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, 4aed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2012

Part II

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

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

6 credits exam: only the text indicated in Part I.

Integrazioni 3 credits (idoneità): one of the text indicated in part II, freely chosen by the student.

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 AlmaDL web site will be published all the information about the course: lessons, 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, Assistant Professor of Public Lawat L. Bocconi University (Milan), a research center that organizes study projects on constitutional, european and comparative law.

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Bagni