Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
| Period | From | To |
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| 1° periodo di lezioni - 12 CFU | Sep 21, 2020 | Dec 14, 2020 |
| 1° periodo di lezioni | Sep 28, 2020 | Dec 14, 2020 |
| Periodo riservato ad eventuali recuperi di lezioni – dicembre 2020 | Dec 15, 2020 | Dec 16, 2020 |
| 2° periodo di lezioni - febbraio/marzo 2020 - 12 CFU | Feb 8, 2021 | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 2° periodo di lezioni - febbraio/marzo 2021 | Feb 15, 2021 | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 2° periodo di lezioni - aprile/maggio 2021 - 12 CFU | Apr 7, 2021 | May 12, 2021 |
| 2° periodo di lezioni - aprile/maggio 2021 | Apr 7, 2021 | May 12, 2021 |
| Periodo riservato ad eventuali recuperi di lezioni – maggio 2021 | May 13, 2021 | May 15, 2021 |
| Session | From | To |
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| Pre-accertamenti insegnamenti annuali (15 CFU LMG e 12 CFU SSG) | Dec 15, 2020 | Dec 16, 2020 |
| Sessione straordinaria – studenti f.c. e insegnamenti del 1° periodo | Dec 17, 2020 | Dec 23, 2020 |
| Sessione invernale – 2 appelli | Jan 8, 2021 | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Sessione straordinaria – studenti f.c. - marzo 2021 | Mar 30, 2021 | Apr 1, 2021 |
| Pre-accertamenti insegnamenti 2° periodo | May 13, 2021 | May 15, 2021 |
| Sessione estiva – 3 appelli | May 17, 2021 | Jul 26, 2021 |
| Sessione autunnale – 1 appello | Aug 25, 2021 | Sep 18, 2021 |
| Session | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Sessione autunnale – ottobre 2020 | Oct 22, 2020 | Oct 24, 2020 |
| Sessione invernale – febbraio 2021 | Feb 12, 2021 | Feb 12, 2021 |
| Sessione invernale – marzo 2021 | Mar 22, 2021 | Mar 24, 2021 |
| Sessione estiva – giugno 2021 | Jun 24, 2021 | Jun 26, 2021 |
| Period | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2020 | Nov 1, 2020 |
| Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2020 | Dec 8, 2020 |
| Vacanze di Natale | Dec 24, 2020 | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 2, 2021 | Apr 6, 2021 |
| Festa della liberazione | Apr 25, 2021 | Apr 25, 2021 |
| Festa del lavoro | May 1, 2021 | May 1, 2021 |
| Santo Patrono | May 21, 2021 | May 21, 2021 |
| Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2021 | Jun 2, 2021 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Law Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Academic staff
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Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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Roman Law Institutions
History of Medieval and Modern Law
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
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4° Year activated in the A.Y. 2023/2024
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5° Year activated in the A.Y. 2024/2025
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Roman Law Institutions
History of Medieval and Modern Law
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5 modules to be chosen among the following during the 3rd, 4th and 5th year (in detail: 1 module in the 3rd year; 1 module in the 4th year; 3 modules in the 5th year)Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Comparative constitutional law (2022/2023)
Teaching code
4S01086
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
IUS/21 - COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW
Period
1° periodo lezioni (1B) dal Nov 4, 2022 al Dec 16, 2022.
Learning objectives
The course aims at providing students with an advanced knowledge of topics and methods of constitutional comparative law and an adequate knowledge of the institutions (sources of law, constitutional litigation, federalism and regionalism) into which the course has delved. At the end of the course, students shall be able to reflect in terms of legal institutions in comparative perspective, classify legal institutions according to comparative legal taxonomies and apply the comparative legal method. Students shall also have acquired the capacity to consciously use specific terms relating to comparative law themes and speak precisely about the constitutional law in comparative legal perspective.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Knowledge of the basic institutes of Italian and comparative public law with particular reference to the concepts of constitution, constitutional amendments, constitutional justice, and jurisdiction.
Program
1. Defining Comparative Constitutional Justice.
2. Comparative method and constitutional justice: classifications and models of constitutional adjudication.
3. Composition and legitimacy of constitutional adjudicators.
4. Constitutional yardsticks. Object of review. Access to constitutional justice.
5. Ancillary powers of constitutional adjudicators.
6. Origins of the judicial review: from the English antecedents to the U.S. constitutional history.
7. Political v. judicial review. The French constitutional experience. Constitutional adjudication under Soviet and Islamic constitutions.
