- Docente: Francesco Biagi
- Credits: 9
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Francesco Biagi (Modulo 1) Susanna Mancini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9232)
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from Oct 14, 2024 to Nov 27, 2024
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from Sep 16, 2024 to Oct 09, 2024
Learning outcomes
This course's aims are:
· to make students familiar with the basic aspects of contemporary constitutionalism in Western democracies, countries in transition to democracy and beyond;
· to show them that, by revealing how other systems address similar problems, comparative constitutional law gives us a better purchase on our own legal system and legal culture;
· to push them to evaluate the foundations of individual legal systems: the assumptions, choices and values that have formed them;
· to provide them with a critical understanding of the strengths and limits of constitutional law in regulating social and political processes.
Course contents
The course consists in a general part and in a special part.
- General Part: forms of state and forms of government; the constitution and its dynamics; the liberal democratic State; federalism and regionalism; the constitutional protection of human rights; authoritarian and hybrid regimes.
- Special Part I: Reproductive Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law
- Special Part II: Conflicts over Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere
Readings/Bibliography
- GIUSEPPE DE VERGOTTINI, Diritto costituzionale comparato,undicesima edizione, Milano, Cedam - Wolters Kluwer, 2022.
- SUSANNA MANCINI, Un affare di donne. L'aborto tra eguale libertà e controllo sociale (Padova, Cedam, 2012).
- On-line materials
Three credits "integrazione"
- SUSANNA MANCINI, Un affare di donne. L'aborto tra eguale libertà e controllo sociale (Padova, Cedam, 2012).
One credit "integrazione"
- European Court of Human Rights, Lautsi c. Italia
- http://issuu.com/duit/docs/duit_-_traduzione_integrale_sentenza_lautsi_c._ita
Teaching methods
Since the course takes place during the first semester, the exam can only be taken starting with January 2025
Important: Only students who are regularly enrolled can take the exam.
Assessment methods
The final grade will be determined in the light of a final paper. Students will be asked to respond to three questions concerning three different parts of the program. The questions can be found on-line in the platform "Virtual Learning Environment", in the section called "Materiali per esame scritto".
While assessing the paper the following elements will be taken into consideration:
- originality and coherence
- correct use and quotation of sources
- the text must be correct both from a formal and substantial standpoint
- plagiarism check
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Biagi
See the website of Susanna Mancini