00236 - Comparative Public Law (M-Z)

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

Part I: forms of state and government. Federalism and regionalism, The constitutional protection of human rights.
Part II:  Cultural and Religious Accomodation. Multiculturalism as a Challenge to Human Rights Theory.

Readings/Bibliography

Studenti non frequentanti
GIUSEPPE DE VERGOTTINI, Diritto costituzionale comparato, settima edizione, Padova, Editore Cedam, 2007, volume I, (EXCLUDING pp. 505-597).
SUSANNA MANCINI, Il potere dei simboli, i simboli del potere. Laicità e religione alla prova del pluralismo, Padova, Cedam, 2008.

Teaching methods

The course consists of a serious of lectures and of some seminars on specific topics. Conferences with Italian and foreign academics will aso be held both in Italian and English.

Assessment methods

Exams are only oral. Socrates-Erasmus and Overseas students may do an intermediate exam during the semester which will count for Part I of the final exam.

Teaching tools

Please, do periodically visit the CCSDD website (www.CCSDD.org)

Office hours

See the website of Susanna Mancini