00236 - Comparative Public Law

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge on comparative method, both with theoretic and practical purposes. During the course students will learn how to apply the comparative method to study various topics such as legal families and sources of law, forms of State and Government, human rights, federalism and regionalism, models of constitutional adjudication.

Course contents

Part I

1. Introduction to comparative constitutional law

2. Constitutions and constitutionalism

3. Sources of law

4. Forms of State and Government

5. Federalism and regionalism

6. Constitutional organization

7. Constitutional justice

8. Human rights

Part II

Focus on specific legal systems (USA, Germany, France, Israel) and on legal issues debated by media and politics, also by proposal of the students.

Readings/Bibliography

Part I

G. Morbidelli, L. Pegoraro, A. Reposo, M. Volpi, Diritto pubblico comparato, 4a ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2012 (or new edition, if published before the beginning of the course)

 

Part II

One of the following texts, freely chosen by the student:

J.J. Gomes Canotilho, Il diritto costituzionale portoghese (a cura di R. Orrù), Giappichelli, Torino, 2006

L. Pegoraro, A. Rinella, Diritto costituzionale comparato, Cedam, Padova, 2013

A.-G. Gagnon, Oltre la “nazione unificatrice (in difesa del federalismo multinazionale) , B.U.P., Bologna, 2008

S. Bagni (a cura di) , Giustizia costituzionale comparata. Proposte classificatorie a confronto, B.U.P., Bologna, 2013

R.L. Blanco Valdes, Introduzione alla Costituzione spagnola del 1978 , II ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2009

J. Carpizo, M. Carbonell, Diritto costituzionale messicano , Giappichelli, Torino, 2010

S. Bagni (a cura di), Dallo Stato del bienestar  allo Stato del buen vivir. Innovazione e tradizione nel costituzionalismo latino-americano, Filodiritto Editore, Bologna, 2013

 L. Pegoraro, Giustizia costituzionale comparata. Dai modelli ai sistemi, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015

 

For aliens or Erasmus students:

G.F. Ferrari (cur.), Introduction to Italian Public Law, Giuffrè, Milano, 2008.

 

Students can propose other text, subject to the evaluation of the professor, if they are interested in specific topics.

 

6 credits exam: only the text indicated in Part I.

 

3 credits exam (“idoneità”): one of the text indicated in part II, freely chosen by the student.

 

Suggested constitutional code:

G. Cerrina Feroni, T.E. Frosini, A. Torre (a cura di), Codice delle Costituzioni, Volume I - Belgio, Danimarca, Francia, Germania, Italia, Spagna, Svizzera, Usa e Weimar, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009.

 

S. Bagni, G. Pavani (a cura di), Materiali essenziali per un corso di Diritto pubblico comparato, Filodiritto Editore, Bologna, 2013

 

 

Teaching methods

The course will be developed through lessons and conferences, also held by visiting foreigner Professors, with use of slides and internet.

 

Assessment methods

ATTENDING STUDENTS AND WORKER STUDENTS

 

They will be considered “Attending Students” those who attended at least 70% of the classes, based on a call made daily by the professor during the course. Worker studentes will be treated as “Attending Students”.

Attending Students can choose, if they wish, to carry out the final exam in two parts: in the “preappello” dedicated to them, which is held the week before the official start of the session, they will be called to perform a one-hour written test on the first part of the manual (Chapter I- IV). The test will consist of three open-ended questions. Students must obtain a sufficient evaluation in each question. Marks will be given in 30/30 and the final evaluation will be the average of the written text and oral exam. If a student is not satisfied with the mark obtained in the written test, can always decide to bring the entire program at oral examination .

The final exam will consist of an oral examination on the remaining part of the program (chapter V- VII and the book of part II) and can be performed in any of the subsequent appeals, until the winter session 2015/2016 included.

Attending Students can also prepare a brief written research in groups of 3 or 4, on topics suggested by the professor and then orally explained in classroom. If the job will be positively evaluated, students will be spared to study the volume of Part II.

 

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS

 

The final exam for Non Attending Students will consist of an oral examination on the entire program.

 

Teaching tools

On AlmaDL web site will be published all the information about the course: lessons, slides, programs of seminars and other relevant events, useful link to the study of constitutional comparative law, information about events organized by the Italian Section of the Instituto iberoamericano de derecho constitucional and by the Centro studi sull'America Latina.

Links to further information

http://blog.giuri.unibo.it/dpc/

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Bagni