04519 - Business Law

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide introductory notions of Law and fundamental notions of Public Law through an analysis of the characteristics, organisation, structure and functions of public powers and the relationships between public authorities and private freedoms.

Topics related to the most recent constitutional practice will be addressed along with the most interesting new developments in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court; there will be a strong focus on the role of constitutional bodies and the new issues tied to political decentralisation in a regionalist and federalist direction; all institutions of direct democracy will be examined, with particular attention to the referendum tool; the inviolable rights recognised by the Constitution will be analysed and particular attention will be given to the new categories of fundamental individual rights identified by constitutional jurisprudence.

The main purpose of the second course module is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the subjective and objective dimensions of public administration; it further aims to develop students' ability to analyse the forms and methods of exercising the administrative function and the relationships between public authorities and private freedoms; and, finally, their ability to analyse and acquire basic knowledge about the public demand for goods and services

Course contents

1. General concepts:

1.1. Law and legal norms;

1.2. Elements making up the notion of State: territoriality, sociality and sovereignty;

1.3. State, International Community and Supranational Organisations: the European Union legal system and its relationship with the Italian system;

1.4. The sources of Italian law and the sources of Community law.

2. Constitutional bodies and functions thereof:

2.1. Electorate

2.2. Parliament;

2.3. President of the Republic;

2.4. Government;

2.5. Constitutional Court .

3. Regional political decentralisation. Regions and local administration

4. Public administration in its objective and subjective dimension

5. Intervention of State economy

6. The capacity to act of public law in the realm of public administration;

6.1  Public contracts: brief look at Directive 2004/18/EC

Readings/Bibliography

Recommended reading

  (complete version, unless otherwise specified):

 

1. R. Bin- G.Pitruzzella , Diritto pubblico (“Public Lawâ€), G.Giappichelli, Turin, last edition, except :

·          percorso (section) I: parts II and III.

·          percorso (section) 2: parts VI, VII, VIII.

 

 

2. S.Bandini Zanigni, “Gli appalti di servizi e forniture. Procedure e criteri di aggiudicazione dalla direttiva 2004/18/CE al Codice dei contratti pubbliciâ€, edizione 2010, Il Sole 24 ore.

Chapter I – Procedure di aggiudicazione, pp. 3-170.

 

3. G. Ghetti, “Lineamenti di diritto pubblico dell'economiaâ€, Giuffrè Ed, Milan, 2001.

Chapter 3, pp. 47-75; Chapter 4, pp. 75-123.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The final examination is oral; the order of testing will follow the sign-up list.

The oral examination is aimed at ascertaining the student's theoretical knowledge of the principles studied and capacity for critical analysis.

Office hours

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