00222 - Constitutional Law

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Edoardo Carlo Raffiotta
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: IUS/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Legal Consultant in Business and Public Administration (cod. 9242)

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on the analysis of the Italian Constitution. The understanding of the constitutional text and its implications involves the studying of: basic notions of the general theory of law, fundamental constitutional principles, sources of law, human rights, constitutional powers, individual rights in the judicial process, local and regional governments, relations between the Italian law system and the European/International legal systems.

Course contents

1. Legal systems and constitutional law. - 2. The State. - 3. The State and the other legal systems. Constitutional law and International law. - 4. Constitutional law and the EU Law. - 5. Sources of law. - 5.1 Theoretical aspects. - 5.2 Sources' rules of production and enactment. - 5.3 The legal source system. - 5.4 The normative acts. - 5.5 The Constitution. - 5.6 Legislative statutes. - 5.7 European sources. - 5.8 Delegated legislation. - 5.9 The regional legal sources. - 5.10 Executive acts. - 5.11 The normative facts. - 6. Fundamental rights. - 7. The organization of political powers. - 8. Ballots, referenda and other forms of direct democracy. - 9. The Parliament. - 9.1 The origins of the first parliaments. - 9.2 The bicameral governments. - 9.3 Organizations and procedures. 9.4 The functions. - 9.5 The power of dissolution. - 10. The Head of the State. - 11. The Government . - 12. The regional and local government. - 13. The public administration. - 14. The individual rights and the judicial process. - 15. The judicial review. - 16. The Italian legal system and its evolution.

Readings/Bibliography

The exam is based on the following texts:

A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto costituzionale, Bologna, il Mulino, last ed.;

T.E. Frosini, Diritto pubblico comparato, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019, Chapters II, III, V, XI.

Other texts:

G. de Vergottini, T.E. Frosini, Diritto pubblico, Padova, Cedam, 2019;

A. Barbera, La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana, Milano, Giuffrè, 2016;

A. Morrone, Fonti normative, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018.

Teaching methods

Class Timetable

Classes will take place during the first semester, according to the schedule that will be published subsequently.

Assessment methods

Final Exam

The students learning will be verified through a final exam, testing the formative outcomes of the course.

Teaching tools

During the course the Professor will set a seminars schedule to elaborate on the main course topics. Moreover, a learning support will be set at the very beginning of the course.

Office hours

See the website of Edoardo Carlo Raffiotta