The course of Public Law Institutions aims at offering to the students the hermeneutic categories and methodological tools for understanding the main public law institutions. Starting from the basic juridical-dogmatic categories of the legal ststem, of the forms of state and government, of 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 the interactions with the institutions of the European Union.

1) The rules and the legal system (natural law, legal positivism); 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) Public administrations.

15) Jurisdiction. Constitutional principles regarding jurisdiction.

16) Constitutional justice and the functions of the Constitutional Court

17) The Constitutional State and the pandemic emergence 

Knowledge and understanding: The student shall acquire full knowledge of the fundamental institutions of public law. He/she shall, in particular, demonstrate the ability to understand the essential concepts of the subject, both with regard to the sources of law and constitutional rights-duties, and to the overall republican institutional organisation (knowledge and understanding).

Applied knowledge and understanding: The student shall attain a thorough knowledge of the constitutional organs and their mutual relations. The student will be able to apply the norms of the constitutional order and understand the sources of law and constitutional jurisprudence, with reference to concrete and specific contexts, identifying, interpreting and applying the norms that, from time to time, contribute to characterise the case in question (Applying knowledge and understanding).

Autonomy of judgement: The student will have to acquire an adequate understanding of the reflections of state policies on the decentralised systems of the republic and of the relations between European and internal systems. The student must demonstrate the ability to interpret the rules of the domestic legal system also in its relations with the supranational legal system. The student must also supplement the knowledge acquired with references to practice and soft law. (Making judgements).

Communication skills: The student must be able to participate in a class debate, supporting his/her arguments also with regard to specific cases discussed in class.

Learning skills: The student must be able to independently interpret the sources of law and constitutional jurisprudence, also through constant updating of the skills acquired (Learning skills).

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

Innovative teaching methods

Course books

1) A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, Bologna, Il Mulino, ult. ed.

2) A. Cantaro, L'orologio della guerra. Chi ha spento le luci della pace, NTS-Media, 2023.

Assessment

Oral examination. This method of assessment makes it possible to assess in the most complete manner, in addition to the student's communicative ability, the acquisition of the analytical and critical skills required of the student in view of the complexity of the themes and arguments covered by the course, the knowledge and understanding of which he/she must demonstrate.

 The assessment criteria and marks are determined according to the following scale

less than 18/30: insufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes stipulated under ‘knowledge and understanding’;
18-20/30: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves none of the learning outcomes under ‘knowledge and understanding’;
21-23/30: level of competence fully sufficient. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes stipulated under the headings ‘knowledge and understanding’ and ‘applied knowledge and understanding’;
24-26/30: level of competence: good. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes stipulated at the points ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘applied knowledge and understanding’ and ‘independent judgement’;

27-29/30: very good level of competence. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes set out under the headings ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘applied knowledge and understanding’; ‘independent judgement’ and ‘communication skills’;
30-30 with distinction: excellent level of competence. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes set out at the points ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘knowledge and understanding applied’; ‘autonomy of judgement’; ‘communication skills’ and ‘ability to learn’.

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

1) A. Barbera, C. Fusaro, Corso di diritto pubblico, Bologna, Il Mulino, ult. ed.

2) A. Cantaro, Postpandemia. Pensieri (meta)giuridici, Giappichelli, Torino, 2021

Assessment

Oral examination. This method of assessment makes it possible to assess in the most complete manner, in addition to the student's communicative ability, the acquisition of the analytical and critical skills required of the student in view of the complexity of the themes and arguments covered by the course, the knowledge and understanding of which he/she must demonstrate.

 The assessment criteria and marks are determined according to the following scale

less than 18/30: insufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes stipulated under ‘knowledge and understanding’;
18-20/30: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves none of the learning outcomes under ‘knowledge and understanding’;
21-23/30: level of competence fully sufficient. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes stipulated under the headings ‘knowledge and understanding’ and ‘applied knowledge and understanding’;
24-26/30: level of competence: good. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes stipulated at the points ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘applied knowledge and understanding’ and ‘independent judgement’;

27-29/30: very good level of competence. The candidate achieves, in particular, the learning outcomes set out under the headings ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘applied knowledge and understanding’; ‘independent judgement’ and ‘communication skills’;
30-30 with distinction: excellent level of competence. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes set out at the points ‘knowledge and understanding’; ‘knowledge and understanding applied’; ‘autonomy of judgement’; ‘communication skills’ and ‘ability to learn’.

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.