Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods, currently include arbitration, conciliation, expert evaluation, and mediation. These ADR methods were developed to facilitate the resolution of a wide range of legal disputes without resorting to the courts, hence their alternative or extrajudicial nature. However, they can also be used within the court system, and even, following the entry into force of Organic Law 1/2025, recourse to these ADR methods, as "Appropriate Methods," is established as a procedural requirement prior to filing a claim before the Spanish courts. Thus, there are specific self-constitutive methods: waiver, acquiescence, and withdrawal; improper methods: conciliation, mediation; and alternative heterocompositive methods: arbitration. The European integration process, advances in information and communication technologies, the increase in transnational human movement, the so-called economic globalization, the fourth industrial revolution brought to us by Artificial Intelligence, and the new landscape of international trade have led to an exponential increase in international private relations, which also implies an increase in international disputes. These find in ADR a suitable form for peaceful resolution, based, among other things, on consensus, agreement, impartiality, good faith, confidentiality, voluntariness, and harmony. ADR can be effectively carried out both in person and online, or electronically, known by its acronym in English as ODR (Online Dispute Resolution), and even using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The rise in conflicts and the current emphasis on ADR as appropriate mechanisms for resolving these conflicts requires students to understand this reality, as well as the significance and practical utility of ADR to ensure adequate regulation of private international relations, and reflect on the principles that should inform such regulation.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : Capacitats informàtiques i informacionales
  • CT2 : Ser capaç de comunicar-se correctament tant de forma oral com a escrita
  • CT3 : Capacitat d'anàlisi i síntesi
  • CT4 : Capacidad de organización y planificación

 

General Competences

  • CG2 : Valorar amb esperit crític la realitat internacional i els seus problemes específics
  • CG5 : Liderar, organitzar i gestionar equips de treball en contextos internacionals

 

Specific Competences

  • CE15 : Avaluar les possibles solucions als conflictes transnacionals i internacionals
  • CE16 : Conèixer i analitzar els problemes jurídics i socials que es deriven de les relacions internacionals de naturalesa privada.
  • CE20 : Identificar els principis ètics que regeixen les relacions internacionals.
  • CE21 : Conèixer els conceptes bàsics del dret que permeten abordar la dimensió internacional dels problemes jurídics.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES
CT1: Computer and information skills
CT2: Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
CT3: Analytical and synthetic skills
CT4: Organizational and planning skills

GENERAL COMPETENCES
CG2: Critically assess international reality and its specific problems
CG5: Lead, organize, and manage work teams in international contexts

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
CE15: Evaluate possible solutions to transnational and international conflicts
CE16: Understand and analyze the legal and social problems arising from private international relations

CE20: Identify the ethical principles that govern international relations
CE21: Understand the basic legal concepts that allow for addressing the international dimension of legal problems

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FORMATIVE OBJECTIVES)
• Student interest in learning about dispute resolution through arbitration, mediation and other ADR methods, as this is a subject distinct from the rest, both in its purpose (the resolution of private or public-social conflicts of an international nature) and its function (ensuring the continuity of the regulation of these relationships in international law)
• Graduates will acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities, and aptitudes necessary to provide advice on arbitration and mediation in matters of an international nature
• Students will acquire the ability to apply their legal knowledge in the practical resolution of conflicts arising within the international framework
• Students will develop their capacity for peaceful dispute resolution, finding and assessing information from the parties in conflict, drafting documents, preparing arbitration awards and mediation agreements, and developing verbal and nonverbal communication techniques
• The acquisition of skills that enable students to learn independently
• The development of negotiation, conciliation, and persuasion skills in problem-solving

 

 

General

Code: 28233
Lecturer responsible:
Esteve González, Lydia
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,00
Practical credits: 1,40
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW
    Area: INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW
    Theoretical credits: 0,5
    Practical credits: 0,7
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
  • Dept: COMMERCIAL LAW AND PROCEDURAL LAW
    Area: PROCEDURAL LAW
    Theoretical credits: 0,5
    Practical credits: 0,7

Study programmes where this course is taught