Learning outcomes

The course focuses on public comparative law and on EU law. It also analyses the different legal traditions of the world in their interrelations with constitutional designs, as well as on the regulation of economic actvities having recourse to the comparative method.

Program

The course will be divided into three parts:
1. Comparative method and constitutional legal studies. The legal systems of the world. Legal systems, legal families, ethnocentrism and Euro-Atlantic constitutionalism: mutual interferences and legal borrowings. Civil law, Common law, Soviet Law, African Law, Mixed jurisdictions, Islamic Law, Hindu Law, Hebrew Law, Far Eastern legal systems, The Russian area.
2. An introduction to Constitutional Comparative studies: constitutions, formation and alteration of the constitutions, frame of government, federalism and regionalism, constitutional litigation. EU law.
3. Public law for economics. The influence of globalization and of the EU law over public policies.


Bibliographical references:

Students that will attend the course:
a) lecture notes;
b) M. Nicolini, L'altra common law of the land. La famiglia giuridica mista dell'Africa australe, BUP, Bologna, 2016 (forthcoming);
c) L. Acquarone et al. Sistemi giuridici del mondo, Giappichelli, Torino,2012.

Students that will not attend the course:
1) G. Morbidelli, L. Pegoraro, A. Reposo, M. Volpi, Diritto pubblico comparato, Giappichelli, Torino, ult. ed.
Ch I;
Ch II;
Ch III, sect I;
Ch III, sect II, paras 1-4;
Ch III, sect III;
Ch IV;
Ch VI;
Ch VII;
Ch IX.

2) the Handbook will be complemented by one of the followings books (alternatively):
2a) M. Nicolini, L'altra common law of the land. La famiglia giuridica mista dell'Africa australe, BUP, Bologna, 2016 (in corso di stampa);
2b)S. Cassese, La nuova costituzione economica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, ult. ed. (capp. I, II, III, V, VII, VIII, IX)

Erasmus students may also choose the following program:
1) J. Husa, A New Introduction to Comparative Law, Bloomsbury, London, 2015;+
2) M. Tushnet, Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2014.

Examination Methods

students have to undergo an oral examination

Teaching materials e documents

•   Africa australe   (pptx, it, 152 KB, 13/12/16)
•   Andreoli 1   (pptx, it, 118 KB, 16/11/16)
•   Andreoli 2   (pptx, it, 98 KB, 18/11/16)
•   Andreoli 3   (pptx, it, 727 KB, 05/12/16)
•   Andreoli 4   (pptx, it, 86 KB, 05/12/16)
•   Andreoli 5   (pptx, it, 98 KB, 12/12/16)
•   Civil law e common law   (pdf, it, 203 KB, 04/10/16)
•   Costituzione trattati europei   (pdf, it, 360 KB, 21/11/16)
•   Costituzioni   (pptx, it, 144 KB, 24/10/16)
•   Diritto islamico, indù e africano   (pdf, it, 202 KB, 17/10/16)
•   Estremo Oriente   (pptx, it, 692 KB, 18/10/16)
•   Europa e diritti   (pptx, it, 545 KB, 16/11/16)
•   Europa e diritti fondamentali   (pdf, it, 11700 KB, 21/11/16)
•   Famiglie giuridiche   (pdf, it, 90 KB, 04/10/16)
•   Fonti europee   (pdf, it, 345 KB, 10/11/16)
•   fonti politiche   (pptx, it, 97 KB, 22/10/16)
•   Forme di governo   (pdf, it, 92 KB, 03/11/16)
•   Giustizia costituzionale   (pdf, it, 557 KB, 05/12/16)
•   Introduzione al corso   (pdf, it, 137 KB, 04/10/16)
•   La cittadinanza europea   (pdf, it, 134 KB, 09/11/16)
•   L'Unione europea   (pdf, it, 467 KB, 09/11/16)
•   Meccanismi di assistenza   (pdf, it, 223 KB, 21/11/16)
•   Metodo e fonti   (pdf, it, 221 KB, 04/10/16)
•   Non discrimnazione   (pdf, it, 249 KB, 05/12/16)
•   Portogallo austerità   (pdf, it, 235 KB, 21/11/16)
•   Precedente   (pdf, it, 103 KB, 04/10/16)
•   Sistemi misti e nordici   (pdf, it, 121 KB, 12/10/16)