PUBLIC LAW INSTITUTIONS
ISTITUZIONI DI DIRITTO PUBBLICO
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| 2021/2022 | 6 |
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| Federico Losurdo |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course of Institutions of Public Law has the objective to offer to the students the hermeneutic categories and methodological tools for understanding the main public law institutions. Starting from the basic juridical-dogmatic categories, the forms of state and government and the sources of law and fundamental rights, we will proceed to a systematic study of the Republican Constitution, constantly taking into account the developments of the 'case-law and interactions with the institutions of the European Union.
Program
1) The rules and the legal system; the constitution and the constitutional order.
2) The elements of the state: people, territory, and sovereignty. Legal and factual limitations to state sovereignty
3) Forms of state and forms of government.
4) The international system and relations with the internal system. Organization and functioning of the UN
5) The European legal system: the history of European integration; EU institutions; EU structural principles; the relations with the Italian legal system.
6) Sources of Italian and European Union law.
7) Fundamental rights in the Republican Constitution and in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Constitutional duties.
8) Popular sovereignty, the referendum, and electoral systems.
9) Parliament: history, composition, and functions.
10) The President of the Republic: election and attributions.
11) The Government: organization and functions.
12) The regional laws: the origins, the statutory, legislative, administrative, and financial autonomy of the Regions.
13) The organization of local authorities: Municipalities, Provinces, and Metropolitan Cities.
14) Constitutional justice and the functions of the Constitutional Court
Teaching Material
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, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
1) A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, Bologna, Il Mulino, ult. ed (with the exception of chapter 13,14 e 16)
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
1) A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, Bologna, Il Mulino, ult. ed (with the exception of chapters 13, 14 e 16)
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