Learning objectives
The course is intended to outline an introductory approach to the main problems of the philosophy of law and policy with particular attention to the issues of modern constitutionalism and also to those with particular attention to the issues of modern constitutionalism and also to those that have greater relevance in contemporary theoretical debate.
Course unit content
Among the topics covered are the political and moral philosophy and the theories of justice; history and law, the roots of constitutionalism in the judicial review of the U.S. Supreme Court (John Mar-shall), the principles of the Italian Constitutio, the position of the fundamental principles and their relationship with the other constitutional provisions, the separation of powers and the role of administrative law in political thought and the legal systems of civil law, the rule of law and administrative law and jurisprudence of EU integration, the difficult balance between State and Market and the latest philosophical doctrines: from the critical legal studies to the economic analysis of law
Bibliography
HASSO HOFFMANN, Introduzione alla filosofia del diritto e della politica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007.
Specialized section:
CARLA FARALLI, La filosofia del diritto contemporanea. I temi e le sfide, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.
FABIO MERUSI, La legalità amministrativa, il Mulino, Bologna 2012, pp. 7-89.
The teacher during the course aims to discuss with students the following works also suggested as a possible readings:
CARL SCHMITT, Ex captivitate salus, Adelphi, 1990 and/or Sul Leviatano, il Mulino 2011; RONALD DWORKIN, Life’s Dominion, 1993 (tr. it. Comunità 1994) oppure Justice in Robes, Belknap 2006 (tr. it. Laterza 2010);
ANNA PINTORE, Democrazia e diritti, ETS, Pisa 2010;
MARTHA NUSSBAUM, Le nuove frontiere della giustizia, il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
THOMAS NAGEL, E’ possibile una giustizia globale?, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
