1. Individual rights in the legal system: the right of access to the courts. The right of due process. The action, in an abstract (the right to a ruling based on law) and concrete sense (the right to a favourable defence); the relationship between the action and the right to due process and between the latter and the interests being defended. The fundamental right of effective protection of the court; essential and complex content of this right. Other fundamental rights of process: the right to not be left defenceless; the rights set out in article 24.2 of the Spanish Constitution. The right of defendants to free access to the courts (art. 119 SC). The responsibility of the state in operating the legal system (art. 121 SC): the right to reparations for injuries caused by judicial error and for the improper functioning of the legal system.
2. Alternative conflict resolution systems: concept and types. Regulation. Advantage and disadvantages compared to the judicial process. Negotiation systems with no third-party intervention: the transaction. Negotiation systems with third-party intervention: conciliation (competence, procedure and effects); mediation (types, procedure and effects). Arbitration systems: arbitration; concept and types, subjects and arbitration agreement, procedure, jurisdictional intervention in arbitration.

The first two items on this list look at the wide-ranging legislation on tourism and town and country planning that applies in the Balearic Islands, whether through national or regional regulations.

Indeed, there is currently a wide range of specific Balearic legislation on tourism, including the 2012 Tourism Act, although in reality the legislation comprises many legal and statutory regulations that have been passed since 1983—the year when the Autonomous Region of the Balearic Islands was founded. Many of these regulations were comparatively pioneering in Spanish regional law and justifiably so, given the huge importance of tourism for the Balearic economy. This is why public authorities in the Balearic Islands have regulated different problems and issues that gradually arose. In this sense, a true body of law has been shaped in the area. The legal framework for tourism is truly worthy of analysis and research. A wide range of lecturers working on the topic has formed at the UIB Faculty of Law (both in terms of public and private law), thus amply justifying this area of research.

The area of town and country planning presents a similar situation. Since 1983, the Autonomous Region has passed many standards (laws, regulations, directives, territorial plans, etc.) although a comprehensive land act was not passed until 2014. These standards are also part of a true territorial and urban planning legal framework that sets out many problems arising precisely from excess standards, which often overlay and contradict one another. Unlike tourism, here we also have national land legislation that constrains Balearic regulations, meaning at times there are legal problems in seamlessly dovetailing both regulatory statutes. The Faculty of Law has also incorporated a wide group of lecturers who work on this topic. The existence of this abundant territorial and urban planning legal framework, and the dedication to the topic of a group of lecturers justify this area of research, given the many interpretation issues that arise from this legislation.

Consumer legislation is closely linked to tourism. This makes its study an essential complement in cross-cutting analysis. Although consumer legislation is the responsibility of the national government based on its exclusive competence in commercial, criminal and civil legislation in accordance with art. 149.1 points 6 and 8 in the Spanish Constitution, Balearic legislators are exclusively responsible for defending consumers and users within the framework of the bases and legislation of general economic activity, as set out in art. 30.47 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Balearic Islands.

Legal aspects to new technologies. Legal implications of ICT. Specifically, these include an analysis of the legal problems of e-commerce, digital signatures, data protection, copyright and intellectual property, industrial property, electronic payments, digital identity, digital platforms... Multidisciplinary legal analysis: civil, commercial, administrative, procedural, criminal, tax perspectives, etc.

Fundamental rights as a basic and dominant element in legislation. Conditions to exercising fundamental rights. Personal freedom as an absolute universal asset. Restrictions on personal freedom in cases and as per the conditions laid out in organic law. Time limits and conditions of detention. Provisional personal detention in the initial stage (detention: limits, conditions and guarantees). Provisional detention in the judicial stage (remand). Detention in compliance with a final sentence (criminal conviction: the principle of legality and reservation in criminal law). Personal freedom and security vis-à-vis investigations into the activity of armed gangs or terrorist groups.

1. Company law. Accounting law. Commercial register law. Corporate law and other commercial institutions. Bankruptcy law (bankruptcy and insolvency).
2. National and international commercial contract law. Consumer law. Securities law. Financial system law: banking law. Securities and exchange law. Insurance law. Derivative markets law. Primary markets law. Collateral law.
3. Competition law: Antitrust law. Unfair competition law. Advertising law.
4. Industrial property law: Trademark law (brands, trademarks, geographic denominations, denomination of origin, domain names). Invention rights law (patents, utility model, industrial designs and drawings, semiconductor product topography, complementary certificates of medicines and phytosanitary product protection, plant varieties...).
5. New technologies law, e-Commerce law, trust and confidence services, digital archives, data protection, cloud computing, artificial intelligence...
6. Unification and harmonisation of international commercial law: new lex mercatoria, uniform commercial law and alternative conflict resolution.

The Autonomous Region of the Balearic Islands is one of six regions (alongside Aragón, Catalonia, Galicia, Navarre and the Basque Country) that, in accordance with art. 149.1. point 8 of the SC, has competence for conserving, modifying and developing its own civil law.

This means that studying regional civil institutions have been included and are especially relevant on course syllabi from previous degrees and the current Degree in Law programme.

Since the early 1990s, a group of UIB lecturers have produced important research work into these institutions. Students on the PhD programme are thus able to work on and research this topic: specifically, regional institutions on family law, and inheritance and royalties law are analysed. To a lesser extent, due to a lower level of analysis, research also takes place into the laws on obligations and contracts.