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.

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.

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Teaching code

4S002938

Coordinator

Matteo Nicolini

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/21 - COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW

Period

I semestre dal Oct 1, 2018 al Jan 12, 2019.

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on public comparative law and on EU law.
It also aims to analyse 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.
The course aims at making students capable of assessing the several issues arising in a globalised world, where economic, legal, as well as political factors interact.

Program

The course will be divided into three parts:
1. Comparative method and constitutional legal studies. Comparative law, economics, and the promotion of legal change. 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.

The 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;
c) S. Cassese (cur.), La nuova costituzione economica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, ult. ed. (chapters I, II, III, V, VII, VIII, IX)

Students that will not attend the course:
G. Pegoraro, A. Rinella, Sistemi costituzionali comparati, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017 (chapters. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X).

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.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
L. Pegoraro, A. Rinella Costituzioni e fonti del diritto Giappichelli 2018 Studenti frequentanti: solo i cap. I, II, III, IV
L. Pegoraro Diritto pubblico e sistemi costituzionali comparati Itinerari di apprendimento e di verifica Giappichelli 2018 Contiene le domande a risposta multipla per esercitarsi ai fini della parte scritta dell'accertamento. Gli items da utilizzare saranno indicati nella piattaforma e-learning di Ateneo
Matteo Nicolini L'altra Law of the Land. La famiglia giuridica "mista" dell'Africa australe (Edizione 1) Bolonia University Press 2016 Studenti frequentanti: solo i Capp. I, II, III
L. Pegoraro, A. Rinella Sistemi costituzionali comparati Giappichelli 2017 Studenti non frequentanti: solo i capp. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, X.

Examination Methods

Students attending the course: written examination (multiple choice) followed by an oral examination.

Students not attending the course: there will be both a written text (multiple choice) and an oral examination.

ERASMUS students are invited to to contact professor Nicolini (matteo.nicolini@univr.it) at the beginning of the course in order to set teaching methods and assessment tests.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE