This course aims to provide specific tools in order to understand the relationship between rights and cultures, and to acquire an appropriate  sensibility to deal with the difficult tasks of the intercultural mediation.

1. The community and the law

2. The "other": law and culture

3. Cultures, subcultures and multicultural societies: legal and social profiles

4. Criminal law and 'cultural defense'

No bridging courses required

Learning outcomes:

knowledge and understanding

1. knowledge and understanding of the complex relationship between Otherness and social bond
2. knowledge and understanding of the original relationship between law and social bond
3. knowledge and understanding of the categories of cultural and legal pluralism, interrelationships, no-law
4. understanding the difficulty of reconciling law, rights and cultures
5. knowledge and understanding of the relapse of the difficult relationship between law, rights and cultures in affirmation and recognition of rights

6. knowledge and understanding of the criminal law and social profiles of 'cultural defense'

applying knowledge and understanding

1. ability to declare in the relational context a correct interpretation of the otherness
2. ability to recognize the context of application of the categories learned of cultural and legal pluralism, interrelationships, no-law
3. ability to report the theoretical problematic of the relationship to a mediation and juridical context
4. ability to interpret and communicate the gap between expectations of rights and the formal recognition of rights

5. ability to recognize and interpret criminal and social profiles of 'cultural defense'

making judgements

1. Ability to employ critically the acquired knowledge
2. ability to independently evaluate concrete situations and empirical cases (even simulated)
3. Ability to overcome the ideological rhetoric that shakes the claim of rights

communication skills

1. Ability to communicate the acquired knowledge in a clear, essential and scientifically correct way

learning skills

1. Ability to learn and to interpret documents and texts with autonomy and critical sensibility

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Classroom lectures, seminars and debates. An active participation of the students is required.

Attendance

The student shall attend three lessons on four in order to sit the exam as an 'attending student'.

Course books

- Migrazioni diritto e società, a cura di D. Ciaffi, F. Parisi, M. Patti, (CEDAM - Wolters Kluwer Italia), Milano 2018 (study only the pages that will be assigned during the course)
- During the course documents, papers, book's chapters will be assigned

Assessment

The achievement of the learning outcomes will be verified according to the following indication. The student will write a short essay about a topic analyzed during the course and he will discuss the essay in an oral examination.

The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:

less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.

24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.

27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.

30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Course books

- Migrazioni diritto e società, a cura di D. Ciaffi, F. Parisi, M. Patti, (CEDAM - Wolters Kluwer Italia), Milano 2018, pp. 3-21; pp. 43-59; pp. 123-154

- Vincenzo Ferrari, Diritto e società. Elementi di sociologia del diritto, (Editori Laterza), Bari-Roma 2019, pp. 37-66; pp. 98-129; pp. 190-196

Assessment

The achievement of the learning outcomes will be verified through an oral examination, in which the student will answer to questions about the content of the textbooks.

The evaluation criteria and the scale of marks are as follows:

less than 18/30: competence level insufficient. The student doesn’t reach the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

18-20: competence level sufficient. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”.

21-23: competence level satisfactory. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding” and in “applied knowledge and understanding”.

24-26: competence level good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding” and “making judgments”.

27-29: competence level very good. In particular, the student attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “communication skills”.

30-30 with honours: competence level excellent. The student fully attains the learning results described in “knowledge and understanding”, “applied knowledge and understanding”, “making judgments” and “learning skills”.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.