00534 - Principles of Public Law

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Angelo Scavone
  • Credits: 10
  • SSD: IUS/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)

Learning outcomes

Teaching is intended to provide students with a range of knowledge and tools, from the point of view of both the notion and the methodology. At the end of the course the student: - knows the basic notions about State and law, the Constitution, the relations between the domestic and the supranational system, the fundamental rights, the organization of public powers - understands the fundamental institutions of Italian public law - applies the methodology of legal analysis, with the aim of gathering not only the descriptive dimension but also the compulsory dimension - sets the main legal phenomena in a legal context, especially on a national, regional and local level - is able to illustrate these institutions and phenomena, with particular reference to the most important aspects.

Course contents

Legal system and constitutional law. 2 the state and other systems (state forms and forms of government). 2.1 the international system. 2.2 the European Union. 3 The Sources of Law. 3.1 the domestic rules (Constitution and constitutional laws, state ordinary laws, other acts of the state having "force of law", regional laws, secondary sources, normative facts or fact-source). 3.2 European and international sources of production. 3.3 Hierarchy between external sources and constitution. 4 fundamental rights and freedoms. 5 Direct Democracy Tools. 6 the constitutional organization of the state. 7 Parliament. 8 the President of the Republic. 9 the Government. 10 public administrations. 11 Administrative decentralization, subsidiarity and federalism. 12 the rights and constitution guarantees. 12.1 the constitutional review. 12.2 the Constitutional Court. 12.3 the Judiciary and the Judicial Guarantees.

Readings/Bibliography

Preparatory texts: 1) A.Barbera - C.Fusaro, Course of public law, Bologna, Il Mulino, last edition; G. De Vergottini, Constitutional Transitions, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998 or, alternatively, R. Dahrendorf, Dopo la democrazia, Editori Laterza, 2001.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Both during the lectures and seminars and during the preparation of the examination, it is essential to consult the text of the Constitution and other fundamental laws, using a textbook such as, e.g., M. Bassani, Fundamental Law Of public and constitutional law, Milan, Giuffré, last edition.

Office hours

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