8. Concentrated v Diffuse judicial review. Judicial review in common law legal systems. The dissemination of the U.S. model outside the common law realm: Latino-American countries and Portugal. UK and Switzerland.
9. The Kelsenian model. Its circulation in Europe.
10. Judicial Review on federal grounds.
11. Litigating fundamental rights.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Those attending the course will actively participate in it. During the lectures, the class will discuss different models of judicial review and examine the most relevant judgements that have contributed to developing the role of constitutional adjudicators.
Lectures will be held in presence.
The video recordings and any supplementary and supporting teaching materials will be made available to students who adhere to the PA 110 e lode protocol, and also, as envisaged by the University guidelines, to students who are in particular situations of fragility, with disabilities or suffering from learning disorders (following notification of and in coordination with the Inclusion Unit) and to students who find themselves in situations of limited travel, on the basis of the provisions of the national ordinances against COVID.
Learning assessment procedures
Students that have regularly attended classes will take an oral exam.
During the course, they will be asked to deliver at least one presentation involving questions, case, and judgements dealt with during the course. The presentation will be assessed in order to determine the final mark.
Non-attending students
Non-attending students are required to take an oral exam. The exam will consist of an oral discussion, aims at verifying the knowledge of the fundamentals of comparative constitutional justice.
Erasmus students
Erasmus students that have regularly attended classes are granted the possibility to write an essay on a topic agreed by the instructor.
Evaluation criteria
The oral exam, will consist of an oral discussion, aims at verifying the knowledge of the fundamentals of comparative constitutional justice (as explained in class) in the light of the relevant scholarship and national and European case-law.
The final mark will be expressed in thirtieths.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
N/A
Exam language
Italiano, Inglese, Spagnolo
Type D and Type F activities
Le attività che consentono l’acquisizione dei crediti riservati alle attività formative a libera scelta dello studente (TAF D) sono le seguenti:
• Un insegnamento previsto nell’elenco delle attività formative (TAF D) allegato al piano didattico del corso di laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza;
• Un insegnamento attivato nei Corsi di studi afferenti al Collegio di Giurisprudenza;
• Un laboratorio didattico attivato nei Corsi di studi afferenti al Collegio di Giurisprudenza;
• Un laboratorio didattico attivato nei Corsi di studi afferenti al Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche;
• Un insegnamento previsto dall’Offerta Formativa di Ateneo, non impartito nell’ambito dei corsi di studi afferenti al Collegio di Giurisprudenza: il riconoscimento dei crediti acquisiti sarà subordinato alla preventiva presentazione di coerenti programmi formativi valutati dalla Commissione istruttoria per la didattica e approvati dal Collegio didattico.
• Attività formative organizzate dai singoli docenti del Collegio di Giurisprudenza o del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche: previa approvazione del Collegio ad esse verrà attribuito, dopo un’apposita verifica, un credito per ogni 6 ore di frequenza obbligatoria;
• Attività formative che implicano la partecipazione a convegni o seminari organizzati sotto il “logo” del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche o dell’Ateneo: devono essere preventivamente approvate dal Collegio di Giurisprudenza indicando un docente di riferimento del Collegio di Giurisprudenza ovvero del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche. Un credito per ogni giornata di convegno o di seminario si acquisisce dopo apposita verifica che dimostri l’avvenuta fruizione culturale del tema del convegno o del seminario.
Le attività che consentono l’acquisizione dei crediti riservati alle ulteriori attività formative (TAF F) sono le seguenti:
• Informatica (3 cfu)
• Stage;
• Un laboratorio didattico attivato nei Corsi di studi afferenti al Collegio di Giurisprudenza;
• Un laboratorio didattico attivato nei Corsi di studi afferenti al Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche.
Al link https://www.univr.it/it/i-nostri-servizi/segreterie-studenti/giurisprudenza#categdoc_7103 la modulistica per l'inserimento di attività non selezionabili in autonomia dallo studente in sede di compilazione del piano degli studi.
