21801997 - ITALIAN AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

The aim of this course is to provide the students with the critical tools needed to understand a series of legal institutions, through the comparative study of constitutional systems.

Furthermore the course develops the students better understanding of globalizing processes, focusing on the protection of fundamental rights.

Curriculum

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Programme

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the categories of comparative law and critical tools to understand the evolution of the forms of state and forms of government.

Syllabus

The course will be divided into two parts:
General part:
The object and the method
Legal production and sources systems
The great models of comparative law: civil law and common law
The forms of state and government
The main experiences of democratic constitutionalism:
• Italy
• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• UK
• United States
• Spain
• Portugal
• Switzerland

Special part:

Political parties and democracy
Constitutional principles and fundamental rights in multicultural societies

Core Documentation

Bibliography

Students that will attend the lectures must study:

1) P. Carrozza, A. Di Giovine, G. F. Ferrari (a cura di), Diritto costituzionale comparato, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016.
Il testo


2) S. Bonfiglio, I partiti e la democrazia. Una rilettura dell’art. 49 della Costituzione, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3) S. Bonfiglio, Costituzionalismo meticcio. Oltre il colonialismo dei diritti umani, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

The assessment of learning outcomes includes: - for attending students and non-attending students: oral exam.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the categories of comparative law and critical tools to understand the evolution of the forms of state and forms of government.

Syllabus

The course will be divided into two parts:
General part:
The object and the method
Legal production and sources systems
The great models of comparative law: civil law and common law
The forms of state and government
The main experiences of democratic constitutionalism:
• Italy
• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• UK
• United States
• Spain
• Portugal
• Switzerland

Special part:

Political parties and democracy
Constitutional principles and fundamental rights in multicultural societies

Core Documentation

Bibliography

Students that will attend the lectures must study:

1) P. Carrozza, A. Di Giovine, G. F. Ferrari (a cura di), Diritto costituzionale comparato, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016.
Il testo


2) S. Bonfiglio, I partiti e la democrazia. Una rilettura dell’art. 49 della Costituzione, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3) S. Bonfiglio, Costituzionalismo meticcio. Oltre il colonialismo dei diritti umani, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

The assessment of learning outcomes includes: - for attending students and non-attending students: oral exam.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the categories of comparative law and critical tools to understand the evolution of the forms of state and forms of government.

Syllabus

The course will be divided into two parts:
General part:
The object and the method
Legal production and sources systems
The great models of comparative law: civil law and common law
The forms of state and government
The main experiences of democratic constitutionalism:
• Italy
• Austria
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• UK
• United States
• Spain
• Portugal
• Switzerland

Special part:

Political parties and democracy
Constitutional principles and fundamental rights in multicultural societies

Core Documentation

Bibliography

Students that will attend the lectures must study:

1) P. Carrozza, A. Di Giovine, G. F. Ferrari (a cura di), Diritto costituzionale comparato, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2016.
Il testo


2) S. Bonfiglio, I partiti e la democrazia. Una rilettura dell’art. 49 della Costituzione, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3) S. Bonfiglio, Costituzionalismo meticcio. Oltre il colonialismo dei diritti umani, Giappichelli, Torino 2016.

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

The assessment of learning outcomes includes: - for attending students and non-attending students: oral exam.