In close continuity with the first part, the second part of the course aims to offer to the students the methodological tools to understand the overall institutional framework of our constitutional system. In particular, the Parliament, the Government, the President of the Republic, the judiciary and the Constitutional Court will be analyzed both in historical profiles and in those relating to their composition and functioning. Specific attention will also be dedicated to the legal order of the Regions and municipalities, in the light of the principle of the unity and indivisibility of the Republic.

1) The Parliament: historical profiles, composition and functions

2) The President of the Republic: methods of election, main attributions

3) The Government: structure, form of formation and crisis

4) The regional system and local autonomies

5) The jurisdictional power in the republican Constitution

6) Constitutional justice in a comparative perspective

7) The Italian Constitutional Court

8) The functions of the Italian Constitutional Court

9) The effects of the pandemic on the constitutional order

The student must demonstrate a good knowledge of the course topics indicated in the program; he shall demonstrate the ability to understand the subject, both with regard to the rules and the main institutions of public law.

The student must demonstrate that he has acquired the aptitude to apply the rules of the constitutional system to the specific case. The student will have to demonstrate the ability to process legal texts and documents in judicial and extrajudicial contexts.

The student will have to demonstrate a specific aptitude to apply the rules of the constitutional system, the ability to find, also through databases, understand and use the public sources of internal and supranational law.

The student must be able to clearly communicate their knowledge and express their considerations and conclusions also in the context of the debate on jurisprudential cases, presented by the teacher.

The student must demonstrate that he has developed the ability to understand the complexity of the juridical-constitutional phenomenon, as well as those skills that can allow him to continue studying in a mostly self-directed or autonomous way and to achieved learning skills suitable for continuation of legal studies.

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

The course will mainly take place through lectures in which the active and critical participation of students will be stimulated, especially with classroom discussion, following the illustration of the individual institutes.

Innovative teaching methods

The face-to-face teaching modality will be enriched with individual and group insights (including readings of classics of legal thought) that students will carry out using the Moodle platform.

Teaching

The course will mainly take place through lectures in which the active and critical participation of students will be stimulated, especially with classroom discussion, following the illustration of the individual institutes.