidad. Tirant lo Blanch. 2010

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.