| STUDY PLAN |
| Administrative sanctioning law and criminal law as different manifestations of the state's ius puniendi. |
| The concept and classification of infractions. |
| Principles of Administrative Sanctioning Law. General Approach. |
| Principle of material legality or typicity. |
| Principle of formal legality: regulatory classification? Blank sanctioning norms. Principle of prohibition of retroactivity. Application. |
| Principle of culpability. The different meanings of “culpability”: sanction for the act (not for the perpetrator), (subjective typicity). Illegality and justifications (especially, analysis of the scope of error). |
| Principle of double jeopardy. Concurrence of offenses. Continuing offenses. |
| The disciplinary procedure (the principle of due process). The principle of "officiality" and the initiation of the disciplinary procedure. Disciplinary and "trilateral" procedures. The role of the complainant in a disciplinary procedure. |
| Procedural issues: the right to be informed of the infraction (the classification of the infraction cannot be altered). Evidence and the principle of presumption of innocence. Evidentiary scope of inspection reports. |
| The end of the proceedings. The sanction as an enforceable instrument. Appeals. Prohibition of reformatio in peius. The principle of solve et repete. |
| The sanction. Concept. Distinction between sanctions and other related legal concepts. Criteria for assessing sanctions. Exemptions and mitigating circumstances of liability. |
| The extinction of liability in sanctioning matters. Extinction of legal personality (natural and legal persons), prescription, retroactive application of more lenient laws, revocation and pardon. |
| Disciplinary law. |
| Workshops (with topics that will be coordinated at the request of the students, e.g., Public Contracts). |