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| 5° | Law of the digital economy | D |
Matteo Ortino
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Civil enforcement law | D |
Alberto Maria Tedoldi
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Economics, financial statement and control of Italian healthcare and social care organizations | D |
Paolo Roffia
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | International criminal law | D |
Lorenzo Picotti
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Safety and social security | D |
Sylvain Giovanni Nadalet
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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| 4° 5° | Banking law | D |
Giovanni Meruzzi
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | International arbitration law | D |
Annalisa Ciampi
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Safe and security law | D |
Marco Peruzzi
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| 4° 5° | CRISIS AND INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS LAW | D |
Alberto Maria Tedoldi
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Juvenile Law | D |
Silvana Strano
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Legal Medicine | D |
Domenico De Leo
(Coordinator)
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| 4° 5° | Sociology of law | D |
Carlo Lottieri
(Coordinator)
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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| 4° 5° | Wake up Italia - 2020/2021 | D |
Sergio Noto
(Coordinator)
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| years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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| 4° 5° | Safe and security law | D |
Marco Peruzzi
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Career prospects
Module/Programme news
News for students
There you will find information, resources and services useful during your time at the University (Student’s exam record, your study plan on ESSE3, Distance Learning courses, university email account, office forms, administrative procedures, etc.). You can log into MyUnivr with your GIA login details: only in this way will you be able to receive notification of all the notices from your teachers and your secretariat via email and soon also via the Univr app.
Language skills
In the Study Plan there is the following indication:
“Knowledge of a foreign language (English, French, German, Spanish) - CLA Certification”.
The expected credits (CFU) are 3 in type “E” activities.
The 3 credits can be acquired in the following ways:
i. dedicated teachings of the Degree Course: passing the examination of one of the foreign language teachings organised in the Degree Course + in-person registration of the credits;
ii. certification at the University Language Centre (CLA – Centro Linguistico di Ateneo): minimum required level B1 (complete examination).
Procedure:
Student – enrollment at the University Language Center (CLA) for taking the tests + passing the tests + enrolment in a special list for credit registration.
University – credit registration (without attendance).
iii. recognition of an external language certification as equivalent (procedure: https://cla.univr.it/it/servizi/riconoscimento-delle-certificazioni-linguistiche-esterne).
Further details can be found at the link Competenze linguistiche - Giurisprudenza.
Graduation
Internships
Internships are aimed at enabling students to gain direct knowledge of the world of work and to acquire specific professional skills.
Internships are carried out under the responsibility of an individual lecturer, and can be carried out in professional firms, public administration bodies and companies recognised by the University of Verona.
Any CFU credits gained by doing internships will be recognised and recorded by the University in accordance with the relevant University regulations in force (Regolamento d’Ateneo per il riconoscimento dei crediti maturati negli stage universitari).
For further information on internships, please go to: https://www.univr.it/it/i-nostri-servizi/stage-e-tirocini.
Student mentoring
Tutoring services are managed by the Department of Law and provide the following types of activities:
- welcome and orientation (orientation tutoring)
- support to inclusion and accessibility (specialized tutoring)
- social media management (orientation tutoring)
- support to Panopto for Workers project (facilitator tutoring)
- support to teaching and to thesis drafting (educational tutoring).
For further information, please refer to the webpage Tutorato per studentesse e studenti – Giurisprudenza.
During the course of the year, the Quality Assurance body of the Degree Course continuously monitors the tutoring activities provided.
A ‘mentor’ is identified for each student. Mentors are appointed among the members of the faculty who serve in the Quality Assurance body of the Degree Course.
The following categories of mentors are provided:
A) mentor for orientation –at the request of the students entrusted to him/her, the mentor contributes to the structuring of their study plan, as well as to help familiarise with the university environment and with the specific ways of organizing time and methods for studying;
B) mentor for students whose career is not in line with the Course schedule – this mentoring facilitates the completion of the study plan and graduation; responsibility for this is entrusted to the Quality Assurance body of the Degree Course, which takes the necessary organisational measures.
Dissertation
Gestione carriere
Student login and resources
Modalità e sedi di frequenza
La frequenza non è obbligatoria.
Maggiori dettagli in merito all'obbligo di frequenza vengono riportati nel Regolamento del corso di studio disponibile alla voce Regolamenti nel menu Il Corso. Anche se il regolamento non prevede un obbligo specifico, verifica le indicazioni previste dal singolo docente per ciascun insegnamento o per eventuali laboratori e/o tirocinio.
È consentita l'iscrizione a tempo parziale. Per saperne di più consulta la pagina Possibilità di iscrizione Part time.
La sede di svolgimento delle lezioni e degli esami è il Palazzo e aule didattiche di giurisprudenza
