This Department groups together the following areas: Philosophy of Law and Politics, Roman Law, History of Spanish Law, on the one hand, and Civil Law, Commercial Law, Labour and Social Security Law and Private International Law, on the other. These are, therefore, subjects of legal foundations and positive law, the latter belonging to the field of private law, with a high doctrinal density.
One of the aims of bringing them all together is to promote research projects on legal reasoning applied to positive law, comparative law on obligations and contracts with a special focus on arbitration, bankruptcy law from a historical-dogmatic and current positive law perspective, current legal issues in the field of labour law, etc., adding to the legal perspective the uniquely enriching, from a scientific and practical point of view, of political science.
The dynamism of the teaching of the different subjects, fully adapted to the new didactic methods since the Bologna Declaration, has led to the implementation of an effort to strengthen legal reasoning, balanced with memory, which prepares students in the Degree for future professional practice by actively confronting the resolution of numerous practical questions that arise. The student is invited to participate in public debates in the Group itself, in the School and between Universities. Proof of this are the recent national and international prizes obtained by our students, which endorse the success of these initiatives and the in-depth work that is carried out on a daily basis with them.