Law Degree or Master¿s degree It is recommended to have completed courses related to general procedural law and in particular criminal procedural law.

BASIC COMPETENCES Own and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in developing and/or applying ideas, often in a research context (CB 6) Students should be able to apply the knowledge acquired as well as their problem solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader context (or multidisciplinary) related to their field of study (CB 7) Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgements based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections about social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgment (CB8) Students should be able to communicate their conclusions and knowledge as well as the ultimate reasoning that support them to both specialized and non-specialized public in a clear and unambiguous way (CB 9) Students will own learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that will be mainly self-directed or autonomous (CB 10) GENERAL COMPETENCES Students should be able to prepare quality legal reports (CG1) Students should be able to suffer a development in their researching abilities in criminal matters enough to complete the different academic activities (CG 2) Students should master accessing and managing legal information sources related to Criminal Justice (CG 3) Students should be able to prepare scientific-legal text and carry out efficiently analysis of the former (CG 4) Students should be able to acquire a deep knowledge about procedural institutions that form the criminal system needed for the correct development of the legal roles (CG 5) SPECIFIC COMPETENCES Know the main criminal indictment systems that exist globally with a brief review of their origin, evolution and actual trends. (CE 1) Know and identify the elements that form each of the main criminal indictment theoretical models and its influence on the contemporary legal criminal systems (CE 2) Distinguish clearly the concepts of inquisitive, adversarial, accusatory or formal or mixed model and be able to identify by its characteristics the specific category to which the different institutions or procedural actions belong (CE 3) Know the divergent and convergent points of the common law models and the continental European systems, how the roles of the different characters are distributed and detection of the most questionable points in evidentiary matters, victim¿s position, popular action, the Jury or the incidence of the opportunity principle (CE 4) Reach a level of enough knowledge that enables to get own conclusions about the advantages and inconvenient of criminal investigation matters and institutions specific to their service, as well as how the indictment models present the different systems (CE 5)

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: Case law analysis National and foreign legislation analysis in evidentiary subject Analysis of reports of international institutions Case study on assignation of judicial competences