Critical labor law versus labor law
| Autor | Jesús Martínez Girón - Alberto Arufe Varela |
| Cargo | Senior Professor of Labor Law. Law School. University of A Coruña (Spain) - Accredited Senior Professor of Labor Law. Law School. University of A Coruña (Spain) |
| Páginas | 115-130 |
Revista Derecho Social y Empresa nº 3, Julio 2015
ISSN: 2341-135X págs.115-129
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CRITICAL LABOR LAW versus LABOR LAW
JESÚS MARTÍNEZ GIRÓN
Senior Professor of Labor Law
Law School. University of A Coruña (Spain)
ALBERTO ARUFE VARELA
Accredited Senior Professor of Labor Law
Law School. University of A Coruña (Spain)
Fecha de recepción: 17-6-2015
Fecha de aceptación: 1-7-2015
CONTENT
: I. THE OCCASION TO WRITE A «DERECHO CRÍTICO DEL
TRABAJO», BEING AT THE SAME TIME A «CRITICAL LABOR LAW».- II.
CRITICAL INTRODUCTORY LABOR LAW.- III. CRITICAL INDIVIDUAL
LABOR LAW.- IV. CRITICAL COLLECTIVE LABOR LAW.- V. CRITICAL
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROCEDURE LABOR LAW.
RESUMEN
: Los autores explican su opción por dejar de explicar Derecho del
Trabajo en la Facultad de Derecho, para pasar a explicar un Derecho «crítico» del
Trabajo, en español y en inglés. De un lado, ello se debe a las limitaciones y nuevas
exigencias derivadas de la implantación del «Plan Bolonia». De otro lado, también se
debe al impacto destructivo de la crisis económico-financiera sobre el Derecho
tradicional del Trabajo.
ABSTRACT
: The authors argue their option to put aside the explanation of
Labor Law at Law School, to go on to explain a «critical» Labor Law, in Spanish and
English. On one side, it is due to the limitations and new requirements deriving from
the implementation of «Bologna Plan». On the other side, it is also due to the
destroying impact of the current economic-financial crisis on the traditional Labor
Law.
JesúsMartínez Girón y Alberto Arufe Valera
Revista Derecho Social y Empresa nº 3, Julio 2015
ISSN: 2341-135X pág. 116
PALABRAS CLAVE
: Enseñanza del Derecho, Derecho del Trabajo, Plan
Bolonia, Crisis.
KEYWORDS
: Legal Teaching, Labor Law, Bologna Plan, Crisis.
I. THE OCCASION TO WRITE A «DERECHO CRÍTICO DEL TRABAJO»,
BEING AT THE SAME TIME A «CRITICAL LABOR LAW»
I
. In Universidad de la Coruña Law School, where both of us work, the
implementation of «Bologna Plan» was particularly harsh. Firstly because the old 1953
five-year academic plan for Law Grade had to be shorten to a four-year one. Secondly,
because everyone at Law School was obliged to lose academic burden because Labor
Law had to become a four-month mandatory course, in which we could only use, in
fact, a trimester (instead of the traditional semester) to develop the course for our
students. Thirdly, because «Bologna Plan» imposed —within the quarter— the
distinction between masterclasses and interactive lessons, the former being reduced to
only 21 hours of class. In our particular case, this curricular change had an additional
problem to be tackled. For theory lessons we relied on a reference book —featured as a
classical handbook. It was structured in 43 lessons and became impractical to
smoothly address such change. That is the reason why in 2010-2011 academic year we
came to the painful decision to put our old handbook to an end, which was already in
its second edition1*. It had to be replaced by an entirely new one, suitable for «Bologna
Plan». We had a full academic year to write it. We began to do it while a research stay
in the University of Hamburg, Germany —where our German colleagues showed us
that «Bologna Plan» would never be implemented in German Law Schools. Obviously,
the first job was to write a new program of Labor Law suitable for the new
masterclasses, and being structured in accordance with the number of hours assigned
to such kind of explanations, in only 21 lessons.
II.
The program we end up writing was a full new program, as compared with
the traditional one we used to teach articulated in —as said before— 43 lessons. It is
true that our first idea was to do a compendium or summary of our old program. But
1* See J. MARTÍNEZ GIRÓN, A. ARUFE VARELA and X.M. CARRIL
VÁZQUEZ, Derecho del Trabajo, 2nd ed., Netbiblo, A Coruña, 2006, 620 pp.
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