Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with a general overview of
the basic knowledge of the fundamental elements and the main problem
of the public law as well as to indicate the basic methodological approach
for the understanding and the study of the same matter .
At the end of the course, the students must achieve:
- the knowledge and understanding of the categories of the public law;
- the understanding and the making judgements abilities, that means to
understand and comment the laws and the decisions related to the topics
studied during the course;
- the applying knowlwdges and the understanding ability as well as the
communication skills, that means to apply the acquired knowledges to
the concrete cases and to support each thesis with appropriate juridical
language and arguments.
Prerequisites
no one
Course unit content
The course is organized into five parts.
The first part of the course will be dedicated to the basic knowledges of
the juridical phenomenology (law, legal system and legal provision); to
the analysis of the lineaments of the State theory (the concept of State
and its constituent elements; the forms of State and forms of
Government); to the study of the origins and of the development of the
Italian and European constitutionalism and also to the study of the notion
of the Constitution and of its hallmarks and of the more important events
of the italian constitutional history.
The second part of the course will concern, specifically, the Italian
institutional organization. We will analyze the Italian form of government
and its evolution; the voting systems; the mechanisms of indirect and
direct democracy; each Constitutional Institution, the Regions and the
other local governments, the constitutional principles about the
jurisdiction; the constitutional justice and the role of the Italian Republic
in the international and European legal system.
The third part of the course will concern the study of the law sources
(Constitution, primary and secondary sources, the system of the regional
sources; the European and the international sources; the relationship between the European Union and the Italian legal system; the
peculiarities of the human rights treaties in the Italian legal order).
The fourth part of the course will be dedicated to the study of the
fundamental rights and their multilevel protection, through the analysis
of national case law (judicial and constitutional cases), and European
case law (EU and the ECHR).
Part of the lessons, finally, will be dedicated to the seminar activities,
relating to the challenging aspects of contemporary democracies.
Full programme
The course is organized into five parts.
The first part of the course will be dedicated to the basic knowledges of
the juridical phenomenology (law, legal system and legal provision); to
the analysis of the lineaments of the State theory (the concept of State
and its constituent elements; the forms of State and forms of
Government); to the study of the origins and of the development of the
Italian and European constitutionalism and also to the study of the notion
of the Constitution and of its hallmarks and of the more important events
of the italian constitutional history.
The second part of the course will concern, specifically, the Italian
institutional organization. We will analyze the Italian form of government
and its evolution; the voting systems; the mechanisms of indirect and
direct democracy; each Constitutional Institution, the Regions and the
other local governments, the constitutional principles about the
jurisdiction; the constitutional justice and the role of the Italian Republic
in the international and European legal system.
The third part of the course will concern the study of the law sources
(Constitution, primary and secondary sources, the system of the regional
sources; the European and the international sources; the relationship between the European Union and the Italian legal system; the
peculiarities of the human rights treaties in the Italian legal order).
The fourth part of the course will be dedicated to the study of the
fundamental rights and their multilevel protection, through the analysis
of national case law (judicial and constitutional cases), and European
case law (EU and the ECHR).
Part of the lessons, finally, will be dedicated to the seminar activities,
relating to the challenging aspects of contemporary democracies.
Bibliography
For the exam preparation, the student has to study one of the two
following books:
- A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, Il Mulino, Bologna,
ultima edizione;
- R. Bin, G. Pitruzzella, Diritto pubblico, G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino,
ultima edizione.
Teaching methods
The course will consist of frontal lessons. During the course, there will
also be seminars dedicated to the study of multi-level protection of the
fundamental rights as well as to the juridical analysis of the events
relating to the Italian democratic experience and to the challenging aspects of contemporary democracies.
Assessment methods and criteria
For non-attending students:
The exam consists of an oral test. During the exam, the knowledge and
understanding abilities will be assessed through at least two questions to
verify the knowledge of the matters of the course. The applying
knowledges and the making judgements abilities will be assessed
through the discussion of the topics analyzed during the seminars. The
communicative skills will be assessed through the evaluation of the
student's ability to provide the exhaustive juridical arguments, to use the
appropriate juridical language and to clarify the meaning of some public
law concepts. Finally, the learning skills will be assessed through the
transversal evaluation of the answers to the questions as a whole.
For attending students:
The exam is divided into two tests:
- a written exam, about the sources of law as well as about the different
forms of state and forms of government;
- an oral test, about the form of Italian parliamentary government, about
each constitutional bodies and about the system of protection of
fundamental rights.
If the student does not pass the written test, the student will have to
take the oral exam on the whole program.
The examination will be carried out in the presence of the students. In
the event of a continuing health emergency, and depending on how the
emergency evolves, the exam may be carried out either in mixed mode
(i.e. in presence, but with the possibility of taking the exam also at a
distance for students who request it to the Professor), or only online.
Information on the chosen mode will be published on the SES3 system in
time before the exam takes place.
Other information
other learning material will be available on the Elly platform.
