73849 - Sem. Constitutional Law of the International Community

Academic Year 2017/2018

Learning outcomes

The seminar is aimed at providing students with appropriate cognitive and analytical tools on the internationalization of constitutional law, the constitutionalization of international law and the globalization of categories of public law.

Course contents

 

The internationalization of constitutional law
The common constitutional law: the paths of contemporary constitutionalism after World War II
The Roman Roots of European Law
Principles and Comparison: Criminal Law
Globalization, homogenization of law and soft law tools
Principles and Rules of International Law of the Economy
Democracy and international relations
General and common principles of criminal procedural law, between international community and domestic order

The frequency of the seminars will guarantee to the student three ECTS.

Seminars will take place at the Faculty of Law, via Belmeloro 14

Readings/Bibliography

The text to study for the deepening of the topics discussed during the seminar is:

L. Mezzetti (ed.), International Constitutional Law, Giappichelli, Turin, 2014.

Teaching methods

The analysis of the matter is conducted through the constant reference to the Italian and foreign constitutional jurisprudence and having regard to the interaction between domestic constitutional legal systems and supranational legal systems, particularly that of the European Union and of the European Convention on Human Rights, both under the normative and jurisprudential point of view.

Assessment methods

The allocation of credits is based on the detection of the frequency of the lectures.

Teaching tools

The lectures are conducted through the constant interaction between professors of different disciplines, especially constitutional law, comparative law, international law, criminal law, criminal procedure law.

Office hours

See the website of Luca Mezzetti