- Docente: Lucio Pegoraro
- Credits: 8
- SSD: IUS/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Local and Global Development (cod. 8785)
Course contents
1. Methodology for the study of legal systems and the contribution of "other" sciences. 2. New models of constitutionalism. 3. The neo-Latin American constitutionalism. 4. The "buen vivir" and the incorporation of native traditions. 5. The Brics and the role of the economic system in developing countries. 6. A case study: Brazil
Readings/Bibliography
L. Pegoraro, Diritto costituzionale comparato. La scienza e il metodo, B.U.P., Bologna, 2014
Moreover, ONE of the following:
S. Bagni (cur.), Dal Estado del bienestar al Estado del buenvivir. Innovazione e tradizione nel costituzionalismo latino-americano , Filodiritto, Bologna, 2013 (pp. 1-154)
L. Pegoraro, La Costituzionebrasiliana del 1988 nella chiave di lettura dell’art. 1 , n. 24 della Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development Lecture Series, Clueb, Bologna, 2006 (pp. 1-110).
J. Carpizo, M. Carbonell, Diritto costituzionale messicano, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010 (pp. 1-230)
L. Scaffardi (a cura di), BRICS: Paesi emergenti nel prisma del diritto comparato, Giappichelli, Torino, 2102 (pp. 1-175)
Alternative readings can be arranged with attending students.
For exam preparation you should read the L. Pegoraro (ed.), Glossario di Diritto pubblico comparato, Carocci, Roma, 2009
Teaching methods
The course will take place with regular lessons and weekly debates held on the basis of reports from students. Interventions outside lecturers, especially by foreigner students will be well valued.
Attendance at seminars, reports and speeches in the debates will be recognized in the examination, in the manner specified by the teacher.
The signatures of attending students will be collected during lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
Attending students: the final exam will consist of one or more written tests (optional), which will replace the corresponding part of the final exam, and an oral exam. In addition, the final vote will depend also on the positive ratings due to participation in the activities carried out during the course (seminars, reports, interventions).
Not attending students: the final exam will consist of an oral examination.
Erasmus and foreign students: the program for Erasmus students and foreign students is the same as for Italian ones, except special adaptations approved by the teacher and relgarding the special part of the program.
Teaching tools
The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge relating to: the right of developing countries, with particular attention to those of Latin America, the problems of the receptions of foreign legal models, the new proposals of Western constitutionalism and indigenous movements, issues related to the globalization. This program will be developed through the use of methods, tools and documentations that will enable students to contextualize historically and comparativly each legal issue.
Links to further information
http://www.dsps.unibo.it/it/servizi-e-strutture/centri-di-ricerca/centro-di-studi-sullamerica-latina
Office hours
See the website of Lucio Pegoraro