00534 - Principles of Public Law (A-E)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)

Learning outcomes

Objective of the course

The objective of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of the basic rules of the Italian institutional system, including the living aspects and the most recent developments, also from a political and constitutional standpoint.

So the course aims to provide students with

1.the capacity and the means to analyze and understand the organization of the State from the sources of law to Constitutional jurisdiction;

2.the capacity to deal with the principles of the constitutional system;

3.the capacity to understand the meaning of the institutional changes and their consequences.

Knowledge and skills expected

Knowledge that should be achieved in this course is about the regulation of Italian constitutional system, focusing especially on the sources of law and the form of State and government, the evolution of rights and Constitutional case law as the center of the system.

Course contents

I part

- Legal systems and constitutional law

- The State

- The Italian legal system and its evolution

- Constitutional law and International law

- Constitutional law and the EU Law

- The organization of political powers

- Ballots, referenda and other forms of direct democracy

- The Parliament

- The Head of the State

- The Government

- Sources of law (the regional and local government sources excepted)

II part

- Fundamental rights

- The regional and local government

- The public administration

- The individual rights and the judicial process

- The judicial review

Readings/Bibliography

A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto costituzionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, last edition

Students may always consult the Constitution 

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson

The course will be divided into two parts

Assessment methods

The exam can be passed in two ways:

- by passing two written tests (sets of open questions)

- by passing an entirely oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Endrici