Diploma in Consumer Law (completed)

Presentation

Universidad de Mendoza adopts, as one of the possibilities of continuous training, the figure of the Diploma understood as an educational unit closed in itself, made up of a set of subjects organized in modules of improvement, updating and / or deepening of a specific area of ​​knowledge, and that contributes to the development of professional or academic competencies.

The Diploma is generated by the detection of a need in the specific area of ​​Consumer Law, which can be attended academically from the University with scientific, disciplinary and methodological rigor.

The purpose of the Diploma is to ensure a set of advanced conceptual, theoretical and practical tools, aimed at resolving the conflicts faced by consumers and users of goods and services. It should be noted that the third cohort, taking into account the situation of public knowledge that exists worldwide, will give priority to the in-depth study of consumer relationships and contracts in times 4.0.

Authorities

Address: Carina M. Ginestar

Codirection: Diego Gonzalez Vila

Coordination: Maria Miracles Mosquera

Teachers

We present the list of professors of the Diploma, ordered alphabetically by last name:

ALVAREZ LARRONDO, Federico

BAROCELLI, Sebastian

BERMUDEZ, Fernando

CHAMATROPULOS, Demetrio Alejandro

ERICE, Maria Valentina

FURLOTTI, Silvina

GARZINO, Maria Constanza

GINESTAR, Carina-M.

GONZÁLEZ6thLA, Diego

GUARDATTI, Georgina

HERNANDEZ, Charles

IRIGOYEN TESTA, Matías

JAPAZE, Maria Belen

KEMELMAJER, Aida

RODRIGUEZ, Gonzalo

SAHIAN, Jose Humberto

Shina, Fernando E.

NEPHEW, Agusto R. (Waldo)

ZENTNER, Diego and other national and international specialist professors.

Curriculum

The Diploma is organized around five (5) mandatory modules subject to evaluation, four (4) are theoretical-practical training in which various topics in the field of the specialty of Consumer Law are developed with the aim of updating the students in the deepened knowledge of the considered most significant challenges of the subject and, one (1) module of Research Methodology and Final Work Workshop.

Module I

• Basics of consumer protection.
• Tourism Contracts
• Air Freight
• Contracts with predisposed clauses, by adhesion and subject to general conditions
• Abusive practices in hiring in times of Pandemic
• Electronic contracting
• consumer credit

Module2nd

• Duty of information and collaboration in the consumer regime
• Advertising in Consumer Law
• Prepaid Medicine Contracts. Social Works
• Consumer real estate contracts
• Consumer and Gender Perspective
• Bank contracts in CCCN. Credit cards.
• Closed circle of savings for certain purposes
• Consumer procedural protection

Module2ndI     

• Artificial Intelligence applied to consumer relations
• Consumer smart contracts. Big data.
• Responsibility in Consumer Law. Pigou and Externalities
• Economic analysis of the law applied to the punitive damages of the LDC.

Module IV

• Damage prevention. Food and medicine. Inhibitory protection in matters of consumer damage
• punitive damages. Economic quantification of punitive damages

Module V

• Research Epistemology
• Legal Research Methodology
• Final Workshop

The schedule and the specific information of the Curriculum, as well as the materials and documents, are available to our students in the online chair.

Objectives

The general objective of the Diploma is the systematized study of the regulations, jurisprudence and doctrine of consumer law in all its aspects, as a way of providing students with deep knowledge that allows them to solidly satisfy the current needs of their professional training.

Specific problems will be addressed in an interdisciplinary way, analyzing the different situations from the orbit of civil, commercial, economic, administrative, environmental and procedural law. All this with an emphasis on casuistry, jurisprudence and direct and personal contact with real operators of consumer law, for which the Program provides for interactive and practical classes.

The specific objective is the study of access to the consumption of goods and services, the particular regime of the various contracts, civil liability for breaches and damages to the consumer, regulatory frameworks for public services, the liability of providers and the of the State against users, the defense of competition, the different administrative and judicial procedures in force in the Province of Mendoza, the new provincial procedural regulations on consumption matters, the Judicial Office of Small Causes and Consumption of the Local Court, as effective means of access to justice for consumers in their small claims.

Recipients

Basic admission requirement

The basic requirement to achieve the condition of applicant to carry out the Diplomas in the School of Law and Social Sciences of the Universidad de Mendoza is having completed secondary education and being a creditor of the corresponding secondary degree or having approved the provisions of the current regulations regarding those over 25 years of age who, without a university degree, aspire to enter the University, in accordance with the provisions of the art. 7 of Law 24.521.

Priority recipients

The Diploma is intended, primarily, to:

1. Enrollment lawyers, so that the knowledge acquired allows them to develop their profession more effectively.
   • Lawyers in exercise of the magistracy or in action in the Judicial Power, so that they can apply the knowledge acquired to the processing and resolution of the cases that they are in charge of.
   • Lawyers who are aspiring to access competitive positions (in the administration of justice or in public administration in general), for the purposes of their preparation in order to pass the exams.
   • Those who work in the field of national, provincial, judicial and municipal services, in defense of consumer rights, regulatory entities, NGOs, consultancies and customer service will be able to attend.
   • Likewise, university students and other people interested in the subject, whose studies or activities require complementary training in the subjects that are the object of study, may attend.

