Learning objectives

The course is aimed to provide the student with the understanding of the historical process that led, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the progressive creation of an apparatus of bodies and entities conventionally referred to as "Public Administration" and the concrete organisational forms and operational methods adopted over time. An apparatus, governed for the most part by its own specific law (administrative law), intended to allow the State to intervene in an increasingly numerous series of areas, to satisfy and protect the interests and rights of citizens identified as worthy of particular attention, so that their pursuit becomes at the same time a public interest, entrusted to the activity of the Public Administration.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to set out and give written and oral solutions to legal issues, by comparing the technical notions provided by the positive disciplines with those arising from the study of "Public Administration" in a historical key; to develop correct lines of reasoning and argumentation, with the acquisition of an appropriate and specific jargon; to formulate autonomous judgments on actual cases, demonstrating to have acquired a method based on continuous learning and updating of knowledge.