B6316 - AMMINISTRAZIONE PUBBLICA

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student knows how to move within the organization of the public administration, knows the administrative activity, the principles on which it is based and its forms of explanation. He is also familiar with the articulation of administrative action and is able to identify the most effective formulas in order to achieve the results to be achieved, applying the different types of public contracts and knows how to use the tools of private law activity or consensual activity of the public administration in reference to concrete situations. Particular attention is paid to the study and application of the institutes in relation to the tourism sector, as the latter has always had by its nature a very close link with the places in which it is experienced and with the community that resides there. The student is thus provided with the skills to deal with a complex relationship, which requires an integrated approach capable of involving the activity of government and administration, of relating different areas and levels of interest, both public and private, that know how to work in synergy.

Course contents

1. The law of public authorities
2. Legal system and public authority: a constitutional approach
3. Administrative organization: general aspects
4. The organization of public bodies
5. Subjective legal situations
6. Administrative proceeding
7. The conclusion of administrative proceedings: the administrative decision and the agreement under public law
8. Public authorities and civil law
9. The evolution of Italian administrative judicial system
10. Administrative judicial remedies

Readings/Bibliography

Maurizio Michele Cafagno, Diana Urania Galetta, Guido Greco, Margherita Ramajoli, Marco Sica, "Argomenti di diritto amministrativo", volume I, Giuffrè editore, last edition.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods are academic lessons, promoting dialogue and debate with students.

It is also possible to give students additional questions or issues outside the hours of lectures during the office hours published on the professor's webpage.

To make it even more effective, educational activities during the current cycle of meetings will be organized with qualified personalities from civil society aimed at deepening the methodologies and application of administrative relief.

Assessment methods

The exam is an oral exam.

The exam covers the topics of the course, and aims at evaluating the skills and the critical abilities developed by the students as regards to the administrative law explained during lectures

The students’ knowledge is assessed through a discussion, to evaluate the actual achievement of the learning outcomes. The exam consists in an interview with the appointed commission on the topics included in the programme.

The assessment will take into account the knowledge of the relevant institutional framework, the ability to single out connections between the relevant topics, to critical reasoning, as well as the clarity of presentation and critical thinking.

The minimum mark required to pass the exam is 18 /30.

By way of example, the following criteria will be used to assess the final mark (that will be out of 30/30):

- sufficient or barely sufficient knowledge on the programme, limited reasoning ability, some difficulties in using technical and legal language → 18-21/30;

- fairly good knowledge of the programme, adequate critical reasoning ability, sound use of technical and legal language → 22-25/30;

- comprehensive knowledge of the programme, notable reasoning ability, good command of technical and legal language → 26-29/30;

- extensive knowledge of the programme, very good reasoning ability, and ability to fully master technical-legal language → 30-30L/30.

Registration for the exam is compulsory, and students have to register through AlmaEsami [https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm] according to the general rules of the University.

Teaching tools

Use of power point slides and presentations.

Students with learning disorders and/or temporary or permanent disabilities: please contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Office hours

See the website of Anna Cicchetti