If the Diploma is presented as a Postgraduate Degree Course before the CONEAU, the students with a degree who obtained the Diploma may request that the equivalencies of the approved subjects be recognized, provided that a similar scheme has been maintained and authorized by the regulations in force.

Discounts

The Diploma is subject to fees in order to guarantee the financing of its activities. The amounts of said contributions will be approved by the Rectorate of the Universidad de Mendoza, at the proposal of the Dean.

The tariff obligations of the students with the School run from the moment of enrollment and only cease when the student completes the Diploma or when he decides to suspend his studies. In the latter case, when the student decides to suspend / abandon the Diploma after registering, they must inform the Postgraduate and Continuing Education Directorate by means of a note expressing their decision. Otherwise, he continues to be a student of the Universidad de Mendoza with the consequent charge of the tariffs that accrue from then on and until the date on which he has effectively communicated his resignation.

Universidad de Mendoza will recognize the following modalities of tariff reductions:

• From an Institution to a Student: the applicant may particularly request financial support to complete the Diploma, from Institutions that they consider relevant. These Institutions will be considered "SPONSORS" of the student(s), if they are legally constituted. The commitment to pay the tariff set by the Universidad de Mendoza, will be between the student and that sponsoring Institution, and, in the event that it does not comply with the corresponding payment obligations, the student will assume the payment of the debt and the readjustments that it may have.
• From one institution to the Universidad de Mendoza: in the case of legally constituted Institutions that are interested in the participation of their personnel in the Diploma course and that would like to officially register, they may do so if they assume the commitment to take charge of the fee and readjustment that corresponds to that or those students. The granting of tariff reductions to organizations and companies may be foreseen based on the number of applicants they incorporate, as agreed by current regulations.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the teaching staff of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degree Courses: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant up to half (1/2) scholarship to the members of its teaching staff to take the corresponding Diploma within the framework of the Policy for the improvement of the School's teaching staff.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the graduate with a degree awarded by the same or to the advanced students of the same: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant up to half (1/2) scholarship to professional graduates and (1/4) advanced students of the Universidad de Mendoza.
• From Universidad de Mendoza who has economic impossibility or other special circumstances. The Diplomatura can grant scholarships to its students according to the budgetary possibilities. The number of scholarships cannot exceed 10% of the total enrollment.

            In all cases in which a scholarship has been granted, the payment of the annual registration fee (when applicable), and the payment of the Diploma fee will be exempt from this benefit.

Consult Postgraduate and Continuing Education about reductions and recognized scholarships for the Diploma through special Agreements.

Certification

Diploma

To the students of the Diploma course who have met the requirements established in the current regulations to obtain the Diploma, the Universidad de Mendoza will issue the following certification:

"Diploma in Consumer Law in times 4.0”

To obtain the Diploma certificate, the following is required:

1. prove 75% attendance to classes,
2. approve all the modules that make up the Curriculum,
3. pass the final evaluation,
4. have fulfilled the tariff obligations and
5. Submit a personal note requesting the Diploma.

Diplomas are not equivalent to undergraduate, graduate or undergraduate degrees.

For students of the Diploma who do not meet the requirements, provided that they have attended 75% of the classes, the Universidad de Mendoza They will issue a certificate of attendance.

If the Diploma is presented as a Postgraduate Degree Course before the CONEAU, the students with a degree who obtained the Diploma may request that the equivalencies of the approved subjects be recognized, provided that a similar scheme has been maintained and authorized by the regulations in force.

National Certification – Endorsed by DNGyFU in the Cuyo Region

Throughout university history, Continuous Training and Extension, for its operation and to distinguish itself from undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate activities, was nominalized in different ways in order to be recognized as such: among them we can find the diplomas, courses and diplomas, among others.

Universidad de Mendoza, with 60 years of experience, worked on this concept from different areas, generating training that would be useful at the regional level to optimize the level of our Cuyo professionals in the search for original and productive offer.

There were no university diplomas endorsed by the National Directorate of University Management and Supervision (DNGyFU) in the Nuevo Cuyo Region.

The Diploma in Consumer Law of the FCJS of the Universidad de Mendoza It has the national certification granted by the Ministry (DNGyFU), which gives the offer a different status since it opens the field to the student not only nationally but also internationally, to validate the knowledge acquired.

The DNGyFU validity is granted to those courses or trainings that have an important content and that constitute an offer of extension 'useful, original and necessary' for the region.

The offer will thus integrate the list of DNGyFU trainings visible at the national and international level, being documentation suitable for apostille, qualify and present outside the Argentine territory, at the level of certification of studies.

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