Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

The Dean represents the Faculty to all university bodies. He or She is elected by the faculty’s university community via direct, universal election through free and secret suffrage for a period of four years, and is able to stand for re-election consecutively only once. According to Art. 71 of the Statutes of the University of Cordoba, the Dean is responsible for the following functions:

• Chairing and convening the Faculty Board and setting the agenda for its sessions.
• Implementing and enforcing the agreements adopted by the Faculty Board.
• Communicating all the agreements to the members of the Faculty Board and whatever information may be of interest to them.
• Directing and coordinating the faculty’s activities in all areas within his/her authority.
• Carrying out budget forecasts within the scope of his/her powers.
• Proposing to the Rector the appointment of the faculty’s Vice Deans and Secretary.
• Authorising all acts to be held at the Faculty, within the scope of his/her powers.
• Authorising whoever she/he deems necessary to attend the Plenary session and the Committees of the Faculty Board in order to properly comply with the meeting’s aims.
• Any other functions attributed to him/her by the Statutes of the University of Cordoba and the provisions in force, in any case reporting to the Faculty Board.

In order to use their powers, the Dean is assisted by a Management Committee in which the Vice Deans and the Secretary of the Faculty are also present.

• This post is in charge of coordinating the teaching staff and teaching activities, with support from the Degree Course Coordinators.
• They supervise the implementation and monitoring of the degree courses taught at the faculty, including preparation of the teaching guides.
• They draw up the proposals for Annual Teaching Organisation Plans (PAOE), their optional nature and free layout, which are presented to the Faculty Board, as well as proposals for timetables, the exams calendar, and classroom designations.
• In general, they are in charge of anything related to organising teaching activity, including control over it.
• They supervise the provision of services offered by the outsourced support services for the faculty’s activities such as cafeteria and reprography services, and coordinate relations with other companies for other outsourced spaces or services.
• They assume the powers as regards the faculty’s infrastructure and service needs, monitoring the proper state and running of all the faculty’s buildings and facilities, with support from the faculty’s maintenance service.

• This post coordinates the student internship programme, with support from the internship coordinators.
• They provide academic information for the faculty’s students and pre-university students on the degree courses taught in the faculty, and coordinates relations with the Faculty Student Council.
• In general, they are in charge of relations with students.
• They coordinate and foster the different activities geared towards stimulating the faculty’s university life.
• They supervise the faculty’s financial management.
• They foster the students’ professional orientation, backed by the faculty’s Occupational Guidance Office.
• They coordinate the student internship programme, with support from the internship coordinators.

• This post coordinates international relations and mobility programmes for the members of the faculty’s university community with national and foreign universities; they make the proposal for the course subject recognition table; they are in charge of advising and monitoring the participants in these programmes, whether they are by the faculty or other universities, with the support of the Exchange Programmes Office.
• They coordinate institutional communication and dissemination of the faculty’s research activity and the seminars, conferences and scientific conferences and other cultural activities held.
• They are in charge of relations with the Classes, University Chairs and professional associations of a legal or business nature, with the faculty’s cultural associations and with other institutions in society.
• They coordinate and promote the faculty’s student journal.

• This post is the notary for the agreements taken by the Faculty Board and its administrative acts. In accordance with Art. 78 of the Statutes of the University of Cordoba, the following are the responsibility of the Faculty Secretary:
• Attest to the agreements and rulings by the faculty’s governing and representative bodies, as well as any acts and events for which he/she is present in his/her capacity as Secretary, or else recorded in the minutes books of the faculty’s governing bodies and registry.
• Creation and custody of the minute books.
• Custody of the faculty’s general archive and its official seal.
• Ensuring the publicity of the agreements of a general nature by the faculty’s different governing bodies.
• Reception and custody of the exam results.
• Collaboration with the General Secretariat of the University of Cordoba in maintaining and updating the censuses.