00236 - Comparative Public Law

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge on comparative method, both with theoretic and practical purposes. During the course students will learn how to apply the comparative method to study various topics such as legal families and sources of law, forms of State and Government, human rights, federalism and regionalism, models of constitutional adjudication.

 

Course contents

Part I

1. Introduction to comparative constitutional law
2. Constitutions and constitutionalism
3. Sources of law
4. Forms of State and Government
5. Federalism and regionalism
6. Constitutional organization
7. Constitutional justice
8. Human rights

 

Part II

Focus on specific legal systems (USA, Germany, France, Israel) and on legal issues debated by media and politics, also by proposal of the students.

Readings/Bibliography

Part I

G. Morbidelli, L. Pegoraro, A. Reposo, M. Volpi, Diritto pubblico comparato, 3a ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2009

Part II (except for students whose exam counts only 6 credits)

One of the following texts, freely chosen by the student:

T. Groppi, E. Ottolenghi, A.M. Rabello (a cura di), Il sistema costituzionale dello Stato di Israele, Giappichelli, Torino, 2006

J.J. Gomes Canotilho, Il diritto costituzionale portoghese (a cura di R. Orrù), Giappichelli, Torino, 2006

L. Pegoraro, A. Rinella, Diritto pubblico comparato. Profili metodologici, Cedam, Padova, 2007

A.-G. Gagnon, Oltre la “nazione unificatrice (in difesa del federalismo multinazionale), B.U.P., Bologna, 2008

G. Tusseau, Modelli di giustizia costituzionale. Saggio di critica metodologica, B.U.P., Bologna, 2009

R.L. Blanco Valdes, Introduzione alla Costituzione spagnola del 1978, II ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2009

J. Carpizo, M. Carbonell, Diritto costituzionale messicano, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010

Teaching methods

The course will be developed through lessons and conferences, also held by visiting foreigner Professors, with use of slides and internet.

Students can choose to attend written intermediate proofs on specific parts of the program, following the calendar fixed by the Professor at the beginning of the course. The good exit of the intermediate proofs will substitute the corresponding part of the final examination

Assessment methods

The final examination will consist on an oral proof. The evaluation of the final proof will be integrated, if the case, with the marks obtained in the intermediate ones.

Teaching tools

On the teacher's web site will be published all the information about the course: lessons and intermediate proofs' calendar, office hours, slides, programs of seminars and other relevant events, useful link to the study of constitutional comparative law, information about CCSDD (Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development), directed by prof. J.O. Frosini, lecturer of Public Law at L. Bocconi University, Milan.

Links to further information

http://www.ccsdd.org

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Bagni