B6166 - SOLIDARITY IN COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN LAW

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the comparative dimension of the European legal space through primary institutions and principles, with a particular emphasis on solidarity. The course will lead the students to acquire and improve the following skills: techniques for reading and understanding constitutional norms, legislation and case law from different legal systems, as well as critical skills for the comparative examination of European constitutionalism; ability to find and understand legal sources of the European legal space; skills to elaborate innovative norms and policies in both the public and the private sector.

Contenuti

Metodologia comparata

Fini pratici e teorici della comparazione

Famiglie giuridiche europee e sistemi politici/territoriali

Costituzionalismo europeo e concezioni comparate del principio di solidarietà

Cornice normativa europea e nazionale della solidarietà

La solidarietà nei rapporti inter-territoriali

La solidarietà nei rapporti tra Stati

Norme e politiche finanziarie, migratorie e ambientali sulla solidarietà

Giustizia costituzionale e interazione con le Corti europee sulla solidarietà transnazionale

Testi/Bibliografia

M. Bogdan, Concise Introduction to Comparative Law, 2013 (Chapter 2 “The uses of comparative law”, pp. 15-26; and Chapter 3, “Some problems connected with the study of foreign law”, pp. 29-41) 

A. de Gregorio Merino, The Recovery Plan: Solidarity and the Living Constitution, in EU LAW IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC. The EU's legal response to COVID-19, Eu Law Press Live, 2021, pp. 33-44

G. Halmai, N. Chronowsk, “The decline of human dignity and solidarity through the misuse of constitutional identity: The case of Hungary since 2010”, in Human dignity and democracy in Europe: synergies, tensions and crises, edited by Daniel Bedford, Catherine Dupré, Gábor Halmai and Panos Kapotas, Northampton, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, pp. 177-199.

J. King, “Social rights in comparative constitutional theory”, in Comparative Constitutional Theory. Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law series, Northampton, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018, pp. 144-166.

P. Kubicek, "Illiberal Nationalism and the Backlash against Liberal Cosmopolitanism in Post-Communist Europe", Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 28:3, 2022, pp. 332-350.

M. Klamert, “Loyalty and solidarity as general principles”, in Research handbook on general principles in EU law: constructing legal orders in Europe, Northampton, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, pp. 118-135. 

U. Neergard, S. de Vries, “Whatever is Necessary... Will be Done”: Time for a Less One-Sided View on Solidarity in Europe in the Shadow of COVID-19, in EU LAW IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC. The EU's legal response to COVID-19, Eu Law Press Live, 2021, pp. 75-94

S. Ragone, “European Comparative Law: Reasons for "Enhanced Comparison" and Role of the CJEU”, in Revista de Derecho Político, 2021, pp. 297-325

S. Ragone, G. Moreno González, “The Catalan Issue from a Comparative Constitutional Perspective”, in AA. VV., Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 223 – 238

S. Ragone, G. Smorto, Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2023

 

Tuominen, T., Salminen, M., & Halonen, K.-M. (2022). The European Union’s responses to the COVID-19 crisis: How to fight a pandemic with the internal market. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 29(4), 451-467

F. de Witte, Justice in the EU. The Emergence of Transnational Solidarity, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 79-121.

Metodi didattici

Il corso propone coniuga lezioni frontali e metodi di apprendimento dialogici. I materiali indicati sono accompagnati dall'analisi di sentenze e atti normativi o revisioni costituzionali, nonché video di interesse. 

Gli studenti frequentanti sono chiamati a impegnarsi e partecipare nelle discussioni in classe su temi e materiali assegnati in precedenza, nonché a presentare in gruppi piccole ricerche proprie.

 

 

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

STUDENTI FREQUENTANTI: monitoraggio costante dell'apprendimento, anche tramite una o due presentazioni in classe e/o un paper.

STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI: esame finale scritto su tutto il programma.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

PPT, sentenze, atti normativi

Link ad altre eventuali informazioni

https://site.unibo.it/jm-module-eusocial/en

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Sabrina Ragone