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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza - Immatricolazione dal 2025/2026.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
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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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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
