- Docente: Daniela Piana
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)
Learning outcomes
The main objective of the course is to provide analytical and methodological tools to understand the dynamics and mechanisms governing the interaction between law and politics in different parts of the world, through case studies and comparison between the trajectories of change that characterize different systems of justice.
Course contents
The course is divided into three clusters of sessions, of which the first involves the presentation of analytical models, the second the analysis of case studies, the third the discussion of individual works.
The cases addressed will be:
UK: Brexit and Supreme Court
European Court of Human Rights and Contracts against International Terrorism
International policy promoting the quality of justice
Readings/Bibliography
Cristina Dallara and Daniela Piana, Networking the Rule of law, London, Ashgate, 2015.
Dinah Shelton (ed.), Commitment and Compliance.
The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Amichai Magen, Leonardo Morlino, (eds), International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy? Contemporary European Studies Series. London, New York: Routledge, 2009.
Integrative material will be made available in the classroom.Teaching methods
Traditional lectures, case analysis carried on with participative and interactive methods
Teaching tools
video, experts interviews, power point, materials handed over and traditional lectures
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Piana